New Rights - New Laws: Legal Information in a Changing World Wide Web by Lyonette Louis-Jacques International Associati

1. New Rights - New Laws: Legal Information in a Changing World Wide Web by Lyonette Louis-Jacques International Association of Law Libraries Cape Town, South Africa September 25, 2003

2. Constitutions & Bills of Rights • Constitution Finder • International Constitutional Law • Constitutions of the Countries of the World Online • Constitution-Making Web Links (USIP) • Columbia’s Human & Constitutional Rights Web Page • Center for Comparative Constitutionalism (Chicago, IL) • Centre for Constitutional Studies (Edmonton, Alberta) • Researching Constitutional Law

16. Constitutional Courts • Constitutional Court (South Africa) • Venice Commission (Constitutional Courts, CODICES, Bulletin on Constitutional Case-Law via the European Commission on Democracy Through Law) • GlobalCourts (supreme courts worldwide) • East European Constitutional Review (EECR) • Constitutional Forum constitutionnel

20. Comparative Legislation • Legislationline (OSCE/ODIHR) • WorldLII: Legislation • LexisNexis, WESTLAW, QuickLaw, etc. • Etudes de législation comparée (France) • Congressional Research Service (CRS) • Bulletin of Legal Developments (BIICL) • Newly-enacted laws, proposed legislation/ bills

23. Comparative Legislation (cont’d) • Inter-Parliamentary Union (links) • Web Sites of National Parliaments (IPU) • Foreign Governments (Northwestern)

24. Law Reform • South African Law Commission • Law Reform Database (British Columbia) • Law & Transformation Programme (CALS) • World Bank’s Legal and Judicial Reform • Law Reform Commissions Worldwide (University of Toronto) • CEELI, Africa Law Initiative Council (American Bar Association)

25. Law Reform (cont’d) • Open Society Justice Initiative (“promoting rights-based law reform worldwide”; formerly the Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute (COLPI)) • Legal Co-Operation (Council of Europe) • Public Interest Law Initiative (PILI)

31. Foreign Law (Reynolds & Flores) Guide to Foreign Legal Databases (NYU) Annotated Guide to Foreign and International Law (Harvard) Cornell Legal Information Institute (LII) ASIL’s ERG, EISIL LLRX.com (Comp/Foreign/Intl) WorldLII, BAILII, CanLII, AustLII, etc. LexisNexis, WESTLAW, QuickLaw, etc. International Law Digest (M-H) Foreign & International Law

32. Office of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights (UNHCHR) African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) African Human Rights Resource Center University of Minnesota Human Rights Library International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) Human Rights Network International (HRNI) United Nations Human Rights Treaties Human Rights Websites

35. Interights (plus caselaw database, 1981-date) Derechos.org Human Rights Watch Amnesty International ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law (ERG) Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) Africa Legal Aid (AFLA) Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL) Human Rights Internet (HRI) Human Rights (cont’d)

37. Biblioteca Virtual de Direitos Humanos (Brazil) The Commonwealth Secretariat (Human Rights, Gender, etc.) ReliefWeb Australian Human Rights Centre (AHRC) Human Rights Network (British Council) Human Rights (cont’d)

40. South African Human Rights Commission Commission on Gender Equality (CGE) Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) Centre for Human Rights (Pretoria) Community Law Centre (Western Cape) Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR) Legal Resources Centre South African Legal Human Rights Organizations

41. New Rights – New Laws: The Continuing Quest for Social Change Further Web Resources

42. Special Topics • Economic, Social and Cultural Rights • Religion and Human Rights • Health and Human Rights • Rights of Minorities • Gender and Human Rights • Land Rights • Privacy and Human Rights

43. Economic, Social, & Cultural Rights • Economic and Social Rights Reports (SAHRC) • ESR Review: Economic and Social Rights in South Africa (SAHRC) • UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ESCR) • International Network on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) • Center for Economic and Social Rights

44. Religion and Human Rights • The Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion or Belief (Norway) • International Coalition for Religious Freedom • Center for Religious Freedom • Human Rights Without Frontiers • International Christian Concern (ICC) • Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) • World Council of Churches (WCC) • Researching Religious Freedom Issues (Marci Hoffman, August 2003)

46. Health and Human Rights • AIDS Law Project (CALS) • International Digest of Health Legislation (WHO) • HIV/AIDS, Human Rights & Law (UNAIDS) • National Instruments on HIV/AIDS and Work • François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (Harvard)

47. Rights of Minorities • Human Rights Issues: Minorities (UNHCHR) • Minority Rights Group International • European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) • Minority Rights Information System (MIRIS)

48. Gender and Human Rights • Women’s Human Rights Resources (Toronto) • “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights” (UNHCHR) • Gender and HIV/AIDS (UNIFEM) • Women and International Law

49. Land Rights • Land Claims Court of South Africa • National Land Committee (NLC) • Land Rights Research Programme (CALS) • Land Rights in Africa • Land Tenure Resources on the Internet • Land Laws (FAOLEX)

50. Privacy and Human Rights • Privacy International (includes Privacy and Human Rights survey) • Global Internet Liberty Campaign (GILC) • Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)