Below is a directory of publicly available databases and online platforms that HURIDOCS has supported in one way or another over the years. Each resource listed here is a reliable source of human rights information, such as evidence, reports, policy and law.
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Asia
Afghanistan Memory Home
The Afghanistan Memory Home is a tribute to Afghanistan’s war victims and survivors.
Sub-Saharan Africa
African Human Rights Case Law Analyser
The African Human Rights Case Law Analyser is an online database that provides access to human rights decisions made by regional mechanisms.
Central and Southern Asia
Eastern and South-Eastern Asia
Asian HRDs Portal
The Asian HRDs Portal tracks threats, harassment and violence committed against human rights defenders (HRDs).
International
Atlas of Torture
The Atlas of Torture is a collaborative online hub for information about torture and ill-treatment.
Latin America and the Caribbean
Cartography of Attacks Against Women Journalists (Mexico)
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
CYRILLA is an online database that compiles legislation, jurisprudence and analysis concerning human rights in digitally networked spaces.
International
Database of UPR Recommendations and Voluntary Pledges
The Database of UPR Recommendations and Voluntary Pledges brings together documentation produced by the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
Central and Southern Asia
Death Penalty Database (Pakistan)
The Death Penalty Database offers information about the use of capital punishment in Pakistan.
Europe
Detention landscapes
An evidence-based platform that documents human rights violations inside immigration detention facilities.
International
Election Judgments database
The Election Judgments database compiles national judicial decisions related to electoral processes and outcomes from around the world.
International
End Reprisals: Database of reprisal cases recorded by the UN Secretary-General
Compiling cases and reprisals documented by the United Nations Secretary-General
Eastern and South-Eastern Asia
Footprints database (North Korea)
Footprints is an archive of cases of arbitrary detention, abduction and enforced disappearances committed in and by North Korea since the 1950s.
International
Girls’ Rights Platform: Human Rights Database
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
Human Rights Observatory (Philippines)
The Human Rights Observatory compiles jurisprudence, laws, reports, treaties and more that affect five vulnerable groups of Filipino society.
Western Asia
Iran Rights Index
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 platform
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 (Egypt)
Justice Watch Archive documents violations of due process and deaths that occur in prisons and detention centres.
Latin America and the Caribbean
Map of Attacks against Environmental Defenders (Bolivia)
Mapping violations against human rights, territorial and environmental defenders in Bolivia
Asia
Middle East
Mapping Death Row
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 Project (Peru)
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
Network of African National Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI) library
The Network of African National Human Rights Institutions (NANHRI) online centre compiles documentation that originates from regional human rights mechanisms.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Nigeria Court Digitisation Project
The Nigeria Court Digitisation Project is an initiative that digitises key court proceedings to promote accountability and transparency.
Eastern and South-Eastern Asia
North Korean Prison Database
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
North Korean Religious Freedom Database
The North Korean Religious Freedom Database is a collection of documented cases of religious freedom violations perpetrated against North Korean citizens.
International
Resourcing Rights
Resourcing Rights is a database that explores the obligation of states to realise human rights to the maximum of their available resources.
International
RightDocs
RightDocs is a database developed by HURIDOCS that compiles Human Rights Council resolutions, decisions, presidential statements and reports.
Latin America and the Caribbean
SUMMA: Inter-American Case Law Database
SUMMA is an online database that offers access to cases heard by the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights.
Europe
Surveillance Oversight Database (Europe)
The Surveillance Oversight Database curates law and oversight reports from intelligence agencies in France, Germany and the UK.
Asia
Middle East
Syrian Oral History Archive (SOHA)
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
UN Forum on Minority Issues database
The UN Forum on Minority Issues database compiles documentation related to advocacy on national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities.
International
Universal Human Rights Index
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 database (Argentina)
Violencia Policial (Police Violence) is a website that presents key cases of institutional violence in Argentina.