Finding Human Rights on Internet.

Human Rights Around the World

HUMAN RIGHTS LINKS

Index

• Directories of Human Rights Sites
• General Human Rights Sites
• International Organizations - UN, OAS, etc.
• Human Rights Organizations
• Human Rights News and Information
• Human Rights Topics
• Human Rights Law and Documents
• War Tribunal and International Criminal Court
• Others

Directories of Human Rights Sites

Human Rights and Related Sources Available Through the Internet - by the University of Minnestota



Web Active General Index of Activist web sites




• A Concise Guide to Human Rights in the Internet - by Derechos, outdated
• Human Rights from the Research Guide toInternational Law on the Internet
• The International Student Festival inTrondheim
• Human Rights on the Web by HumanRights Internet
• Human Rights Resources on the Internet - by theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science
• Listing ofFreedom of Speech and Human Rights Sites - From the American Communication Association
• Philantropy Links - lists of manyngo's.
• Human Rgiths and Humanitarian Aid Links - War,Peace and Security Guide
• Human Rights Links - Lillian Goldman Library atYale Law School
• The Sweedish Institute of International Affairs - In Sweedish
• Mining Company Human Rights Links

General Human Rights Sites

Please, look under Human Rights Organizations and Regional/Subject-Specific sites for more sites with human rights info.

• Derechos - A menagerie of information: news, reports, mailing lists, links, etc.
• Human Rights Internet
• The Human Rights Web Home Page
• International Human Rights and Humanitarian Assistance - hr reports, humanitarian law treaties, etc.
• The M-Plan Community Organizing and the Ecology of Human Rights

International Organizations

United Nations



• United Nations Human Rights Homepage - Reports by all organs of the UN & more
  
  
• U.N. Website - treaty ratifications, etc.
• UN High Commission for Refugees Treaties, legislation, country reports, etc. dealing with refugee issues. Highly recommended.
  
  
• United Nations Info Quest - search by keyword for UN documents
• Relief Web Project of the UNDHA.
• UN Information - by Human rights Internet

  Organization of American States

• Organization of American States - Great for human rights treaties and documents
• Inter-American Institute of Human Rights
  
  

  European Union

• Europarl

  Others

• International Red Cross.

Human Rights Organizations

Note: Organizations working mainly in one country or region are not included here. You can find those under the region or country in question at our human rights around the world site. See also

DIRECTORIES



• Directory of Human Rights Organizations - short list from Youth Source Book
• List of Human Rights Organization - incomplete, US oriented and broad definition of HRs

  INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
  
  

  Working on Human Rights in General

• Derechos Human Rights - Yours truly
• Peace Brigades International General and country specific info on Colombia, Chiapas, Sri Lanka, North America, Guatemala, and other countries.
• Amnesty International
• Human Rights Watch
• Witness - LCHR Project to deliver communication equipment to Human Rights organizations. (Top of the Art but High bandwidth - Slow)
  
  
• International Federation of Human Rights FIDH
• Freedom House

  Freedom of Speech and the Press

• Committee to Protect Journalists - Great database.
  
  
• PEN
• Canadian Committee to Protect Journalists
• Reporters sans fronti�res

  Legal Groups

• Attorneys Without Borders
• Lawyers Committee for Human Rights - New Improved site.
• Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

  Health Groups

• Physicians for Human Rights

  Peace and Justice

• Florida Coalition for Peace and Justice

  Slavery

• American Anti-Slavery Group

  Torture

• Survivors International
• Torture Survivors Network
• Redress - UK based group Seeking Reparation for Torture Survivors
• Christians Against Torture - a campaign of churches in Wales

  Others

• Art in Defence of Human Rights - Danish group
• Science and Human Rights Program - of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

  RESEARCH INSTIUTES
  
  

• The Carter Center
• Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law - Washington College of Law, The American University
• Human Rights Council of Australia Home Page
• Human Rights and Education Centre at the University of Ottawa
• Institute for Human Rights - at Abo Akademi University
• The International Center for Human Rights and Democratic Development Including some useful publications and an Impunity Newsletter.
• Parliamentary Human Rights Foundation
• The Institute for War and Peace Reporting
• International Centre for Humanitarian Reporting

Human Rights News and Information

• The Electric Library - A HUGE database of journals, newspapers and other information searched by key-words. It's a subscription service but they give you a 2-week free trial.
• INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS - CASES, NOTES, AND MATERIALS Volume 1 - Textbook by Jennie Hatfield-Lyon, 1995
• HURIDOCS - network of human rights organizations.

  REPORTS AND NEWS RELEASES
  
  

• 1996 U.S. State Department Human Rights Reports
  
  
• Critiques of 1995 US State Department Reports - by Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
• Amnesty International reports and news releases and Spanish language reports. - More recent news releases from the UK site.
• UNHCR Human Rights reports and timely news releases on Refugee Issues.
• Human Rights Watch Press Releases
• U.S. INS Country Information.
• Karen Parker's Page for Humanitarian law - short articles, news and UN updates, etc.
• News Releases from the Lawyers Commmittee on Human Rights

  NEWS

• Human Rights News from the USIA
• A-Infos - Alternative Information Source
• Newspapers and magazines on-line

  JOURNALS

• Ko'aga Ro�e'eta - Electronic Journal of Human Rights
• Human Rights Dialogue - Journal of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
• Youth Sourcebook on Sustainable Development - Articles on Human Rights and other issues.
• Index of Censorship
• Flashpoint - HR magazine from the Human Rights Interactive Network
• Journal of Humanitarian Assistance
• WarReport - The Institute for War and Peace Reporting
• The Human Rights Tribune - From Human Rights Internet
• Human Rights Observer - The newsletter of Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
• Refugee Magazine - from the UNHCR
• MONITORS: A Journal of Human Rights and Technology
• MERGER - Newsletter of the Migration and Ethnic Relations Group for European Research
• Impunity Newsletter of the Int'l Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development
• The Quetzalcoatl Report - reporting on the human rights of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans
• Systematic Studies of Human Rights

  See also under Legal Journals below

Human Rights Topics

Human Rights Issues - at Derechos

CHILDREN'S RIGHTS



Covenant House/Casa Alianza - working against violations to children's human rights in Central America.



• "Street Children" Online Information and Organization Links - great links
• Children's Freedom Network - working to defend the rights of children and young people throughout the world.
• Free the Children - dedicated to the elimination of child labour and the exploitation of children
• Pangaea Street Children
• Global Childnet
• Children Rights at HR Internet
• Multilingual Human Rights - Focus on Children
• Suffer The Little Children - Series by the Ottowa Sun
• K.R.A.T.Z.A - German Children's Rights Group, info in German and Spanish

  CORPORATIONS

• Corporate Watch

  DEATH PENALTY

• Death Penalty links - all the links we've found

  DISABLED RIGHTS

• Disabled Peoples' International
• The Disability Rights Activist

  ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS

• Population & Human Rights - Global Action Center

  GAY AND LESBIAN RIGHTS

• The Human Rights Campaign - US Gay/Lesbian issues and opportunities for action.
• The Queer Resources Directory

  HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS

• The Health and Human Rights Group - The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
• Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Foundation - Int'l health and hr conference
• Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network

  THE HOLOCAUST

• Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation

  HUMANITARIAN ISSUES

• Peace and Conflict Links
• Relief Web Project of the UNDHA

  IMPUNITY

• Impunity Information

  INDIGENOUS PEOPLES RIGHTS
  The Fourth World Documentation Project
  
  

• Center for World Indigenous Studies
• Cultural Survival
• International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
• The Mapuche Page - Indigenous people who live in southern Chile and Argentina
• The South and Meso American Indian Rights Center (SAIIC
• Survival International

  INTERNET RIGHTS

• Global Internet Liberty Campaign
• Cyber Rights & Cyber Liberties - UK

  MINORITIES

  The ROMA

• The Patrin - Romani culture and history
  
• European Roma Rights Center
• Romani Rights Web
• Uni�n Roman�

  PRIVACY

• Privacy International - Watchdog on surveillance by governments and corporations
• Internet Privacy Coalition

  REFUGEE & IMMIGRATIONS

  For country information make sure to check our human rights around the world web page.

• UN High Commission for Refugees - Wonderful Site with lots of info
• USA for UNHCR - A group that builds support for the UNHCR in the USA.
• The Refugee Network
• Forced Migration Projects - great info on Eastern Europe/ex-Soviet Union
• The Center for Refugee Studies - York University, Canada
• Refugee / Immigrant Rights Coalition - of the R�o Grande Valley
• Hijra International - Swiss based organization working with magrebi and arab immigrants
• Refugees International
• Migration - by International Organization for Migration, great info
• Refugee Rights - Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
• Applying for Refugee Status in Japan - Explanation by AI Japan
• The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
• Amnesty Internationl 1997 Refugee Campaign
• Australia's Refugee Review Tribunal
• European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations

  RELIGION

• Religion, Ethics and Human Rights - by the US Institute for Peace
• Human Rights in Islam - essay by the Islamic Intellecutal Project

  FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND THE PRESS

• Freedom of Speech at Derechos
• Freedom Forum - Freedom of Speech and the Press
• International Federation of Journalists
• Pen
• Committee to Protect Journalists

  TORTURE

• Torture & Treatment - from Survivors International
• Torture Survivors Network

  WOMEN'S RIGHTS

• WOMEN'S HUMAN RIGHTS RESOURCES - Documents and Links from the Diana Project
• Feminist Majority - Some Info on Women's human rights
• Women for Women in Bosnia
• Global Fund for Women
• A Select Bibliography of Women's Human Rights - From the The American University Law Review

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Human Rights Documents and Law

• Minnesota Human Rights Library - The most comprehensive site on international human rights law, containing int'l documents, reports, decisions by int'l body and much more. Great links too.
  
  
• DIANA - International Human Rights Database
• Course in International Law - Readings for class at Griffith University
• Human Rights Law Students Mailing List - for discussion of human rights law topics
• Listserv archives at Washburn - old messages from the different legal mailing lists maintained there.
• Columbia Rights Links - fulfills requests for cases, laws, or other legal materials available in the U.S.
• Derecho y Legislaci�n de Derechos Humanos - In Spanish

  GUIDES
  
  
  Research Guide to International Law on the Internet - University of Bologna

• Legal Research on International Law Issues Using the Internet
• Human Rights Law Bibliography - Hastings Law Library

  TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS
  
  

• Human Rights Treaties & Documents from University of Minnessota - the most comprehensive list available, most in French and Spanish too
• Human Rights Instruments - another comprehensive list, from the UNHCHR
• Inter-American Human Rights Treaties & Documents - and info on ratifications, from the OAS
• Human Rights- Documents and Conventions at Fletcher.
• Treaties deposited with the UN - Ratification Information, you mus register first (free)
• Human Rights Treaties - by the World Policy Institute, North American Project
• Treaties in Spanish

  INTERNATIONAL JURISPRUDENCE

• Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
• European Court of Human Rights
• Research of articles and decisions in Public International Law and European Law
• Human Rights Cases in US Courts

  NATIONAL LAW
  
  
  Washburn University: Foreign International Laws (by subject)
  
  
  

• International Legislationespecially Refugee law and Case law.
• Human Rights Law in Latin American Countries - in Spanish
• UN Criminal Justice Statistics - for most countries, up to 1986

  AREAS OF LAW

  ASYLUM

• Center for Law on Immigration and Asylum

  PRISON LAW

• The Other Side of the Wall - Prison & Prison Law

  JOURNALS

  See also under News and Information above

• Ko'aga Ro�e'eta - Bilingual On-Line journal of Human rights
• The Human Rights Brief - Journal from American University
• International Human Rights Law Update - Summaries of US & Int'l cases
• Hastings International and Comparaive Law Review - Includes several articles on the Alien tort Act
• The Advisor - From Lawyers Committee on Human Rights

  HUMAN RIGHTS LAW NGO's

• Inter-American Institute of Human Rights
• Attorneys Without Borders
• Lawyers Committee for Human Rights - New Improved site, with their newsletter and actions.
• Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

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War Tribunal and International Criminal Court

Official UN site

• Coalition for International Justice - links, case files, etc.
• International Criminal Tribunals by the Coalition for International Justice
• Tribunal Update - weekly summary of tribunals news
  
  
• International Criminal Court Campaign - by Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
• Amnesty Int'l Calls for a Permanent Criminal Court
• The International Criminal Court Home Page

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Others

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  Martin Luther King Site
  
  
• One World Online - links to many international sites
• World History LInks
• Geocities Homesteading Program - get a web site for free
• Stern Family Fund - Support for government and corporate accountability projects in the US.

  ACTIVISM

• Tools for Online Activism - From 20/20 Vision
• Netizen Activist Resource Centre - VERY slow loading

  ART

• Images - Photographs of Humanitarian Issues

  HUNGER, DEVELOPMENT, POVERTY
  
  
  CARE - working for basic economic rights
  
  

• Hunger Web
• Comparative Research Programme on Poverty

  HEALTH

• Doctors Without Borders USA

  PEACE

• Links to Humanitarian Issues
• Peace Works - working on Central America and the US
• International Service For Peace
• International Peace Research Association
• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute - Working mostly in the area of arm trade.
• War, Peace & Security Guide

  KIDS

• Blast - Progressive Magazine for Kids
• Creativity Caf� - KidCast For Peace; Solutions for a Better World Project
• Kids and Human Rights

  POLITICS

• U.S. State Dept. Foreign Affairs Network
• World Policy Institute
• Roberto Ortiz de Zarate's Political Datasets - Info on World Leaders

  RACIAL PREJUDICE

• Ligue Internationale contre le Racisme et l'antis�mitisme
• Beyond Prejudice - On Prejudice and how to get rid of it