Political Science

Non-profit, non-governmental project - provides independent humanitarian needs analysis and assessment.

Site contains official documents.

Online via Amnesty Int'l website.

State Department has reports online on current site since 1999. Also 1996-1999 on old site.  Earlier years (1979+) in Davis Family Library Gov. Docs.

See their annual report: Attacks on the Press [year]: A Worldwide Survey and their country summaries.

Subtitle: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties. Main Library stacks JC571 .F66 2001 - 2007. Available online from Freedom House.

Subtitle: A Global Survey of Media Independence.  Main Library stacks PN4736 .F74 2003, 2004. Available online from Freedom House.

Great for current awareness. Browse by regions and topics.

Publications include country reports, annual reports, resolutions. Home page has additional information.

Many reports available for free download.  Includes World Migration [year] reports; reports dealing with various aspects of migrants/migration including health and human trafficking.

Resources from International Organization for Migration (IOM) and USAID. Also see their World Migration reports dealing with various aspects of migrants/migration including health and human trafficking.

Active MIDCAT Search.  Generally Reference JC571's.

Information source on global humanitarian crises and disasters from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Includes Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Geneva Conventions; and many more.

'More than 83,000 pages of primary source documents (and thousands more to come) related to the detention and interrogation of individuals by the United States, in connection with the conduct of hostilities in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as in the broader context of the 'global war on terror.' Part of George Washington University's National Security Archive.

Includes links to UN agencies and criminal tribunals.