University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
There behind the barbed wire,
In the very heart of the dense taiga
They take my shadow for questioning...
--Anna Akhmatova
Web Sites: Basic Human Rights Documents
- Diana - An International Human Rights Database
An electronic library of human rights materials. Includes treaties, secondary sources, court decisions, legal briefs, and current information from international non-governmental human rights organizations.
- The Fourth World Documentation Project
Begun by the Center for World Indigenous Studies, the Fourth World Documentation Project is an effort to convert to electronic format all significant texts concerning the rights of indigenous peoples all around the world. A keyword searchable index is
available to search documents relating to indigenous rights in Africa, North, Central and South American documents, Melanesian, Polynesian and Micronesian documents, treaties, etc.
- The Human Rights Education and Research Network (HRERN)
This University of Washington three campus Network coordinates, integrates and developes human rights teaching, research and service of University faculty, students, and outside communities.
The site provides links to human rights agencies, bibliographic resources, and many other research sources.
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Text of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
- University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
This site holds over 90 of the most important international human rights treaties, comments, views and decisions.
Web Sites: Government Organizations
United Nations Homepage
The gateway to the wealth of information from the United Nations. Includes links to other UN sites (many contain information relating to human rights), latest news, documents, highlights of events, proceedings, and history of the organization.
United Nations Scholars' Workstation at Yale University
Here is a map to the complexities of the United Nations. Organized from a researcher's perspective, UN Scholars' Workstation provides access to primary sources and secondary sources as they relate to UN activity and publishing.
Web Sites: Nongovernmental Groups
- American Civil Liberties Union Freedom Network
One of the most active---and often controversial---organizations, the ACLU is a major player in issues of human and civil rights in the U.S.
- Amnesty International On-line
Contains Amnesty International Country Reports, news releases, world-wide appeals, external document summaries, and information on recent Amnesty International publications.
- Human Rights Internet
This
web site brings together publications of the ngo Human Rights Internet
(HRI), research guides and guidance, searchable archives of "Human Rights
Tribune," and other important resources. Founded in 1976, HRI is a world
leader in the exchange of documentation, and knits together over 5,000
human rights organizations around the world, facilitating
intercommunication among these groups.
- Human Rights Watch
Founded in 1978, Human Rights Watch is one of the most highly regarded organizations within the human rights movement. It is a nongovernmental group, supported by private donations and foundation grants. The web site gives a history of the organization,
email contacts, etc.
- Institute for Global
Communications
Home of the IGC Networks: PeaceNet, EcoNet,
ConflictNet, LaborNet, and WomensNet. These networks aim to serve
individuals and organizations working toward peace, environmental
protection, human rights, social and economic justice, sustainable and
equitable development, health, and non-violent conflict resolution.
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent
This site tracks human disasters, and includes a weekly news service, as well as special reports, news releases from the Federation, etc.
- Links to Human Rights and Amnesty International Sites
Maintained by Derechos (which is not actually a group yet), this site is an unusually well organized collection of links to activist groups, news, and documents.
- OneWorld Online
This
site is actually an information bridge between nongovernmental
organizations and government agencies. Claiming to be "the world's biggest
and best collection of multimedia material---that's text, graphics, audio
and video---on development, the environment and human rights on the Web,"
One World Online is a partnership of many development agencies and
charities. It covers news, reports and stories of justice and injustice
around the world, and projects currently in place to improve human and
civil rights for all.
- Peace Brigade
International
Peace Brigade International is an international
organization offering unarmed protective accompaniment to human rights
activists, refugees and communities threatened with violence. This site
offers information on PBI's current special projects in Balkans, Chiapas,
Colombia, Guatemala, Haiti, North America and Sri Lanka, and is working on
joint projects in Chiapas and the Balkans.
Web Sites: Specialized
- American Anti-Slavery Group
This group concentrates on publicizing the plights of various ethnic groups around the world living in bondage.
- American Kurdish
Information Network
This site is maintained by a non-profit
organization which takes as its mission the task to provide current
information on the conditions of the Kurdish people, to solicit the
support of human rights organizations on behalf of the Kurds, to gain the
interest of the U.S. Congress, to publish documents and provide
information---including cultural, historical and current---to increase
understanding and advance the cause of a secure future for these
people.
- Female Genital Mutilation Resources
This site focuses on the practice of female genital mutilation, particularly in African cultures. This practice has recently gained high visibility and some legal standing as a violation of human rights.
- Free Tibet Campaign
The struggle of the Tibetan people against China is one of the better known international political situations in this area. This site contains links to a number of related pages, including information on how to become active in this fight.
- International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Official UN site for the tribunal includes Latest Documents andNews, Basic Legal Documents, Press Releases and Press Statements,Tribunal Cases and more.
- Index on Censorship
This bi-monthly magazine for free speech reports on censorship activities around the world.
- Lawyers Committee for Human
Rights
This group works to promote and protect basic human
rights. The LCHR is nonpartisan, and works globally to hold all
governments to the standards of the International Bill of Rights. This is
a new site, and includes the inaugural issue of "Advisor," with a lead
article on why a strong human rights policy should be an element in the
1996 U.S. elections. This group is often active in asylum cases.
- Mario's
Cyberspace Station
This site is maintained by freelance
journalist Mario Profaca who works out of Zagreb, Croatia. For
information concerning war crimes tribunal events, current news from the
Balkans, and many links related to the situation in the former Yugoslavia
(such as the U.S. Defense Department's official Pentagon BosniaLINK), use
this site.
- Nigeria Human Rights
This page brings together a number of sources--primarily Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch material--concerned specifically with the situation in Nigeria. It includes a link to "Eye on Nigeria," a daily general news update produced by Afrinet.
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission Official Home Page
This site includes press releases from the Commission, transcripts,
amnesty decisions and statistics, background notes, links to other South African sides, and much more.
- Women's Human Rights Sites
Created by the University of Toronto Bora Laskin Law Library, this site inventories a large number of substantive web sites dedicated to the legal aspects of women and human rights. Beginning with a general site, it then subdivides into more specialized
areas, such as women refugees, violence against women and women and the environment.
Electronic Journals, Discussion Groups, Directories, etc.
- AIMEMBERS-L
The unofficial mailing list for Amnesty International members all over the world, AIMEMBERS-L invites all AI members and others to join.
To subscribe to the list, send a message to
aimembers-l-request@lists1.best.com saying
subsingle
to receive individual messages or
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to receive the digest.
The address for sending email to the list is
aimembers-l@lists1.best.com
- Action Without Borders
Here is a web site directory of over 8,000 nonprofit organizations. Arranged by topic and geographic location, the directory can be searched by keyword.
- Ko'aga Rone'eta
Ko'aga Rone'eta---Now We Will Speak---is an electronic journal collecting analytical works on human rights and humanitarian law, produced by human rights organizations, professionals, academics, students and activists.
- Newslink
Newslink is
one of several directories to newspapers on the web. It provides a
constantly updated list of newspaper homepage links, searchable by
geographic location, title, etc. News coverage of specific human rights
issues currently appearing in the papers of the country involved may be
accessible here.
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