Human Rights Research Databases

Asia

The Afghanistan Memory Home is a tribute to Afghanistan’s war victims and survivors.

Sub-Saharan Africa

The African Human Rights Case Law Analyser is an online database that provides access to human rights decisions made by regional mechanisms.

Eastern and South-Eastern Asia

The database of the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF) offers access to resources and information from national human rights institutions (NHRIs) within the Asia Pacific region.

Central and Southern Asia

Eastern and South-Eastern Asia

The Asian HRDs Portal tracks threats, harassment and violence committed against human rights defenders (HRDs).

International

The Atlas of Torture is a collaborative online hub for information about torture and ill-treatment.

Latin America and the Caribbean

The Cartography of Attacks Against Women Journalists is an online database that documents cases of violence directed at women who work in the media.

International

CYRILLA is an online database that compiles legislation, jurisprudence and analysis concerning human rights in digitally networked spaces.

International

The Database of UPR Recommendations and Voluntary Pledges brings together documentation produced by the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).

Central and Southern Asia

The Death Penalty Database offers information about the use of capital punishment in Pakistan.

Europe

An evidence-based platform that documents human rights violations inside immigration detention facilities.

International

The Election Judgments database compiles national judicial decisions related to electoral processes and outcomes from around the world.

International

Compiling cases and reprisals documented by the United Nations Secretary-General

Eastern and South-Eastern Asia

Footprints is an open archive of cases of arbitrary detention, abduction and enforced disappearances committed in and by North Korea since the 1950s.

International

The Human Rights Database from Plan International curates legally binding policies and international soft law from United Nations and regional bodies.

Eastern and South-Eastern Asia

The Human Rights Observatory compiles jurisprudence, laws, reports, treaties and more that affect five vulnerable groups of Filipino society.

Western Asia

The Iran Rights Index tracks the Islamic Republic of Iran’s compliance with human rights recommendations made by various United Nations mechanisms.

International

Justice for Wage Theft calls for measures to protect migrant workers who have been denied wages and repatriated as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Northern Africa

Justice Watch Archive documents violations of due process and deaths that occur in prisons and detention centres.

Asia

Land Home Justice documents forced evictions and human rights abuses related to land seizures for urban redevelopment in Uzbekistan.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Mapping violations against human rights, territorial and environmental defenders in Bolivia

Asia

Middle East

The Mapping Death Row database offers information about foreign nationals at risk of capital punishment in Asia and the Middle East.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Memoria y Ciudadanía is a database of official reports, testimonies, court and financial records, transcripts, videos and more related to corruption.

Northern Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa

The Network of African National Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI) online centre compiles documentation that originates from regional human rights mechanisms.

Sub-Saharan Africa

The Nigeria Court Digitisation Project is an initiative that digitises key court proceedings to promote accountability and transparency.

Eastern and South-Eastern Asia

A comprehensive and growing archive of international human rights law violations and atrocities that occur inside the North Korean prison system.

Eastern and South-Eastern Asia

The North Korean Religious Freedom Database is a collection of documented cases of religious freedom violations perpetrated against North Korean citizens.

Eastern and South-Eastern Asia

Papuans Behind Bars documents political prisoners in West Papua facing arbitrary arrests and abuse.

International

Resourcing Rights is a database that explores the obligation of states to realise human rights to the maximum of their available resources.

International

RightDocs is a database developed by HURIDOCS that compiles Human Rights Council resolutions, decisions, presidential statements and reports.

International

A multi-lingual database of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the SOS-Defenders network documenting arbitrary detentions of human rights defenders worldwide.

Latin America and the Caribbean

SUMMA is an online database that offers access to cases heard by the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights.

Europe

The Surveillance Oversight Database curates law and oversight reports from intelligence agencies in France, Germany and the UK.

Asia

Middle East

The Syrian Oral History Archive (SOHA) attempts to create a comprehensive Syrian narrative about what happened in Syria from the beginning of the peaceful movement in 2011 until today, collecting oral histories and building a unified archive of the war.

International

The UN Forum on Minority Issues database compiles documentation related to advocacy on national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities.

International

The Universal Human Rights Index is a repository of recommendations and observations issued by bodies of the United Nations human rights monitoring system.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Violencia Policial (Police Violence) is a website that presents key cases of institutional violence in Argentina.