Human Rights and Liberties

Human Rights and Liberties

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Human Rights and Liberties Links

• Know Your Civil Rights Fact Sheet - Know Your Civil Rights from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
  
• Save the Montagnard People, Inc. (STMP) Organization helping Montagnards of Vietnam's Central Highlands fight religious and political persecution and settle refugees.
  
• Civilrights.org Resource for current news, events, reports and organizations. Also includes information on hate crimes and affirmative action.
  
• Review of Film on Branch Davidians at Waco Raises questions about a documentary film and suggests violation of human rights in the Waco incident.
  
• Human Rights Watch World Report 2000 Report on the United States' official position.
  
• Women's Institute for Leadership Development for Human Rights Provides human rights education, engages in public advocacy, and collaborates on the adoption and implementation of international human rights standards in the United States.
  
• American Civil Liberties Union Litigates, lobbies, and educates the public regarding on a broad array of issues affecting individual freedom in the United States.
  
• United States: Punishment and Prejudice: Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs The U.S. war on drugs has been waged overwhelmingly against black Americans, Human Rights Watch charges in this report which includes the first state-by-state analysis of the role of race and drugs in prison admissions.
  
• Network USA A list of sites dedicated to liberty, rights, and freedom issues. Includes the "Fight the Fingerprint", against identifying technologies.
  
• Amnesty International USA Group 133 Boston Area activists, currently focusing on Tibet, China, the Death Penalty, Human Rights in the USA, the North Andean Region, and Refugees and Asylum Seekers.
  
• Police Brutality in the U.S. Although variable throughout the U.S., reported human rights violations knows no bounds as far as urban / rural, rich / poor areas. Human Rights Org's details on major U.S. cities.
  
• Children In The Custody of The INS Argues that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has a conflict of interest when it acts as both jailer and caretaker of children.
  
• Clarence Aaron This 23-year-old college student received three life sentences in a drug conspiracy trial based on the testimony of informants and no other evidence.
  
• Nowhere to Hide Retaliation against women prisoners who protest sexual abuse includes a range of further abuse including rape.
  
• James Bigby's Homepage James Bigby has been on death row in Texas since 1991. Site contains Llegal material and artwork .
  
• Death Penalty Focus of California A California non-profit organization dedicated to the abolition of the death penalty.
  
• The Constitutional Defense web page Resources on constitutional rights.
  
• International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal Mumia Abu-Jamal faces the death penalty and his last appeal has been denied. He could be executed as early as May 1999.
  
• Rights for All, Amnesty International's campaign on the United States of America
  
• United States Local Transgender Organizations Information about state and local organizations and resources for the transgender community.
  
• Center for Trade with Vietnam Advocates for normalization of trade relations between the USA and Vietnam on the premise that advances in human rights follows economic advances and liberalization.
  
• 42 USC Chapter 21 - Civil Rights A hypertext version of the U.S. Civil Rights Code from the Legal Information Institute.
  
• American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee Committed to defending the rights of Americans of Arab descent and preserving their rich cultural heritage in the U.S.
  
• The Boyertown Area Unity Coalition A grass-roots human rights organization whose mission is to create and nurture a caring community in which respect for all persons young and old is cultivated and in which bigotry is rejected.
  
• When One Conviction May Mean Losing The Right To Vote Forever Losing the Vote, produced in collaboration between Human Rights Watch and The Sentencing Project, presents the first fifty-state survey of the effect of laws taking away the right to vote from people convicted of a felony.
  
• People For the American Way issues include religious liberty, freedom of expression, and equal rights
  
• Amnesty International - Dornbirn, Austria Western Austrian branch of the human rights organisation Amnesty International with special topic on the Death Penalty (Capital Punishment) in the USA.
  
• Civil Liberties Monitoring Project Monitors civil rights abuses by law enforcement and other government agencies focusing on civil rights issues in the California North Coast.
  
• Locked Away Increasing numbers of immigrants are being incarcerated as the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) attempts to fulfill the provisions of the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and immigrant Responsibility Act.