Human rights instruments
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Core international human rights treaties
Declaration on Human Rights Defenders
Status of ratification of human rights treaties by different countries
Documents adopted by the UN Human Rights Council
Resolution on civil society space (A/HRC/27/L.24), September 2014
Resolution on human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity (A/HRC/27/L.27/Rev.1), September 2014
Resolution on the promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet (A/HRC/26/L.24), June 2014
Resolution on protecting human rights defenders (A/HRC/22/L.13), March 2013
Additional Human Rights Council resolutions
Outcome documents from the Universal Periodic Review of different countries (search per country)
Documents adopted by UN human rights treaty bodies and special mechanisms
Searchable database of documents adopted by human rights treaty bodies
(search by country, committee and type of document, e.g. concluding observations from the reviews of the country in question)
Searchable database of case law issued by human rights treaty bodies that receive individual complaints (search by body, country, issue, year…)
Searchable database of documents of human rights special mechanisms (search by country/mandate/topic)
Fact-sheets and handbooks
General
What is a human right? Two-minute video
The United Nations Human Rights Treaty System
Individual Complaint Procedures under the United Nations Human Rights Treaties
Human Rights Defenders: Protecting the Right to Defend Human Rights
Fact sheet on the right to freedom of association
Fact sheet on the right to freedom of peaceful assembly
Frequently Asked Questions on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Born Free and Equal: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in International Human Rights Law
For civil society
Working with the United Nations Human Rights Programme: A Handbook for Civil Society
Promoting and protecting minority rights: A guide for advocates