Human Rights

The website covers the social and environmental impacts of over 5000 companies, operating in over 180 countries. Taking international human rights standards as its starting point, topics covered include discrimination, environment, poverty and development, labour, access to medicines, health and safety, security, trade.

A gateway to global development information on international development issues.

Caselaw Database: A database of ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS related jurisprudence, cases and other decisions.

HRIA provides an entry point for the accountability of human rights policies and practices and facilitates democratic monitoring. It provides (intergovernmental) organisations, governments and companies with instruments to better focus their human rights efforts; and it can be used as an analytical and lobbying tool by activists and NGOs.

The Universal Human Rights Index provides instant access for all countries to human rights information from the United Nations system. The index is based on the observations and recommendations of the following international expert bodies:
* the seven Treaty Bodies monitoring the implementation of the core international human rights treaties (since 2000)
* the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council (since 2006)
You can access the information by country, by rights and by body.