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Universal Human Rights Month

Latest Human Rights News (from "Human Rights Watch" -hrw.org)

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Human Rights Websites

  • Amnesty International
    Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote internationally recognized human rights.
  • Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (US Dept. of State)
    Includes a link to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practicies
  • Defense for Children International
    An independent non-governmental organization set up during the International Year of the Child (1979) to ensure on-going, practical, systematic and concerted international action specially directed towards promoting and protecting the rights of the child.
  • European Court of Human Rights
    Information about the court plus case-law, statistics, official texts and more.
  • Global Witness
    An organization that focuses on "natural resource-related conflict and corruption and associated environmental and human rights abuses." Search or go to pages for individual countries.
  • Human Rights Watch
    An organization dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world.
  • Human Rights Web Archive
    From the Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research., the archive is "an effort to preserve and ensure access to freely available human rights resources created many by non-governmental organizations, national human rights institutions, and individuals"
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights Home Page
    The text of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with links to translations in over 500 languages,.
  • Online library, with links to resources related to human rights, the United Nations, treaties, and research guides.

 

 

Library Databases for Researching Human Rights Topics