Nina Cascio
International Law Librarian
SUNY Buffalo Law Library
O’Brian Hall
Phone: 645-2633
ncascio@buffalo.edu
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~ncascio
WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
RESEARCH STRATEGY
LOOK FOR BOOKS AND OTHER MATERIALS
BISON (UB ONLINE CATALOG)
http://bison.buffalo.edu:8991/F/?func=find-b-0&local_base=BISON
Use to find books and other materials in the University at Buffalo Libraries Collections
WorldCat
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/worldcat.html
Use to find books and other materials held by thousands of libraries in the US and
worldwide. Order materials through Interlibrary Loan if UB does not own. Allow at least
3-4 weeks.
Library Online catalogs from around the world
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/otherlib.html
Allow several weeks for Interlibrary Loan if UB does not own the materials. Ask a
reference librarian for assistance.
LOOK FOR ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES
Gale Virtual Reference Library (100 encyclopedias & reference works)
http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/pdp/index.asp?ID=176
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law Online
http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/pdp/index.asp?ID=61
LOOK FOR RESEARCH GUIDES
Guide Sites:
LLRX (Law Library Resource Xchange)
http://www.llrx.com
Globalex
http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/
ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law
http://www.asil.org/resource/home.htm
Women’s Human Rights Research Guides & Bibliographies (U Toronto)
http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/Diana/rg.htm
A Few Specific Guides/Bibliographies:
International Human Rights of Women (UB)
http://law.lib.buffalo.edu/PDFs/Women.pdf
Women in International Law: Research Sources (L. Louis-Jacques,U. Chicago)
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/women.html
Transnational and Comparative Family Law: Harmonization and Implementation
http://nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Transnational_Comparative_Family_Law.htm
International Family Law: A Selective Resource Guide (2000)
http://www.llrx.com/features/int_fam.htm
Human Rights --ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law
http://www.asil.org/resource/humrts1.htm
United Nations -- ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law
http://www.asil.org/resource/un1.htm
Honour Crimes Project
http://www.soas.ac.uk/honourcrimes/
Feminist Sexual Ethics Project (Brandeis University)
http://www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/index.html
Marriage and divorce; Dating; Sexual orientation; Family; Women's rights; Family
planning; Sex education; Sexual harassment; Rape; Child sexual abuse; Clergy sexual
misconduct; Sex workers; Trafficking in women. Includes:
Special Focus: Islam
http://www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/Pages/islam.html
Islam Links
http://www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/Pages/linksislam.html
Bibliographies: Islam
http://www.brandeis.edu/projects/fse/muslim/mus-bibliography/mus-bib-index.html
LOOK FOR ARTICLES AND OTHER MATERIALS
COMMERCIAL DATABASES
Go to “Resources by Subject” page for UB Libraries
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/subject.html
Select databases from a variety of subjects such as Law & Legal Studies, Women’s
Studies, Health Sciences, and others. These will lead you to journal articles and other
materials.
Law & Legal Studies--International
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (also on LEXIS and Westlaw)
Legal Trac (also on LEXIS and Westlaw, but with different name: Legal Resource Index)
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law Online
Women’s Studies
Gender Watch
Women’s Studies International
Academic Search Complete
History--World
Historical Abstracts
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Dissertations and Theses
Political Science
International Political Science Abstracts
PAIS International Online
CountryWatch
Web of Science (includes Social Sciences Citation Index)
Medicine
Medline
CINAHL
Try the Articles+ (MultiSearch ) database
at UB! Search up to 100 of the
library's online databases as well as the library's BISON Catalog simultaneously. This
is one way to help identify databases at UB that may be helpful for your topic.
http://ll3md4hy6n.cs.serialssolutions.com/
To locate journals at UB (once you have a citation to an article):
1. To find out if UB owns a particular journal, type the name of the JOURNAL (NOT the
article title) in BISON (UB Online Catalog) as a TITLE search.
2. To find out if UB has access to a particular journal in full text ONLINE, type the name
of the JOURNAL in “Electronic Journal Holdings” or “E-Journals”
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/ft.html
LOOK FOR NEWS SOURCES
LEXIS-NEXIS (for law students)
http://www.lexisnexis.com/lawschool/
Westlaw (for law students)
https://lawschool.westlaw.com/shared/signon02.asp?path=%2fDesktopDefault.aspx
Factiva
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/factiva.html
Jurist: Legal News & Research
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/
Global Legal Monitor (Library of Congress)
http://www.loc.gov/lawweb/servlet/lloc_news?home
Links to News & Other Media (UB Guide)
http://libweb1.lib.buffalo.edu/webreference/webreference.asp?subject=News+&+Other+Media%20
Abyz News Links (worldwide news sources)
http://www.abyznewslinks.com
HELP! HOW CAN I FIND OUT WHAT’S IN LEXIS AND WESTLAW?
Looking for statutes, cases, treaties, secondary sources, periodical indexes, looseleaf
services….or anything else?
In addition to looking at the “Directory” in Westlaw or “Look for a Source” in
LEXIS, you can SEARCH THE NAMES AND DESCRIPTIONS of all of the
“databases” or “files” in Westlaw and LEXIS. Here’s how:
WESTLAW:
After you sign onto Westlaw, go to the IDEN database. Do a search using words
you’d expect to show up in the name or description of potentially useful databases.
Scan through the resulting list.
LEXIS-NEXIS:
Go to this Internet site:
LEXIS-NEXIS Searchable Directory of Online Sources
http://w3.nexis.com/sources/
Type words you think would be in the name or description of the database in the
“DESCRIPTION” box. Alternatively, explore the other choices in the template
provided. Click on the name of any databases of interest in the resulting list. Sign
on to LEXIS in a separate window. Use the name of the database in the LEXIS
“Find a Source” tab to find the database on LEXIS.
LOOK FOR PRIMARY SOURCES (Laws, International Conventions)
Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL – ASIL)
http://www.eisil.org/
Women’s Human Rights
http://www.eisil.org/index.php?sid=297648529&t=sub_pages&cat=190
U. Minnesota Human Rights Library
Women’s Human Rights Conventions
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/auoe.htm
Foreign Law Guide (commercial database)
http://libweb.lib.buffalo.edu/pdp/index.asp?ID=172
World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII)
http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/272.html
Family Law
http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/2406.html
Women & Law
http://www.worldlii.org/catalog/2416.html
Guide to Law Online (Library of Congress)
http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/
Global Legal Information Network (Library of Congress)
GLIN is “a public database of official texts of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary
legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations.”
http://www.glin.gov/search.action
International Digest of Health Legislation (WHO)
http://www.who.int/idhl-rils/frame.cfm?language=english
Click on SUBJECTS; choose “Family Health” or “Human reproduction and population policies”; click on country
name. Examine other subjects as well.
Legal Profiles (Islamic Family Law—Emory University)
http://www.law.emory.edu/IFL/index2.html
Foreign and International Law Sources: An Annotated Guide to Websites Around
the World (Harvard)
http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/research/guides/int_foreign/web-resources/index.html
United Nations Treaty Collection
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/e-resources/untreaty.html
Full text of treaties; status of treaties deposited with UN Secretary-General.
SIM Caselaw Database (University of Utrecht School of Law, Netherlands Institute of Human Rights)
Covering: CCPR, CAT, CERD, CEDAW, ECHR, UNCOM, General Comments, Tribunals
http://sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/dochome.nsf/
Commonwealth and International Human Rights Case Law Databases (Interrights)
“…summaries of significant human rights decisions …, from both domestic Commonwealth courts, and from tribunals
applying international human rights law such as the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the European
Court of Human Rights and many more”
http://www.interights.org/database-search/index.htm
European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg)
http://www.echr.coe.int/echr/Homepage_EN
LOOK FOR REPORTS, DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS FROM IGOS
(Intergovernmental Organizations) and NGOs (Non-governmental Organizations)
UNITED NATIONS
WomenWatch
WomenWatch is the central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the
empowerment of women throughout the United Nations system
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/
OSAGI - Office of the Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/osagi/
DAW - United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/daw/
UNIFEM - United Nations Development Fund for Women
http://www.unifem.org/
INSTRAW - UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women
http://www.un-instraw.org/
Directory of UN Resources on Gender and Women's Issues (WomenWatch)
http://www.un.org/womenwatch/directory/UN_conferences_meetings_special_days_40.htm
TO LOCATE TEXT OF CEDAW COUNTRY REPORTS
(some will be online; others will have to be located in the Law Library)
We have the full text of UN Documents in the AV Dept. on the 5th floor of the Law
Library. The staff of the AV Dept. can help you find the microfiche, put it on the proper
machine to read, and show you how to make copies.
You need to have a UN Document number to get the correct fiche from the microfiche
cabinet. To do that, you can search
UNBISNet
http://unbisnet.un.org/
Under "Bibliographic Records," click on "New Keyword Search"
Enter Search : (Note---it is Case Sensitive)
UN Document Series Symbol: CEDAW
AND
General Keyword: Name of Country
AND
General Keyword: report*
You will see a list of document titles.
Some will have links to full text.
For those documents that DO NOT have a link to the text, write down the UN Document
number. Take number to AV Dept. to locate on microfiche.
Check for AV Dept. hours here: http://law.lib.buffalo.edu/about/hours-location.asp
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
http://www.ohchr.org/english/
Treaty Bodies Database
http://tb.ohchr.org/default.aspx
Charter-Based Bodies Database
http://ap.ohchr.org/Documents/gmainec.aspx
.
Human Rights Bodies
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/Pages/HumanRightsBodies.aspx
Universal Periodic Review ( a process involving a review of the human rights records of all
192 UN Member States once every four years. )
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/UPR/Pages/UPRMain.aspx
Thematic Mandates
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/chr/special/themes.htm
Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/women/rapporteur/index.htm
Global Issues on the UN Agenda
http://www.un.org/issues/
examine the topics: Population, Women, Family, Children, Statistics…
UNIFEM: United Nations Development Fund for Women
http://www.unifem.undp.org
EUROPE
European Union—Women’s Rights
http://ec.europa.eu/external_relations/human_rights/women/index_en.htm
A TO Z Index of European Union Web Sites
http://www.eurunion.org/infores/euindex.htm
European Court of Human Rights (Strasbourg)
http://www.echr.coe.int/echr/Homepage_EN
Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (US Helsinki Commission)
http://www.csce.gov/
THE AMERICAS
Organization of American States
http://www.oas.org/en/default.asp
Inter-American Commission of Human Rights
http://www.oas.org/en/about/commission_human_rights.asp
Inter-American Commission of Women
http://portal.oas.org/Default.aspx?tabid=621&language=en-US
AFRICA
African Union
http://www.africa-union.org/
OTHER IGO & NGO LINKS
Foreign Countries and Intergovernmental Organizations (UB Guide)
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/asl/guides/busdoc/foreign_gov.html
Human Rights Watch> Women’s Rights
http://www.hrw.org/en/category/topic/women
Be sure to check right hand frame for information on THEMATIC issues.
Human Rights Internet: Organization Databank
http://www.hri.ca/organizations-databank.asp
International Women’s Rights Action Watch (IWRAW)
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/iwraw/index.html
Shadow Reporting to UN Treaty Bodies
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/iwraw/reports.html
Links to IWRAW Shadow Reports
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/iwraw/shadowreports.html
Human Rights NGO Links (U. Minn. Human Rights Library)
See: “SPECIFIC TOPICS OF INTEREST”
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/links/links.htm
Women’s Human Rights Resources (U. Toronto)
http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/Diana/
International Websites (Human Rights Research & Ed. Centre, U. Ottawa)
http://www.cdp-hrc.uottawa.ca/eng/doc/inter-web/
Hot Peach Pages: International Directory of Domestic Violence Agencies
http://www.hotpeachpages.net/index.html
UB Law Library Homepage:
Internet Resources>By Subject> Women and Law
http://law.lib.buffalo.edu/research/webguides/women.asp
Internet Resources>By Subject>International Law
http://law.lib.buffalo.edu/legalsources/byjurisdiction.asp?tab=2&panel=1#TabbedPanels1
CONSULT SEARCH ENGINES
SPECIALIZED SEARCH ENGINES
Search Multiple Human Rights Websites (U. Minn. & Others)
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/searchgoogle.htm
HURISEARCH (HURIDOCS)
http://www.hurisearch.org
Searchable database of NGO publications
Librarians’ Index to the Internet
http://lii.org/
search for: Human Rights, Women’s Rights…
OneWorld.Net
OneWorld is a community of over 1500 organisations working for social justice
http://oneworld.net
GENERAL SEARCH ENGINES
Google http://www.google.com
Yahoo http://search.yahoo.com
Ask.com http://www.ask.com
Bing http://www.bing.com/
Others http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/search/searchint.html
SEARCH MULTIPLE SEARCH ENGINES FOR DIFFERENT RESULTS!
Compare your Internet search engine results (Google, Yahoo, MSN) at
Thumbshots ranking http://ranking.thumbshots.com
BLOG SEARCH ENGINES
All about Blogs (Legal and Otherwise)
http://law.lib.buffalo.edu/research/webguides/law-blogs.asp
Blog Search Engines
General
 Technorati
 Google Blog Search
 Bloglines Search
 Ice Rocket
Legal
 BlawgSearch (Justia)
 Blawg Republic
OTHER WEBSITES…
Population Action International
http://www.populationaction.org/
Population Reference Bureau
http://www.prb.org/
Center for Reproductive Rights
http://www.crlp.org
see Shadow Reports under “Publications”
http://reproductiverights.org/en/resources/publications/shadow-letters-reports
Amnesty International
http://www.amnestyusa.org/women/
Equality Now
http://www.equalitynow.org/
International Women's Rights Project
http://www.iwrp.org/
OpenEvsys - A web-based system for managing information about human rights violations (new)
http://openevsys.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Women's Environment and Development Organization
http://www.wedo.org/
There are many other important organizations and resources. This list is just a start!
Spring 2010