Welcome to the Human Rights Databank!

Since HRI was founded over 25 years ago we have been committed to maintaining an extensive series of databases on topics pertinent to effective human rights networking. Our databases include thousands of records on funding sources, publications, jobs, events and organizations, to name but a few. With the growth of the Internet the use of our on-line databases has increased exponentially, as has the demand for more sophisticated tools to search the material contained therein.

For the past year we have been engineering a new system to magnify all the electronic documentation held at HRI. The end result of our work is the Human Rights Databank, quite possibly the world’s most comprehensive listing of human rights material derived from independent, grassroots NGOs around the globe. All 12 of our former “stand alone” databases are now merged with the existing e-pages on our Website including For the Record: The United Nations Human Rights System, the Human Rights Tribune, and the E-Doc Centre.

We are confident that when you use the databank you will find the information you are seeking and wonder how you had ever researched human rights before the databank existed. We are so enthusiastic about our project that we have decided to waive the subscription fee for the first 6 months. So, we now invite you to research and test the databank and as always, we welcome your feedback on how it can be further improved. If you require instructions on how to use the Databank, please click here.