Human Rights and Liberties
Human Rights and Liberties
Human Rights and Liberties Links
- Human Rights Education Resource Centre Includes searchable databases, full-text education and training materials and interactive distance learning tools on human rights.
- Liberals Fight for Human Rights An open forum/resource to discuss human rights, discrimination, or hate-crimes. We are striving to evolve more Love. Read our writings/referrals and Speak Out.
- Site for Social Action: Human Rights Features articles aimed at ending human rights violations.
- The Human Rights Initiative at Georgia Institute of Technology This site is dedicated to publishing information on human rights, technology and globalization at Georgia Tech and in the wider world.
- Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) Studies and gathers human rights documentation.
- Speak Truth To Power Dedicated to the promotion of human rights awareness. A not-for-profit organization that seeks to proactively engage the general public in an ongoing series of issue-related programs and events.
- Friends of People Close to Nature Network of individuals and groups concerned with the survival of savage tribal peoples, in particular hunter-gatherers. These are the last societies on Earth to have a non-exploitive relationship with the natural world. Our task is to help them preserve their unique cultures from enforced assimilation, the ideologies of 'progress' and 'growth' and absorption in the global economy.
- Advokasi.com Provides an in-depth analysis of human rights issues in Indonesia.
- Education - Injustice In The British Legal System - ADD/ADHD Schools Message board forum.
- Strategic Choices in the Design of Truth Commissions Site seeks to aid decision makers in societies interested in establishing a Truth Commission via analysis of the structure, design choices, and impacts of past Commissions.
- Hate Crime Premise Opinion paper discussing the assumptions behind the trend toward outlawing hate crimes, and the similarity to Orwell's concept of "thoughtcrime."
- Human Rights - A Tale of Woe, Discrimination By International Lawyers Discrimination by international lawyers on the grounds of race, color, gender, religion, and disability.
- Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People John Conroy's investigation of 3 incidents of torture in Northern Ireland and why ordinary people become torturers.
- ColorQ's Human Rights Page Features stories and links on worldwide human rights violations, particularly issues that receive little attention from the Western media.
- Political Correctness An essay on its nature, origin and impact.
- Human Rights Law and Issues at Suite 101 A site of passion on human rights law and issues, as well as humanity for all mankind. Various concepts of human rights law and issues, and country-specific insider views on specific incidents.
- AccessHR A portal to human rights resources on the Internet.
- Use Your Shareholder Power to Free Burma Site advocating the selling of shares in companies doing business in Burma to give its people freedom and democracy.
- The Journalism and Films of John Pilger International human rights abuses committed and aided by the West, especially the UNs sanctions against Iraq, are detailed in the largest John Pilger online archive.
- Stop Abuse of Vulnerable People Stopping abusive institutions, exposing abusers and helping survivors, uncovering pedophile rings in Childrens Homes and protesting abusive mental health treatment.
- Human Rights Discussion List Active mail list and discussion on subject. Bilingual, English y Español.
- Human Rights and Liberties Page Links to articles, resources, organizations, and primary documents dealing with all facets of human rights and freedoms.
- Essays Examining Xenophobia by William W. Berry of Buffalo, New York Opinion pieces, including sympathetic descriptions of the May, 2000 Adirondack Mountain celebration of John Brown's 200th birthday, and an October, 1968 Viet Nam protest at MIT, among others.
- Al Mezan Center for Human Rights An independent non-governmental organization, based in Jabalia refugee camp, is working for the advancement of human rights and democracy in the Gaza Strip.
- Artists for a New South Africa ANSA is a non-profit organization founded and supported by artists, activists and others dedicated to furthering democracy and equality in South Africa and civil rights in the U.S.
- Civil Liberties From About.com - Columns, link libraries, polls, and discussions about personal liberty issues.
- Muslim Voices in the Human Rights Debate - Human Rights Quarterly Paper examines the relationship between the ideals of modern human rights and traditional Islamic norms.
- Discovering America As It Is (Book) Argues that the U.S. extreme capitalist system represents an even greater threat than Soviet mock-communism to the well-being of the world. Written by former anti-Soviet dissident.
- Muggles Rights Education Using Harry Potter stories for human rights education.
- International Human Rights Commission Official site with yearly reports and other information on global issues of human rights.
- Comparative Democratization Project, Stanford - Human Rights Links to Internet resources on human rights.
- International Human Rights Features college papers, posters and links to web sites about international human rights' issues.
- Human Rights Education Buffalo Project On-Line Resource Center including an interactive classroom and links to other Human Rights information.
- Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change A research center dedicated to advancing the understanding and pursuing the goals of the American civil rights movement.
- Boycott Beijing 2008 Argues that with its record on human rights at home and in Tibet, China should not host the Olympic Games in 2008. Calls for a boycott by countries and individuals.
- IntellectualLoafing.com Running Debates: Torture Can Be Morally Justfiable? User debate: This House believes that torture can be morally justifiable. The discussion centers around the value of human rights and if governments have the moral right to violate them in defence of human lives.
- Human Rights: Traditionalist Critique and Reform Objections to the human rights movement and human rights institutions from a point of view favoring decentralism and tradition, with proposals for reform.
- World Audit of Democracy and Human Rights Focus is on democracy, human rights, press freedom, corruption and the rule of law. Daily news on democracy and human rights, links and e-commerce facilities for human rights publications.
- Human Rights In Australia This publication provides a brief account of human rights and their operation in Australia. It is a collection of writings about human rights with specific reference to Australia.
- Human Rights & Human Welfare: An International Review of Books and Other Publications Human Rights & Human Welfare is an Internet journal featuring critical essays reviewing new texts in the area of global human rights, defined broadly. It is published at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver.
- The International Monitor Institute Archives Advanced media research for human rights. Video, audio and photography pertaining to human rights worldwide, particularly in the former Yugoslavia, Burma, Cambodia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and the Middle East.
- Human Rights Alerts From Peace Brigades International.
- Stop the Torture in China Information on torture in China and what you can do to help stop it.
- Gendercide Watch Confronts gender-selective atrocities against men and women worldwide. Includes a growing database of historical and contemporary case-studies of gendercide, research materials, and up-to-date media coverage.
- Look Into My I :The Freedom Paintings Rebecca Barrington's plea for privacy in the public sector. Eight powerful freedom paintings from the LuLu Eccentrix Art Gallery depicting the loss of freedom.
- Human Rights Charity resource with particular emphasis on those dealing with human rights in the former soviet union.
- Concise Guide to Human Rights on the Internet Resource for finding information about human rights on the internet. Links to organizations worldwide addressing human rights issues.
- Guide to Human Rights Features news and information on current human rights campaigns and reports. From About.com.
- The United States and 'The Challenge of Relativity' Review by US political dissident Noam Chomsky of the United States' own appalling record on human rights - not in the distant past, but in the last 50 years and continuing right up to this day.
- 8th Day Center for Social Justice A multi-issue, social justice center supported and staffed by 30 congregations of nuns, priests and brothers which promotes analysis and action.
- U.S. Report Stresses Religious Rights In releasing the annual assessment of human rights in other countries, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright pledged to make the promotion of religious liberty a top priority of U.S. foreign policy.
- Stop India's Human Rights Violations How successive Indian governments have violated the fundamental human rights by suppressing minority groups.
- Humanlex Categorised links related to the field of international law and international human rights law. In English and French.
- Human Rights Resource on United States human rights issues including asylum, the death penalty, land mine manufacturers, police brutality, and prison conditions.
- Human Rights Voice Non profit organization involved in the sphere of international human rights, global security, economic development, economic justice and international justice, business and economic rights, and conflict resolution.
- Violations of Human Rights - Cases of Today Focuses on current cases violating the UN charter of human rights.
- 4HumanRights Annotated guide to human rights links from 4anything.com.
- University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna), Sri Lanka It is the first local organization which tries to document human rights violations in an armed conflict situation in a proper socio-political context. Based in Sri Lanka, for the last 12 years it tries to create a narrative space for the people who were trapped in the conflict.
- Human Rights Forum THE past, present and future of human rights covering important philosophers, as well as current issues in human rights today. Interactive with activities and a message board.
- The International Association for Religious Freedom Supports freedom of religion and belief as defined by international law. The IARF has general consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
- Serendipity: Human Rights Sections on Jury Nullification, Genocide, East Timor, Mass Starvation of Germans (1945-1950), Political Prisoners in America, The War on Drug Users, Civil Asset Forfeiture and Privacy.
- The Human Rights Web Human rights resources including links to relevant documents.
- Freedom Magazine: In Support of Human Rights Explores the role of investigative reporting in restoring human rights.
- Human Rights Initiative of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs The Human Rights Initiative is a multiyear research and dialogue project of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. The Human Rights Initiative aims to provide critical perspective of what happens when international human rights confront realities on the ground.
- Greater Los Angeles Federation for a Democratic China Promotes the ideals of democracy, human rights, freedom, and rule-by-law in Chinese communities.
- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
- Human Rights Trump Sovereignty In 1999 Contends that national sovereignty is now a less important obstacle to curbing serious human rights crimes than it has been in previous years.
- Silent Voices Speak An Art Exhibition and Lecture Series on the Holocaust and Social Injustice Today. Herbst Exhibition Hall, San Francisco Presidio.April 1-May 15, 2001
- United Nations Agreements on Human Rights Summary page with links to full document.
- Human Rights Internet Provides human rights publications, information on children's rights and the UN human rights system, and listing of human rights organizations worldwide.
- Human Rights Watch World Report 2001 Human Rights Watch's eleventh annual review of human rights practices around the globe - covers developments in 70 countries. The report reflects extensive investigative work conducted in 2000 by the Human Rights Watch staff, usually in close partnership with human rights activists in the countries in question.
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