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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.
http://www.magnacartaplus.org/abstracts/index.htm

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

Contains a large collection of international human rights treaties, instruments, general comments, recommendations, decisions, and views of treaty bodies.
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/

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

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

An unusual presentation of the text of the Declaration of Human Rights with links providing interpretation and commentary.
http://home.sport.rr.com/cuthulu/

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/

A database of international, regional and national documentation related to the prevention of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
http://www.apt.ch/legal/

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

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/