Cingranelli and Richards (CIRI) Human Rights project
www.humanrightsdata.com 
This website offers a large collection of standards-based data on 15 different human rights from 1980 to 2006, updated occasionally.

Kansas Event Data System  
http://web.ku.edu/keds/index.html
Hosted by the Department of Political Science, University of Kansas, this website provides information and resources on event data tackling a wide range of social phenomena.

Human and Constitutional Rights
www.hrcr.org/ 
This web portal provides a searchable database of bills of rights and human rights in national constitutions.

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
www1.umn.edu/humanrts/research/  
Hosted by the University of Minnesota, this invaluable site provides hundreds of resources for researching human rights conditions and government’s respect for human rights all over the world.

International Political Studies Association
http://ipsaportal.unina.it/
The IPSA web portal provides authoritative guidance to students and scholars worldwide, offering direct access to a large number of electronic resources including data banks, research institutes, thematic networks and on-line tutorial organized by issue area.

Minorities at Risk Project
www.cidcm.umd.edu/mar/
This website provides comparative data on politically active ethnic groups around the world.

National Human Rights Institutions forum
www.nhri.net/
This is a comprehensive website devoted to national human rights institutions around the world.

Statewatch
www.statewatch.org/
The official website of ‘Statewatch’, a non-governmental organization that monitors the state and civil liberties in European democracies.

US State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
www.state.gov/g/drl/hr/c1470.htm
The website provides direct access to US State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. It offers an authoritative (qualitative) source for the empirical study of human rights, used by scholars to build standard-based human rights indicators.

UN Committee of Civil and Political Rights
www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrc/index.htm
The Human Rights Committee is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by its State parties.