Title: Interights

Source/Sponsoring Agency: Interights (Organization)

URL: http://www.interights.org/

Date Checked: 4/3/2002      Status: Active

Date Annotated: 4/8/2002

Topics: Criminal procedure; Foreign Law; Human Rights Law; International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights

Other keywords: Commonwealth; Court decisions

Contents: Interights, established in 1982, is a UK-based international organization "promoting the effective use of law to protect human rights and freedoms worldwide." The organization assists in the preparation of national and international tribunals, conducts workshops on human rights law, and produces publications. On its website is a database of Commonwealth case law (thus weighted towards Africa, the Pacific, and the Caribbean), with summaries of decisions in human rights cases covering a multitude of legal issues including detention, passports, and jurisdiction. The database is searchable by keyword, date, or country. A search retrieves a document list, with a brief description of the legal issue, the date, and key words (no formal legal citations). However, when the reviewer tried to access the text of the decision, the entire session became frozen.

Author of Annotation: A. Carson