Human Rights Organizations

American Civil Liberties Union
http://www.aclu.org

American Friends Service Committee
http://www.afsc.org
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization which includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service and religion, violations of due process, and discrimination on racial, gender, ethnic and religious grounds.

Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org
Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights identified in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. AI has nearly one million members and supporters in 162 countries and territories.

Anti-Slavery International
http://www.charitynet.org/~asi

The Carter Center
http://www.emory.edu/CARTER_CENTER/homepage.htm

Center for Women's Global Leadership
http://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/

Committee to Protect Journalists
http://www.cpj.org

Derechos Human Rights
http://www.derechos.org/

Electronic Frontier Foundation (USA)
http://www.eff.org

GILC (Global Internet Liberty Campaign)
http://www.gilc.org/

Greenet
http://www.gn.apc.org

Greek Helsinki Monitor Balkan Human Rights Web Pages
http://www.greekhelsinki.gr

Hong Kong Human Rights Commission
http://www.hkhrc.org.hk

Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor
http://www.hkhrm.org.hk

Human Rights in China
http://www.hrichina.org

Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/
Human Rights Watch works to end a broad range of abuses, including summary executions, torture, arbitrary detention, restrictions on the freedom of expression, association, assembly

Interaction
http://www.interaction.org

The International Committee of the Red Cross
http://www.icrc.org

International Crisis Group
http://www.intl-crisis-group.org

The International Freedom to Publish Committee
http://www.iftpc.org/

International Helsinki Federation
http://www.ihf-hr.org

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
http://www.lchr.org/lchr/

National Organization for Women
http://www.now.org/

Peace Brigades International
http://www.igc.apc.org/pbi/

PEN American Center
http://www.pen.org/
PEN American Center, the 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.

People for the American Way
http://www.pfaw.org

Physicians for Human Rights
http://www.phrusa.org/

The Progressive Directory
http://www.igc.org/igc/issues/hr/or.html

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
http://www.unhcr.ch

Washington Office on Latin America
http://www.wola.org

WebActive
http://www.webactive.com

Human Rights Resources and Information

American Association for the Advancement of Science
http://shr.aaas.org/dhr/

Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
http://carnegiecouncil.org

CUSHRID Net Homepage
http://shr.aaas.org/cushrid.htm
The Canadian-U.S. Human Rights Information and Documentation Network

DIANA: An International Human Rights Database
http://diana.law.yale.edu

Globalvision's Rights & Wrongs Archives
http://www.globalvision.org/who/who.html

Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley
http://www.hrcberkeley.org./contact.html
The Human Rights Center conducts interdisciplinary research on emerging issues in international human rights and humanitarian law. Research focuses on war crimes, justice and postwar reconstruction, health and human rights, and refugees.

Human Rights USA
http://www.hrusa.org

Human Rights Internet
http://www.hri.ca

Human Rights Web Resources Page
http://www.hrweb.org

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/

U.N. Treaty Database
http://untreaty.un.org

U.S. State Department's Country Reports
http://www.state.gov

Women’s Human Rights

Amnesty International: Women's Program
The Women’s Human Rights Program focuses on promoting women’s human rights within Amnesty's mandate. It seeks to stop the particular violations of civil and political rights that women and girls experience.

Akina Mama wa Afrika
http://www.akinamama.com/
AMwA is an international non-governmental development organization for African women, which co-ordinates local, regional and international initiatives. AMwA builds African women's leadership capacities to influence policy and decision making processes in their communities, by serving as a networking, information, advocacy and training forum.

American Association for the Advancement of Science: Directory of Human Rights Sites on the Internet
http://shr.aaas.org/dhr.htm

Arab Women Solidarity Association (AWSA)
http://www.awsa.net/
An international organization, AWSA promotes Arab women's active participation in social, economic, cultural, and political life.

Canadian Women's Internet Directory
http://directory.womenspace.ca/

Electronic Resource Centre for Human Rights Education
http://erc.hrea.org/index.html

Global List of Women's Organizations
http://www.euronet.nl/~fullmoon/womlist/womlist.html

Global Women's Rights
http://www.globalwomensrights.net/

Housing Information Gateway
http://www.colorado.edu/plan/housing-info
Housing related organizations, listservs, events, researchers, bibliography.

IGC – Womensnet
http://www.igc.apc.org/womensnet
Worldwide directory with e-mail addresses of women's groups on-line.

INCORE, The Conflict Data Service; "Peace Agreements 1989-99"- worldwide
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/agreements/index.html

Mapping the World of Women's Information Services
http://www.iiav.nl/mapping-the-world

National Women's History Project
http://www.nwhp.org/

Netlinks
http://www.jhuccp.org/netlinks
Searchable database of Internet resources in population, health and development.

University of Maryland Baltimore County's Women's Studies Program: Women's Studies Resources
http://www-unix.umbc.edu/~korenman/wmst/external.html

University of Minnesota, Human Rights Library
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/links/links.htm

University of Toronto, Bora Laskin Law Library: Women's Human Rights Resources (DIANA)
http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana

Web Active Directory: Women
http://www.webactive.com/directory/wniadirsearch.html?Women

Web Networks International Development
http://community.web.ca/international

Women in Black
http://wib.matriz.net

Women in Development Network (WIDNET)
http://www.focusintl.com/widt.htm

Women's Human Rights Net
http://www.whrnet.org/
(English, French, Spanish)

Women's International News Gathering Service
http://www.wings.org

Women's Link
http://www.owl.ru

WomensNet
http://www.igc.org/igc/gateway/wnindex.html

Women's Web Links
http://www.euronet.nl/~fullmoon/women.html

World Justice Information Network
http://www.justinfo.net

Women Around the Globe

ADESCO - Spain
http://www.mujerweb.com
(Spanish)

African Women Global Network (AWOGNet)
http://www.osu.edu/org/awognet

Associates for Change - Kampala, Uganda
http://www.associatesforchange.com

Australian Women's Intra Network
http://www.isis.aust.com/win/

AwalNet - Saudi Arabia
http://www.awalnet.net.sa

Be active, Be emancipated (B.a.B.e.) - Croatia
http://www.babe.hr/eng

Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action
http://www.fafia.org

Center for Asia-Pacific Women in Politics (CAPWIP)
http://www.capwip.org

Central and Eastern European Network for Gender Issues
http://www.europeanforum.net

Comite de America Latina y el Caribe para la Defensa de los Derechos de la Mujer (CLADEM) - Latin America and the Caribbean
http://www.derechos.org/cladem
(Spanish)

Encantadora: Site for the Bilingual Spanish Woman
http://www.encantadora.com
(Spanish)

European Women's Lobby
http://www.womenlobby.org

Famafrique - Francophone African Women
http://www.famafrique.org
(French)

Fempress - Chile
http://www.fempress.cl
(Spanish)

Fiji Women's Crisis Centre
http://www.fijiwomen.com/

Gender in Development - Central Asia, the Caucasus and Turkey
http://www.undp.uz/gid/index.html

Isis International - Chile
http://www.isis.cl
(Spanish)

Isis International - Manila
http://www.isiswomen.org/index.html

Isis-WICCE - Uganda
http://www.isis.or.ug/index.html

Machreq/Maghreb Gender Linking and Information Project - Lebanon
http://www.women-machreq-maghreb.com/

Network of East-West Women
http://www.neww.org/

NGO Network Alliance Project
http://www.kubatana.net/

Online Network of Asia Pacific Women in Politics, Governance, and Transformative Leadership
http://www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org/

Oska - National Women's Information Center in Poland
http://www.oska.org.pl

Russian Feminism Resources
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/2533/russfem.html

South Eastern European Legal Initiative
http://www.seeline-project.net

Women's Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in Afghanistan
http://www.wapha.org

Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling – Jerusalem
http://www.wclac.org

WomensNet - South Africa
http://www.womensnet.org.za/

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