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African Human Rights Instruments
Useful links from the Human Rights Library of the University of Minnesota.
Anti-slavery
Anti-Slavery International is the only charity in the United Kingdom to work exclusively against slavery and related abuses. It works at local, national and international levels to eliminate the system of slavery around the world.
Burma Guide to Rights and Democracy
The Burma Guide to Rights and Democracy, or “BurmaGuide.Net”, offers many “resource summaries” in different areas that are crucial for citizens of countries in transition on the often difficult path towards democracy and a modern economy. The BurmaGuide.Net includes many documents that are viewable or downloadable here. Many more can be found in the links to other Internet sites that are provided.
Business and Human Rights
Site with articles on the necessity of forging ties between business and human rights. Links to other organizations available.
Canadian Lawyers Association for International Human Rights (CLAIHR)
CLAIHR promotes and protects human rights internationally through the use of law and legal institutions. It focuses on the situations of indigenous people, workers and women, particularly in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Canada.
Children's Rights - Human Rights Watch
Information on child refugees, child soldiers, juvenile justice, orphans and abandoned children, from the international organization Human Rights Watch.
Coalition Against Slavery in Mauritania and Sudan - CASMAS
This human rights organization brings together abolitionists and human rights activists from all races, creeds, and nationalities to collectively fight for the eradication of the chattel enslavement of black Africans.
Coalition for the International Criminal Court
The Coalition brings together a broad-based network of over 1,000 NGOs, international law experts and other civil society groups.
ConectaSur
This portal seeks to strengthen respect for human rights around the world by stimulating dialogue, exchange of information and cooperation on human rights in the southern hemisphere.
Conference of NGOs (CONGO)
An international, not-for-profit membership association of NGOs that facilitates the participation of organizations in United Nations debates and decisions. The site provides a Calendar of Substantive Committees Events.
Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA)
Independent research and information organization founded to promote the common interest of the Americas, raise the visibility of inter-American relationships and encourage the rational and constructive US policies towards Latin America.
Gaza Students Campaign for Academic Freedom
A student-based international volunteer organization, which coordinates action internationally from its base at the Human Rights Action Project of Birzeit University, Palestine, and puts new campaigners in touch with local networks.
Global Witness
Non-governmental investigative organisation working to expose the link between natural resource exploitation and human rights abuses. UK.
Haiti Support Group
Association of individuals who support the Haitian people in their struggle for justice, human rights, and participatory democracy. It is a solidarity group based in the United Kingdom.
Human Rights Internet (HRI)
HRI exchanges information within the worldwide human rights community. It is dedicated to the empowerment of human rights activists and organizations, and to the education of governmental and intergovernmental agencies and officials and other actors in the public and private sphere, on human rights issues and the role of civil society. Canada.
Human Rights Tools
The site is primarily aimed at human rights activists - persons monitoring the respect of human rights and advocating for positive change. It presents a collection of essential resources for human rights work.
Human Rights Treaties and Other Instruments
Links organized by subject matter and by key word. Human Rights Library of the University of Minnesota.
International Human Rights Law Group (IHRLG)
IHRLG supports work in more than 88 countries helping local leaders and organizations address domestic human rights abuses and to lift those struggles out of isolation and onto the international human rights arena. Women's human rights concerns are integrated into all programs, including economic, social and cultural rights. USA.
Iraq Foundation
They work for democracy and human rights in Iraq, and for a better international understanding of Iraq's potential as a contributor to political stability and economic progress in the Middle East.
Latin America Bureau (LAB)
LAB is an independent research and publishing organisation. It works to broaden public understanding of issues of human rights and social and economic justice in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Linking Solidarity Forum
The Linking Solidarity Discussion Forum is designed as an exchange and meeting place for all victims, relatives, individuals or organisations concerned by or acting against enforced or involuntary disappearances world-wide and in particular in Africa.
Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights
The Center is a worker advocacy organization that provides support, legal representation and training for low-wage, non-union workers in the state of Mississippi.
NGO Information & Cooperation (NGOIC)
NGOIC is a web-based mechanism for information-sharing and cooperation among NGOs with a view to improving and facilitating NGO participation in the newly created United Nations Human Rights Council. NGOIC is offered as a free service to interested NGOs, and participation is voluntary. NGOIC is a civil society initiative, and is independent of governments and the UN secretariat.
People's Decade of Human Rights Education (PDHRE-International)
A non-profit, international service organization that works directly and indirectly with its network of affiliates — primarily women's and social justice organizations — to develop and advance pedagogies for human rights education relevant to people's daily lives in the context of their struggles for social and economic justice and democracy.
Privacy International (PI)
Human rights group formed as a watchdog on surveillance by governments and corporations.
Rights International - Center for International Human Rights Law Inc.
A legal-aid NGO, Rights International fights for those rights recognized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights treaties. Its two goals are to protect the human rights of its clients, and to advance the development of international human rights caselaw. USA.
Sociologists without Borders
Academic NGO with chapters in Spain (where it is formally registered), Brazil, Chile, Italy. In the U.S. the objective is to bridge activism with the classroom and to introduce human rights into academic sociology.
The Fomunyoh Foundation (TFF)
Its mission is to undertake charitable causes that can improve the quality of life of the Cameroonian people, and to assist and support people and organizations dedicated to the promotion of democracy and human rights in the Republic of Cameroon.
The OpenNet Initiative
The OpenNet Initiative (ONI) is a collaborative partnership of four leading academic institutions aimed at investigating, exposing and analyzing Internet filtering and surveillance practices. The ONI intends to uncover the potential pitfalls and unintended consequences of these practices, and thus help to inform better public policy and advocacy work in this area.
Universal Human Rights Index
This new tool provides instant access to the observations and recommendations of the Human Rights Council and the seven Treaty Bodies which monitor the implementation of the core international human rights treaties.
Washington Office on Latin American (WOLA)
WOLA has been a party to in all major Washington policy debates over human rights in Latin America. WOLA staff are called upon regularly to provide information and analysis to the executive branch, to multilateral organizations, to members of Congress and to US and Latin American media.
Witness
WITNESS uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations.
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