2 Using the law

A good place to get up-to-date thinking on both human rights and IHL, coming from a variety of international perspectives. - [Read more]

This document seeks to respond to questions commonly asked by humanitarian workers on the legal framework that serves as a basis for assistance and protection activities in situations of armed conflict. It sets out the relevant international instruments and offers examples of their provisions and application by responding to the twenty-seven questions. - [Read more]

This database makes it very easy to find out which treaties a country has signed. You can search by country, theme or issue, by treaty, and even by date of entry into force. It also gives the full text of each treaty. In Spanish, French, English. Really nice! - [Read more]

Best overall resource on international law. - [Read more]

Impressive collection of online national legal material for each country. - [Read more]

The Universal Human Rights Index provides instant access for all countries to observations and recommendations made by the export bodies (committees, working groups, rapporteurs, etc.) of the seven Treaty Bodies, the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council (since 2006), and the Human Right Council. - [Read more]

Now this is a website you will enjoy. JURIST provides legal news with updates several times a day. They make an excellent use of RSS: you can subcribe to existing RSS feeds like "US news" or "Global news", or create your own custom RSS feed on any subject you want - such as "Guantanamo". Nice and useful. - [Read more]