Informational Websites
- UN High Commissioner on Human Rights' UDHR Home Page
- The most comprehensive collection of translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Over 300 different language versions are available in HTML, PDF and graphical forms.
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights - 60th Anniversary
- A site created by a coalition of more than 127 organizations who joined the National Coordinating Committee for the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and dedicated to understanding human rights worldwide.
- "I have a right to..."
- A BBC World Service educations project that provides human rights information through case studies from around the world.
Other Human Rights Links
- AAAS Science and Human Rights Program
- The American Association for the Advancement of Science's program on the protection of human rights of scientists, scholars, educators, and students around the world.
- American Anti-Slavery Society Group
- The site of the American Anti-Slavery Group, the only American organization solely dedicated to abolishing slavery worldwide, monitors, documents, and publicizes the plight of slaves around the globe with a special focus on black chattel slavery in North Africa and involuntary servitude in the United States.
- Amnesty International
- The Amnesty International homepage promotes the worldwide movements to ensure all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by providing current news, online databases, and links to other human rights sites.
- Arab Association for Human Rights
- The site focuses on the condition of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel and includes news articles and description of core programs.
- Belgrade Center for Human Rights
- Information to influence public opinion for the sake of protecting human rights and humanitarian law in Federal Republic Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) and abroad.
- Beyond Racism
- A collaboration among people and institutions in Brazil, South Africa, and the United States for exchanging information, ideas, and strategies to overcome discrimination and inequality.
- CARE
- Provides information about CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere), its programs, and current news about its efforts around the world.
- Center for the Victims of Torture
- Site provides information about government_inflicted torture on individuals, their families, and their communities and ways to prevent its occurrence.
- Center for Women's Global Leadership
- Information for the development and facilitation of women's leadership for women's human rights and social justice worldwide.
- Committee of Concerned Scientists
- Site dedicated to the protection and advancement of the human rights and scientific freedom of the sciences throughout the world.
- Cultural Survival
- Focus on developing new strategies for responding directly to the critical needs of the world's indigenous populations by detailing current projects, providing current news, upcoming events, as well as links to related sites.
- Derechos
- The homepage of Derechos Human Rights, the first internet based human rights organization, provides information for the promotion and respect of human rights worldwide.
- European Court of Human Rights
- Information about the Court, pending cases, judgments/decisions, basic governing texts, and press releases.
- Human Rights First
- Information focusing on building the legal institutions and structures that will guarantee human rights in the long term and strengthen independent human rights advocacy at the local level.
- Human Rights Interactive Network
- The site contains links to other human rights and humanitarian sites in the United States and across the world.
- Human Rights Library
- The Library contains human rights documents and material, human rights search engines, mirror sites, and other information from the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library.
- Human Rights Watch
- Dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world by providing breaking news, HRW site contains publications and campaigns, commentary, as well as contact information and links to related organizations.
- Institute for Human Rights (Beirut Bar Association)
- The Institute's site promotes universal values stated in the Lebanese constitution and in the United Nations conventions of human rights.
- International Educational Development - Humanitarian Law Project
- Site devoted to protecting human rights and promoting the peaceful resolution of conflict by using established international human rights laws and humanitarian law and by providing press releases, letters, interview, reports, and related links.
- Islamic Human Rights Commission
- Highlights the continued and overwhelming oppression that faces Muslims worldwide.
- Laws.com
- Provides information on legal and crime prevention issues in order to increase public safety and awareness.
- Madre, an International Women's Human Rights Organization
- Site addresseing issues of health, education, economic development and other human rights focusing on the needs of women and children.
- Medicins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders)
- Site for organization dedicated to providing medical aid wherever it is needed, regardless of race, religion, politics or sex and to raising public awareness of the plight of the clients
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- Site dedicated to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens of United States and the elimination of racial prejudice.
- Oxfam America
- Information for the creation of lasting solutions to hunger, poverty, and social injustice through long_term partnerships with poor communities around the world
- Peace Bridgade International
- Site committed to working against racism, structural violence, and problems faced by many Indigenous communities through nonviolence and non-partisanship methods.
- People for the American Way
- Latest news and archive to organizes and mobilizes Americans to fight for fairness, justice, civil rights and the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution.
- Physicians for Human Rights
- Site of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize co-recipient, dedicated to mobilizes the health professions and enlists support from the general public to protect and promote the human rights of all people.
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Information for the elimination of nuclear weapons , the reversal of the arms race, and the national budgetary priorities which fuel that race.
- Prince Edward Island Human Rights Commission
- Project Diana Human Rights Archive (Yale Law School)
- The international archive of human rights legal documentation, includes search engine, subject index, and links.
- Refugees International
- The latest news, bulletins, newsletters, and annual reports from an independent international organization serving as the voice for refugees, displaced persons, and vulnerable people.
- Saferworld
- Think_tank working to identify, develop and publicize more effective approaches to tackling and preventing armed conflicts
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Current news, news archive, on-line classroom, programs, and campaigns to combat hate, intolerance, and discrimination through education and litigation.
- Survival International
- Campaigns, events, and educational opportunities for the worldwide support of tribal peoples through public campaigns
- U.S. Dept of State Human Rights Reports
- The country reports on human rights practices submitted annually by the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress, 1993-1999.
- UN High Commission on Human Rights
- Documents, treaties, meetings, publications, press conferences, and news of the High Commission on Human Rights.
- UN High Commissioner for Refugees
- Current news, press releases, programs, and statistics on refugees around the world.
- United Nations
- Witness
- Pictures, video, news, and petitions concerning human rights violations.
- World Commission for Peace and Human Rights Council
- World Organization Against Torture: SOS-Torture
- List of human rights violations by country in the last couple of years - distributed by SOS_Torture.
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