Surf these sites: 4HumanRights -- Annotated guide to human rights links from 4anything.com Amnesty International -- For "the release of prisoners of conscience, fair and prompt trials for all political prisoners and the abolition of the death penalty, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment." Amnesty for Kids -- Newsletter advocates childrens'' rights. Inspired by one woman''s own problems with her ex-husband and two children. Unrelated to Amnesty International. Center for Democracy and Human Rights -- Presses for improvements in the human rights environment. Site includes daily news updates. ColorQ''s Human Rights Page -- Features stories and links on worldwide human rights violations, particularly issues that receive little attention from the Western media. Discovering America As It Is -- This web site is about a new book by Lithuanian journalist and former anti-Soviet dissident Valdas Anelauskas in which he describes America as it is and warns about the menace it constitutes to the world. European Network on Integration of Refugees -- Focuses of refugee issues. Site in English and in French. Freedom Magazine: In Support of Human Rights -- Explores the role of investigative reporting in restoring human rights. Genocide Remembrance and Prevention Network -- Invites visitors to take a moment to remember victims of genocide and to join in preventing and suppressing this scourge. Global Justice: An Internet Journal of Human Rights -- Publishes articles on contemporary topics, reviews books about human rights, and analyzes content of human rights information available on the internet. Guide to Human Rights -- Features news and information on current human rights campaigns and reports. From About.com. Hard Realities -- Describes one individual''s three frustrating and unsuccessful attempts to leave the United States and secure political assylum in Europe. Human Rights -- Includes international coverage, links to other sites, and key policy documents. From the U.S. Department of State. Human Rights Alerts -- From Peace Brigades International Human Rights Internet -- Provides human rights publications, information on children''s rights and the UN human rights system, and listing of human rights organizations worldwide. Human Rights Reports Home Page -- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. 1998 reports. Publications of the U. S. Department of State. Human Rights Treaties and Conventions -- Provides annotated links to Western human rights treatie. From the Multilaterals Project at Tufts University. Human Rights Trump Sovereignty In 1999 -- Contends that national sovereignty is now a less important obstacle to curbing serious human rights crimes than it has been in previous years. Human Rights in the Americas -- Links to sites which examine the state of human rights in the Western Hemisphere. International Human Rights -- Features college papers, posters and links to web sites about international human rights'' issues. Lawyers Committee for Human Rights -- Works to protect and promote fundamental human rights. Its work is impartial, holding all governments accountable to the standards affirmed in the International Bill of Human Rights. Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) -- Studies and gathers human rights documentation. Poor People''s Economic Human Rights Campaign -- Portrays national effort led by poor and homeless families for activism in poverty and welfare reform, as well as human rights violations in the USA. Poverty & Human Rights -- Contends that poverty is a violation of human rights. Quotefile - Selected Quotations On Human Rights -- Features historical quotes about human rights. Scholars at Risk Network -- Aids scholars outside the United States whose work is threatened by mass or individual displacement, discrimination, censorship, harassment, intimidation, or violence. Shock Value -- The United States has become a leading manufacturer and exporter of pushbutton electricshock devices, which Amnesty claims are unsafe and are ending up in the hands of torturers. Site for Social Action: Human Rights -- Features articles aimed at ending human rights violations. The Center for Justice and Accountability -- Pursues redress on behalf of victims of human rights violations and seeks to end the impunity of perpetrators. The Human Rights Web Home Page -- last updated 1997. USIA Washington File: Democracy and Human Rights -- Updated releases on issues and activities related to human rights, from United States Information Agency Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with Translations -- Provides over 250 translations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In both .html and PDF formats. University of Minnesota Human Rights Library -- Contains a large collection of international human rights treaties, instruments, general comments, recommendations, decisions, and views of treaty bodies. Violations of Human Rights - Cases of today -- Focuses on current cases violating the UN charter of human rights. What a Wonderful World -- Tracks those whom supply weapons to groups and countries that employ children and youth as soldiers. Witness -- Uses video and technology to fight for human rights. Group works in partnership with activists around the globe to document abuses and bring evidence before courts, governments, the media, and the world.
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