Human Rights Timeline: Home

• Human Rights Guide
• Commissions of Inquiry and Fact-finding Missions Guide
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights Guide
• Women and Gender Equality Guide
• Interactive map of human rights treaties' ratification
• 20 anniversary of the OHCHR
• Membership of the Commission on Human Rights and Human Rights Council

The Human Rights Timeline is your guide to the history of human rights development through official documents of the United Nations:

• reports and resolutions of the Commission on Human Rights and Human Rights Council,
  • including detailed voting data on each resolution
• treaties, conventions and declarations and
• human rights conferences.

The guide complements the information that researchers can currently find on the OHCHR website. 

We welcome your comments and suggestions concerning this resource guide.  Please send any recommendations to library@ohchr.org

Databases:

• Charter-based Bodies database - search by document symbol or UN charter-based human rights body with limits for session number, type of document, country, subject, and mandate
• Treaty-based Bodies database - search by state/region, Committee, type of document, and limit your search by document symbol and date range. No keyword search
• Universal Human Rights Index of United Nations Documents - search this database for documents on human rights in specific countries related to the Treaty Bodies, the Special Procedures and the Universal Periodic Review (UPR)
• Jurisprudence - access to jurisprudence emanating from the United Nations Treaty Bodies which receive and consider complaints from individuals

OHCHR reports: 

• OHCHR Annual Reports
• Annual Human Rights Appeal
• OHCHR Management Plan

Reports of the High Commissioner:

• The annual Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is issued as part of the General Assembly Official Records (GAOR, Supplement 36)
  • Symbol pattern:  A/session/36

• Composition of the staff of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
  • Symbol pattern: A/HRC/- 

Budget documents: 

• Proposed programme budget for the biennium - from 1988-1989 to current
• Medium term plan for the period 1992-1997 and proposed revisions
• Programme budget for the biennium - from 1990-1991 to current