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The United Nations & International Bodies · International

Refworld — refugee law's single best free resource

Run by UNHCR, Refworld combines national and international refugee law, relevant case law, country-of-origin information, and UNHCR's own policy guidance into one free database — indispensable for asylum practitioners specifically, and a…

The United Nations & International Bodies · International

ICRC IHL Databases — the laws of war, catalogued

The International Committee of the Red Cross maintains a free database of international humanitarian law treaties, the customary rules distilled from state practice, and how individual countries have implemented them domestically — a…

The United Nations & International Bodies · International

International Court of Justice — states suing states, in public

The ICJ is the UN's principal judicial organ for disputes between states, and its full judgment and advisory-opinion archive, running back to 1946, is free and public — a genuinely readable record of how international law actually gets…

The United Nations & International Bodies · International

International Criminal Court and the ICC Legal Tools Database

The ICC publishes its own case documents and judgments free, and separately maintains the Legal Tools Database — a broader free archive of international criminal law materials useful well beyond the Court's own docket. Citation:…

The United Nations & International Bodies · International

OHCHR Treaty Body Database — human rights, tracked treaty by treaty

The UN human-rights treaty bodies (the committees overseeing CCPR, CEDAW, CAT, and others) publish state reports, concluding observations, and individual complaint decisions here, free — the paper trail of how international human-rights…

The United Nations & International Bodies · International

UNCITRAL and WorldCourts

Two closing entries: UNCITRAL publishes model laws, conventions, and case-law abstracts (CLOUT) on international commercial law free; WorldCourts is an independent, non-profit compilation of decisions from international courts and…