Links to Databases
The Human Rights Databank: a searchable database of human rights websites recorded by site content, features, keywords/issues, and more.
MAR (Minority at Risk Project): a university-based research project at the University of Maryland's Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM). This site maintains data on 284 politically active ethnic groups. The centrepiece of the project is a dataset that tracks groups on political, economic, and cultural dimensions. Additional information on this project is available online.
MIRIS (Minority Rights Information System): The MIRIS database includes the most important legal texts relating to minority rights by concentrating upon relevant national legislation and case-law. In addition to this, specific documents on minority groups (covering, for example, statistical data and history) as well as relevant international treaties and agreements of the UN, Council of Europe and the OSCE are available for examination. The evaluation of the situation of minority groups is supported by further texts that are to include case studies, comments and in-depth analyses.
The Anti-Racism Information Service (ARIS) is a non-profit, non-sectarian, non-governmental organization (NGO). ARIS was set up to make the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination better known and to publicize the work of the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) which monitors the application of the Convention.
