Databases

• European Court of Human Rights
  Contains full-text treatises, protocols, travaux preparatoires and literature on the Convention on Human Rights.
• EUR-Lex
  Direct access to European Union law (documents): the Official Journal of the European Union, (consolidated) legislation, case law, legislative proposals and treaties. Contains bibliographic notices with e.g. national execution measures, legislative history, notes relating to decision and more.
• HUDOC
  Full-text case law and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights.
• Nexis Uni
  Database contains international law reviews and journals, case law, legal news, statutes and legislation, administrative codes and regulations, directories.
• Refworld
  UN database containing texts, documents, and case law on the field of refugee law.
• United Nations Human Rights (OHCHR) - Human Rights Bodies
  Access to full-text declarations, treatises, publications and jurisprudence emanating from the United Nations Treaty Bodies, which receive and consider complaints from individuals: CCPR, CAT, CEDAW etc.
• World Constitutions - HeinOnline
  Contains the current constitution of every country in its original language format and an English translation, as well as links to scholarly articles and online resources, and bibliographic references.

Journals

• Columbia Human Rights Law Review
• European Human Rights Law Review
• Harvard Human Rights Journal
• Human Rights Law Review
• Human Rights Quarterly
• Inter-American and European Human Rights Journal
• International Journal of Human Rights
• Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
• NTM/NJCM-bulletin

See also the additional list of journals under Human rights law and the guide Legal literature - articles and journals.

(Text)books

• EU charter of fundamental rights as a binding instrument: five years old and growing / S. de Vries, S.Weatherill, U. Bernitz (2015)
• Handboek mensenrechten: de internationale bescherming van de rechten van de mens / S. Smis (2011)
• Handbook on the European Convention on Human Rights / M.E. Villiger (2023)
• Harris, O’Boyle and Warbrick: Law of the European Convention on Human Rights / D. Harris; M. O’Boyle; E. Bates; C. Buckley (5th ed. 2023)
• Human rights norms in ‘other' international courts / M. Scheinin (2019)
• An international bill of the rights of man / H. Lauterpacht (2013)
• International human rights: text and materials / P. Alston, R. Goodman (2013)
• International human rights law / ed. D. Moeckli, S. Shah, S. Sivakumaran (4th ed. 2022)
• International human rights law: cases, materials, commentary / O. De Schutter (3rd ed. 2019)
• International human rights law and practice / I. Bantekas and L. Oette (4rd ed. 2024)
• Jacobs, White and Ovey: the European Convention on Human Rights / B. Rainey, P. McCormick and C. Ovey (8th ed. 2021)
• The Oxford handbook of international human rights law / D. Shelton (2013)
• A practitioner's guide to the European Convention on Human Rights / K. Reid (7th ed. 2023)
• Proportionality in international humanitarian law: refocusing the balance in practice / J. van den Boogaard (2023)
• Reconciling religion and human rights / I. Salama, M. Wiener (2022)
• Research handbook on economic, social and cultural rights as human rights / ed. J. Dugard, B. Porter (2020)
• Research handbook on human rights and humanitarian law / R. Kolb, G. Gaggioli, P. Kilibarda (2022)
• Taking a case to the European Court of Human Rights / P. Leach (4th ed. 2017)
• Theory and practice of the European Convention on Human Rights / ed. by P. van Dijk [et al.] (5th ed. 2018)
• The United Nations and freedom of expression and information: critical perspectives / ed. by T. McGonagle, Y. Donders (2015)
• The United Nations principles to combat impunity: a commentary / ed. by F. Haldemann and T. Unger (2018)

Commentaries

• Commentaar EVRM via Sdu Commentaar; bijgewerkt t/m 2019
• A commentary on the international covenant on Civil and Political rights: the UN Human Rights Committee monitoring of ICCPR rights / P.M. Taylor (2020)
• The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights: a commentary / ed. S. Peers, T. Hervey, J. Kenner and A. Ward (2014)
• The EU Treaties and the Charter of Fundamental Rights: a commentary / ed. M. Kellerbauer, M. Klamert, J. Tomkin (2nd ed. 2024)
• European Convention on Human Rights: commentary / Ch. Grabenwarter (2014)
• European Convention on Human Rights: a commentary / W. Schabas (2015)
• Freedom of religion or belief: an international law commentary / H. Bielefeldt (2016)
• The Inter-American Court of Human Rights: case law and commentary / L. Burgorgue-Larsen and A. Úbeda de Torres (2011)
• The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: commentary, cases, and materials / B. Saul, D. Kinley and J. Mowbray (2014)
• The UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women: a commentary / ed. M.A. Freeman (2012)
• The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: a commentary / ed. J. Hohmann, M. Weller (2018)
• U.N. International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Nowak's CCPR commentary / W. Schabas (3rd ed. 2019)

Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia of human rights (5 volumes) / ed. D.P. Forsythe (2009)
• International Encyclopaedia for Migration Law
• Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law - Online edition of the encyclopedia with peer-reviewed articles on human rights law. Contains the Oxford Law Citator.

Case law

• European Human Rights Cases (1999-2019)
• European Human Rights Cases Updates (2020-...)
• European Human Rights Reports
• The Inter-American Court of Human Rights Project - contains detailed abstracts of decisions by The Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• JHG. EU-Handvest selecties
• Jurisprudentie Handvest Grondrechten EU (JHG)
• OHCHR jurisprudence - contains the documents from the database of The Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM)

Official documents

• EU charter of fundamental rights as a binding instrument: five years old and growing / S. de Vries, S.Weatherill, U. Bernitz (2015)
• European Convention on Human Rights: travaux preparatoires - European Court of Human Rights (8 vol. 1975-1985)
• Guide to the "travaux préparatoires" of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights / M.J. Bossuyt (1987)
• Guide to the Travaux préparatoires of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all forms of discrimination against women / L.A. Rehof (1993)
• The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: travaux préparatoires 1948-1966 - Volume I and Volume II / ed. B. Saul (2016) 
• United Nations Documentation Research Guide - Dag Hammarskjöld Library
• The universal declaration of human rights: the travaux préparatoires / [ed.] W. A. Schabas (3 vol. 2013)
• See also the manual How to find UN documents

Legislation and treaties

• CETS - Council of Europe website containing texts and ratifications on European treaties
• Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (2016) - EUR-Lex
• European Convention on Human Rights and protocols - European Court of Human Rights
• United Nations Core International Human Rights Instruments and their monitoring bodies - texts on human rights treaties and their monitoring expert committees
• UNTC - Collection of databases which covers all aspects of research concerning treaties: texts, ratifications, etc.
• World Constitutions Illustrated - HeinOnline, access to the world’s constitutions

Yearbooks

• Annual Report - European Court of Human Rights
• Annual Report - ODIHR (Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights)

Miscellaneous

• European Union and human rights: contains summaries of EU legislation in the field of human rights
• European Union Agency for fundamental rights
• HUDOC-CPT: judgments and decisions on the Convention for the prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
• HUDOC-ESC: judgments and decisions on the European Social Charter. Contains also texts on treaties and protocols on the European Social Charter
• Human Rights by Country - United Nations Human Rights (OHCHR)
• Human rights handbooks - Council of Europe
• Human Rights Treaty Bodies - General Comments (OHCHR)
• Oxford Bibliographies on Human Rights: contains references to (text)books, journals and articles on the field of human rights
• Peace Palace Library Research Guide on Human Rights
• University of Minnesota - Human Rights Library: contains documents, treaties and other primary international human rights instruments