Human, Child & Native Rights
Internet Guides
ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources - Human Rights - American Society for International Law
Human Rights Library - hosted by the University of Minnesota
Reference Guide to the Geneva Conventions - from the Society of Professional Journalists
Understanding Prejudice - 2,000+ links to resources covering racism, sexism, heterosexism, anti-semitism & genocide.
Amnesty International and Amnesty International - UK
Council of Europe : Human Rights Web
- European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
- European Court of Human Rights
- European Union policy on Human Rights
Crimes of War - The Crimes of War Education Project is a collaboration of journalists, lawyers and scholars dedicated to raising public awareness of the laws of war and their application to situations of armed conflict
FIDH : Federation Internationale des ligues de Droits de l'Homme - International Federation of Human Rights : The first international NGO to promote human rights
Freedom House - a non-profit, nonpartisan organization, works to advance worldwide political and economic freedom.
Hague Justice Portal - a gateway to information, news and research on the Hague organisations in the fields of international peace, justice and security.
Human Rights Watch - Dedicated to promoting human rights around the world, this site covers global issues such as children's rights, women's rights, arms, prisons, refugees etc.
ICRC : International Committe of the Red Cross - Works to protect and provide assitance to victims of international armed conflict.
International Court of Justice
International Labour Organization
International Society for Peace and Human Rights - A global network of caring individuals working together for peace, human rights and the environment.
Museum of Tolerance Online - Information on the Holocaust from the Simon Wiesenthal Center
OneworldGroup - "OneWorld has a vision of equitable and sustainable distribution of wealth amongst the world's population, underpinned by global attainment and protection of human rights and by governance structures which permit local communities control over their own affairs... OneWorld is dedicated to harnessing the democratic potential of the internet to promote human rights and sustainable development."
Organization of American States
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
- Inter-American Court of Human Rights
StateWatch - monitoring the state and civil liberties in the European Union
United Nations - High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Commission on Human Rights
- Treaty Monitoring bodies
United Nations - International Criminal Court
US Department of State : Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
US Department of State : Global Issues : Human Trafficking
World Audit - The primary focus of this website is on democracy, human rights, press freedom, corruption and the rule of law, and it provides country reports and statistics from a number of organisations including Amnesty, the CIA, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNICEF as well as from official government websites.
World Organisation against Torture - international coalition of NGOs fighting against torture, summary executions, forced disappearances and all other forms of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
Children's Rights
Amnesty International - Children and Human Rights
International Child Labor - from the US Department of Labor
Child Labor Research Initiative - The CLRI Legislative Database provides on-line access to national laws from throughout the world that directly or indirectly affect children who labor.
ILO International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour
UNICEF - Convention on the rights of the child
UNICEF - State of the World's Children - annual review examining a key issue affecting children
Native & Minority Rights
Center for World Indigenous Studies - Fourth World Project
Minorities at Risk Project - monitors and analyzes the status and conflicts of politically-active communal groups around the world
Minority Rights Group International - Works to protect the rights of ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities.
Religious Rights
Freedom House : Center for Religious Freedom - defends against religious persecution of all groups throughout the world.
International Coalition for Religious Freedom - a non-profit, non-sectarian, educational organization dedicated to defending the religious freedom of all, regardless of creed, gender or ethnic origin.
Sexual Rights
GLAAD : Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
Human Rights Campaign - working for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force - organization working for the civil rights of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people, with the vision and commitment to building a powerful political movement.
Understanding Prejudice - 2,000+ links to resources covering racism, sexism, heterosexism, anti-semitism & genocide.
Women's Rights
There is a lot of information on women and feminism on the Gender Studies pages.
These sites are specifically devoted to issues of women's rights.
University of Toronto - DIANA project - women's human rights resources
Women's Rights - Conversations with history - Interviews with political activists, sociologists, economists etc.emphasizing the "unfinished struggle to secure women's rights". From the Conversations with History archive, University of California, Berkeley.
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