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International Human Rights

U.S. State Department and Congressional Research Service

United States Department of State:

Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor  

Includes links to Country Reports, HumanRights.gov, U.S. Treaty Reports, State Department Reports to Congress Supporting Human Rights

Human Rights.gov  

U.S. Department of State Reports on human rights issues

References include links to key U.S. and International human rights documents

Congressional Research Service Reports 

CRS is the non-partisan research arm of the Library of Congress, exhaustive  reports often updated, maintained on the State Department website at:          

Note Topics list on left side panel includes Democracy, Civil Society, Human Rights and Women’s Issues, and,  Law which both includes international law topics; organized alphabetically includes updates