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Human Rights links of a general or cross-cutting nature.
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Project Corpus Callosum
- "Contrary to popular belief, apathy is not our generation's major obstacle. Our left brains are working furiously to catalogue and explain innumerable injustices, while our right brains scream that we must respond creatively. Our real impediment, then, is that we are a generation with an atrophied corpus callosum, utterly confounded about how to bridge our intellectual realizations about social problems with our imaginative capacity to enact solutions." Following is rest of the winning entry in a US college essay competition.
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Amnesty International NZ
- Amnesty International is a movement of over 1.5 million people in more than 150 countries who contribute their time, money and expertise to the promotion of human rights and campaigning against some of the most horrific violations of those rights, such as torture, killings, and imprisonment for who people are or what they believe.
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Bayefsky.com
- Bayefsky.com was designed for the purpose of enhancing the implementation of the human rights legal standards of the United Nations. Accessibility to UN human rights norms by individuals everywhere is fundamental to their successful realization. The information provided herein encompasses a range of data concerning the application of the UN human rights treaty system by its monitoring treaty bodies since their inauguration in the 1970's. This website lists United Nations human rights treaty body documents in an organized and classified format. The content is listed by State, Working Category and Human Rights Theme or Subject Matter.
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British Council Human Rights Network
- Directory of human rights resources on the Internet.
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Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs Human Rights
- The two primary publications featured here include Ethics & International Affairs and Human Rights Dialogue. Established in 1914, the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs was created by the noted philanthropist Andrew Carnegie with the lofty and admirable goal of working towards world peace. Today the Council continues to be a well-known forum for research and education in a number of areas, including ethics and international policy. On their homepage, visitors can learn about some of the many events sponsored by the council,such as panel discussions and international symposia. As might be expected,the publications area is quite strong, and contains links to many full-textpieces. A real treat is the access afforded here to the well-known publication, Worldview, which was published from 1958 to 1985. Visitors can read classic articles by Noam Chomsky and Reinhold Niebuhr which originally appeared between the covers of this important publication. Copyright Internet Scout Project, 1994-2005(http://scout.wisc.edu/)
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Ethical Global Initiative (EGI)
- Led by Mary Robinson, the EGI brings key stakeholders together in new alliances to integrate concepts of human rights, gender sensitivity and ethical accountability, which together help address global challenges and governance shortcomings.
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Human Rights Connection (HRC)
- The Columbia University Center for the Study of Human Rights and Forefront have partnered to coordinate Human Rights Connection (HRC), a dynamic web-based resource center in which local human rights activists can share training materials and best practices. Published in several languages, the site consists of basic and more advanced materials that directly apply to human rights groups in key areas, including advocacy, technology, lobbying, managing organizations and mobilizing communities.
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Human Rights Foundation of Aotearoa New Zealand
- The Foundation promotes human rights through research-based education and advocacy. The site showcases the Foundation's current projects and has downloadable resources relating to contemporary human rights issues.
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Human Rights Impact Resource Centre
- The Humanist Committee on Human Rights (HOM) has launched the online Human Rights Impact Resource Centre (HRIRC). The HRIRC is an online platform for all those who are interested in human rights measurement in general and Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) in particular.
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Human Rights Internet
- HRI 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.
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Human Rights Network International (HRNi)
- A collection of the most important international documents on human rights: instruments, articles, bibliographic references, websites, case law, reports and human rights actors.
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Human Rights Tools
- Links to over 200 databases useful for human rights. The website covers important areas such as: investigation, monitoring, humanitarian protection, planning and fundraising; and different aspects of human rights (i.e. culture, gender, elections and business). Source: CHRN
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Human Rights Watch links to human rights resources
- Links to human rights resources from organizations other than Human Rights Watch.
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Indigenous peoples' rights (Aotearoa)
- Regularly updated website containing resources and ways to take action on Maori rights. Source: Dev-Zone
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International Human Rights Lexicon
- The on-line companion to the book of the same name. This provides a wonderful compilation of human rights treaties, judgements and other documents.
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International Service for Human Rights
- Particularly useful resource for those following the work of the Human Rights Council is the updates produced by the International Service for Human Rights. They are compiling and analysing information related to the first session. Source: CHRN
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Netherlands Institute of Human Rights
- The Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) was established in 1981. The institute aims to serve as a centre for human rights studies. It conducts and promotes research projects, and collects relevant documentation on international human rights issues with an aim to enhance and distribute the knowledge on human rights procedures and practices.
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New Tactics in Human Rights
- The New Tactics in Human Rights project, led by a diverse group of international organizations and practitioners, promotes tactical innovation and strategic thinking within the international human rights community. Strategic and tactical thinking, long used by business and military strategists, is an effective means for the human rights movement to expand options and possibilities of what can be done.
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NZ Human Rights Commission
- The aim of this website is to promote and educate the New Zealand public on human rights in an accessible and user-friendly format.
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Office of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights
- The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has launched its newly designed website. Although reportedly still under construction, it now includes pages on human rights in Arabic, Russian and Chinese, in addition to the already existing pages in Spanish and French.
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Open Society Justice Initiative
- With offices in Abuja, Budapest, and New York, the Open Society Justice Institute "performs law reform activities grounded in the protection of human rights, and contributes to the development of legal capacity for open societies worldwide." To that end, the Institute offers a wide range of helpful resources on its website, including access to its in-house journal, Justice Initiatives, information about its advocacy efforts around the globe, and an events calendar. The "Books & Monographs" area provides a host of helpful research and primary source materials, such as a handbook for monitoring election campaign finance and a section dedicated to combating discrimination in Russia. Those persons looking for information about the Institute's work in a specific part of the world will want to look through the geographically organized material in the "Regions" area. From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/
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Rights & Democracy
- Rights & Democracy (International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development) is a non-partisan organization with an international mandate. It was created by Canada's Parliament in 1988 to encourage and support the universal values of human rights and the promotion of democratic institutions and practices around the world. Although its mandate is wide-ranging, Rights & Democracy currently focuses on four themes: democratic development, women's human rights, globalization and human rights, and the rights of indigenous peoples.
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SUR - Human Rights University Network
- SUR - Human Rights University Network is committed to enhancing the critical contribution of universities to the global realization of human rights through education, research and advocacy. Sur is a network of academics that consists today of approximately 150 members from 43 countries. It was established in May 2002 at a meeting of academics and UN representatives from 14 countries, who were in Sao Paulo, Brazil for the II International Human Rights Colloquium. Sur implements a collaborative project of the United Nations Development Programme to strengthen the UN dialogue with universities in the Global South.
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The Human Rights Institute
- The International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute was established in December 1995 under the Honorary Presidency of Nelson Mandela. Financial contributions and voluntary assistance from its 7,000 members, coupled with the support of Law Societies and Bar Associations worldwide, enable the Institute to carry out a wide-range of projects.
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UN Official Document System Online
- After years of technical, financial and political hurdles, the United Nations "Official Document System" is finally open and free to general public. The ODS the main repository of 800,000+ UN documents dating back to its earliest days, from General Assembly resolutions to UN agency memoranda, in all six of the UN official languages. This is a major coup to those who have worked for years to see this critical archive of UN documents made freely and publicly accessible. ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are, however, added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. The system does not contain press releases (posted at http://www.un.org/News/Press/full.htm), UN sales publications (contact: http://unp.un.org), the United Nations Treaty Series or information brochures issued by the Department of Public Information.
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United Nations Human Rights Portal
- Virtually every United Nations body and specialized agency is involved to some degree in the protection of human rights. One of the great achievements of the United Nations is the creation of a comprehensive body of human rights law, which, for the first time in history, provides us with a universal and internationally protected code of human rights, one to which all nations can subscribe and to which all people can aspire.
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University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
- The world's largest and most comprehensive collection of human rights documents and links on-line.
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Human Rights: Our Common Wealth - Zimbabwe Appeal
- You are urged to write to the Attorney General of Zimbabwe, expressing concern and calling for the release of hundreds of women human rights defenders in Zimbabwe. Please find attached a proposed letter to be faxed (as soon as possible)to the Attorney General. Email: chrn@humanrightsinitiative.org http://www.humanrightsinitiative.org
UN in Georgia and Russia
Waltz with Bashir
