documents

Key Human Rights Documents

CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTS

2001 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

2001 Report on International Religious Freedom

Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment

Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) Final Act, Helsinki, 1975

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1969

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

Universal Declaration of Human Rights  (United Nations)
U.S. Constitution
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U.S. Bill of Rights
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U.S. Declaration of Independence
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Magna Carta

LINKS TO HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENT DATABASES

United Nations Human Rights Treaty Body Database

University of Minnesota: Human Rights Documents and Materials

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