Human Rights
"The care of human life and happiness, and not
their destruction, is the first and only object of good government" -
Thomas Jefferson
Reproduced with written permission from
Chattanooga Times/
Free Press Editorial Cartoonist, Bruce
Plante.
Websites
Publications
Websites
Alliance for Human Research Protection
"AHRP is a national network of lay people and
professionals dedicated to advancing responsible and ethical medical research
practices, to ensure that the human rights, dignity and welfare of human
subjects are protected, and to minimize the risks associated with such
endeavors."
http://www.ahrp.org/infomail/05/04/27.php
Amnesty International USA
Amnesty International's vision is of a world in
which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.
In pursuit of this vision, AI's mission is to undertake research and action
focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and
mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from
discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human
rights."
http://www.amnestyusa.org/home.html
Amnesty International Canada
http://www.amnesty.ca/
Anti-Slavery International
"The world's oldest international human rights organization, founded in
1839...works exclusively against slavery and related abuses."
http://www.antislavery.org
AsylumSupport.info
"AsylumSupport.info focuses on all matters that concern people seeking
asylum, together with a directory of hundreds of online resources relating to:
asylum and refugees, conflict, country data, court cases, deportation,
detention, discrimination, funding, gender, government, human rights, human
trafficking, law, media, migration, policy and studies."
http://www.asylumsupport.info
Bikers
Against Child Abuse (BACA) USA
http://www.bacausa.com/Internet/AboutBACA.aspx
Canadian
Human Rights Reporter (CHRR)
"Publisher of Canadian Human Rights Law"
http://www.cdn-hr-reporter.ca/index.htm
Canadian Human Rights Web Sites: Human Rights Protection Mechanisms,
Legislation and Policy
University of Ottowa web pages.
http://www.uottawa.ca/hrrec/links/sitescan_e.html
Center
for Constitutional Rights
"The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is a non-profit
legal and educational organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the
rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights. CCR uses litigation proactively to advance the law in a positive
direction, to empower poor communities and communities of color, to guarantee
the rights of those with the fewest protections and least access to legal
resources, to train the next generation of constitutional and human rights
attorneys, and to strengthen the broader movement for constitutional and human
rights."
http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/home.asp
Civil
Rights.org
"Civilrights.org is a collaboration of the Leadership Conference on
Civil Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund. Its
mission: to serve as the site of record for relevant and up-to-the-minute civil
rights news and information."
http://www.civilrights.org
Human
Rights Education: Backgrounder on Geneva Conventions
http://www.amnestyusa.org/education/geneva.html
Feedback on the Panel Presentation
- United Nations 48th Commission on the Status of Women
Information about the presentations made by Randall D. Marshall, M.D.,
Jeanne Sarson, RN, BSCN, MEd., Linda MacDonald, RN, BN, MEd., Dana Raphael,
Ph.D., Jeanette Westbrook, MSSW, CSW, and Helen McGonigle, Attorney at Law on
March 8, 2004 during a panel discussion, "The Many Faces of Torture,"
at the UN in New York City.
http://www.ritualabusetorture.org/un.htm
Grassroots.org
"Promoting citizen action and providing free services to nonprofits"
http://www.grassroots.org/cs/root/home
Human Rights First
"Human Rights First works in the United States and abroad to create a
secure and humane world by advancing justice, human dignity and respect for the
rule of law. We support human rights activists who fight for basic freedoms and
peaceful change at the local level; protect refugees in flight from persecution
and repression; help build a strong international system of justice and
accountability; and make sure human rights laws and principles are enforced in
the United States and abroad."
http://www.HumanRightsFirst.org
Human Rights Fundamentals
Nancy Flowers, Editor
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/edumat/hreduseries/hereandnow/Part-1/
whatare.htm
Human Rights Network International
"www.hrni.org is a collection of the most important
international documents related to human rights: instruments, case law,
articles, bibliographic references, Internet sites, reports and human rights
actors."
http://www.hrni.org/index_flash.html
Human Rights Resource Center
Part of the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center.
Provides educational resources, training, and advocacy network building.
http://hrusa.org
Human Rights Watch
"Human Rights Watch is the largest human rights organization based in
the United States. Human Rights Watch researchers conduct fact-finding
investigations into human rights abuses in all regions of the world. Human
Rights Watch then publishes those findings in dozens of books and reports every
year, generating extensive coverage in local and international media. This
publicity helps to embarrass abusive governments in the eyes of their citizens
and the world. Human Rights Watch then meets with government officials to urge
changes in policy and practice -- at the United Nations, the European Union, in
Washington and in capitals around the world."
http://www.hrw.org
HURIDOCS and HURISEARCH
HURIDOCS is "a global network of organisations concerned with more
effective ways of using information for the cause of human rights."
"HURISEARCH currently directly searches almost 1500 human rights NGO sites
in 58 languages."
http://www.huridocs.org/
http://www.hurisearch.org/
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
http://www.icrc.org
International
Justice Mission (IJM)
International Justice Mission pursues justice for the oppressed using two
broad approaches:
Casework - IJM's
legal and law enforcement professionals use investigation strategies, legal
expertise, and cutting-edge technology to rescue individual victims of injustice
and abuse around the world.
Education -
Through its education initiatives, IJM provides people of faith with the
training, mobilization tools and resources to translate their convictions into
active engagement.
http://www.ijm.org
Mind Control: Report in Support for
an International Investigation - U.S.
Human Rights Abuse Report
C.A.H.R.A.
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/project110.html
Mind Justice
"Formerly Citizens Against Human Rights Abuse (CAHRA)...A human rights
group working for the rights and protections of mental integrity and freedom
from new technologies and weapons which target the mind and nervous
system."
http://www.mindjustice.org
North
American Freedom Foundation (NAFF)
"NAFF was created to serve the following
purposes: 1) To bring attention to the
existence of governmental and non-governmental mind control; slavery; and
torture perpetrated in the United States and Canada; 2) To educate the public about the
special recovery needs of victims and survivors; and 3) To develop and maintain a living
memorial garden - the Garden of Healing - to honor victims' and
survivors' traumas and strengths, and to honor those who support them in their
recovery processes."
http://naffoundation.org
National Association of Social
Workers (NASW)
International Policy on Human Rights, Social Work Speaks, 5th
Edition
http://www.socialworkers.org/pressroom/events/911/improved_training.asp
PeaceWomen
"The PeaceWomen Project monitors and works toward rapid and full
implementation of United Nations Security Council resolution 1325 on women,
peace and security."
http://www.peacewomen.org/wpsindex.html
http://www.peacewomen.org/frame/aboutus.html
REDRESS
"Seeking reparation for torture survivors...London based,
internationally focused, non-profit legal/human rights organisation."
http://www.redress.org/
Save Our Civil Liberties
http://www.saveourcivilliberties.org/en/index.shtml
U.N.: Support Creation of Human
Rights Council, 6/6/05, Human Rights Watch
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/06/06/global11082_txt.htm
Violence against women officially
declared a human rights violation
MS magazine, 10/9/06
http://www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?ID=9921
What Are Human Rights?
University of Minnesota Human Rights Resource Center
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/edumat/hreduseries/hereandnow/Part-1/whatare.htm
Women and Global Human Rights
Provides links to many quality resources.
http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/wandghrwebpage.html
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Publications
Amnesty International Annual
Report 2007
http://news.amnesty.org/index/ENGPOL100072007
Human Rights Watch World Report
2007
http://www.hrw.org/wr2k7/essays/introduction/1.htm
UNICEF's
The State of the World's Children 2007
http://www.unicef.org/sowc07/
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last edited on 08/29/2007.
