The Library of the Bar Association is located at the Court house in Beirut.
Opening hours: Monday-Friday: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday : 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

The following collection of books on the subject of Human Rights is currently available at the Library:

Publications in Arabic  
Publications in French  

• AL-RASSED: February 2002. Regional monthly update : Machreq / Magreb Gender Linking & Information Project (MACMAG GLIP).
  
  
• An introduction to the International Protection of Refugees. - June 1992
  
  
• ARNAOUT, Ghassan Maarouf. - Asylum in the Arab-Islamic tradition. - Geneva : United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 1987., 1987.
  
  
• Amnesty International : Israel. Human rights abuses of women trafficked from countries of the former Soviet Union into Israel's sex industry. May 2000.
  
  
• Amnesty International : Report 1987 & 2001.
  
  
• Amnesty International. Syria. Caught in a regional conflict : Lebanese, palestinian and Jordanian political detainees in Syria, 1999.
  
  
• Amnesty International Report 1987, London, Amnesty International publications, 1987.
  
  
• Annual Report on Human Rights, London : Foreign & Commonwealth office, 1998.
  
  
• BAALBAKI, Rohi, Human Rights and Liberties, Beirut : (n.e.), 1982.
  
  
• Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary, 1988.
  
  
• Body of Principles for the Protection of all Persons under any Form of Detention or Imprisonment, 1989.
  
  
• Choices : The Human Development Magazine : The Faces of Poverty, 1996.
  
  
• Concluding observations of the Human Rights Committee : Lebanon. 01/04/97. CCPR/C/79/Add. 78. (Concluding observations/Comments).
• Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women, 1990.
  
  
• Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1991.
  
  
• Development cooperation report. Lebanon, 2000.
  
  
• Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, 1979.
  
  
• Development Co-operation. Lebanon, 1993.
  
  
• Development Co-operation. Lebanon, 1996.
  
  
• European Court of the Human Rights. - Information note no. 19 on the case-law of the Court, June 2000.
  
  
• European Court of the Human Rights. - Information note no. 20 on the case-law of the Court, July 2000.
  
  
• European Court of the Human Rights. - Information note no. 21 on the case-law of the Court, August 2000.
  
  
• Food, Water and Family Health. A Manual for Community Educators, 1994.
  
  
• Guiding Principles for Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in the Context of Development and a New International Economic Order, 1988.
  
  
• Human Rights Watch Arms Project. -Civilian Pawns. Laws of war violations and the use of weapons on the Israel-Lebanon border,1996.
  
  
• Human Rights and Refugee Protection. Part II : specific issues. - June, 1996.
  
  
• Human Development. Report 1995.
  
  
• Human Rights. Advisory Services and Technical Co-operation in the Field of Human Rights, 1996.
  
  
• Human Rights. The International Bill of Human rights, 1993. Programme of Action, 1993.
  
  
• International prison Watch. Report 1996. - Conditions for people in prison, 1997.
  
  
• International Committee of the Red Cross, 2002. (A).
  
  
• Interviewing applicants for refugee status, 1995.
  
  
• International Legal Standards Applicable to the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons: A reference manual for UNHCR staff. - Geneva : UNCHR, 1996.-LUBIN, Carol Riegeleman. - Social justice for women : the international labor and women. - Durham : Duke university press, 1993.
  
  
• NCUBE, Welshman(ed.). - Law, culture, tradition and children's rights inEastern and Southern Africa. - London : Darmouth, 1998.
  
  
• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
  
  
• REFUGEES (Revue). - Geneva : UNHCR (no. 123, 2001 and no. 126, 2002).
  
  
• Racism and the Administration of Justice. - London : Amnesty International Publications, 2001.
  
  
• Statute of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. (Geneva) : UNHCR, 1996 (2 c.).
  
  
• Standards and the Administration of Justice. Cairo (Egypt), 8-12 july 1991.
  
  
• Second periodic reports of States parties due in 1988 : Lebanon. 22/11/96. CCPR/C/42/Add. 14. (State Party Report).
  
  
• The High Commissioner for Human Rights : An introduction. Making Human Rights a Reality, 1996.
  
  
• The United Nations : Thematic mechanisms. Update 2000. An overview of their work and mandates, 2000.
  
  
• The International Criminal Court : a Challenge to Impunity (A symposium under the patronage of Dr. Hassan Richeh, 3-4 Nov. 2001. - Damascus
  
  
• The State of World Population, 1994.
  
  
• United Nations. The administration of Justice and the Human Rights of Detaines, 20 June 1991.
  
  
• United Nations. Excerpts from Human Rights in the Administration of Justice: a manual on Human Rights for Judges, Prosecutors and Lawyers. Geneva, 2001.
  
  
• UNHCR & the UN System. The Executive Committee of the High Commissioner' s programme. - Geneva : UNHCR, 1989.
  
  
• United Nations. - The United Nations and Drug Abuse Control, 1992.
  
  
• United Nations. - Leading the global fight against illicit drugs and crime.
  
  
• United Nations. - Juvenile Justice Worldwide. Spring 2000, no.1.
  
  
• United Nations. - Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. June 1997, nos. 32/33.
  
  
• Women's Rights in the UN : A manual on how the UN Human Rights Mechanisms Can Project Women's Rights, 1995.