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Bayefsky.com
www.bayefsky.com/
Bayefsky.com was designed for the purpose of enhancing the implementation of the human rights legal standards of the United Nations. Accessibility to UN human rights norms by individuals everywhere is fundamental to their successful realization. The information provided herein encompasses a range of data concerning the application of the UN human rights treaty system by its monitoring treaty bodies since their inauguration in the 1970's. This website lists United Nations human rights treaty body documents in an organized and classified format. The content is listed by State, Working Category and Human Rights Theme or Subject Matter.
Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs Human Rights
www.cceia.org
The two primary publications featured here include Ethics & International Affairs and Human Rights Dialogue. Established in 1914, the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs was created by the noted philanthropist Andrew Carnegie with the lofty and admirable goal of working towards world peace. Today the Council continues to be a well-known forum for research and education in a number of areas, including ethics and international policy. On their homepage, visitors can learn about some of the many events sponsored by the council,such as panel discussions and international symposia. As might be expected,the publications area is quite strong, and contains links to many full-textpieces. A real treat is the access afforded here to the well-known publication, Worldview, which was published from 1958 to 1985. Visitors can read classic articles by Noam Chomsky and Reinhold Niebuhr which originally appeared between the covers of this important publication. Copyright Internet Scout Project, 1994-2005(http://scout.wisc.edu/)
Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org/
International website to the Amnestry NGO with a huge resource of links
Human Rights Internet
http://www.hri.ca/index.aspx
HRI is dedicated to the empowerment of human rights activists and organizations, and to the education of governmental and intergovernmental agencies and officials and other actors in the public and private sphere, on human rights issues and the role of civil society.
Human right tools
http://www.humanrightstools.org/
Links to over 200 databases useful for human rights. The website covers important areas such as: investigation, monitoring, humanitarian protection, planning and fundraising; and different aspects of human rights (i.e. culture, gender, elections and business). Source: CHRN
Human right watch
http://www.hrw.org
Human rights watch as well as links to human rights resources from organizations other than Human Rights Watch.
International Service for Human Rights
http://www.ishr.ch/
Particularly useful resource for those following the work of the Human Rights Council is the updates produced by the International Service for Human Rights. They are compiling and analysing information related to the first session. Source: CHRN
International Human Rights Lexicon
http://www.internationalhumanrightslexicon.org/
The on-line companion to the book of the same name. This provides a wonderful compilation of human rights treaties, judgements and other documents.
New Tactics in Human Rights
http://www.newtactics.org/main.php
The New Tactics in Human Rights project, led by a diverse group of international organizations and practitioners, promotes tactical innovation and strategic thinking within the international human rights community. Strategic and tactical thinking, long used by business and military strategists, is an effective means for the human rights movement to expand options and possibilities of what can be done.
Human Rights Commission of New Zealand
http://www.hrc.co.nz/home/default.php
The aim of this website is to promote and educate the New Zealand public on human rights in an accessible and user-friendly format

http://www.ohchr.org
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has launched its newly designed website. Although reportedly still under construction, it now includes pages on human rights in Arabic, Russian and Chinese, in addition to the already existing pages in Spanish and French.

http://www.justiceinitiative.org/
With offices in Abuja, Budapest, and New York, the Open Society Justice Institute "performs law reform activities grounded in the protection of human rights, and contributes to the development of legal capacity for open societies worldwide." To that end, the Institute offers a wide range of helpful resources on its website, including access to its in-house journal, Justice Initiatives, information about its advocacy efforts around the globe, and an events calendar. The "Books & Monographs" area provides a host of helpful research and primary source materials, such as a handbook for monitoring election campaign finance and a section dedicated to combating discrimination in Russia. Those persons looking for information about the Institute's work in a specific part of the world will want to look through the geographically organized material in the "Regions" area. From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu

http://www.dd-rd.ca/site/
Rights & Democracy (International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development) is a non-partisan organization with an international mandate. It was created by Canada's Parliament in 1988 to encourage and support the universal values of human rights and the promotion of democratic institutions and practices around the world. Although its mandate is wide-ranging, Rights & Democracy currently focuses on four themes: democratic development, women's human rights, globalization and human rights, and the rights of indigenous peoples.

http://www.ibanet.org/humanrights/headerpage.cfm
The International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute was established in December 1995 under the Honorary Presidency of Nelson Mandela. Financial contributions and voluntary assistance from its 7,000 members, coupled with the support of Law Societies and Bar Associations worldwide, enable the Institute to carry out a wide-range of projects.

http://www.surjournal.org/
Sur is a network of academics working together with the mission to strengthen the voice of universities in the South on human rights and social justice, and to create stronger cooperation between them and the United Nations. (from the website)

http://www.africaninstitute.org/
The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa (the Institute) was founded and established in 1997 in Banjul, The Gambia, by two human rights lawyers who had previously worked for the Secretariat of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. The vision for the Institute was a Pan-African non-governmental organization with the specific objective of advancing the respect for human rights in Africa.

http://documents.un.org/
After years of technical, financial and political hurdles, the United Nations "Official Document System" is finally open and free to general public. The ODS the main repository of 800,000+ UN documents dating back to its earliest days, from General Assembly resolutions to UN agency memoranda, in all six of the UN official languages. This is a major coup to those who have worked for years to see this critical archive of UN documents made freely and publicly accessible. ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are, however, added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. The system does not contain press releases (posted at http://www.un.org/News/Press/full.htm), UN sales publications (contact: http://unp.un.org), the United Nations Treaty Series or information brochures issued by the Department of Public Information.

http://www.un.org/rights/
Virtually every United Nations body and specialized agency is involved to some degree in the protection of human rights. One of the great achievements of the United Nations is the creation of a comprehensive body of human rights law, which, for the first time in history, provides us with a universal and internationally protected code of human rights, one to which all nations can subscribe and to which all people can aspire.

http://www.humanrightsinitiative.org
CHRI's mandate is to promote awareness of and adherence to the Harare Principles, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other internationally recognised human rights instruments and declarations made by the Commonwealth Heads of Governments as well as domestic instruments supporting human rights in the Commonwealth.