Files contain records and documents from the 1998 conference on Freedom of Belief or Religion at Oslo, Norway, subtitled 'Accepting the Challenge: Building a Coalition to Protect Universal Freedom of Religion or Belief'. File 1 includes a conference booklet with details of speakers, topics, talks and papers and background on the conference; a list of participants; a list of goals and objectives for the conference; manuscript notes taken by Kevin Boyle during the conference and on 'Holmenkollen Park Hotel Rica' headed paper; text of the 1981 United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of all Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief; a typescript letter from the conference organisers inviting Boyle to participate at the Oslo Conference. (23 Mar 1998)
FILE 2 contains various papers and texts of speeches delivered at the Oslo conference and documents filed under this conference by Boyle and which includes: text of Welcome and Opening Remark by Hilde F. Johnson, Minister of International Development and Human Rights; text of speech by Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, entitled 'Hope and History' and which makes reference to Kevin Boyle on page 2; Text of "The Politics of Religious Persecution", Allen D. Hertzke, University of Oklahoma; text of "Implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Commission; Welcome remarks at the Conference from Gunnar Stalsett; Report from the Concurrent Session on Research, Information Collection, Databases at the Conference; text of "The Persecution of Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan" by Dr. I. A. Ayaz, National President, Ahmadiyya Muslim Association and other such documents. File 3 includes various research documents including Council of Europe judgements, published articles, academic articles and other such items filed by Kevin Boyle and kept as reference documents under Freedom of Religious Belief.

Files from work of the Executive Committee, Northern Ireland Assembly, and relating to work of Hugh Logue within 1998 and 1999.

File of letters between Prof. Kevin Boyle and various others. The letters date from Boyle's time at the University of Essex and the Centre for International Human Rights Law. Includes letter of nomination of Boyle and Prof. Françoise Hampson as joint nom

File containing minutes of meetings, agendas of meetings, letters to Board members and other such documents discussed by the Board of Article 19 and which detail activities, areas and items of interest and focus and issues raised by Article 19.

Productions by Druid Theatre Company during 1998.

Documents relating to conference attended and/or participated in by Prof. Kevin Boyle, including:
Graduate Seminar on Economic and Social Rights, 22 Feb 1997 at University of Essex; "Institutional Horizontal Accountability - How Democracies Can Fight Corruption and the Abuse of Power" (26-29 Jun 1997, Vienna);
"Human Rights, Governments and the Law", Human Rights Centre, Essex (16 Feb 1998)
Conference on "The Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in Acute Crisis" University of Essex, (11-13 Feb 1998)
Programme and itinerary of visit to Mexico by Prof Kevin Boyle (Nov 1999) and other such documents.
Print report from conference "The Promotion and Protection of Human Rights in an Acute Crisis" Note: Kevin Boyle and Aisling Reidy were General Rapporteurs for this conference (11-13 Feb 1998).

File of letters between Prof. Kevin Boyle and various others. The letters date from Boyle's time at the University of Essex and the Centre for International Human Rights Law. Includes letters between Prof. Kevin Boyle and President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, Tom Hadden, the Body Shop Foundation, and others such as Lord Tom Bingham, Lord Chief Justice of England.

File of assorted printed documents relating to the M.A. in International Peacekeeping, such as press cuttings, published policy documents and official articles.

Booklet from the conference organised by the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, U.K. and the Tandem Project, Minnesota, USA and held at the Barbican Centre, London. Kevin Boyle chaired the opening session of the conference on 'Working for Tolerance', and also presented a paper on the world report on the Freedom of Religious Belief.

Records from the annual conference of the Standing Advisory Commission on Human Rights (SACHR), held at the Country House Hotel, Kells, and entitled "Protection of Rights and Freedoms in Northern Ireland. Includes conference booklet list list of attendees and speakers. Kevin Boyle presented a paper entitled "Options for Monitoring and Enforcement". File also includes TS correspondence between Boyle and others including R. Charles Hill, E.D. Carson, both of the SACHR discussing arrangements for the conference.