official texts

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• - A database of international, regional and national documentation related to the prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
  
• - Site includes abstacts, articles on Parliamentary Acts of the United Kingdom, the 1689 Bill of Rights, and a summary of United Nations Agreements on Human Rights.
  
• - Adopted on 12 August 1949 and entry into force 21 October 1950. Text published by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
  
• - Adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1948, available in hundreds of languages.
  
• - Summaries on human rights practices in European, African, and Eurasian nations by the U.S. Department of State.
  
• - The complete reference text of the Civil Rights Act in direct browsable format.
  
• - An unusual presentation of the text of the Declaration of Human Rights with links providing interpretation and commentary.
  
• - Adopted on 12 August 1949 and entry into force 21 October 1950. Text published by Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
  
• - Contains a large collection of international human rights treaties, instruments, general comments, recommendations, decisions, and views of treaty bodies.
  
• - An online human rights archive at Yale University with case law decisions, important related treaties on human rights, and search engine.