Why join?

For reasons including these:

• It is free to join the Human Rights Network
• You will receive a weekly bulletin of content published on our site, keeping you up-to-date on human rights news, events, publications, links and discussions
• You can contribute your own content for publication on the site and in the newsletter
• Access more content on the site
• Particpate in Network projects
• Participate in the discussion forum and collaborate with other Network members in workgroups

Overview of how you join

1. Fill out an electronic registration form on this site, supplying details like your username and e-mail address.
2. Check your e-mail for a confirmation letter that will display your username and a computer generated password.
3. Use this user name and password to login to this site.
4. You will be offered the opportunity to choose your own password, which we recommend.
5. Your registration is complete!
   

Visual guide

You can sign up on this website using your web browser. There are two links to click on that allow you to go to a form to fill in your membership details. This one is on the left panel:

The second is on the top right:

If they are not showing, it means that someone is already logged into the Network. If so, click on logout and you will see the join links.

Click on either of the join links and you will be presented with a membership form. A red square next to the label of an input field means the field is required -- a value must be entered for these fields, or you will not be able to register. The other fields are optional. A portion of the form is shown here:

Once you have clicked on register you will be e-mailed an initial password and some instructions on how to complete your registration. If you are using an e-mail service that filters junk mail or SPAM, please ensure the service has not erroneously filtered this e-mail.

Completing your registration

To complete your registration you must login to this site using the username you chose and an initial password that was sent to you by e-mail. This verifies your e-mail address is correct, and signs you up for the Network's weekly newsletter, known as the Bulletin. An easy way to login is to click login on the top right of the screen:

This will then display this small form:

Both of these entries are case sensitive. This means that you should use the exact capitalisation. For instance if you user name is SampleMember, both of these will fail: samplemember and SAMPLEMEMBER. The same applies with the password.

Once you have logged in, you will be given the opportunity to choose a password that is easy for you to remember. it must be more than 5 characters in length and can contain letters, numbers and the underscore(_) character. Remember, passwords are case sensitive. Naturally you should not choose a password that is easy for others to guess.