VI. Bibliography/Reference Links

Scholars are currently enjoying an exponential increase in readily available legal texts, government documents, fact-finding reports, and daily news updates through on-line data resources accessible via computer links to world wide web homepages and gopher sites on the internet. That information superhighway was invaluable in the preparation of this case problem as indicated in the reference citations on the following pages. Some documents may have been moved to a different internet address, URL, since this reference was prepared.

International Human Rights Law: Treaty Texts, documents, reports

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library	http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/
Multilaterals Project	http://www.tufts.edu/departments/fletcher/multilaterals.html
United Nations	http://www.un.org/
Project Diana, UC	http://www.law.uc.edu/Diana/index.html
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights	http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/b3ccpr.htm
Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Additional Protocols of 1977	http://deoxy.org/wc/wc-proto.htm
Torture Convention	http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/h2catoc.htm

Reports and documents on human rights in India, Punjab, and Kahsmir

India

• Amnesty International, India: Examination of the Second Periodic Report by the Human Rights Committee, AI Index: ASA 20/05/93 3/93
  
• U.S. Department of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
  
  • "Index of U.S. State Department Human Rights Reports"
    
  • http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/hrp_reports_mainhp.html
    
• Embassy of India, Address by Dr. Manmohan Singh, Minister of Finance to the Government of India to the 51st session of the Commission on Human Rights, Geneva on February 10, 1995;
  
• India Network Archives: Headline News; http://india.bgsu.edu/archive/0002.html
  
• The Hindu: --National News; http://www.the-hindu.com/
  

Jammu and Kashmir; Punjab

• Amnesty International, Punjab police: beyond the bounds of the law; ASA 20/08/95
  
• AI, 'An Unnatural Fate' Disappearances and impunity in the Indian States of Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab, 12/93, 68 pp. ASA 20/42/93
  
• AI, Human Rights Violations in Punjab: Use and Abuse of the Law, May 1991, 62 pp. (ASA 20/11/91) and Response to the Indian Government's comments on Amnesty International's report on Punjab (ASA 20/25/91).
  
• AI, The Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act: The Lack of Scrupulous Care, ASA 20/39/94
  
• AI, Torture and deaths in custody in Jammu and Kashmir, 1/95, 125 pp
  
• Amnesty International Online; http://www.amnesty.org/
  
• Embassy of India, A Summary of the government of India's response to Amnesty International's Report titled "Torture and Deaths in Custody in Jammu and Kashmir" January 31, 1995;
  
• Human Rights Watch, Arms and Abuses in Indian Punjab & Kashmir, 9/94, 59 pp.http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/kashmir/1994/.
  
  
• HRW, Dead Silence: The Legacy of Abuses in Punjab, 5/94, 112 pp.http://www.phrusa.org/research/torinp.html
  
• HRW, Encounter in Pilibhit: Summary Execution of Sikhs, 9/91, 8 pp.
  
• HRW, Punjab in Crisis (Human Rights in India), 8/91, 224 pp.
  
• HRW, Continuing Repression in Kashmir. 21 pp. August 1995
  
• HRW, Continuing Repression in Kashmir: Abuses Rise as International Pressure on India Eases, 8/94,
  
• HRW, The Human Rights Crisis in Kashmir: A Pattern of Impunity, 7/93, 240 pp.
  
• HRW, Rape in Kashmir: A Crime of War, 5/93, 19 pp.
  
• HRW, The Crackdown in Kashmir: Torture of Detainees & Assaults on the Medical Community, 3/93,
  
• HRW, Kashmir Under Siege (Human Rights in India), 5/91, 168 pp.
  
• HRW; http://www.hrw.org/
  
• International Commission of Jurists, Human Rights in Kashmir, 1995, 200 p.
  
• United Nations, Report of the U.N. Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions, E/CN.4/1994/7, parag 334, 339, 342
  

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