• UN High Commissioner for Human Rights -- - home page; many treaties/documents available – a HIGHLY recommended site
• The site index for human rights issues with links to human rights defenders, independence of the judiciary, right to fair trial, etc.
• Human rights defenders page and contains the UN resolutions and reports.
• University of Minnesota Human Rights Law Library --- is a site that contains most of the UN instruments, plus numerous links to other UN sites, organizations, etc.
• International Criminal Court - ICC - official site, most complete and best recommended.Current updates available.
• Council of Europe. Brief information and links to relevant organizations and documents.
• A list of many resources for extensive research.
• International Court of Justice - ICJ - The official ICJ website. English/French, current news and press releases included, as well as complete information regarding function. Links to various ICJ information

• Inter-American Commission of Human Rights  
• Annual Report Of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 1999 --- (entire report)
• Chapter 3/C: Petitions and cases before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 
• Annual Report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights 2000 --- (entire report)  
• Chapter 3/D: Petitions and cases before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights 
• Inter-American Court of Human Rights --- General Information. Very comprehensive, recommended for researchers.  Also available in Spanish. 

• Brief information: action plan, speeches, Mauritius information, hotels, contact, and a short links list.
• African Commission on Human and People's Rights - brief information: action plan, speeches, Mauritius information, hotels, contact, and a short links list.
• University of Minnesota, showing (only) decisions of the ACHPR , listed by country or article.
• Complete information, publications, thorough description of the function/composition of the commission. This site provides general information on all aspects of the commission

• European Court of Human Rights - ECHR - official site, English and French

• The Human Rights Unit (HRU) of the Commonwealth Secretariat - HRU (PDF file - Acrobat Reader required)

International

• Amnesty International 
• Human rights defenders in Central America and Mexico
• Lawyers Committee on Human Rights - LCHR ---  the LCHR main home page
  • LCHR's human rights defenders page
• International Bar Association, Human Rights Institute --- Main home page contains press releases and information of arrests and detentions of human rights defenders
  • A section of the IBA site that contains information and reports on human rights defenders and country reports.
• Human Rights Watch - HRW - This site is a bit hard to navigate, but if you do a search for human rights defenders, you can retrieve reports including the World Report 2000 on human rights defenders
• Interights, the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights
• International Criminal Defense Attorneys Association

• Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales - BHRC - is a good source of information
• European Lawyers' Union, European Bar Human Rights Institute - UAE - is very good; has a "Lawyers in Peril" section
• Institute des Droits de l’Hommes du Barreau de Bordeux - IDHBB 

• Asian Human Rights Commission 
• Forum Asia 

• Global Exchange ---is a good site for South America, Mexico; it contains press releases, letter writing campaigns, etc. and the Global Exchange report, "Defenders Defending Human Rights Report."
• Amnesty International ---  is a more specific link to a page on human rights defenders in Central America and Mexico

• Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights - there wasn't much on this site, but there is some good country-specific information on their related link, Zimbabwe Human Rights Forum.

• International Law Standards  (link to LRWC International Law Standards page) International standards and principles relevant to the right to be represented by a lawyers, rights of lawyers to provide full representation and independence and security safeguards for lawyers and other human rights defenders.
• African Studies – Human Rights - Contains a list of many organizations and contact information; very helpful, especially for African-focused research on human rights.
• World Organization Against Torture has an Observatory for the Protection of human rights defenders, containing reports. 

• Amnesty International Report 2003

• November 30, 2001- Court order for investigation into Ochoa's murder, and protection to the victim’s family members, and other lawyers with similar causes Human Rights Brief
• December 2001 Update Protective Measures For Digna Ochoa's Family and Colleagues (provided by the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights): 
• Chapter 3/D: Petitions and cases before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• Section C/72- Digna Ochoa y Plácido, Edgar Cortéz Morales, Mario Patrón Sánchez, and Jorge Fernández Mendiburu