Human Rights (28 links)

 

Alkarama for Human Rights
Based in Switzerland, this NGO promotes human rights in the Arab world and provides current information on human rights violations in the region.

 

Amman Center for Human Rights Studies
A Jordanian organization that aims to spread a culture of human rights in the Arab world; it creates publications on human rights topics such as the death penalty and also organizes training courses aimed at women and youth.

 

Amnesty International	Featured listing
A leading human rights organization that focuses on mobilizing the public to put pressure on human rights violators.

Amnesty International Report 2010: Middle East & North Africa
A report on the state of human rights in the region in 2009, covering conflict and insecurity, repression of dissent, freedom of expression and the media, public 'security,' economic concerns, discrimination, and accounting for past human rights abuses. Reports for individual countries are available at the bottom of the page.

 

Arabic Network for Human Rights Information
A comprehensive website that uses the internet to spread comprehensive information on the state of human rights in the Arab world.

 

Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network
A network of over 80 human rights organizations based in 30 countries in the Euro-Mediterranean region.

 

Front Line: Protection of Human Rights Defenders	Featured listing
This foundation, based in Ireland, works to protect human rights defenders who are at risk.

Global Rights
A human rights advocacy group that partners with local activists in countries like Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco.

 

Hands Across the Mideast Support Alliance
An initiative of the American Islamic Congress, HAMSA is a non-sectarian group that works to bridge activist efforts in America and the Middle East.

 

Human Rights First
A non-profit organization that advocates laws and policies that advance universal rights and freedoms.

 

Human Rights in the Arab World in 2009 - Annual Report, from the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies
A detailed report on the state of human rights in the Arab world in 2008, covering most of the Arab countries and also including an assessment of the Arab states' performance in regional/international mechanisms such as the Arab League. See also the 2008 report.

 

Human Rights Watch: The Middle East & North Africa	Featured listing
One of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights.

Human Rights Watch World Report 2010
This report summarizes human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide.

 

HuriDocs (Human Rights Information & Documentation Systems)	Featured listing
A global network of organizations that focus on monitoring and documenting human rights abuses. HuriDocs has developed standards and tools that help these organizations manage and disseminate this type of documentation.

HuriSearch: The Human Rights Search Engine
A search engine that searches 4,500 human rights websites.

 

International Federation of Human Rights
A network of 155 human rights organizations that disseminates the latest information on the state of human rights in different countries.

 

New Tactics in Human Rights	Featured listing
A project that promotes strategic, tactical thinking for the human rights community.

Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
The office of the main UN human rights official.

 

Slow Reform: Protection of Migrant Domestic Workers in Asia and the Middle East from Human Rights Watch
This 26-page report reviews conditions in eight countries with large numbers of migrant domestic workers: Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Singapore, and Malaysia. The report surveys progress in extending protection to domestic workers under labor laws, reforming immigration "sponsorship" systems that contribute to abuse, ensuring effective response by police and courts to physical and sexual violence, and allowing civil society and trade unions to organize.

 

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library	Featured listing
More than 60,000 documents relating to human rights, including treaties, UN documents, regional materials, and more.

Manual: Civil and Political Rights, from Front Line Human Rights Defenders
A manual that lists international human rights mechanisms that protect each of ten listed civil and political rights, in order to show human rights defenders how to defend these rights more effectively.

 

Manual: Claiming Rights, Claiming Justice: A Guidebook on Women Human Rights Defenders
A guidebook that covers specific kinds of human rights violations that affect women activists because of their gender, as well as means of protecting female human rights defenders.

 

Manual: Economic, Social & Cultural Rights, from Front Line Human Rights Defenders
A guide that lists different economic, social, and cultural rights, groups of people to whom these rights apply, and describes ways of claiming these rights.

 

Manual: Guide to Human Rights Machinery of the UN, from Front Line Human Rights Defenders
A guide that explains where to find out about human rights, how the UN human rights machinery works, and how to make effective use of it.

 

Manual: Information on the International Criminal Court
A guide to the workings of the International Criminal Court.

 

Manual: Protection for Human Rights Defenders
This manual's goal is to teach activists more on how to improve their understanding of security and protection. It covers risk assessments and defines security rules and procedures for different situations.

 

Manual: Workbook from New Tactics in Human Rights	Featured listing
This workbook covers tactics for preventing human rights violations, intervening in situations where rights are being abused, restoring justice and rebuilding communities after such situations, and building human rights cultures and institutions.