The Commonwealth Human Rights Law Digest is the only legal report focusing exclusively on human rights cases from Commonwealth jurisdictions. The Digest is published twice per year, and contains details on approximately 100 decisions relating to human rights cases from across the Commonwealth. It reaches an audience of more than 1,400 institutions and individual subscribers.

The Digest takes advantage of the common legal language and the similarity of legal systems across the 53 Commonwealth states to cover a wide range of human rights issues, including some of INTERIGHTS' key areas of focus, such as security and rule of law, and economic and social rights. It enables cross-fertilisation of ideas and decisions – for example by allowing lawyers in Africa to make reference to decisions made in South Asia. It also allows legal practitioners in some Commonwealth regions such as the Caribbean and Pacific to access information that might otherwise be hard to obtain. The Digest also features decisions from smaller jurisdictions whose decisions would otherwise be unreported or difficult to access.

In January 2009 INTERIGHTS published the first ever issue of the Digest to address a specific theme: the protection of fundamental rights in the context of combating domestic and international terrorism. If you are interested in purchasing a copy of the Security and the Rule of Law Special Issue Digest please contact Rachel Fleetwood at rfleetwood@interights.org.

For regular readers of the Digest please click here to read an update on its production (January 2009)

The latest edition, Digest Volume 6 Number 2,  was published in May 2009 (cover date Spring 2009)

Subscriptions
£45 per volume, with three issues and an index per volume.

Back issues are available for £15

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