Human Rights Data
- Human Rights Search EngineIndexes only human rights websites, this means that it retrieves only results that are relevant to human rights. Search results are ranked by relevance, providing access to information produced by smaller and lesser known country-specific or theme-specific organisations.
- Human Rights Watcha nonprofit, nongovernmental human rights organization publishing more than 100 reports and briefings on human rights conditions in some 90 countries, generating extensive coverage in local and international media.
International Data Sources on Trafficking
- Human Trafficking Knowledge Portal (UN Office on Drugs and Crime)Hosts a Case Law Database on officially documented instances of trafficking in persons crime as well as a repository of relevant laws and legislation.
- UN WomenSupports UN Member States as they set global standards for achieving gender equality, and works with governments and civil society to design laws, policies, programmes and services.
- Forced Labour, Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking (ILO)Includes statistics on labor, trafficking and forced marriage as well as analysis of projects and news by country.
- Women's Initiatives for Gender JusticeAn international women’s human rights organisation that advocates for gender justice through the International Criminal Court (ICC) and through domestic mechanisms, including peace negotiations and justice processes. We collaborate with more than 6,000 grassroots partners, associates and members across multiple armed conflicts.
- Human Trafficking SearchA resource hub for documents on human trafficking and modern-day slavery including publications, organizations and guides.
US Data Sources on Trafficking
- Office on Trafficking in Persons (HHS)Offers victim assistance, data, program evaluation as well as research into trafficking and policy responses.
- National Center for Missing & Exploited ChildrenOffers services and collections data on child sex trafficking, online enticement and extortion.
- National Institute of Justice Human TraffickingNIJ is committed to assisting with the detection and prosecution of human traffickers focusing research on: the nature and extent of human trafficking; detecting and investigating traffickers; prosecuting traffickers; and services for trafficking victims.
- Polaris ProjectPolaris partners with law enforcement and public sector to provide victim support in addition to having "one of the largest public data sets on human trafficking in the United States."
- International Case Law Research (Global Centurion)Aa global comparative legal research project to examine case law from 1995 to the present to establish a baseline of information on the nature and scope of the demand in human trafficking.
- Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in PersonsLeads the United States’ global engagement to combat human trafficking and supports the coordination of anti-trafficking efforts across the U.S. government. The TIP Office is responsible for bilateral and multilateral diplomacy, targeted foreign assistance, and public engagement on trafficking in persons.
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Recommended Sources on Women and Security
The Oxford Handbook of Women, Peace, and Security by Publication Date: 2019
The first political order : how sex shapes governance and national security worldwide by Publication Date: 2020
New Directions in Women, Peace, and Security by Publication Date: 2020
Scholarly Sources on Women's and Gender Studies
- Gender Studies Database This link opens in a new windowGender Studies Database combines NISC's popular Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Gender Studies Database covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Several thousand links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the Web are available. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations and other sources.
Alternate titles: GSD
Published by: EBSCO Publishing (Databases) - Contemporary Women's Issues This link opens in a new windowCWI is a multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries. It includes English-language titles from East and West Africa, Asia, and South and Central America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe.
Alternate titles: CWI; RDS contemporary women's issues
Published by: Gale/Cengage Learning, Inc.