This page contains names of human rights organizations, other organizations doing substantial amounts of human rights work, and resources (such as libraries and internet-based information) of use to human rights activists and researchers.
Two categories of resources are listed -- international and regional/national. Within the international group, resources are listed alphabetically. Within the regional/national group, resources are listed by region and by country, and within each region or country are alphabetized. For a brief description of a resource, select the bullet. To connect directly to the resource, select the title.
Amnesty International
Amnesty International/International Secretariat
Amnesty International USA
Amnesty International CD On-Line at Organic
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Electronic Frontier Foundation
Fourth World Documentation Project
Freedom House
GlobalVision's
"Rights and Wrongs" Human Rights Television News Magazine
Human Rights Watch
Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights
Physicians for Human Rights
The Global Democracy Network Gopher
United Nations Gopher
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
US State Department Human Rights Practices Reports
DIANA Human Rights Database
The Electronic Democracy Information Network Gopher
The File Room: A Record of Censored Works
The Holocaust Rescuers' Bibliography
The Human Rights Brief Journal
International Student Festival in Trondheim
Multilateral Documents and Conventions
One World Online
Peacenet
Reebok Human Rights Awards Page
A good source of information for Human Rights researchers is the Human Rights Research mailing list. This list is closed, which means that the list owner must approve you for membership.
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Another resource is the Usenet newsgroup soc.rights.human.
If you have a question about a particular group or issue, you can post
here and get lots of answers. The soc.culture.* hierarchy
can be helpful if you want to learn about a particular country or
region, and the soc.religion.* hierarchy can be helpful
if you need ot learn about a particular religion or sect.
This is the official WWW Site for Amnesty International, and is a joint effort of the International Secretariat, AI's permanent international administrative office, and the Canadian National Section/English Speaking (ESCS). This site is by far the most complete and contains a wealth of information, searchable databases, on-line reports, press releases, and other material.
This is the official site of Amnesty International U.S.A., and one of the two most informative Amnesty International Sites on the WWW at present. It includes information about AI, on-line documents, contact information for AI National Sections and Local Groups worldwide, and a database of information on all publicly-available AI reports and documents in print, with information on how to order them. Other information is added and the site updated frequently.
This WWW Site was developed by the same people who put together the AI CD-ROM disk, and contains much of the same material. This is an excellent introduction to Amnesty International's work, and is a visually attractive site. It does not contain much information for human rights researchers.
An organization founded and sponsored by journalists to protect their fellow journalists from human rights abuses.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation was founded to promote and extend the concept of civil liberties to on-line communications. While the EFF is a U.S.-based group whose main focus is on U.S. law, the information at this site also applies to many other countries and the site contains links to EFF's "sister organizations" in other countries.
The Fourth World Documentation Project, part of the Center for World Indigenous Studies, follows human rights and other issues involving indigenous people all over the world. This is an unusually thorough source of on-line information, most of it well-researched and in a clean, easily read format. Highly recommended.
Freedom House researches and documents the ebb and flow of respect for freedom and human rights by governments all over the world.
GlobalVision produces this informative WWW site on their weekly television news magazine, "Rights and Wrongs", about human rights topics around the world.
Human Rights Watch, founded in 1978 as Helsinki Watch, is a coalition formed by a number of independent regional human rights groups. The Human Rights Watch gopher contains information about Human Rights Watch itself and extensive information about human rights conditions sorted by country and region.
This is a group of attorneys working to promote respect for human rights by law and in enforcement of laws relating to human rights.
PEN is the international union of writers and journalists, and works to promote human rights and particularly freedom of speech and expression.
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) is an organization of health professionals, scientists, and concerned citizens that uses the knowledge and skills of the medical and forensic sciences to investigate and prevent violations of international human rights and humanitarian law.
The Global Democracy Network (GDN) is operated by the United States' Congressional Human Rights Foundation in order to provide the Internet community with information related to human rights and democracy.
The official gopher of the United Nations. Human Rights and other UN information.
The official home page for the UNHCR. Contains refugee and nationality legislation from over one hundread countries, a huge number of international conventions, such as the Rights of the Child, etc.
The United States government's human rights reports.
A project of the Urban Morgan Human Rights Institute at the University of Cincinnati College of Law and the Schell Memorial Human Rights Institute of Yale Law School to put up SGML/HTML versions of all international human rights instruments and extensive bibliographies on human rights.
Links to an enormous amount of United Nations, United States, and nongovernmental organization (NGO) human rights documents. Many documents posted here appear to have been scanned and not proofread prior to posting, so expect some typos and scanning anomalies.
Information about censorship through history in various human societies.
Memorial display of the "Righteous Among Nations", those people of all religions, nationalities, and backgrounds who helped rescue Hitler's victims.
American University's Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law makes this electronic copy of its Human Rights Brief Journal available to the Internet.
The International Student Festival in Trondheim, Norway, has as its theme this year Human rights. Most of this page is in English, and it has a number of links to other resources.
The Fletcher School of International Relations at Tufts University hosts this collection of international and multilateral treaties and agreements, many of them concerning human rights.
OneWorld Online aims to become a dynamic meeting place and information resource center on issues of global justice and human sustainable development. It was started by the One World Broadcasting Trust, which works to link broadcasters and the One World Community, and now has 22 NGO and media partners in the UK.
Peacenet is the first and largest international computer network for activists in peace, human rights, and related issues. These WWW and gopher sites contain information about a number of human rights, peace, environment, and other "progressive" (mostly liberal/leftist) issues.
Reebock International is the only corporation I know of which actively sponsors human rights activities of its own. The Reebok Human Rights Awards Page contains brief biographies and photographs of human rights activists all over the world.
Created on July 20, 1994 / Last edited on January 25, 1997