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- 42 USC Chapter 21 - Civil Rights - A hypertext version of the U.S. Civil Rights Code from the Legal Information Institute.
www.law.cornell.edu/usc/42/ch21.html
- American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee - Committed to defending the rights of Americans of Arab descent and preserving their rich cultural heritage in the U.S.
www.adc.org
- American Civil Liberties Union - Litigates, lobbies, and educates the public regarding on a broad array of issues affecting individual freedom in the United States.
www.aclu.org
- Amnesty International - Dornbirn, Austria - Western Austrian branch of the human rights organisation Amnesty International with special topic on the Death Penalty (Capital Punishment) in the USA.
members.magnet.at/ai.dornbirn
- Amnesty International USA Group 133 - Boston Area activists, currently focusing on Tibet, China, the Death Penalty, Human Rights in the USA, the North Andean Region, and Refugees and Asylum Seekers.
www.amnesty133.org/ai/index.html
- Children In The Custody of The INS - Argues that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has a conflict of interest when it acts as both jailer and caretaker of children.
www.hrw.org/about/initiatives/inskids.htm
- Civil Liberties Monitoring Project - Monitors civil rights abuses by law enforcement and other government agencies focusing on civil rights issues in the California North Coast.
www.civilliberties.org
- Civilrights.org - Resource for current news, events, reports and organizations. Also includes information on hate crimes and affirmative action.
www.civilrights.org
- Clarence Aaron - This 23-year-old college student received three life sentences in a drug conspiracy trial based on the testimony of informants and no other evidence.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/snitch/cases/aaron.html
- Death Penalty Focus of California - A California non-profit organization dedicated to the abolition of the death penalty.
www.deathpenalty.org
- Human Rights in the United States - Reviewing the development of civil rights in the United States, and arguing against protections for homosexual conduct and prisoners.
www.carmical.net/articles/humanrights.html
- Human Rights Watch World Report 2000 - Report on the United States' official position.
www.hrw.org/wr2k/Us.htm
- International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal - Mumia Abu-Jamal faces the death penalty and his last appeal has been denied. He could be executed as early as May 1999.
www.mumia.org
- Know Your Civil Rights - Fact Sheet - Know Your Civil Rights from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
www.os.dhhs.gov/progorg/ocr/rights.html
- Locked Away - Increasing numbers of immigrants are being incarcerated as the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) attempts to fulfill the provisions of the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and immigrant Responsibility Act.
www.hrw.org/about/initiatives/insjails.htm
- Network USA - A list of sites dedicated to liberty, rights, and freedom issues. Includes the "Fight the Fingerprint", against identifying technologies.
www.networkusa.org
- Nowhere to Hide - Retaliation against women prisoners who protest sexual abuse includes a range of further abuse including rape.
www.hrw.org/about/initiatives/nowhere.htm
- Police Brutality in the U.S. - Although variable throughout the U.S., reported human rights violations knows no bounds as far as urban / rural, rich / poor areas. Human Rights Org's details on major U.S. cities.
www.hrw.org/about/initiatives/police.htm
- Review of Film on Branch Davidians at Waco - Raises questions about a documentary film and suggests violation of human rights in the Waco incident.
www.freerepublic.com/forum/a388175d5194e.htm
- Rights for All, Amnesty International's campaign on the United States of America -
www.rightsforall-usa.org
- Save the Montagnard People, Inc. (STMP) - Organization helping Montagnards of Vietnam's Central Highlands fight religious and political persecution and settle refugees.
www.montagnards.org
- The Boyertown Area Unity Coalition - A grass-roots human rights organization whose mission is to create and nurture a caring community in which respect for all persons young and old is cultivated and in which bigotry is rejected.
www.users.fast.net/~isaacs/bauc.htm
- The Constitutional Defense web page - Resources on constitutional rights.
morphogeneticjon.tripod.com/main.html
- United States Local Transgender Organizations - Information about state and local organizations and resources for the transgender community.
www.dv-8.com/resources/us/local/transgender.html
- United States: Punishment and Prejudice: Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs - The U.S. war on drugs has been waged overwhelmingly against black Americans, Human Rights Watch charges in this report which includes the first state-by-state analysis of the role of race and drugs in prison admissions.
www.hrw.org/reports/2000/usa
- When One Conviction May Mean Losing The Right To Vote Forever - Losing the Vote, produced in collaboration between Human Rights Watch and The Sentencing Project, presents the first fifty-state survey of the effect of laws taking away the right to vote from people convicted of a felony.
www.hrw.org/about/initiatives/us.html
- Women's Institute for Leadership Development for Human Rights - Provides human rights education, engages in public advocacy, and collaborates on the adoption and implementation of international human rights standards in the United States.
www.wildforhumanrights.org
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