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The Civil Rights Act 1991 The complete reference text of the Civil Rights Act in direct browsable format. http://www.legalarchiver.org/civil.htm

2003 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices Summaries on human rights practices in European, African, and Eurasian nations by the U.S. Department of State. http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/

Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War 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. http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/92.htm

Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War 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. http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/91.htm

MagnaCartaPlus Abstracts, articles on Parliamentary Acts of the United Kingdom, the 1689 Bill of Rights, and a summary of United Nations Agreements on Human Rights. http://www.magnacartaplus.org/abstracts/index.htm

Project Diana An online human rights archive at Yale University with case law decisions, important related treaties on human rights, and search engine. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diana/

Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 Adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1948, available in hundreds of languages. http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library Includes a large collection of international human rights treaties, instruments, general comments, recommendations, decisions, and views of treaty bodies. http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/