The
Center for the Study of Human Rights
The Center for the Study of Human Rights
is one of the oldest University-based human rights
institutions, committed to the education and training
of emerging human rights leaders
Education International (EI)
Education International is a world-wide
trade union organisation of education personnel, whose
26 million members represent all sectors of education
from pre-school to university.
Great Decisions Educators Corner
The Foreign Policy Association (FPA) is a non-profit
organization dedicated to inspiring the American public
to learn more about the world.
Human Rights Education Associates (HREA)
About HREA Human Rights Education Associates (HREA)
is an international non-governmental organisation
that supports human rights learning; the training
of activists and professionals; the development of
educational materials and programming; and community-building
through on-line technologies.
Human Rights Internet (HRI)
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.
Human Rights Library at
the University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library houses
one of the largest collections of more than eighteen
thousand core human rights documents, including several
hundred human rights treaties and other primary international
human rights instruments.
International Women's Rights Action Watch (IWRAW)-
Asia Pacific
IWRAW Asia Pacific contributes to the progressive
interpretation, universalisation, implementation and
realisation of women's human rights through the lens
of CEDAW and other international human rights treaties
Islam and Human Rights Fellowship Program
The Islam and Human Rights Fellowship Program at Emory
University is a three-year project that brings scholars
and activists together to explore the relationship
between human rights and Islam.
National Center for Human Rights Education (NCHRE)
Their mission is to build a human rights movement
in the United States by training comunity leaders
and student activists to apply human rights standards
to issues of injustice
Prevent Genocide International
Prevent Genocide International is a nonprofit educational
organization established in 1998 with the purpose
of bringing about the elimination of the crime of
genocide. The organization makes particular use of
the Internet as a way of linking persons around the
world in a transnational network of global civic engagement
and action.
Right to Education Project (RTE)
A public access human rights resource and devoted
to furthering the rule of law as the grounding of
human rights, and promotes the right to education,
human rights and fundamental freedoms in education,
and enhancement of human rights through education.
The Runnymede Trust
Founded in 1968, Runnymede is a leading independent
think tank on ethnicity and cultural diversity. Its
mandate since inception has been to challenge racial
discrimination, to influence related legislation and
to promote a successful multi-ethnic Britain.
University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (UICHR)
Initiated by a multidisciplinary group of faculty,
it has as its mission to assist in the promotion and
protection of human rights at home and abroad by providing
distinguished multidisciplinary leadership in human
rights research, education, and public service to
The University of Iowa, its surrounding community,
the State of Iowa, and beyond.
Women's Human Rights Resources (at the Bora Laskin
Law Library)
Elaborate web site with diverse, quality information
on women's international human rights law, including
annotated bibliographic references to scholarly articles;
annotated references to conventions and UN Reports;
NGO reports, case law and legislation.
Social Action & Initiatives
Links
BlackFamilies.com
Offers a family-oriented, interactive environment
providing current information on parenting, tips on
how to improve family relationships, and current events
that face the African-American family.
WebActive
A site which provides links to many news and information
resources that lie outside the traditional mainstream
commercial sources, and attempts to provide resources
that make "the internet an effective tool for progressive
activism."
Community of Sant'Egidio International Campaign against
Death Penalty: Moratorium 2000.
The Community of Sant'Egidio in Rome has started collecting
signatures for their appeal, in Italy and on all continents
for a moratorium on the death penalty by the year
2000. You can read the entire text of the appeal and
sign it online at their website. The signatures they
collect will constitute the moratorium proposal to
be made to all nations represented at the UN. In English
and Italian.
MADRE
Since 1983, MADRE has worked in partnership with community-based
organizations in conflict areas worldwide to address
issues of women's health, economic development, and
other human rights. MADRE provides resources and training
for its sister organizations and works to empower
people in the US to demand change to unjust policies.
Development Gateway
The Development Gateway helps communities, organizations,
and individuals build partnerships, share ideas, and
work together to reduce poverty.
Global Issues
Over 3000 links ranging from trade, poverty and globalization,
to human rights, geopolitics and the environment.
Links to UN Conference Sites
Recent world conferences have produced
powerful plans of action that have in common the
protection and betterment of all human futures,
North and South, specifically addressing the protection
of women's human rights and generally promoting
human rights principles. Taken together, existing
international norms and standards and the proclamations
resulting from these world conferences provide
the basis for comprehensive actions against threats
to human dignity and security.
