Human Rights Internet Documentation Collection Project

For over 20 years HRI has been collecting, editing and indexing a collection of material provided by non-governmental organizations from around the world on human rights. This collection, containing material dating back to 1980, aims to ensure the preservation of important collections of human rights documents from non-governmental organizations. The collection is supplemented every year.  Over the years publications from over 450 non-governmental organizations have been included. HRI’s worldwide connections have ensured availability of a vast amount of material that otherwise would not have been retrievable from the country of origin.

This HRI program was formerly called the Microfiche Catalogue, because the form in which the catalogue arrived at libraries for many years was a flat piece of film containing miniaturized photographs of documents which is read through a microfiche reader. However, now the collection is available online.

The collection, called Human Rights Documents Online (HRDO) is only available through IDC publishers (since 2006, an imprint of Brill), and distributed to libraries in different parts of the world. Brill/IDC is in the process of updating different ways of accessing the Human Rights Documents catalogue online.

For more information on Human Rights Documents Online, please visit http://hrd.idcpublishers.info/hrd/.