42 USC Chapter 21 - Civil Rights - A hypertext version of the U.S. Civil Rights Code from the Legal Information Institute.
4HumanRights - Annotated guide to human rights links from 4anything.com
American Civil Liberties Union - The nation's foremost advocate of individual rights -- litigating, legislating, and educating the public on a broad array of issues affecting individual freedom in the United States.
Amnesty International - Dornbirn, Austria - Western Austrian branch of the human rights organisation Amnesty International with special topic on the Death Penalty (Capital Punishment) in the USA.
Amnesty International USA Group 133 - Boston Area activists, currently focusing on Tibet, China, the Death Penalty, Human Rights in the USA, the North Andean Region, and Refugees and Asylum Seekers.
Andrei Sakharov Foundation - Civil society and democratic development in the former Soviet Union.
Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International - International Human and Civil Rights organization advocating for justice for all, women and children's rights and against all forms of abuse and discrimination.
Anti-Defamation League - The mission of the ADL: to stop the defamation of the Jewish people, to secure justice and fair treatment for all citizens alike.
Arab Association For Human Rights - Founded in 1988 by lawyers and community activists, the HRA is an independent, grassroots, non-governmental organization (NGO), registered in Israel.
British Helsinki Human Rights Group (BHHRG) - Dedicated to monitoring the development of democracy and human rights in the formerly communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
Center for Democracy and Human Rights - Presses for improvements in the human rights environment. Site includes daily news updates.
Center for Trade with Vietnam - Advocates for normalization of trade relations between the USA and Vietnam on the premise that advances in human rights follows economic advances and liberalization.
Children In The Custody of The INS - The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has a conflict of interest when it acts as both jailer and caretaker of children. The INS holds children and adolescents in detention while assessing their immigration status. The problem is that no matter what their status turns out to be, these children are still minors with needs that would better be served by caretakers concerned only with looking after their well-being, not prosecuting them.
Civil Liberties - From About.com - Columns, link libraries, polls, and discussions about personal liberty issues.
Civil Liberties Monitoring Project - Monitors civil rights abuses by law enforcement and other government agencies focusing on civil rights issues in the California North Coast.
Civilrights.org - Resource for current news, events, reports and organizations. Also includes information on hate crimes and affirmative action.
Clarence Aaron - This 23-year-old college student received three life sentences in a drug conspiracy trial based on the testimony of informants and no other evidence.
ColorQ's Human Rights Page - Features stories and links on worldwide human rights violations, particularly issues that receive little attention from the Western media.
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.
Concise Guide to Human Rights on the Internet - Resource for finding information about human rights on the internet. Links to organizations worldwide addressing human rights issues.
Council of Europe's Treaties - European Convention for the protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms et al.
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.
Death Penalty Focus of California - A California non-profit organization dedicated to the abolition of the death penalty.
Discovering America As It Is (Book) - Argues that the U.S. extreme capitalist system represents an even greater threat than Soviet mock-communism to the well-being of the world. Written by former anti-Soviet dissident.
Eastern and Central European Human Rights Directory - Directory of resources on human rights with special focus on OSCE states and Central and Eastern Europe. Direct access to information on certain states.
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) - Non-profit, non-partisan organization working to protect fundamental civil liberties, including privacy and freedom of expression, in the arena of computers and the Internet.
Electronic Resource Centre for Human Rights Education and Training - Information via libraries, calendars, databases and relevant web site links.
Focus: HOPE - Non-profit civil and human rights organization that unites a multicultural community in common efforts to overcome injustice and build racial harmony.
Forefront - An international non-profit network that supports and strengthens the work of young leaders by helping them gain skills and resources, share strategies, communicate with the international community, bring visibility to their work and respond to crises.
Forefront: Alternative Holiday Giving - Information about supporting a young human rights activist in addition to, or as a meaningful break from, routine holiday shopping.
Forefront: Freedom Projects - Human Rights organization campaigning for the release of Tibetan Buddhist nuns incarcerated in Tibet by the Chinese government.
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.
Freedom Magazine: In Support of Human Rights - Explores the role of investigative reporting in restoring human rights.
Gendercide Watch - Confronts gender-selective atrocities against men and women worldwide. Includes a growing database of historical and contemporary case-studies of gendercide, research materials, and up-to-date media coverage.
Genocide Remembrance and Prevention Network - Our mission is the remembrance and prevention of genocide. We invite you to take a moment to remember all victims of genocide and think of those still grieving for them. We also invite you to join us in preventing and suppressing this scourge.
Global Justice: An Internet Journal of Human Rights - Publishes articles on contemporary topics, reviews books about human rights, and analyzes content of human rights information available on the internet.
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.
Green Charter International - A charter for human rights and a new society. Based on the philosophy of Muammar Qadhafi, the "Green Book".
Guide to Human Rights - Features news and information on current human rights campaigns and reports. From About.com.
Hate Crime Premise - Opinion paper discussing the assumptions behind the trend toward outlawing hate crimes, and the similarity to Orwell's concept of "thoughtcrime."
Human Rights - from About.com; resource on US human rights issues including asylum, the death penalty, land mine manufacturers, police brutality, and prison conditions.
Human Rights Alerts - From Peace Brigades International
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.
Human Rights Discussion List - Active mail list and discussion on subject. Bilingual, English y Español.
Human Rights Education Resource Centre - Includes searchable databases, full-text education and training materials and interactive distance learning tools on human rights.
Human Rights Institute of Canada - Non-partisan, citizen based organization, concerned with equality, justice and government's responsibility to citizens.
Human Rights International Alliance - A non-profit alliance of Individuals, NGO's, Parliamentarians and Intellectuals, dedicated to the protection and promotion of Civil & Political Rights and Economic Social & Cultural Rights, as per the United Nations Charter and the International Bill of Rights.
Human Rights Internet - Information about human rights, human rights publications, children's rights, the UN human rights system, and human rights organizations world-wide.
Human Rights Law and Issues at Suite 101 - A site of passion on human rights law and issues, as well as humanity for all mankind. Various concepts of human rights law and issues, and country-specific insider views on specific incidents.
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.
Human Rights Trump Sovereignty In 1999 - Contends that national sovereignty is now a less important obstacle to curbing serious human rights crimes than it has been in previous years.
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.
Human Rights Watch World Report 2000 - Report on the United States' official position.
Humanlex - Categorised links related to the field of international law and international human rights law. In English and French.
International Concerned Friends and Family of Mumia Abu-Jamal - Mumia Abu-Jamal faces the death penalty and his last appeal has been denied. He could be executed as early as May 1999.
International Human Rights - Features college papers, posters and links to web sites about international human rights' issues.
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.
Know Your Civil Rights - Fact Sheet - Know Your Civil Rights from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Kuwaiti Bidoon Human Rights Organization (KBHRO) - KBHRO site has been set up to provide intelligent access to news, reports, FAQ and links relating to Kuwaiti Bidoon human rights. It focuses on Bidoon issues and matters but also contains a digest of international human rights related links.
Lao Human Rights Council Inc. - Advocate for Hmong and Lao people worldwide, working toward ending human rights violations, genocide, and forced repatriation of Hmong refugees from Thailand to communist Laos where they are being systematically annhilated.
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.
Locked Away - Increasing numbers of immigrants are being incarcerated as the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) attempts to fulfill the provisions of the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and immigrant Responsibility Act.
magnacartaplus - to advance civil liberties - Promotes civil liberties and provides a watch on any attempts by governments to reduce or interfere with such freedoms.
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.
Migrants Rights International (MRI) - Information and documents relating to the MRI organization, and its campaign to ratify the 1990 convention for migrants' human rights.
Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) - Studies and gathers human rights documentation.
Network USA - A list of sites dedicated to liberty, rights, and freedom issues. Includes the "Fight the Fingerprint", against identifying technologies.
Nowhere to Hide - Retaliation against women prisoners who protest sexual abuse includes a range of further abuse including rape.
Penal Reform International (PRI) - Information about PRI's activities worldwide, and its ethos.
People For the American Way - issues include religious liberty, freedom of expression, and equal rights
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.
Police Brutality in the U.S. - Although variable throughout the U.S., reported human rights violations knows no bounds as far as urban / rural, rich / poor areas. Human Rights Org's details on major U.S. cities.
Political Correctness - An essay on its nature, origin and impact.
Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign - Portrays national effort led by poor and homeless families for activism in poverty and welfare reform, as well as human rights violations in the USA.
Poverty and Human Rights - Contends that poverty is a violation of human rights.
Reporters without Borders - "Reporters without borders" is an organization which fights for the press freedom and denounces the violations of the human rights all over the world.(Click on English, French or Spanish version.)
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.
Review of Film on Branch Davidians at Waco - Raises questions about a documentary film and suggests violation of human rights in the Waco incident.
Rights for All, Amnesty International's campaign on the United States of America
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.
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.
Serendipity: Human Rights - Sections on Jury Nullification, Genocide, East Timor, Mass Starvation of Germans (1945-1950), Political Prisoners in America, The War on Drug Users, Civil Asset Forfeiture and Privacy.
Site for Social Action: Human Rights - Features articles aimed at ending human rights violations.
Student Struggle for Ethiopian Jewry - As the Jewish world fails to fulfill its responsibility to its Jewish brethren in Ethiopia, SSEJ aims to provide - and to persuade other Jewish groups to provide - humanitarian assistance and basic education globally.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
The Boyertown Area Unity Coalition - A grass-roots human rights organization whose mission is to create and nurture a caring community in which respect for all persons young and old is cultivated and in which bigotry is rejected.
The Center for Justice and Accountability - Pursues redress on behalf of victims of human rights violations and seeks to end the impunity of perpetrators.
The Human Rights Web Home Page - last updated 1997.
The International Monitor Institute Archives - Advanced media research for human rights. Video, audio and photography pertaining to human rights worldwide, particularly in the former Yugoslavia, Burma, Cambodia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and the Middle East.
The Journalism and Films of John Pilger - International human rights abuses committed and aided by the West, especially the UN’s sanctions against Iraq, are detailed in the largest John Pilger online archive.
The Partnet Project - An international action and research project against social exclusion, managed by INDE with the support of European Commission. In Portuguese, English, Spanish and French.
The Peoples Militia - Organized to advance civil liberties in America with three main goals: to end the drug war, to end all forms of censorship, and to fight gun control.
The United States and 'The Challenge of Relativity' - Review by US political dissident Noam Chomsky of the United States' own appalling record on human rights - not in the distant past, but in the last 50 years and continuing right up to this day.
Universal Rights Network - Created to promote the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Violations of Human Rights - Cases of today - Focuses on current cases violating the UN charter of human rights.
Virginia's First Supermaximum Security Prison - Red Onion State Prison was the first of two supermaximum security prisons to open in Virginia in the past year. Intended to hold the state's most dangerous inmates, Red Onion -- and its twin, Wallens Ridge State prison -- restrict inmate movement and activities to a far greater extent than in maximum security facilities.
When One Conviction May Mean Losing The Right To Vote Forever - Losing the Vote, produced in collaboration between Human Rights Watch and The Sentencing Project, presents the first fifty-state survey of the effect of laws taking away the right to vote from people convicted of a felony. In fourteen states even ex-offenders who have fully served their sentences and are no longer even on parole have lost their right to vote. No other democracy in the world is known to withhold the right to vote permanently from ex-offenders who have repaid their debt to society. Yet fully one in fifty American adults, 3.9 million people, have lost the right to vote because of these laws.
Witness - Uses video and technology to fight for human rights. Group works in partnership with activists around the globe to document abuses and bring evidence before courts, governments, the media, and the world.
Women's Institute for Leadership Development for Human Rights - Provides human rights education, engages in public advocacy, and collaborates on the adoption and implementation of international human rights standards in the United States.
World Audit of Democracy and Human Rights - Focus is on democracy, human rights, press freedom, corruption and the rule of law. Daily news on democracy and human rights, links and e-commerce facilities for human rights publications.
World Commission For Peace and Human Rights Council - Addresses human rights generally, also landmines, and biological/chemical weapons.