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Organizations

Amnesty International
Founded in 1961, Amnesty International is a Nobel Prize winning grassroots activist organization with over one million members world wide.
www.amnesty.org

Article 19
Named after Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it works worldwide to combat censorship by promoting freedom of expression and access to official information.
www.article19.org/

Canada-US Human Rights Information and Documentation Network Facilitates the exchange of ideas and information between human rights organizations; establishment of uniform standards for human rights documentation, information management and exchange; development of co-operative projects in the areas of documentation and information management; training in various aspects of documentation and information management; and contacts and exchanges with information and documentation networks in other parts of the world.
shr.aaas.org/cushrid.htm

Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. Harvard University
ksgwww.harvard.edu/cchrp/

Citizens' Watch
A non-governmental human rights organization formed in 1992 by a group of human rights activists, lawyers, journalists, deputies to the Russian parliament and deputies to the St. Petersburg City Council. Concerned about the tendency of Russian governmental agencies to resist democratic reforms, these people set as a primary objective of the organization the assistance in establishing parliamentary and civic control over governmental agencies, such as security service, armed forces and police.
wwwwin.wplus.net/pp/citwatch/

European Roma Rights Center
An international public interest law organisation which monitors the human rights situation of Roma and provides legal defence in cases of human rights abuse.
errc.org/

Human Rights Center. University of California, Berkeley
The Center conducts interdisciplinary research on emerging issues in international human rights and humanitarian law. Its homepage includes bibliographies on issues in human rights.
globetrotter.berkeley.edu/humanrights/

Human Rights Watch
The largest U.S. based international human rights monitoring and advocacy organization.
www.hrw.org

Humanitarian Law Center, Belgrade
A regional non-governmental human rights and humanitarian law organization, the Humanitarian Law Center was founded in 1992 following the outbreak of armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. The HLC is based in Belgrade and has regional offices in Pritina and Prizren in Kosovo, Novi Sad in Vojvodina (opened in 1997), and in Podgorica, Montenegro (opened 1999). Over 70 lawyers, attorneys, researchers, analysts and other dedicated professionals work for the HLC on a full- or part-time basis.
www.hlc.org.yu/english/

HURIDOCS, Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems International The main focus of HURIDOCS is to strengthen the information handling capacities of Human Rights organisations in developing countries.
www.huridocs.org/

Index on Censorship
A bi-monthly magazine for free speech, widens the debates on freedom of expression with some of the world's best writers. Through interviews, reportage, banned literature and polemic, Index shows how free speech affects the issues of the moment.
www.oneworld.org/index_oc/

International Crisis Group
A privat, multinational organisation committed to strengthening the capacity of the international community to anticipate, understand and act to prevent and contain conflict.
www.intl-crisis-group.org

International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
A self-governing group of non-governmental, not-for-profit organizations that act to protect human rights throughout Europe, North America and the Central Asian Republics.
www.ihf-hr.org/

International Human Rights Law Institute
Established in 1990 by DePaul University College of Law, is dedicated to safeguarding fundamental rights through international law. By enhancing public and professional awareness of international human rights law, the Institute endeavors to strengthen human rights, democracy and the rule of law.
condor.depaul.edu/~ihrli/

International Monitor Institute
IMI (Los Angeles) is an independent, non-profit organization that collects and catalogues visual and aural evidence of human rights abuses.
www.imisite.org/

PEN American Center
Largest of nearly 130 Centers worldwide that compose International PEN, is a membership association of prominent literary writers and editors. As a major voice of the literary community the organization seeks to defend the freedom of expression wherever it may be threatened, and promote and encourage the recognition and reading of contemporary literature.
www.pen.org/

Physicians for Human Rights
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.
phrusa.org/

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
www.unhcr.ch/

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
www.unhchr.ch/

Directories, guides to Human Rights related issues

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Science and Human Rights Program
The Directory of Human Rights Resources on the Internet provides links to independently maintained sites throughout the Internet.
shr.aaas.org/dhr.htm

Center of Civil Society International
publishes the Directory of NIS Law and Human Rights Organizations
www.friends-partners.org/oldfriends/ccsi/nisorgs/nislegal.htm
and the list of international organizations active in the NIS:
www.friends-partners.org/oldfriends/ccsi/usnisorg/usnislaw.htm

Human Rights Internet
Founded in 1976, HRI is a world leader in the exchange of information within the worldwide human rights community supporting the work of the global non-governmental community in its struggle to obtain human rights for all.
www.hri.ca/

Oneworld.net
Offers a large database searchable by subject and country, publishes news and reports, announces campaigns, gives broadcasters around the world a web platform on which to exchange programmes about human rights, showcases some of the world's most outstanding television documentaries and the best photos and pictures from OneWorld's partners.
www.oneworld.net/

WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources
International Affairs Resources: Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs contains two groups: 1) Directories, Limited Area Search Engines and Searchable Databases, 2) Other Sources; edited and maintained by professor Wayne A. Selcher
www.etown.edu/vl/humrts.html