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- Advocates for Religious Rights and Freedoms - ARRF is a consociation of ministers of the International Community of Christ that seeks to preserve, protect and defend freedom of religion and to protect the right of individuals to religious expression.
www.arrf.org
- American Civil Liberties Union - Advocating individual rights by litigating, legislating, and educating the public on a broad array of issues affecting individual freedom.
www.aclu.org
- Andrei Sakharov Archives and Human Rights Center - Papers, photos, audio and video material are kept at this archives hosted by Brandeis University. Information about Sakharov and links to articles and websites.
www.brandeis.edu/departments/sakharov
- Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International - International human and civil rights organization advocating justice for all, for women and children's rights and against all forms of abuse and discrimination.
www.ansarburney.org
- Anti-Defamation League - The mission of the ADL is to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment for all citizens alike.
www.adl.org
- Campaign for UC Divestment from Israel - University of California divestment petition website. Goal is to pressure Israel to respect the human rights of the Palestinian people.
www.ucdivest.org
- Carr Center for Human Rights Policy - Researches policies and actions of governments, international organizations, and independent actors that affect human rights globally.
www.ksg.harvard.edu/cchrp
- Center for Democracy and Human Rights - CDRH presses for improvements in the human rights environment. Site includes daily news updates.
International.lawandorder.com
- Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights - Represents minority religious and ethnic communities from around the world in opposition to radical Islamic intolerance and violence.
www.dhimmi.com
- Committee for International Human Rights Inquiry - Coalition of social service unions and professional groups spotlights violations of human rights of social service workers and those they serve. Advocates on behalf of a number of persecuted or imprisoned social workers from a variety of countries. Includes newsletter and annual report.
members.aol.com/MochCIHRI/Index.html
- Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative - The CHRI is a non-partisan, independent, international non-governmental organization, mandated to ensure the practical realisation of human rights within the Commonwealth.
www.humanrightsinitiative.org
- COUP 4 JIP - Community Of United People For Justice In Pay - Promotes making minimum wage a living wage, and creating a maximum income and maximum wealth tied to the minimum wage. thus aiming to reduce selfishness and to protect people and planet from greed corruption.
www.coup4jip.com
- Dakota Lakota Nakota Human Rights Advocacy Coalition - Chartered on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation, the DLN is an advocacy group for human, civil, legal, and indigenous rights, and social justice for traditional Dakota/Lakota/Nakota People.
www.dlncoalition.org
- Derechos Human Rights - Internet based international human rights organization, working for the promotion and respect of human rights world-wide.
www.derechos.org
- Digital Freedom Network - Promotes human rights world-wide, developing new methods of activism with internet technology.
dfn.org
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - Based in San Francisco, EFF is a donor-supported membership organization working to protect fundamental rights regardless of technology; to educate the press, policymakers and the general public about civil liberties issues related to technology; and to act as a defender of those liberties.
www.eff.org
- Electronic Resource Centre for Human Rights Education and Training - An on-line repository of human rights education and training materials, on-line forums, databases and links to other organisations and resources.
www.hrea.org/erc
- Fair Trade Toronto - Advocates for small, poor and disadvantaged producers in developing countries through fair prices and working conditions.
www.fairtradetoronto.com
- Focus: HOPE - Non-profit civil and human rights organization based in Detroit that unites a multicultural community in common efforts to overcome injustice and build racial harmony.
www.focushope.edu
- Forefront - This membership network of nearly 60 leading grassroots human rights activists works in 30 different countries to develop effective ways to support and strengthen the work of grassroots human rights defenders by providing them with technical assistance, technology, networking and advocacy.
www.forefrontleaders.org
- François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights - Academic center devoted to health and human rights, based at the Harvard School of Public Health. Programs focus on international health and human rights, humanitarian crises and human rights, and development and human rights.
www.hsph.harvard.edu/fxbcenter
- Freedom House - Dedicated to promoting free institutions worldwide. Publishes surveys detailing state of civil liberties, political rights, economic freedom, religious freedom, and press freedom around the world.
freedomhouse.org
- Freedom in the World - Ranks all independent countries according their political freedoms and civil rights. Includes links to non-independent territories.
www.mherrera.org
- FreeEmigration.com - Highlights regimes with prohibitive emigration policies; promotes the principle of self-ownership central to human rights, and aims to contribute to the abolition of state enslavement.
www.freeemigration.com
- Genocide Remembrance and Prevention Network - Mission is the remembrance and prevention of genocide. Invites visitors to take a moment to remember all victims of genocide and think of those still grieving for them.
www.gen-net.org
- Globalization as if People Mattered - Fighting for global justice in economy, human rights and ecology. GPM is currently specialising in trade watch and the Maheshwar dam in India.
www.gpm-international.de/english/english_homepage.htm
- Hate-Crime Network - A resource for hate crime survivors, and those wanting to help fight hate crimes worldwide.
www.hate-crime.net
- Human Frontier - International Federation of Human Support - Established by the Humanist Movement, the federation is involved in practical initiatives to improve the quality of life in both poor and wealthy nations and it has been promoting human support campaigns since 1999.
www.humanfrontier.org
- Human Rights Brief - A legal resource for the international human rights community from the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Washington College of Law.
www.wcl.american.edu/pub/humright/brief/index.html
- Human Rights Foundation of New Zealand - Human Rights Foundation of New Zealand p promotes human rights through research, education and advocacy. Showcases current projects, and offers downloads of publications and documents.
www.humanrights.co.nz
- Human Rights Institute of Canada - Non-partisan, citizen based organization, concerned with equality, justice and government's responsibility to citizens.
www.mondenet.com/~hric
- Human Rights International Alliance - A non-profit alliance of individuals, NGO's, parliamentarians and intellectuals dedicated to the protection and promotion of civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural Rights, as per the United Nations Charter and the International Bill of Rights.
www.hria.net
- Human Rights Server, Germany - Organization placing human rights within the context of the progress of the mass of humanity. Includes links to those who resist.
www.humanrights.de/index_en.html
- International Child Development Initiatives (ICDI) - Early childhood care, risk, child labour, education, abuse, nonformal education, international development, policy development, programme development, action research, NGO management.
www.icdi.nl
- International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights - The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights is 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 formed from the territories of the former Soviet Union.
www.ihf-hr.org/index.htm
- Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) - Journalists for Human Rights is a Canadian non-profit organization working in training African journalists about human rights.
www.jhr.ca
- Jubilee Action - UK human rights charity supporting aid and awareness programmes for children and families at risk in places such as Burma, Brazil, the Philippines, Thailand, India and Liberia.
www.jubileeaction.co.uk
- 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.
www.lchr.org
- Lawyers' Commission for Human Rights - Works to promote and protect fundamental international human rights. Includes newsletter, media alerts, lawyer-to-lawyer appeals, reports on refugee policy and asylum cases.
www.lchr.org/home.htm
- MacArthur Justice Center - Non-profit public interest law firm affiliated with the University of Chicago Law School concentrating on cases that raise constitutional or significant issues about criminal justice.
macarthur.uchicago.edu
- Magnacartaplus - Promotes civil liberties and provides a watch on any attempts by governments to reduce or interfere with such freedoms.
magnacartaplus.org
- Mexico-U.S. Advocates Network - A binational project dedicated to improving communication and mutual education between Mexican and U.S. civil society organizations concerned with the human and labor rights aspects of migration policy and developing vehicles for joint advocacy on those issues.
www.mexicousadvocates.org
- Migrants' Rights International (MRI) - Information and documents relating to the MRI organization, and its campaign to ratify the 1990 convention for migrants' human rights.
www.migrantwatch.org
- No Peace Without Justice - An international committee of parliamentarians, mayors and citizens, whose objective is the establishment of an effective system of international justice. Goals include the development and reform of existing international institutions, to ensure that human rights are enforced in member States of the United Nations and to campaign for the establishment of an International Criminal Court.
www.npwj.org
- Office of The Americas - Los Angeles-based organization documenting current events and political activism in North America and Latin America, including human rights, and United States foreign policy.
officeoftheamericas.org
- Penal Reform International (PRI) - Information about PRI's activities worldwide, and its ethos.
www.penalreform.org/english/frset_pre_en.htm
- Physicians For Human Rights - Mobilizes health professions and the public to protect the human rights of all people. A founder of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, PHR shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize.
www.phrusa.org
- Queensland Council for Civil Liberties - A voluntary organisation concerned with the protection of individual rights and civil liberties. Features a searchable database of QCCL submissions, newsletters and other documents.
www.qccl.org.au
- Reporters without Borders - An organization which fights for the press freedom and denounces the violations of the human rights all over the world.
www.rsf.fr/rsf/uk
- RESULTS: Ending Hunger and Poverty - A nonprofit, grassroots citizens' lobby that identifies sustainable solutions to the problems of hunger and poverty as a human rights issue, in the United States and around the world and working to generate the resources necessary to make those solutions succeed.
action.org/index.html
- Rights & Democracy - Canadian institution with an international mandate to promote human rights in four specific fields: women's rights, indigenous peoples' rights, democratic development, globalization. Works in Africa, Latin America and Asia. In English, French and Spanish languages.
www.ichrdd.ca
- Rights International - US-based group, representing victims of human rights violations in international tribunals where governments violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other treaties.
www.rightsinternational.org
- 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.
scholarsatrisk.uchicago.edu
- Site for Social Action - Private, non-profit organization dedicated to ending human rights violations, war, corporate greed, genetically modified foods and crops and environmental pollution
pweb.jps.net/~dcasner
- Temping -- A Conflict of Interest - Brief example of the abuse and discrimination of temps and contingent workers with resource and advocacy links.
hometown.aol.com/stoptempabuse/myhomepage/index.html
- The Advocacy Project - Supporting community campaigners with information and information technology in their work for social justice, human rights, and peace.
www.advocacynet.org
- The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity - This foundation seeks to combat indifference, intolerance and injustice. Established by Elie and Marion Wiesel after he was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace.
www.eliewieselfoundation.org
- The Global Witness Foundation - Aims to engage in and support research and investigations into the exploitation of natural resources and funding of human rights abuses.
www.globalwitness.us
- The International Bannister Foundation - Founded in memory of AJ Bannister executed 22nd October 1997.
www.ibf.brum.net/homepage.htm
- The Magnus Hirschfeld Centre for Human Rights - Non-governmental, non-profit, voluntary organization engaged in the promotion of human rights and civil liberties under international law.
www.geocities.com/mhc_humanrights
- The Social Justice Committee - From Montreal, this organization fights poverty and human rights abuses. Education and advocacy for human rights protection in Central America and Mexico, and for economic justice in the Third World.
www.s-j-c.net
- The Thomas Paine Project - Promotes and supports range of issues important to the preservation of individual freedom; and attempts to identify and challenge individuals and organizations who would subvert the U.S. Bill of Rights for personal, private or political gain.
www.wintersoldier.org
- Universal Rights Network - Created to promote the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
www.universalrights.net
- Witness - Uses video and other technology to fight for human rights. Group works in partnership with activists around the world to document abuses and bring evidence before courts, governments, the media, and the world.
www.witness.org
- World Commission For Peace and Human Rights Council - Addresses human rights generally, also landmines, and biological/chemical weapons.
greenfield.fortunecity.com/swallowtail/408
- World Goodwill - Working for Right Human Relations and world peace under the auspiciousness of Goodwill.
www.worldgoodwill.com
- World Organisation Against Torture - International coalition of NGOs fighting against torture, summary executions, forced disappearances and all other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Site features press releases, urgent appeals and the International Observatory of the Protection of Human Right Defenders.
www.omct.org
- Youth Coalition - An international coalition of young people committed to promoting adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive rights at the national, regional and international levels.
www.youthcoalition.org
- Human Rights Watch - Organization dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world, standing with victims and activists to bring offenders to justice, to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom and to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime. Investigates and exposes human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. In English with versions in six other languages.
www.hrw.org
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