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The International Monitor Institute Archives - Advanced media research for human rights. Video, audio and photography pertaining to human rights worldwide, particularly in the former Yugoslavia, Burma, Cambodia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and the Middle East. Human Rights Internet - Provides human rights publications, information on children's rights and the UN human rights system, and listing of human rights organizations worldwide. Greater Los Angeles Federation for a Democratic China - Promotes the ideals of democracy, human rights, freedom, and rule-by-law in Chinese communities. Concise Guide to Human Rights on the Internet - Resource for finding information about human rights on the internet. Links to organizations worldwide addressing human rights issues. Gendercide Watch - Confronts gender-selective atrocities against men and women worldwide. Includes a growing database of historical and contemporary case-studies of gendercide, research materials, and up-to-date media coverage. Human Rights Alerts - From Peace Brigades International. Freedom Magazine: In Support of Human Rights - Explores the role of investigative reporting in restoring human rights. Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) - Studies and gathers human rights documentation. 4HumanRights - Annotated guide to human rights links from 4anything.com. Civil Liberties - From About.com - Columns, link libraries, polls, and discussions about personal liberty issues. Human Rights Education Resource Centre - Includes searchable databases, full-text education and training materials and interactive distance learning tools on human rights. World Audit of Democracy and Human Rights - Focus is on democracy, human rights, press freedom, corruption and the rule of law. Daily news on democracy and human rights, links and e-commerce facilities for human rights publications. Human Rights Discussion List - Active mail list and discussion on subject. Bilingual, English y Español. Humanlex - Categorised links related to the field of international law and international human rights law. In English and French. Hate Crime Premise - Opinion paper discussing the assumptions behind the trend toward outlawing hate crimes, and the similarity to Orwell's concept of "thoughtcrime." Human Rights Watch World Report 2001 - Human Rights Watch's eleventh annual review of human rights practices around the globe - covers developments in 70 countries. The report reflects extensive investigative work conducted in 2000 by the Human Rights Watch staff, usually in close partnership with human rights activists in the countries in question. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Muslim Voices in the Human Rights Debate - Human Rights Quarterly - Paper examines the relationship between the ideals of modern human rights and traditional Islamic norms. United Nations Agreements on Human Rights - Summary page with links to full document. The International Association for Religious Freedom - Supports freedom of religion and belief as defined by international law. The IARF has general consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Human Rights and Liberties Page - Links to articles, resources, organizations, and primary documents dealing with all facets of human rights and freedoms. International Network for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights - ESCR-Net brings together diverse groups and activists committed to human rights and social justice in order to share information and strategies, establish stronger links across border and disciplines, develop a collective voice, and facilitate collaborative work among members. International Human Rights - Features college papers, posters and links to web sites about international human rights' issues. 8th Day Center for Social Justice - A multi-issue, social justice center supported and staffed by 30 congregations of nuns, priests and brothers which promotes analysis and action. Speak Truth To Power - Dedicated to the promotion of human rights awareness. A not-for-profit organization that seeks to proactively engage the general public in an ongoing series of issue-related programs and events. Comparative Democratization Project, Stanford - Human Rights - Links to Internet resources on human rights. ColorQ's Human Rights Page - Features stories and links on worldwide human rights violations, particularly issues that receive little attention from the Western media. The United States and 'The Challenge of Relativity' - Review by US political dissident Noam Chomsky of the United States' own appalling record on human rights - not in the distant past, but in the last 50 years and continuing right up to this day. U.S. State Dept. Human Rights Reports - Reports for 1995 to 1999. Serendipity: Human Rights - Sections on Jury Nullification, Genocide, East Timor, Mass Starvation of Germans (1945-1950), Political Prisoners in America, The War on Drug Users, Civil Asset Forfeiture and Privacy. Human Rights Law and Issues at Suite 101 - A site of passion on human rights law and issues, as well as humanity for all mankind. Various concepts of human rights law and issues, and country-specific insider views on specific incidents. Human Rights - Resource on United States human rights issues including asylum, the death penalty, land mine manufacturers, police brutality, and prison conditions. Friends of People Close to Nature - Network of individuals and groups concerned with the survival of savage tribal peoples, in particular hunter-gatherers. Human Rights & Human Welfare: An International Review - An international review of books and other publications in the area of global human rights. Published at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. Advanced Organizational Behaviour - Aims to draw attention to various covert practices and to stimulate discussion of their human rights implications. Underlying principles are explained and UK case studies are supplied. Globalizaction - Action alerts and campaigns on economic and social rights, from around the world. Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change - A research center dedicated to advancing the understanding and pursuing the goals of the American civil rights movement. Human Rights - Charity resource with particular emphasis on those dealing with human rights in the former soviet union. Human Rights Forum - Covers important philosophers as well as current issues in human rights today. Interactive with activities and a message board. Silent Voices Speak - An art exhibition and lecture series on the Holocaust and Social Injustice Today. Was held at the Herbst Exhibition Hall, San Francisco Presidio from April 1-May 15, 2001 The Human Rights Initiative at Georgia Institute of Technology - This site is dedicated to publishing information on human rights, technology and globalization at Georgia Tech and in the wider world. Look Into My I :The Freedom Paintings - Rebecca Barrington's plea for privacy in the public sector. Eight powerful freedom paintings from the LuLu Eccentrix Art Gallery depicting the loss of freedom. Artists for a New South Africa - ANSA is a non-profit organization founded and supported by artists, activists and others dedicated to furthering democracy and equality in South Africa and civil rights in the U.S. Human Rights Initiative - Multiyear research and dialogue project of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. Aims to provide critical perspective of what happens when international human rights confront realities on the ground. Stop Abuse of Vulnerable People - Stopping abusive institutions, exposing abusers and helping survivors, uncovering pedophile rings in Childrens Homes and protesting abusive mental health treatment. AccessHR - A portal to human rights resources on the Internet. Strategic Choices in the Design of Truth Commissions - Site seeks to aid decision makers in societies interested in establishing a Truth Commission via analysis of the structure, design choices, and impacts of past Commissions. IntellectualLoafing.com Running Debates: Torture Can Be Morally Justfiable? - User debate: This House believes that torture can be morally justifiable. The discussion centers around the value of human rights and if governments have the moral right to violate them in defence of human lives. International Human Rights: The Pursuit of an Ideal - The goal of this site is to present an objective view of human rights. Topics that have been researched include the history of human rights and the pioneers responsible for it, and issues germane to the topic. Human Rights Voice - Non profit organization involved in the sphere of international human rights, global security, economic development, economic justice and international justice, business and economic rights, and conflict resolution. University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna), Sri Lanka - Challenges the external and internal terror engulfing the Tamil community as a whole by attempting to make the perpetrators accountable. Boycott Beijing 2008 - Argues that with its record on human rights at home and in Tibet, China should not host the Olympic Games in 2008. Calls for a boycott by countries and individuals. Rights Advocates - An interactive medium for expression of breaches of human rights. Also information and advice on human rights can be found here. University of Minnesota Human Rights Meta Search Engine - Meta search engine for searching multiple human rights sites. Library contains a large collection of international human rights, and links to other human rights and international law sites. U.S. Report Stresses Religious Rights - In releasing the annual assessment of human rights in other countries, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright pledged to make the promotion of religious liberty a top priority of U.S. foreign policy. Rights Consortium - A team of Non-Governmental Organizations dedicated to promoting the rule of law and human rights worldwide. Human Rights: Critique and Reform - Objections to the human rights movement and human rights institutions from a point of view favoring decentralism and tradition, with proposals for reform. Human Rights Watch World Report 2002 - Twelfth annual review of human rights practices around the globe. It addresses developments in sixty-six countries, covering the period from November 2000 through November 2001. Most chapters examine human rights developments in a particular country; the response of global actors; and the freedom of local human rights defenders to conduct their work. Bayefsky.com - Encompasses the full range of data concerning the application of the UN human rights treaty system by its monitoring treaty bodies since their inauguration. Human Rights and Peace Campaign - This is an interactive online human rights server. United Human Rights Council - Works toward correcting the human rights violations of those governments who distort, deny, and delude their own history to disguise genocides, massacres, and human rights violations. Includes sections on various cases. Human Strategies for Human Rights - Human rights non-profit that provides organizational capacity building, skills training and human rights education to grassroots NGOs. Global Witness homepage - Highlighting the links between environmental exploitation and human rights abuses, particularly where natural resources such as timber, diamonds and oil are used to fund conflict. Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems - HURIDOCS is a global network of organisations concerned with human rights. Functions as a decentralised network in which organisations can handle and exchange information according to their own requirements. U.S. State Department on religious intolerance - Details from the second annual report on international religious freedom from the U.S. State Department. Examples of religious intolerance provided. Article dated Sept 2000. Derechos Cafe - A Human Rights Hangout - News, articles, links and chat groups about human rights issues. U.S. State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - The reports cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Updated annually. International Dalit Solidarity Network - Group works globally against discrimination by work and descent. Provides support and assistance for the Dalits of India as well as any form of caste discrimination. Human Rights Network International ( - HRNi publishes academic and reference materials pertaining to a wide range of human rights issues. Commission on Human Security - Two broad areas of research and related consultative processes inform the Commission's deliberations: human insecurities resulting from conflict and violence; and the links between human security and development. Torture by Proxy - Karen L. Snell,a specialist in constitutional litigation and international extradition, comments on Kenneth Starr's comments in The Washington Post suggesting the U.S. should cast aside traditional civil liberties in the fight against terrorism. International Human Rights Respect - Articles and resources for individuals concerned and interested in all aspects of human rights. Peaceful Action: A place to speak out - Offers a forum and news about human rights related and environmental issues. It is a platform where anyone can voice his or her opinion. Together against Torture - Describes the horrible crime of torture, and the passivity of bystanders. Offers ideas and links to take action, and links to U.S. and international organizations. Bodhi Journal Human Rights - A collection of links, news and info on human rights with an emphasis on Tibet. Human Rights Reporting - Information about an annual seminar at Columbia University surveying the cutting-edge issues in promoting human rights, with a focus on reporting techniques. Child Liberation - Information and perspectives on children's rights and child liberation. For the Record: The UN Human Rights System - Country-by-country summary of the work of UN human rights mechanisms. United Nations Convention on the Rights of Children - Text of the convention provided by Save The Children Canada. Development Gateway Youth Portal - Brings young people together to interactively discuss the environment, Youth in Conflict, HIV AIDS, and other development topics. Links to articles on youth and human rights. Non-Turkish Crimes Against Humanity - Conflicts happen around the world; Turkey is no exception. This site presents crimes, of equal if not greater magnitude to those committed in Turkey, all around the world. Human Rights Watch World Report 2003 - Thirteenth annual review of human rights practices around the globe. Identifies positive and negative trends within the sphere of human rights in fifty-eight countries, covering the period from November 2001 through November 2002. Human Rights Net - Non-profit organisation introducing human rights concepts and values into educational curricula and teaching practices. Host to a number of human rights sites, and a listing of resources. Iain Rowan's Human Rights Information - Links to online human rights campaigning resources and organisations. homepage of Wearside branch of Amnesty International (UK) Of Hope Courage and Justice - Presents a global mosaic of women in human rights. Human Rights Professional Interest Council - Harvard's intercommunity human rights resource (HRPIC) is an educational and professional resource as well as communication network for those interested in the practice of human rights. HB-Rights.org - Provides an overview of individual rights, including parent, student, cyber, property and privacy rights. Earth As It Is - Features political news, tyrants and tyranny, censorship and hum,an rights, and the political and linguistic divisions of the world. The Observer - Special Reports: Liberty Watch - Covers international events and issues about balancing civil liberties and security, featuring an ongoing collection of news, analysis and comment. Rights and Liberties - Offers links to recent news about human rights and civil liberties. The Business of Torture - Article by Dr. Sam Vaknin describes some examples of the "business" of torture in various countries. Visual Encounters with the Human Effort - Photos from humanitarian missions by Denise Blievert. Focus on children and post-war situations. USA Patriot Act in Bellingham - Talking points on the USA Patriot Act and transcript of the referendum to be put to the Bellingham City Council. International Dalit Solidarity Network - IDSN campaigns against caste-based discrimination throughout the world from India to Nigeria and Japan.
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