Access to Human Rights Information on the Internet

This document contains selected URLS for directories and reference sites as well as sites of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations. The first version of this list was prepared for a seminar organized for the Regional Council of Emilia-Romagna and non-governmental organizations by Amnesty International, Italian section in Bologna, 2000. An update was prepared for a seminar for Privacy Ukraine in Kyiv, 2002 and last updated in April 2006. The list is compiled by Bert Verstappen, with inputs from Judith Dueck. Suggestions are welcome at info[at]huridocs.org.

Contents

Introduction

A. A starting point for human rights searches

B. Main sites of intergovernmental organisations

C. A selection of main sites of global and regional non-governmental organisations

Appendix I: Bibliography

INTRODUCTION

The purpose of this document is to provide references to a number of sites of the World Wide Web which contain information about human rights. As information about how to connect to the World Wide Web and how to use general search engines is easily available locally, this document does not cover these general aspects.

The increased use of the Internet has various consequences for human rights work.

The advantages are:

1. A lot of information is available on the Web. The Web is an easy way to quickly make available information to all interested in it. Many human rights organisations engaged in campaigning see the Web as an additional tool to get their message across and to obtain support for their cause.

2. Most information on the Web is available for free.

3. Sometimes, articles from scientific journals are available against payment - if you are only interested in one or a few particular articles, it is cheaper to download these rather than to subscribe to the journal.

4. The techniques for retrieving information via the Web are improving continuously. You can find Web addresses with general search engines, and many larger organisations allow you to search their site or have put their database on-line.

The disadvantages are:

1. There is a strong inequality with regard to access to the Internet: while in most Western countries Internet is easy and does not cost much, access in many developing countries is often slow and expensive. This has consequences with regard to the kind of information which is available on the Web and with regard to whom can be reached by this information.

2. Free flow of information and censorship: while using the Internet, and in particular electronic mail, can help to get sensitive information about human rights violations out of a country, authoritarian governments try to limit access to sensitive information, including human rights information.

3. A lot of information is not available on the Web. Producing information requires resources, and many organisations want and need to receive payment for their work. Therefore they only put some of their material on the Internet - other publications have to be ordered, either directly from the Web or by a more traditional order form.

4. In particular publishers of more expensive documents with a limited print order - such as research studies - will not want to put the complete texts of the documents on the Web, and certainly not for free.

5. While many sites can be found through general search engines and specialised directories (some of latter are listed in Part I of this document), some Web sites of smaller organisations are hard to find. As the Web is strongly oriented towards the English language, it is harder to find material in other languages. Accesssing and using material in other scripts than the Latin alphabet requires special hardware and software.

6. It is sometimes difficult to print out Web documents in the right format - but this is overcome when organisations publish their documents in pdf format, readable with the Acrobat Reader of Adobe (http://www.adobe.com/).

Because of these disadvantages, it is useful for each documentation centre which regularly deals with human rights issues to have a small collection of human rights material, including the main standards and procedures.

A. A starting point for human rights searches

1. HURISEARCH. A human rights search engine for NGO information. Allows you to search 1'300 Websites of non-governmental human rights organisations in 58 different languages. http://www.hurisearch.org/

2. Electronic Resource Centre for Human Rights Education. A repository of human rights education and training materials, listings of training courses and links to resources. http://www.hrea.org/erc/

3. Derechos Human Rights. A variety of resources: campaigns & actions, directories of human rights websites, discussion for a, tools for human rights education, publications, resources and tools, human rights journals, etc. http://www.derechos.net/

4. Human Rights Internet. HRI's primary role is to serve the information needs of international scholars, human rights activists, asylum lawyers, and other organisations via an extensive documentation centre and computerized databases. Their Web site contains a review of the human rights mechanisms of the United Nations and the Council of Europe, directories of Websites and mailing lists, various discussion forums.http://www.hri.ca/

5. Minnesota Human Rights Library. The focus is on international materials and contains treaties, declarations, resolutions, opinions and decisions from international tribunals and treaty bodies.http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/

6. NGO Net. NGONet has been created to provide information to, for and about non-governmental organizations (NGOs) active in Central and Eastern Europe.http://www.ngonet.org/

7. Country reports on human rights practices. The US Department of State publishes an annual report on the state of human rights in all countries of the world (except the United States). While the reports focus on civil and political rights and reflect American viewpoints on foreign policy, they provide a good overview of the general situation of human rights in a particular country.http://www.state.gov/g/drl/hr/

8. Human Rights Watch World Report. http://hrw.org/wr2k6/

9. Amnesty International report 2005. http://web.amnesty.org/report2005/index-eng

B. Intergovernmental organisations

1. The United Nations System.Main sites only.

1. United Nations homepage - http://www.un.org/

2. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - http://www.ohchr.org/

3. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - http://www.fao.org/

4. Inter-Governmental Consultations on Asylum, Refugee and Migration Policies (IGC) - http://www.igc.ch/

5. International Court of Justice (ICJ) - http://www.icj-cij.org/

6. International Criminal Court Home Page - http://www.un.org/law/icc/

7. International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) - http://www.un.org/icty/

8. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) - http://www.ictr.org/

9. International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) - http://www.ifad.org/

10. International Labour Office - http://www.ilo.org/

11. International Organisation on Migration (IOM) - http://www.iom.int/

12. Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - http://www.unaids.org/

13. Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS) - http://www.unsystem.org/ngls/

14. Official Web Site Locator for the United Nations System of Organizations - http://www.unsystem.org/

15. ReliefWeb - http://www.reliefweb.int/

16. UNICEF International Child Development Centre (UNICEF-ICDC)- http://www.unicef-icdc.org/

17. United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) - http://www.unhabitat.org/

18. United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - http://www.unicef.org/

19. United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court - http://www.un.org/icc/

20. United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) - http://www.unifem.undp.org/

21. United Nations Development Program (UNDP) - http://www.undp.org/

22. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) - http://www.unesco.org/

23. International Consultative Forum on Education for All - http://www.unesco.org/education/efa/

24. United Nations Environment Programme - http://www.unep.org/

25. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) - http://www.unhcr.ch/

26. United Nations Population Fund (UNPF) - http://www.unfpa.org/

27. United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) - http://www.unrisd.org/

28. United Nations: Human Rights - http://www.un.org/rights/

29. WomenWatch: the UN Internet Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women - http://www.un.org/womenwatch/

30. World Food Programme (WFP) - http://www.wfp.org/

31. World Health Organization (WHO) - http://www.who.int/

2. Intergovernmental organisations which are not part of the UN system

1. Development Centre; Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development - http://www.oecd.org/

2. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) - http:www.idea.int/

3. North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) - http://www.nato.int/

4. Organization of Islamic Conference - http://www.oic-un.org/

5. World Bank Group - http://www.worldbank.org/

6. World Trade Organisation - http://www.wto.org/

3. Regional intergovernmental organisations

a. Africa

1. African Union - http://www.african-union.org/
   

2. African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights - http://www.achpr.org

b. Americas

1. Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; Organization of American States - http://www.cidh.oas.org/
   

2. Inter-American Court of Human Rights - http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/iachr/iachr.html
   

3. Organization of American States (OAS) - http://www.oas.org/

c. Middle East

1. League of Arab States - http://ww.arableagueonline.org/

d. Europe

1. Council of Europe - http://www.coe.int/
   

2. European Court on Human Rights - http://www.echr.coe.int/
   

3. European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance - http://www.coe.int/t/E/human_rights/ecri/
   

4. European Centre for Global Interdependence and Solidarity - http://www.coe.int/T/E/North-South_Centre/
   

5. European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - http://www.cpt.coe.int/
   

6. European Union - http://www.europa.eu.int/
   

7. Court of Justice of the European Communities - http://curia.eu.int
   

8. Human Rights Unit; European Parliament - http://www.europarl.eu.int/

9. European Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights - http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/projects/eidhr/index_en.htm

10. Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) -http://www.osce.org/
    

11. Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights - OSCE (ODIHR) - http://www.osce.org/odihr/
    

12. European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia - http://eumc.eu.int/
    

13. Western European Union - http://www.weu.int/

C. A selection of main sites of global and regional non-governmental organisations

Children's Rights

Casa Alianza - http://www.casa-alianza.org/
Child Rights Information Network - http://www.crin.org/
Child Soldier Project - iEARN Canada and iEARN Sierra Leone - http://www.childsoldiers.org
Children and Armed Conflict Unit, University of Essex - http://www.essex.ac.uk/armedcon/
Children's Legal Centre, University of Essex - http://www2.essex.ac.uk/clc/
Childwatch Internatioal Research Network - http://www.childwatch.uio.no/
Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers - http://www.child-soldiers.org/
Concerned for Working Children - http://www.workingchild.org/
Defence for Children International - http://www.defence-for-children.org/
End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism (ECPAT) - http://www.ecpat.net/
Global March Against Child Labour - http://globalmarch.org/
I*EARN Fight Against Child Labour and Exploitation - http://www.iearn.org.au/clp/
International Bureau for Children's Rights - http://www.ibcr.org/
Save the Children, Sweden - http://www.rb.se/
War Child - http://www.warchild.org/

Civil and Political Rights

Amnesty International - http://www.amnesty.org/
Committee of Concerned Scientists (CCS) - http://www.libertynet.org/ccs/
CyberSpace Graveyard for Disappeared Persons (CGDP) - http://www.disappearances.org/
Death Penalty Information Center - http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/
Hands off Cain - http://www.handsoffcain.org/
Human Rights Watch (HRW) - http://www.hrw.org/
Project Disappeared - http://www.desaparecidos.org/

Conflict Resolution

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) - http://www.afsc.org/
Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management - http://www.berghof-center.org/
Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) - http://www.csvr.org.za/
Community Against Violence (CAVNET) - http://www.cavnet2.org/
Conciliation Resources - http://www.c-r.org/
Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity (INCORE) - http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/
International Alert - http://www.international-alert.org/
International Crisis Group - http://www.crisisgroup.org/
International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) - http://www.ifor.org/
Nonviolence International - http://www.nonviolenceinternational.net
Nonviolent Peaceforce - http://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org/
Search for Common Ground - http://www.sfcg.org/

Disabled Persons

Council for Disability Rights - http://www.disabilityrights.org/
Disability Rights Advocates - http://www.dralegal.org/
Disability Rights Education and Defence Fund - http://www.dredf.org/

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Human Rights Program and HURIDOCS - Project on monitoring economic, social and cultural rights - http://shr.aaas.org/escr/
ATD Fourth World Movement - http://www.atd-quartmonde.org/
Bank Information Center - http://www.bicusa.org/
Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) - http://www.cesr.org/
Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) - http://www.cohre.org/
Dignity International - http://www.dignityinternational.org
EarthRights International - http://www.earthrights.org
FoodFirst Information and Action Network (FIAN) - http://www.fian.org/
Habitat International Coalition - http://www.hic-net.org
HungerWeb - http://www.brown.edu/Departments/World_Hunger_Program/
Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First) - http://www.foodfirst.org/
RESULTS: Ending hunger and poverty - http://www.results.org/
Social Alert - http://www.socialalert.org/
Social Watch - http://www.socwatch.org.uy/

Human Rights Education

Centre de Conseils et d'Appuis pour les Jeunes en Matiere de Droits de l'Homme / Youth Resource Center on Human Rights - http://www.codap.org/
Education International - http://www.ei-ie.org/
Human Rights Awareness - http://www.geocities.com/~hra/
Human Rights Education Associates - http://www.hrea.org/
International Organisation for the Development of Freedom of Education - http://www.oidel.ch/
Peoples' Decade for Human Rights Education - http://www.pdhre.org/
Right to Education Project, Raoul Wallenberg Institute - http://www.right-to-education.org/
Teaching Human Rights Online - http://oz.uc.edu/thro/

Gay and Lesbian Rights

Equality for Gays and Lesbians Everywhere (EGALE) - http://www.egale.ca/
International Lesbian and Gay Association - http://www.ilga.org/
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) - http://www.iglhrc.org/

General

50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - http://www.udhr50.org/
Advocacy Project - http://www.advocacynet.org/
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Human Rights Program - http://shr.aaas.org/
Human Rights Education Associates - http://www.human-rights.net/
Equitas - International Centre for Human Rights Education - http://www.equitas.org/
Christian Solidarity International - http://www.csw.org.uk/
Derechos - Human Rights - http://www.derechos.org/
DIANA at the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library - http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/
DIANA at Yale Law School: Online Human Rights Archive - http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diana/index.html
Federation Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l'Homme - http://www.fidh.org/
Forefront: A Global Network of Young Human Rights Advocates - http://www.forefrontleaders.org/
Freedom Forum - http://www.freedomforum.org/
Freedom House - http://www.freedomhouse.org/
FrontLine - Defenders of Human Rights Defenders http://www.frontlinedefenders.org
Global Lawyers and Physicians (GLP): Working Together for Human Rights - http://www.glphr.org/
Global Youth Connect - http://www.globalyouthconnect.org/
Human Rights Action (HRA) - http://www.hr-action.org/
Human Rights Campaign (HRC) - http://www.hrc.org/
Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems, International (HURIDOCS) - http://www.huridocs.org/
Human Rights Internet (HRI) - http://www.hri.ca/
Human Rights Web - http://www.hrweb.org/
Humanist Committee on Human Rights - http://home01.wxs.nl/~loz/
Rights & Democracy - International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (ICHRDD) - http://www.ichrdd.ca/
International Human Rights Association / Human Rights Server - http://www.humanrights.de/
International Human Rights Law Group - http://www.hrlawgroup.org/
International League for Human Rights (ILHR)- http://www.ilhr.org
International Service for Human Rights - http://www.ishr.ch/
International Society for Human Rights - http://www.ishr.org/
Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders - http://www.martinennalsaward.org/
Organisation Mondiale Contre la Torture / S.O.S. Torture (OMCT) - http://www.omct.org/
Pax Romana - Mouvement International des Intellectuels Catholiques - http://www.pax-romana.org/
Physicians for Human Rights, USA (PHR) - http://www.phrusa.org/
Rights International - http://www.rightsinternational.org/
Simon Wiesenthal Center - http://www.wiesenthal.com/
World Council of Churches - http://www.wcc-coe.org/
Worldviews - http://worldviews.igc.org/

Health and Human Rights

Commonwealth Medical Trust (Commat) - http://www.commat.org/
Consortium for Health and Human Rights - http://www.healthandhumanrights.org/
Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights - http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/fxbcenter/
HealthWrights - http://www.healthwrights.org/
International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organizations (IFHHRO) - http://www.ifhhro.org
International Society for Health and Human Rights - http://www.ishhr.org/
International Student Association for Health and Human Rights - http://www.sph.emory.edu/student/isahhr/isahhr.htm

Indigenous Peoples

Center for World Indigenous Studies - Fourth World Documentation Project - http://www.cwis.org/fwdp/fwdp.html
Cultural Survival - http://www.cs.org/
Documentation Centre for Indigenous Peoples (DOCIP) - http://www.docip.org/
Global Survival Network - http://www.globalsurvival.net/
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs - http://www.iwgia.org/
Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbVs) - http://www.gfbv.de/
Survival International - http://www.survival.org.uk/
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organisation (UNPO) - http://www.unpo.org/

Information & Communication Technologies and Human Rights

Center for Democracy and Technology - http://www.cdt.org/
Computer Professsionals for Social Responsibility - http://www.cpsr.org/
Cyber-Rights and Cyber-Liberties - http://www.cyber-rights.org/
Digital Freedom Network - http://www.dfn.org/
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - http://www.eff.org/
Electronic Privacy Information Center - http://www.epic.org/
Global Internet Liberty Campaign - http://www.gilc.org/
Global Internet Policy Initative project - http://www.gipiproject.org/
Internet Privacy Coalition - http://www.privacy.org/ipc/
Privacy International (PI) - http://www.privacyinternational.org/
Privacy Rights Clearing House (PRC) - http://www.privacyrights.org/
Statewatch - http://www.statewatch.org/
Witness - http://www.witness.org/

Justice and International Law

Alliance for Justice - http://www.afj.org/
Attorneys without Borders - http://www.asf.be/
Campaign for Equity-Restorative Justice (CERJ) - http://www.cerj.org/
Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law - http://www.centerforhumanrights.org/
Center for Law & Global Justice - http://www.usfca.edu/law/home/CenterforLawandGlobalJustice/
Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights, Deakin University - http://www.deakin.edu.au/cchr/
Coalition for International Justice (CIJ) - http://www.cij.org/
Equal Rights Advocates - http://www.equalrights.org/
International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights (Interights) - http://www.interights.org/
International Center for Transnational Justice - www.ictj.org
International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) - http://www.icj.org/
International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights - http://www.ihf-hr.org
Justice Action - http://www.justiceaction.org.au/
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law - http://www.lawyerscomm.org/
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (LCHR) - http://www.lchr.org/
NGO Coalition for the International Criminal Court - http://www.iccnow.org/
No Peace without Justice - http://www.npwj.org
Public Interest Law Initiative - http://www.pili.org/
Social Justice Secretariat; Society of Jesus - http://www.sjweb.info/sjs/
War Criminal Watch (WCW) - http://www.wcw.org/

Labour and Trade Union Rights

Campaign for Labor Rights - http://www.campaignforlaborrights.org/
Concerned for Working Children - http://www.workingchild.org/
Global March Against Child Labour - http://globalmarch.org/
I*EARN Fight Against Child Labour and Exploitation - http://www.iearn.org.au/clp/
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions - http://www.icftu.org/
International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF) - http://www.laborrights.org/

Media and Human Rights

Article 19 - http://www.article19.org/
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) - http://www.cpj.org/
Fairness and Accuracy In Media (FAIR) - http://www.fair.org/
Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) - http://www.fxi.org.za/
Independent Journalism Centre (IJC) - http://www.derechos.net/ijc/
Index on Censorship/Institute for Journalism In Transition - http://www.indexonline.org/
Institute for War & Peace Reporting - http://www.iwpr.net
International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) - http://www.icfj.org
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) - http://www.ifj.org/
International Freedom of Expression Exchange Clearing House (IFEX) - http://www.ifex.org/
International Press Institute - http://www.freemedia.at/
PEN-Freedom to Write (PEN) - http://pen.org/
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press - http://www.rcfp.org/rcfp/
Reporters Sans Frontieres - http://www.rsf.fr/

Minority Rights

Anti-Slavery International - http://www.antislavery.org/
Comite contre l'esclavage moderne - http://www.ccem-antislavery.org/
Free the Slaveshttp://www.freetheslaves.net/
Minority Rights Group (MRG) - http://www.minorityrights.org/

Peace

Fund for Peace - http://www.fundforpeace.org/
Hague Appeal for Peace - http://www.haguepeace.org
International Peace Bureau - http://www.ipc.org
International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) - http://www.prio.no/
Pax Christi International - http://www.paxchristi.net/
Peace Brigades International - http://www.peacebrigades.org/
Servicio Internacional para la Paz / International Service for Peace (SIPAZ) - http://www.sipaz.org/
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) - http://www.sipri.org/
War Resisters' International (WRI) - http://www.wri-irg.org
Witness for Peace - http://www.witnessforpeace.org/

Prisons

Observatoire international des prisons - http://www.oip.org/
Penal Reform International (PRI) - http://www.penalreform.org/
Prison Activist Resource Centre (PARC) - http://www.prisonactivist.org/
Stop Prisoner Rape (SPR) - http://www.spr.org/

Against Racism

Anti-Racism Information Service (ARIS) - http://www.antiracism-info.org
AntiRacismNet - http://www.antiracismnet.org
International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism - http://www.imadr.org/
Ligue internationale contre le racisme et l'antisemitisme - http://www.licra.ch/
United for Intercultural Action - http://www.united.non-profit.nl/

Refugees

Centre for Refugee Studies; York University (CRS) - http://www.yorku.ca/crs/
Geneva Humanitarian Forum (GHF) - http://www.genevahumanitarianforum.org
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), Norwegian Refugee Council - http://www.internal-displacement.org/
International Council for Voluntary Action - ICVA http://www.icva.ch
International Rescue Committee - http://www.refugees.net
Jesuit Refugee Service - http://www.jesref.org
Refugee Education Trust - http://www.refugeeeducationtrust.org/
Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford - http://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/
Refugees International (RI) - http://www.refintl.org

Regional - Africa

Africa Fund - http://africafund.prairienet.org/
Africa Legal Aid - http://www.afla.unimaas.nl/
African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies - http://ace.acadiau.ca/polisci/conley/ACDHRS
http://www.africanrights.org
Institute for Human Rights and Development - http://www.africaninstitute.org
Interafrican Union for Human Rights (IUHR) - Union InterAfricaine des Droits de l'Homme (UIDH) http://www.uidh.org/
Rencontre Africaine Pour la Defense des Droits de l'Homme (RADDHO) - http://www.raddho.africa-web.org/
Reseau Documentaire International sur la Region des Grands Lacs Africains - http://www.grandslacs.net/index.html

Regional - Americas

Central American Resourcee Center - http://www.carecen-la.org/
Centro de Documentacion sobre la Realidad de la Infancia en America Latina - http://www.pidee.cl
Comision Latinoamericana por los Derechos y Libertades de los Trabajadores y Pueblos (CLADEHLT) - http://cladehlt.org
Comite de America Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer http://www.cladem.org
Equipo Nizkor - http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/
Inter-American Institute of Human Rights / - http://www.iidh.ed.cr/
Inter-American Forum on Human Rights (FIDEH) - http://www.udayton.edu/~fideh/
Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) - http://www.wola.org/

Regional - Asia

Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) - http://www.ahrchk.net/
Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Centre (HURIGHTS-OSAKA) - http://www.hurights.or.jp/
Asia Pacific Human Rights Network (APHRN) - http://www.aphrn.org
Asia Pacific Human Rights NGOs Facilitating Team - http://www.hr-alliance.org/aphr-ft
Asian Centre for Human Rights - http://www.achrweb.org
Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) - http://www.forum-asia.org/
Child Workers in Asia - http://www.cwa.tnet.co.th/
Pacific-Asia Resource Centre (PARC) - http://www.parc-jp.org/
South Asia Forum for Human Rights (SAFHR) - http://www.safhr.org
South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre (SAHRDC) - http://www.hrdc.net/sahrdc/

Regional - Europe

Amnesty International - European Union office - http://www.aieu.be
Centre for European Migration and Ethnic Studies - http://www.cemes.org/
Constitutional and Legal Policy Institute (COLPI) - http://www.osi.hu/colpi/
Crosspoint European Anti-Racism - Human Rights - http://www.magenta.nl/crosspoint/hr.html
Diversity Online - International Media Working Group Against Racism and Xenophobia (IMRAX) - http://www.diversity-online.org/
EURONET - The European children's Network - http://www.europeanchildrensnetwork.org/
European Bar Human Rights Institute - http://www.idhae.org/
European Centre for Conflict Prevention - http://www.euconflict.org/
European Centre for Minority Issues - http://www.ecmi.de/
European Consultation on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) - http://www.ecre.org/
European Digital Rights (EDRI) - http://www.edri.org/
European Network against Racism - http://www.enar-eu.org/
European Networks on Integration of Refugees - http://www.refugeenet.org/
European Network on Street Children Worldwide (ENCSW) - http://www.enscw.org/
European Platform for Conflict Prevention - http://www.euconflict.org/
European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER) - http://www.ercomer.org/
European Roma Rights Center - http://www.errc.org/
Greek Helsinki Monitor - http://www.greekhelsinki.gr/
Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe - http://www.idee.org/
International Lesbian and Gay Association - Europe - http://www.steff.suite.dk/ilgaeur.htm
Internet Centre Anti-Racism Europe - http://www.icare.to/
Union des Avocats Europeens - http://www.uae.lu/dh/

Regional - Middle East

Arab Association for Human Rights - http://www.arabhra.org/
Arab Commission for Human Rights - http://hem.bredband.net/b155908/index.htm
Arab Institute for Human Rights - Institut arabe des droits de l'homme - http://www.aihr.org.tn
Arab Organization for Human Rights - http://www.aohr.org
Arab Program for Human Rights Activists - http://www.aphra.org/
Le Maghreb des Droits de l'Homme - http://www.maghreb-ddh.sgdg.org/

Religious Freedom

Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) - http://www.adl.org/
International Association for Religious Freedom - http://www.iarf.net/
International Coalition for Religious Freedom (ICRF) - http://www.religiousfreedom.com/

Research Institutes

Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University - http://www.columbia.edu/cu/humanrights/
Danish Institute for Human Rights - http://www.humanrights.dk/
Human Rights Center; University of Minnesota - http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/
Human Rights Centre, Queens University of Belfast (QUB) - http://www.law.qub.ac.uk/humanrights
Human Rights Centre, University of Essex - http://www2.essex.ac.uk/human_rights_centre/
Human Rights Research and Education Centre; University of Ottawa - http://www.uottawa.ca/hrrec
Institute for Human Rights; Abo Akademi - http://www.abo.fi/instut/imr/
International Council for Human Rights Policy - http://www.ichrp.org
Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) - http://www.law.uu.nl/english/sim/
Norwegian Institute of Human Rights - http://www.humanrights.uio.no
Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law - http://www.rwi.lu.se/

Transnational Corporations and Human Rights

Bank Information Centre - http://www.bicusa.org/
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre - http://www.business-humanrights.org/Home
Corporate Watch (CW) - http://www.corpwatch.org/
Project Underground - http://www.moles.org/

Against Torture

Action des chretiens pour l'abolition de la torture (ACAT) - http://www.acat.asso.fr/
Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT) - http://www.apt.ch/
Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) - http://www.cvt.org/
Coalition of International NGOs against Torture (CINAT) - http://www.cinat.org/
Federation Internationale de l'Action des Chretiens pour l'Abolition de la Torture (FiACAT) - http://www.fiacat.org
International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) - http://www.irct.org/
Organisation Mondiale Contre la Torture / S.O.S. Torture (OMCT) - http://www.omct.org/
Redress Trust: Seeking Compensation for Torture Victims - http://www.redress.org/
Survivors International - http://www.survivorsintl.org/about/
Survivors of Torture, International (SOTI) - http://www.notorture.org/

Women's Human Rights

Bora Laskin Law Library; University of Toronto - http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/
Captive Daughters - http://www.captivedaughters.org/
Center for Reproductive Law and Policy - http://www.crlp.org/
Center for Women's Global Leadership - http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~cwgl/
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women - http://www.catwinternational.org/
Equality Now - http://www.equalitynow.org/
Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) - http://www.gaatw.net/
Global Fund for Women (GFW) - http://www.globalfundforwomen.org/
International Women's Rights Action Watch - http://iwraw.igc.org/
International Women's Rights Project - http://www.iwrp.org/
Isis International - http://www.isiswomen.org/
Q Web Sweden - A Women's Empowerment Base - http://www.qweb.kvinnoforum.se/
Rainbo - http://www.rainbo.org/
Terre des Femmes - http://www.terre-des-femmes.de/
Women, Law and Development International (WLD) - http://www.wld.org/
Women's Human Rights NET - http://www.whrnet.org/
Women's World Summit Foundation - http://www.woman.ch/

Annex I. Bibliography

Access to human rights documentation : documentation, bibliographies and data bases on human rights / Symonides, Janusz ; Volodin, Vladimir. Paris: UNESCO, 19970000. - 3rd ed. - 188 p. - SHS-97/WS/19.
This publication contains an overview of the main publications in the field of human rights by intergovernmental organisations (with a description of their work), plus a selection of other publications grouped by theme. The bibliographical references are unfortunately without annotations and without addresses of publishers and ordering information. The final section gives an overview of major databases with human rights information.
Available from: Division of Human Rights, Democracy and Peace, UNESCO, 7 place de Fontenoy, F-75352 Paris 07 SP, France, tel. 33.1.45683818, fax 33.1.45685726.

@t ease with e-mail : a handbook on using electronic mail for NGOs in developing countries / Parikh, Jagdish ; Pruett, Duncan.- Geneva: United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service ; Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 19950700.- ISBN 0-9645188-1-3. UNCTAD/NGLS/55.- 108 p.
Computer-based communication - through electronic mail (e-mail), bulletin board systems, computer conferencing and networking and on-line databases - offer NGOs, particularly in developing countries, a modern, effective and affordable communications toolkit with which to share information, network, conduct research and support advocacy work and campaigns on development issues."
This publication consists of three parts. The first part, Practical Considerations, contains practical information on computer communications, computer conferencing and databases, computer networks, access to computer networks, choosing modems and communications software. The second part describes the benefits of computer networks and access to information for NGOs. The third part of the book contains a directory of country networks. This directory is not intended to be fully comprehensive but is, rather, a sample of some of the electronic communication services available in a range of different countries.
Available in English, French and Spanish from: United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service, Palais des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland. e-mail: ngls@igc.apc.org or ngls@nywork2.undp.org and Friedrich Ebert Foundation, New York, 950 Third Avenue, New York NY 10022, United States, e-mail: fesny@igc.apc.org or fesny@undp.org

The human rights handbook : a practical guide to monitoring human rights / English, Kathryn ; Stapleton, Adam. - Colchester : Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, 1995. - 378 p. - ISBN 1-874635-250.
This practical guide explains what international human rights law means and how that knowledge can be used by human rights organisations working on behalf of victims. It deals with international instruments and how to monitor their application.
Available from: The Human Rights Handbook, Dept. AMM, P.O. Box 1995, Burgess Hill, W. Sussex RH15 8QY, United Kingdom (price: ���£ 15.00 / $ 25.00)

International human rights in context : law, politics, morals : text and materials. Steiner, Henry J. ; Alston, Philip. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1996. - 1245 p. - ISBN 0-19-825426-1.
This coursebook presents a broad understanding of human rights ideals and the human rights system. It poses many questions that mean to engage the reader with the book's themes, thereby making the student an active participant in an ongoing inquiry about what human rights norms, processes and institutions have meant and have the potential to mean for the world. The central premise to the book is that an introductory course on human rights should educate students to see the "big picture".
Available from: Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, United Kingdom.

The Internet : the rough guide. Kennedy, Angus J. London : Rough Guides, 20000000. 5th edition. - 502 p. - ISBN 1-85828-442-2.
The first part of this guide gives you the basics of the Internet: connecting, getting an access provider and Web browser etc. The second part is a critical review to the msot interesting sites on the Net. The guide also features a cyberspace glossary, tips on netiquette, and a brief history of how the whole Internet phenomenon developed.
Available from: Rough Guides Ltd., 1 Mercer Street, London WC2H 9QJ, United Kingdom (price: £6.00).
Human Rights and the Internet / Hick, Stephen ; Halpin, Edward F. ; Hoskins, Eric (ed.). London: Macmillan, 20000800. - 280 pages .- ISBN 0 333777336.
The Internet is having an increasing influence on our lives, but what implications does it hold for human rights? How can it be used to promote and protect them? This study, written by activists, writers and academics, describes the development and use of the Internet for human rights, examines its impact across the world and upon various sectors of society, and discusses trends in human rights promotion and protection.

Human Rights and the Internet examines how the Internet is used to communicate, organise and campaign for human rights and enhance education, as well as considering the problems of access and misuses of the Internet, such as misinformation, hate and human rights violations. It provides valuable insight for all those interested in the use of the Internet as a tool for the promotion and protection of human rights, together with a picture of how the Internet is being adopted, and how it plays an important role in the work of many human rights organisations and activists.
Available from: Macmillan Publishers, 25 Eccleston Place, London SW1W 9NF (price £30.00).

Reading human rights : an annotated guide to a human rights library / Neff, Stephen C. - London : Nadesan Centre for Human Rights through Law ; Interights, 19970000. - 117 p. - ISBN 1 869940-02-4.
This guide is designed to help individuals and groups active in human rights to locate easily, comprehensible publications on the subject. It contains almost 100 titles of books and journals, each annotated to assist readers in choosing material of most use to them. Items have been selected for their practical use: most are accessible to a lay readership. Particular effort has been made to include books of the readily accessible "handbook" type.
The different chapters deal with: Overview of international human rights law; Thirty specific topics; Implementation and enforcement; Regional systems; Periodicals. With appendices: List of books included, by author and by title; Addresses of publishers.