Human Rights - International

Human rights resource page with links to international human rights law, international human rights centers, international human rights leagues, international human rights services, international human rights periodicals, international human rights reports, human rights laws in different countries, the Inter American Court of Human Rights, and much more.

see also

Gay Rights ----- Gypsies, Civil Rights ----- Freedom of Religion ----- Freedom of the Press ----- Indigenous Peoples ----- International Criminal Court (Proposed) ----- Minorities ----- Refugees ----- Women's Rights

Human Rights - International

• AAAS Directory of Human Rights Resources on the Internet
• Amnesty International
• Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
  Based at the Washington College of Law at American University.
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices [site not updated after January 20, 2001]
  Submitted annually by the U.S. Department of State to the U.S. Congress, the reports cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
• DIANA International Human Rights Database
  
• Human Rights Internet
  
• Human Rights Library
  From the Human Rights Center, University of Minnesota
• International League for Human Rights
• International Service for Human Rights
• Interights
  The international center for legal protection of human rights, including an international human rights law database.
• Rights International
• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
• The United Nations Human Rights System: For the record 1997 to 2003
  
• U.S. Dept. of State's Human Rights Page

Africa

• African Human Rights Resource Center
  From the Makerere University Human Rights and Peace Center and the University of Minnesota Human Rights Center.
• Africa Legal Aid(AFLA)
  AFLA counsels individuals and groups on human rights matters, promotes human rights awareness, researches human rights conditions in African countries, publicizes human rights violations, pressures States to comply with their human rights obligations, analyses human rights legislation and treaties and contributes to the development of a human rights jurisprudence for Africa.

America

• Inter-American Court of Human Rights
  In English.
• Inter-American Human Rights Database
  In English or Spanish. Contains documents adopted by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights since its first session.

Australia

• Human Rights Council of Australia
• Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC)

Canada

• Canadian Human Rights Commission
  Available in French or English

Caribbean

• Center for Justice and International Law
  In English, Portuguese and Spanish.

Europe

• European Commission against Racism and Intolerance
• European Court of Human Rights
• Human Rights Documentation (HUDOC)
  In English or French. Database of the case-law of the supervisory organs of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Latin America

• Center for Justice and International Law
  In English, Portuguese and Spanish.
• Comisión Latinoamericana por los Derechos y Libertades de los Trabajadores y Pueblos
  In Spanish, Portuguese, French and English.

Societies, etc.

• La Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos (APRODEH) de Lima, Perú
  In Spanish. Una organización civil, sin fines de lucro que trabaja por la plena vigencia de los derechos humanos en el Perú y contra la impunidad a los violadores de estos derechos.
• Croatian Institute for Human Rights in Novi Vinodolski, Republic of Croatia
• Human Rights Watch
  In English, Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Russian, and Arabic.
• International Committee of the Red Cross
  A private, independent and non-profit organisation whose fundamental objective is to promote the development, application and dissemination of international humanitarian law in all its dimensions, thus contributing to the safeguard and respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms throughout the world.
• Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
  A volunteer-based, non-governmental and nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights worldwide

Treaties

• Human Rights Treaties
  From the Multilaterals Project at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
• Human Rights Treaties and other Instruments
  From the University of Minnesota's Human Rights Library.

Venezuela

• Amnistía Internacional
• Derechos Humanos Venezuela
  In Spanish.
• Ley Orgánica de Amparo sobre Derechos y Garantías Constitucionales
  In Spanish. From the Tribunal Supremo de Justicia.

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