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Description: In Chinese and some English. Began in 1999 as a web service for missing persons searches. Conducts human rights activities in 30 mainland provinces and cities.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 20 Videos Captured
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--disappearances, civil and political rights--discrimination, political, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--prisons and prisoners, armed conflict and persecution--corporal punishment, civil and political rights--freedom of speech, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--impunity
Description: In English and French. Organization in based in Gambia charged with ensuring the promotion and protection of human and peoples' rights throughout the African continent. Contains downloadable documents (reports, bulletins, resolutions)
Captured 14 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: civil and political rights--women's rights, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--laws and legislation, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--public policy organizations, economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--labor rights, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--identity, ethnic
Description: In Arabic and English. ADALEH Center for Human Rights is a non-governmental, non-profit organization founded in September 2003, with a mission of enforcing human rights in Jordan and Arab world. Projects include youth capacitation, training medical staff in torture detection, and capacitating lawyers in the field of human rights. Site contains news and publications.
Captured 9 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--torture, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, economic and labor rights--labor rights
Description: In English. ADAPT is a national grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom. The site contains reports, photographs, newsletters, and videos.
Captured 17 times between Apr 29, 2010 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 18 Videos Captured
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--community organizing, civil and political rights--discrimination, physically disabled, economic, social, and cultural rights--health and healthcare--physical disability
Description: In English. AHC, initially named the ”Forum for the Protection of Human Rights and fundamental Freedoms”, was founded on 19 December 1990 with the main objective of protecting human rights. Today the site contains materials on a wide-range of issues areas, including emigrants, minorities and police violence, among others.
Captured 12 times between Jul 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 1 Videos Captured
Subject: laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--detention, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--police misconduct, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--prisons and prisoners, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--judicial reform, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--corruption
Description: In English. The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) was founded in 1986 by a prominent group of jurists and human rights activists in Asia. The AHRC is an independent, non-governmental body, which seeks to promote greater awareness and realisation of human rights in the Asian region, and to mobilise Asian and international public opinion to obtain relief and redress for the victims of human rights violations. AHRC promotes civil and political rights, as well as economic, social and cultural rights. The website includes news coverage of human rights violations and documents related to campaigns against extrajudicial killings and disappearances, children's rights, torture, among others.
Captured 11 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 55 Videos Captured
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, armed conflict and persecution--torture, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--press and media coverage, armed conflict and persecution--extrajudicial executions, armed conflict and persecution--mass killings, civil and political rights--children's rights, economic, social, and cultural rights--health and healthcare--right to adequate food
Description: In Arabic and English. Reports on human-rights violations and provides legal assistance to victims. Shut down by government in September 2007 on ground of accepting foreign funds without government permission. Site contains news articles and other information related to human rights in Egypt.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--torture, armed conflict and persecution--refugees, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--press and media coverage, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--police misconduct, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--impunity, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--legal organizations
Description: In English. Ajedi-Ka was founded in 1988 and was comprised of three key project areas: poverty alleviation, the environment, and child soldiers. Following the 1998 war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the organization decided to focus its attention on child soldiers, thus creating AJEDI-Ka/PES (Child Soldier Project/Projet Enfants Soldats) that same year. The website contains materials regarding projects and programs, including video and photography.
Captured 12 times between Jul 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: economic, social, and cultural rights--health and healthcare--AIDS/HIV, armed conflict and persecution--child soldiers, civil and political rights--children's rights, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--aid and relief organizations, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--video advocacy
Description: In English. Contains news, articles, mailing list and archives, background information, links to other resources on human rights violations of Albanians as well as their struggle for equality in Macedonia.
Captured 11 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: civil and political rights--discrimination, ethnic and racial, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--education, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--judicial reform, civil and political rights--institutional racism, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--identity, ethnic
Description: In English. The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) is an NGO having General Consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. The ALRC was founded in 1986 by a prominent group of jurists and human rights activists in Asia. It is a body committed to the development of legal self-reliance and empowerment of people. It will place particular emphasis in its work on the areas of cultural, social and economic rights and the right of development. ALRC will work closely with and support regional, national, and local groups involved in this field, taking care, at the same time, to protect the autonomy and independence of such groups. The site contains policy documents submitted to the UN, legal documents related to human rights and a variety of news items on human rights violations in Asia.
Captured 11 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 17 Videos Captured
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--community development organizations, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--economic policy, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--judicial reform, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--public policy organizations
Description: In English. ALTSEAN-Burma (Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma) is a network of organizations and individuals based in ASEAN member states working to support the movement for human rights and democracy in Burma. The network is comprised of human rights & social justice NGOs, political parties, think tanks, academics, journalists and student activists. Site contains reports, publications, press releases, news updates, research guides by topics, photos, maps, and videos.
Captured 16 times between Jul 30, 2010 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 35 Videos Captured
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, civil and political rights--discrimination, ethnic and racial, civil and political rights--women's rights, civil and political rights--discrimination, gender, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, civil and political rights--children's rights, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--identity, ethnic
Description: In English. Amazon Watch is an NGO founded in 1996 to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin by running various environmental and indigenous rights campaigns. The site contains news, blog posts, and annual reports.
Captured on Jul 19, 2012
Subject: economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous populations, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--ethnic identity, economic, social, and cultural rights--environment, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--land rights
Description: In Arabic and some English. Central repository for human rights information and websites in Arabic on eighteen countries throughout the Middle East and North Africa - Jordan, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Sudan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, Qatar, Libya, Oman, Algeria, Lebanon, Syria, Morocco, Tunisia and Kuwait. Seeks to expand coverage circle to include Mauritania, Somalia and Iran. Based in Cairo, Egypt. Contains press releases, articles, and news items.
Captured 20 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 22 Videos Captured
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--press and media coverage, civil and political rights--freedom of assembly, civil and political rights--freedom of the press, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--internet advocacy
Description: In Romanian and English. Formed in 1990, APADOR-CH is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that raises the level of awareness on and respect of human rights and rule of law. Site contains mission, objectives and the team of the association, annual reports, special reports (regarding the visits to prisons and lock-ups, as well as abuses of the police), press releases and publications of APADOR-CH. In addition, there is a special section dedicated to the free access to information of public interest, containing legislation (Law no 544/2001 regarding the free access to the information of public interest; the methodological norms for the application of Law no. 544/2001, adopted through the Governmental Decision no. 123/2002; Law no. 182/2002 on the protection of classified information; Law no. 677/2001 for the protection of persons related both to the processing of personal data and to the free circulation of such data), a practical guide for the use of Law no. 544/2001, studies, as well as summaries of APADOR-CH’s freedom of information court cases.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--laws and legislation, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--police misconduct, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--prisons and prisoners, civil and political rights--right to information, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability, civil and political rights--democratization
Description: In Arabic and English. The Arab Human Rights Index site, sponsored by United Nations Development Programme on Governance in the Arab Region (UNDP-POGAR), is a repository for the entire set of United Nations documents pertaining to human rights and the responses, including reservations, by the Arab member states to the committees that monitor the core international human rights treaties.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--torture, civil and political rights--discrimination, ethnic and racial, civil and political rights--women's rights, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--United Nations, civil and political rights--children's rights, economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--labor rights, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--international law, civil and political rights--discrimination, socioeconomic
Description: In Spanish. The Archivo Histórico de la Policía Nacional (AHPN) is a Guatemalan repository that houses, preserves, processes, and disseminates the records of Guatemala’s National Police. The National Police collaborated with the state during Guatemala's 36-year armed internal conflict which, between 1960 and 1996, claimed 200,000 lives and displaced over one million people. The AHPN has formed a collaboration with University of Texas at Austin to make its records available online (https://ahpn.lib.utexas.edu/about_ahpn). The site contains organizational information, publications about the AHPN's materials, legislation concerning the AHPN, links for requesting information, digital photographs, and other links.
Captured 3 times between Oct 30, 2011 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--cultural repositories, armed conflict and persecution--genocide, armed conflict and persecution--disappearances, armed conflict and persecution--displacement, armed conflict and persecution--war crimes, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--truth commissions
Description: In French. Association africaine de Défense des droits de l’Homme (ASADHO) is a human rights NGO in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that formed in 1991 to protest the abuses of Mobutu Sese Seko. Seko seized power in 1965, formed an authoritarian regime, instated the Popular Movement of the Revolution (MPR) as the only legal political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and ruled as president from 1965 to 1997. ASADHO monitors human rights, calls attention to abuses, does training, provides legal assistance, and has local chapters that organize around human rights issues. The Katanga chapter of ASADHO was instrumental in the Anvil Mining case of state murder. Contains reports, press releases, and news. Other URL in this group, http://blog.asadho.org/, is the blog of ASADHO.
Captured 2 times between Jan 31, 2012 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: civil and political rights--women's rights, armed conflict and persecution--child soldiers, economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--mining, economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--extractive technologies, armed conflict and persecution, armed conflict and persecution--crimes againts humanity
Description: In Spanish. Organization which aids and represents the families of people who are detained or missing in Colombia. The directors and members of ASFADDES have been subject to illegal surveillance and death threats from paramilitary groups. They have filed a petition to the Inter American Human Rights Court to require the Colombian state to provide them with minimum safety guarantees. Site contains news articles, background information on organization and its activities, photographs, and educational information on forced disappearances.
Captured 4 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jan 29, 2010
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--disappearances, armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--community organizing, armed conflict and persecution--death threats
Description: In Spanish. Comunicarte is an organization that creates documentaries about human rights violations and daily life in Guatemala, with a particular focus on indigenous rights and indigenous struggles against corporate oppression. Site includes embedded videos and updates about projects.
Captured on Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--video advocacy, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--eyewitness documentation, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous populations, economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--sustainable development
Description: In Spanish. Asociación MINGA advocates for the human rights of Colombians, particularly indigenous populations. Their focuses include property rights, internal displacement, and monitoring human rights violations. The site contains news on actions, settlements, violations, and other relevant topics, as well as photographs.
Captured on Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--seizure of property, armed conflict and persecution--internally displaced persons
Description: In Arabic, English, French and Spanish. Formed in 2005, ASVDH conducts human rights work in the Western Sahara under Moroccan occupation. Moroccan authorities refuse to recognize the association and have targeted the Association’s Executive Committee and Coordinating Council, arresting, beating and generally subjecting them to harassment and maltreatment because of their membership in ASVDH. Contains news, photographs, videos, audio clips, and reports.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--harassment and humiliation, armed conflict and persecution--torture, armed conflict and persecution--intimidation, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--prisons and prisoners, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, armed conflict and persecution--extrajudicial executions
Description: In Arabic and English. The mission of the ASWAT initiative is to serve as a Palestinian gay women’s group where we may express ourselves, discuss gender and sexuality, define our feminism, and address the conflict experienced by us between our national and gendered identities. In addition, we strive to generate social change in order to meet the needs of one of the most silenced and oppressed communities in Israel. We work to reach out to Palestinian and Jewish communities in Israel, and also to collaborate with other like minded institutes, groups and individuals in order to combat the multilayered discrimination we face and to promote women rights. ASWAT's projects center on three themes: empowerment and awareness, advocacy and outreach, and information. Materials on the site include information about organization activities and projects, and a multimedia gallery.
Captured 15 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--hate crimes, civil and political rights--women's rights, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--press and media coverage, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--laws and legislation, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, civil and political rights--gay / lesbian / bisexual / transgender / queer rights
Description: In English. Formed in 2002, the BCHR promotes freedoms and basic rights (civil, political and economic), combating racial discrimination, the dissemination of human rights culture, and contributing in providing support and protection for victims and the vulnerable in Bahrain. Its activities include advocacy, training, workshops, seminars, media campaigns, reporting to UN mechanisms and international NGOs and participating in international conferences and workshops. The government attempted to close the organization in 2004, but BCHR remains open after receiving both internal and external support. BCHR president Abd al-Hadi Khawaja arrested in early 2007; VP Nabeel Rajab summoned for questioning regarding violating a gag order on a report of rigged elections in November 2006. Site contains photographs, videos, and news archive.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, armed conflict and persecution--torture, civil and political rights--freedom of religion, civil and political rights--freedom of speech, civil and political rights--freedom of the press, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, civil and political rights--democratization
Description: In English, Russian, and Belarusian. The Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) is a freedom of the press NGO in Belarus. BAJ defends reporters' rights and issues weekly and annual reports on the state of freedom of the press in Belarus (which touch on other human rights issues in the region). Site contains news and reports.
Captured 2 times between Jan 31, 2012 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 5 Videos Captured
Subject: civil and political rights--freedom of the press, civil and political rights--freedom of speech, civil and political rights--right to information
Description: In English and some Arabic. Banat Akhir Zaman is a grassroots movement that seeks to achieve gender equality in Lebanon by empowering women on the personal, social, political and economic levels. Current organization initiatives include legal reform and research. The website includes general materials on both of these initiatives.
Captured 10 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jan 31, 2012
Subject: economic, social, and cultural rights--health and healthcare--reproductive health and pregnancy, civil and political rights--women's rights, civil and political rights--discrimination, gender, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--judicial reform, civil and political rights--gay / lesbian / bisexual / transgender / queer rights, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--community organizing, armed conflict and persecution--domestic violence, economic, social, and cultural rights--health and healthcare--abortion
Description: In English. Formed in 2001, Banglarights is an independent web portal which exposes and challenges discrimination and violations of human rights. Site contains information on human rights issues in Bangladesh and worldwide as well as a photo gallery.
Captured 7 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--refugees, economic, social, and cultural rights--health and healthcare--AIDS/HIV, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--corruption, economic, social, and cultural rights--health and healthcare--right to water
Description: In English. BAOBAB For Women's Human Rights is a non-profit, non-governmental women's human rights organization, which focuses on women's legal rights issues under the three (3) systems of law - customary, statutory and religious laws in Nigeria. The organization evolved from an ad hoc group of activists, social scientists, lawyers, and specialists in Muslim laws and Arabic who were responsible for executing the Women and Laws Nigeria project, under the auspices of the International Solidarity Network of Women Living Under Muslim Laws from 1993 to 1996. BAOBAB operates from a national office in Lagos and with outreach teams in 14 states across Nigeria. These are: Adamawa, Borno, Edo, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kogi, Kwara, Lagos, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Taraba and Zamfara. Site contains downloads of publications and news and events archives.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, civil and political rights--women's rights, civil and political rights--discrimination, gender, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--judicial reform, armed conflict and persecution--rape and sexual abuse
Description: In English and some Arabic. Bekhsoos is a queer Arab magazine published weekly by queer and trans folks at Meem. The site covers topics related to (homo)sexuality in the Arab world. Our objective is to fill the gap of lesbian- and transgender-produced writing in the Arab world through articles, reports, investigations, personal stories, opinion pieces, and creative writing. The materials are all written, and they reflect the goals expressed above.
Captured 11 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 7 Videos Captured
Subject: economic, social, and cultural rights--health and healthcare--reproductive health and pregnancy, civil and political rights--women's rights, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--press and media coverage, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, civil and political rights--gay / lesbian / bisexual / transgender / queer rights
Description: In Bulgarian and English. Formed in 1992, the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee is a non-governmental organization that aims to promote respect for the human rights of every individual, to stimulate legislative reform to bring Bulgarian legislation in line with international human rights standards, to trigger public debate on human rights issues, to carry out advocacy for the protection of human rights, and to popularise and make widely available human rights instruments. Contains news archive, downloads of newsletters, position papers (Bulgarian only), list of publications, legislative documents and human rights resources.
Captured 17 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 33 Videos Captured
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, civil and political rights--discrimination, ethnic and racial, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--death penalty, civil and political rights--freedom of religion, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--judicial reform, armed conflict and persecution--displacement, economic, social, and cultural rights--health and healthcare--mental disability, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--identity, ethnic
Description: In English and Bosnian. The Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina was founded on 11 February, 1995. It is an independent, non-governmental and non-profit organization. The aim of the Committee is the protection and promotion of human rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Materials focus on local community development and rights issues, but the site also includes reports and publications on the human rights situation in Eastern Europe.
Captured 12 times between Jul 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--community development organizations, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--judicial reform, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--legal organizations, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--international law
Description: In French. Association africaine de Défense des droits de l’Homme (ASADHO) is a human rights NGO in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that formed in 1991 to protest the abuses of Mobutu Sese Seko. Seko seized power in 1965, formed an authoritarian regime, instated the Popular Movement of the Revolution (MPR) as the only legal political party in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and ruled as president from 1965 to 1997. ASADHO monitors human rights, calls attention to abuses, does training, provides legal assistance, and has local chapters that organize around human rights issues. The Katanga chapter of ASADHO was instrumental in the Anvil Mining case of state murder. Contains reports, press releases, and news. Other URL in this group, http://asadho-rdc.net/, is the main website of ASADHO.
Captured 2 times between Jan 31, 2012 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: civil and political rights--women's rights, armed conflict and persecution--child soldiers, economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--mining, economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--extractive technologies, armed conflict and persecution, armed conflict and persecution--crimes againts humanity
Description: In English. Contains video documentaries on border life, border culture and border crossing between the U.S. and Mexico.
Captured 14 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: economic, social, and cultural rights--health and healthcare--AIDS/HIV, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--video advocacy, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--immigration policies and procedures, civil and political rights--migrant rights--immigrant rights, civil and political rights--migrant rights--undocumented immigrant rights, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--identity, ethnic
Description: In English, Russian, and Kazakh. Organization focuses on all aspects of human rights in Kazakhstan. Headquarters of organization burned down in 1999; fire determined to be arson. Director of branch of organization died under suspicious circumstances in 2000. Kazakhstani government has history of harrassing and suppressing human right NGOs. Site contains news articles and information on organization's activities.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 4 Videos Captured
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--harassment and humiliation, armed conflict and persecution--torture, civil and political rights--women's rights, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--police misconduct, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--impunity, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--judicial reform
Description: in English. The Burma Campaign UK works for human rights, democracy and development in Burma. We work for the freedom of all the peoples of Burma regardless of race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender or age. Contains news archive, video gallery, newsletters and reports for download, and events listing.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: civil and political rights--elections and electoral activities, civil and political rights--political parties and movements, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--press and media coverage, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--prisons and prisoners, civil and political rights--freedom of speech, civil and political rights--freedom of assembly, civil and political rights--democratization, economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--corporate social responsibility
Description: In English, Thai, and Karen. Burma Issues is a project of the Peace Way Foundation, founded in 1990 and acts as a private, a non-profit organisation devoted to a peaceful resolution to Burma's struggle for human rights and democratic rule. Contains videos, reports (PDF), photographs, newsletters (PDF), documentation centre database, and information about the project.
Captured 11 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 1 Videos Captured
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--internally displaced persons, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--press and media coverage, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, civil and political rights--democratization, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--eyewitness documentation
Description: In English. Blog contains news articles and videos related to human rights issues in Bahrain.
Captured 12 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--torture, civil and political rights--women's rights, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--press and media coverage, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--prisons and prisoners, civil and political rights--freedom of speech, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--judicial reform, economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--human trafficking
Description: In Spanish and K'iche'. All aspects of human rights promotion, focusing on providing legal aid and documenting the genocide perpetrated against the Mayan population of Guatemala during the 1980s. They are leading the most important collective effort to bring former dictators (one of them currently a senator) to trial before the Interamerican Human Rights Court. The security of their members is seriously compromised--the Guatemalan government and its military forces are not in favor of any kind of investigation into war crimes. Since 2004, year in which CALDH brough the cases against Rios Montt and García before the Interamerican Court, their offices have been subject to raids and their members have been kidnapped and received death threats.
Captured 11 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--genocide, civil and political rights--discrimination, gender, civil and political rights--children's rights, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--transitional jusice, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--courts and judicial systems--Inter-American Court of Human Rights, armed conflict and persecution--discrimination, ethnic and racial
Description: In Spanish. Non-governmental organization that conducts human rights advocacy and education. Focuses on issues of health, poverty, education, justice and migration. Contains documents, news items, and information on how to report human rights violations.
Captured 10 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--disappearances, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--archives, libraries, and museums, economic, social, and cultural rights
Description: In English and Spanish. Centro por la Justicia y el Derecho Internacional (CEJIL) is a lobby within the Organization of American States for human rights issues; the organization lobbies and advocates for NGOs. Site contains information about cases and publications.
Captured on Jul 19, 2012
Subject: laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--international law, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--judicial proceedings, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--judicial systems
Description: In English. Formed in 2001, the Chosun Journal is a non-profit site whose agenda is to inform, provoke, and mobilize consciences for human rights in North Korea. Site contains news articles, photographs, videos, reports available for download, recommended reading list, and ways to get involved.
Captured 14 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 2 Videos Captured
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--refugees, economic, social, and cultural rights--health and healthcare--right to adequate food, armed conflict and persecution--infanticide
Description: In Chinese and English. CRHD is a network of Chinese human rights activists and groups, open to international supporters. Its activities include consultation, dissemination of information, facilitating international exchange, supporting a program of small grants to human rights work in China, research assistance and other services. Site contains news articles on human rights and activists, research, media, and the 2008 Olympics. This is the new URL for Chinese Human Rights Defenders; the previous URL, http://www.crd-net.org, is included in the archive as well.
Captured on Jan 31, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--torture, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--prisons and prisoners, civil and political rights--freedom of speech, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, civil and political rights--right to information, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--community organizing
Description: In Turkmen, Russian, English. The Helsinki Group of Turkmenistan was founded in July 2002 in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. The group was forced to operate underground but nevertheless its members were systematically persecuted and repressed by the Turkmen authorities, and finally were forced to go into exile. The Turkmen Initiative for Human Rights (TIHR), the successor organization, was established as an independent public organization and registered in November 2004 in Vienna, Austria. The site contains materials on specific subject areas such as freedom of speech and assembly and the rights of ethnic minorities. In addition, articles, news and general reports on human rights are available.
Captured 19 times between Jul 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, civil and political rights--discrimination, ethnic and racial, civil and political rights--freedom of assembly, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--identity, ethnic
Description: In Spanish. Website of Centro de Investigaciones Económicas y Políticas de Acción Comunitaria/Center for Economic and Policy Research Community Action (CIEPAC), a non-governmental, civil organization founded in 1998 in San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico with the mandate to carry out research and analysis of the economic, political, social, and human rights conditions in Chiapas, in order to offer its findings to diverse social groups working for peace and searching for feasible and sustainable development alternatives in Chiapas, Mexico and abroad.
Captured 8 times between Jul 30, 2010 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, civil and political rights--right to information
Description: In Spanish. A professor at the University of Sevilla (Spain), Bartolome Clavero writes extensively on indigenous rights in Latin America. The site contains political commentary, academic studies and formal publications by Clavero.
Captured 11 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--genocide, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous peoples, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--courts and judicial proceedings
Description: In English. The CLEEN Foundation (formerly known as the Centre for Law Enforcement Education) monitors the police forces in Nigeria, protests human rights violations, and promotes public safety. CLEEN publishes reports on crime and police activity. Site contains reports and news.
Captured on Jul 19, 2012
Subject: laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--police misconduct, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--police, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--incarceration
Description: In English. Site contains news articles dating from 2005 to 2009. All relate to human rights issues in Greece. In addition, the site links to other BALKAN Human Rights pages.
Captured 12 times between Jul 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 1 Videos Captured
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--hate crimes, civil and political rights--freedom of religion, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--press and media coverage, civil and political rights--discrimination, religious, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--legal proceedings
Description: In Spanish and some English. The Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos was founded during the 1980s as a non-governmental organization that intervenes with legal measures in cases of human rights abuses and forced disappearances. The site is material rich, with photos videos and podcasts available. It includes detailed information on a variety of cases.
Captured 12 times between Jul 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 7 Videos Captured
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--disappearances, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--legal proceedings
Description: In English. Contains PDFs of publications, audiovisual materials, posters, press releases, action items, and news items related to the Gujarat genocide and subsequent protests against it. CAG is comprised of individuals and organizations from the United States and Canada who demand accountability and justice for the 2002 genocide in Guajarat, India.
Captured 4 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jan 29, 2010
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--genocide, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--legal proceedings, armed conflict and persecution--crimes against humanity
Description: In Spanish with some materials in French, English, Italian, and German. This blog site, based in Belgium, provides legal analysis of the Honduran coup of June 2009, as well as exposure of protest movements within Honduras itself. Materials include documents reflecting constitutional analysis of the coup and police repression of dissent, as well as links to media coverage of protest.
Captured 11 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--community organizing, civil and political rights--coups and attempted coups
Description: In English and French. COPORWA is a non-profit organization working for the economic and community development of the Batwa people of Rwanda. Materials include background documents about the Batwa people and photos.
Captured 11 times between Jul 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: civil and political rights--discrimination, ethnic and racial, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--community development organizations, civil and political rights--discrimination, gender, economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--poverty, economic, social, and cultural rights--health and healthcare--AIDS/HIV, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--education, civil and political rights--discrimination, socioeconomic
Description: In Arabic and English. DCTCRS is a Sweden-based non-profit, non-governmental organization that aims to defend and promote civil liberties as well as human, economic, social and cultural rights around the world with focus on Syria. Organization conducts research, polling, and field studies, and organizes large conferences for free exchange of ideas.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, civil and political rights--freedom of speech, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--judicial reform, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--aid and relief organizations, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--international law, armed conflict and persecution--war crimes, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--conferences, meetings, and workshops
Description: In English and Spanish. Coalición de Derechos Humanos is a grassroots organization which promotes respect for human/civil rights and fights the militarization of the Southern Border region, discrimination, and human rights abuses by federal, state, and local law enforcement officials affecting U.S. and non-U.S. citizens alike. Contains information on organization's projects, press releases and educational materials for download, news and events listing, and videos.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: civil and political rights--discrimination, ethnic and racial, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--economic policy, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--immigration policies and procedures, civil and political rights--borders, civil and political rights--racial profiling, civil and political rights--migrant rights--immigrant rights
Description: In Spanish and English. The Desaparecidos Project is an initiative of a variety of human rights scholars and activists who hope to combat forced disappearances and the impunity that often enables them to continue occurring. The website includes current news on government repression of dissent, memorials to disappeared people, testimony of survivors and resources for attorneys.
Captured 11 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 41 Videos Captured
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--disappearances, armed conflict and persecution--political prisoners, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability
Description: In Spanish and English. Directorio works for democracy in Cuba by way of a civic, nonviolent struggle. Site contains news articles, PDF versions of publications, and lists of Cuban political prisoners.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--torture, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--prisons and prisoners, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--economic policy, civil and political rights--right to information, civil and political rights--democratization, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--nonviolence
Description: In Bulgarian, English and Turkish. Founded in 1990, the MRF, a Bulgarian political party, formed to represent the interests of the Turkish ethnic minority, but has since broadened its goals and platform to embrace all issues of civil rights in Bulgaria, aiming "to contribute to the unity of the Bulgarian people and to the full and unequivocal compliance with the rights and freedoms of mankind and of all religious and cultural communities in Bulgaria". Site contains news, policy information, documents, organizational structure and information on the 2007 election.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 34 Videos Captured
Subject: civil and political rights--discrimination, ethnic and racial, civil and political rights--elections and electoral activities, civil and political rights--political parties and movements, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--identity, ethnic
Description: In Bulgarian and English. Organization Drom is a Roma rights NGO in Bulgaria that focuses on integrating schools for Roma children. The site contains reports, photographs, and videos.
Captured on Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 1 Videos Captured
Subject: economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--education, civil and political rights--discrimination--ethnic and racial discrimination
Description: In English, Spanish, French. The EAAF is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that conducts forensic archaeological and anthropological research to investigate human rights violations in Argentina and worldwide. Site contains annual reports from work conducted in different countries in Latin America and around the world, field mission reports, press releases, and videos.
Captured 12 times between Jul 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--forensic anthropology, armed conflict and persecution--disappearances
Description: In English. Formed in 1991, EHRCO is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that works towards building a democratic system, promotes rule of law and due process, and encourages and conducts human rights monitoring. Site contains documents for download, photos, and information on the organization.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, civil and political rights--elections and electoral activities, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--detention, civil and political rights--freedom of speech, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--impunity, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--judicial reform, civil and political rights--democratization
Description: In English and Arabic. Contains project information, press releases, PDFs of publications, and a database of its library related to democracy and civil rights in Egypt and the Middle East. The Center is a non-governmental organization and its main objectives are the advancement of applied social sciences with special emphasis on Egypt and the Arab World. It is committed to the promotion of responsible dialogue, democracy, peace and development for all peoples in the region. The Egyptian government closed the center in 2000. Its founder, Saad Eddine Ibrahim, and 27 other members of staff were tried and imprisoned on trumped-up charges in 2002. The center re-opened in 2003 but founder remains abroad for fear of imprisonment upon return to Egypt.
Captured 9 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Apr 30, 2011
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, civil and political rights--discrimination, political, civil and political rights--freedom of speech, civil and political rights--freedom of assembly, civil and political rights--democratization
Description: In English and Persian. Website with news articles on Emad Baghi, an Iranian journalist, who was arrested and imprisoned in 2007 for documenting and publicizing human rights violations. Site run by Mr. Baghi's friends and family. Contains articles on his condition.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--prisons and prisoners, civil and political rights--freedom of the press, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--judicial reform
Description: In English, French and Kinyarwanda. In the aftermath of 20th century genocides, many stories that were told by survivors described “bystanders” and rescuers as well as the perpetrators who tortured and killed helpless victims. The survivors of Rwanda’s 1994 catastrophe likewise identified countless individuals who risked their own lives to save others. Increasingly, the stories of heroic rescuers, including many who died as a result of their courageous efforts, are documented and widely appreciated for their educational and inspirational value. The website includes text transcripts of testimonies by survivors.
Captured 11 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--genocide, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--oral history, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--truth commissions, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--survivor organizations, armed conflict and persecution--mass killings, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--testimony
Description: In English. LGEP is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation that works towards achieving full legal and social equality for lesbian and gay people in South Africa. Site contains documents for download on various activities.
Captured 11 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, civil and political rights--gay / lesbian / bisexual / transgender / queer rights
Description: In English. The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) is an international public interest law organization engaging in a range of activities aimed at combating anti-Romani racism and human rights abuse of Roma. Materials on the site include news and legal analysis of the human rights situation pertaining to the Roma.
Captured 7 times between Jul 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 2 Videos Captured
Description: In Spanish. Non-profit organization that documents and investigates human rights violations. Carries out forensic investigations to aid the justice system and the families of those disappeared in denouncing and establishing the facts related to human rights violations during Guatemala's violent internal conflict. From 1992-2008, FAFG conducted 946 forensic anthropological investigations related to massacres, arbitrary executions, paramilitary activities, general crime, disasters, forced disappearances, and femicide. FAFG maintains a database with maps, photos, figures and some information on the investigations they have conducted as well as PDFs with their forensic manuals and reviews of their publications reporting on their investigations. Fredy Peccerelli, Omar Girón, José Suassnavar y Leonel Paiz, members of FAFG, received email death threats in May 2008. FAFG has been active since 1997, and its members' security has been compromised since 2002. In their website they document some of these threats. In February 2008, Giron and Peccerelli received death threats to themselves and their families via cellphone.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--forensic anthropology, armed conflict and persecution--disappearances, armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--legal proceedings, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, armed conflict and persecution--mass killings, armed conflict and persecution--mass graves, economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--natural disasters
Description: In French, English, Spanish, and Arabic. FIDH aims at obtaining effective improvements in the protection of victims, the prevention of human rights violations and the sanction of their perpetrators worldwide. Focuses on human rights defenders, international justice, terrorism, death penalty, women's rights, forced disppearances, globalization, migration and asylum. Site contains news on each area of focus, information on intergovernmental organizations, and copies of financial statements.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 164 Videos Captured
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, armed conflict and persecution--disappearances, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--death penalty, civil and political rights--elections and electoral activities, civil and political rights--women's rights, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--detention, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--impunity, economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--globalization, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--asylum
Description: In English. Free Cuba Foundation is a non-profit organization based in Miami that aims towards the establishment of an independent and democratic Cuba using non-violent means. Site contains background information, a news archive, videos, list of human rights violations and political prisoners in Cuba, and a lecture series by Thomas P. Ray.
Captured 25 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 68 Videos Captured
Subject: civil and political rights--censorship, civil and political rights--elections and electoral activities, civil and political rights--political parties and movements, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--prisons and prisoners, civil and political rights--freedom of speech, economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--economic policy, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--judicial reform, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights
Description: In English. Research portal for electronic resources on forced migration. Includes list of journals, podcasts, videos, organizations, photographs, working papers, and events.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 345 Videos Captured
Subject: civil and political rights--freedom of religion, armed conflict and persecution--internally displaced persons, civil and political rights--women's rights, armed conflict and persecution--displacement, economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--labor rights, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--international law, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--identity, ethnic
Description: In Spanish. This blog contains news articles, videos, and photos primarily related to the 2009 Honduran coup. Secondary subject areas are Central America and Latin America at large.
Captured 9 times between Apr 29, 2010 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: civil and political rights--women's rights, civil and political rights--coups and attempted coups
Description: In English and Spanish. Website of Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas (Frayba) Center for Human Rights, a non-profit civil organization. Founded in 1989 through the initiative of Samuel Ruiz García, catholic bishop of the Diocese of San Cristóbal de las Casas, Frayba works in defense and promotion of human rights, especially for the indigenous villages and communities in the state of Chiapas, Mexico.
Captured 8 times between Jul 30, 2010 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, armed conflict and persecution--disappearances, armed conflict and persecution--extrajudicial executions, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous peoples
Description: In English. Site based in Australia that publicizes Burma solidarity events in Australia. Users may submit events, photographs and videos. Contains a 'protest kit' which allows users to download images for posters, t-shirts, and flyers.
Captured 4 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jan 29, 2010
Videos: 20 Videos Captured
Subject: civil and political rights--discrimination, ethnic and racial, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--identity, ethnic
Description: In English and Thai. Formed in 1997, the FBR aims to bring help, hope and love to people of all faiths and ethnicities in the war zones of Burma, to shine a light on the actions of the dictators' army, to stand with the oppressed, and to support leaders and organizations committed to liberty, justice and service. They conduct relief, advocacy, leadership development and unity missions among the people of Burma. FBR coordinates their activities with all relevant organizations and conducts missions in areas where their presence is requested. They operate with the pro-democracy authorities in their operational areas. The teams trained and resourced, belong to the relevant pro-democracy organizations and areas in which the teams serve. Site contains informational materials for download, a memorial site for deceased FBR members, team leader reports and other documents for download, maps, and photographs.
Captured 20 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: civil and political rights--discrimination, ethnic and racial, civil and political rights--elections and electoral activities, armed conflict and persecution--internally displaced persons, armed conflict and persecution--refugees, armed conflict and persecution--displacement, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--aid and relief organizations, civil and political rights--democratization, armed conflict and persecution--militarization, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--eyewitness documentation, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--identity, ethnic
Description: In Arabic, French, and English. Frontiers (Ruwad) is a non-profit non-governmental organization based in Lebanon and founded in 2004. Frontiers aims at enhancing and consolidating the human rights culture embodied in the International Bill of Rights and in the Lebanese Constitution on both the individual and collective levels; safeguarding and defending fundamental rights and public freedom of individuals and groups without discrimination; and seeking to be a center for building capacities in order to achieve sustainable human development. Materials are primarily copies of articles. This is the more active current URL of Frontiers; the other active URL (http://www.frontiersruwad.org/) and the inactive URL (http://www.frontiersassociation.org/) are also included in this archive.
Captured 2 times between Jan 31, 2012 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--refugees, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--detention, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--asylum
Description: In English. Contains reports and articles on AIDS and LGBTI activism in Africa. The Gay and Lesbian Coalition of Kenya is registered as a trust (“Kenya Gay and Lesbian Trust”) and was established in May 2006 following the convening of regional LGBTI activists by a local women’s rights organisation. GALCK acts as an umbrella organisation and currently consists of five member organizations; “Minority Women in Action”, “Ishtar MSM”, “TOMIK” “Gay Kenya” and "Transgender Education and Advocacy - TEA".There are other four organizations mainly out of Nairobi whose membership is under consideration. The website includes news materials, a library of Kenyan legislation, and materials related to advocacy and events in support of gay Kenyans.
Captured 11 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--harassment and humiliation, civil and political rights--women's rights, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--laws and legislation, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, civil and political rights--gay / lesbian / bisexual / transgender / queer rights
Description: In Russian and English. Content on ensuring fair, legal, and democratic voting processes in Russia.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 1 Videos Captured
Subject: civil and political rights--elections and electoral activities, civil and political rights--democratization
Description: In English and Greek. This website provides a platform for a variety of regional human rights organizations. It provides materials on news and issue areas across the region, but divided into country areas.
Captured 12 times between Jul 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, civil and political rights--discrimination, ethnic and racial, civil and political rights--women's rights, civil and political rights--children's rights
Description: In Georgian and English. Contains publications, press releases, databases related to human rights and maintaining the rule of law. GYLA is a Georgia-based non-governmental organization that aims to promote the rule of law and democratic practices in Georgia and protect human rights and freedoms in Georgia using the rule of law. Members have received threats from unknown persons and have been accused by government of misusing foreign funds and politicizing; organization believes this in retaliation for their criticism of certain governmental practices.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 3 Videos Captured
Subject: laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--laws and legislation, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--prisons and prisoners, civil and political rights--freedom of speech, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--legal organizations, economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--human trafficking
Description: In English, Armenian, Russian. Organization focuses on human rights in Armenia, especially soldiers' and voters' rights, legal rights, and religious freedom. Contains news, reports, surveys, and photographs. Armenian government has been harassing NGOs dealing with democracy in Armenia since last election. Leader of group was shot by member of Armenian parliament, who later boasted about the incident on television without reprisal.
Captured 12 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, armed conflict and persecution--torture, civil and political rights--elections and electoral activities, civil and political rights--freedom of religion, civil and political rights--freedom of assembly, civil and political rights--freedom of the press, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--judicial reform, civil and political rights--gay / lesbian / bisexual / transgender / queer rights, civil and political rights--democratization
Description: In English. Haiti Action Committee formed in 1991 by a group of California Bay Area activists in solidarity with the Haitian struggle for democracy. Contains PDF versions of Haiti Action Committee publications, background information on political history in Haiti, action alerts, opportunities for involvement, press coverage, and links to other resources.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--political prisoners, economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--sustainable development, civil and political rights--women's rights, economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--poverty, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--prisons and prisoners
Description: In English and Czech. The Czech Helsinki Committee is a non-governmental non-profit organization for human rights. The website includes materials related to various project areas, such as prisons, racism, xenophobia, women, seniors, and police. The site also links to news articles and to a human rights library of background documents for the human rights movement.
Captured 12 times between Jul 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: civil and political rights--discrimination, ethnic and racial, civil and political rights--women's rights
Description: In English. Helem leads a peaceful struggle for the liberation of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community in Lebanon from legal, social and cultural discrimination. Helem's primary goal is the annulment of article 534 of the Lebanese Penal Code which punishes "unnatural sexual intercourse". This law is primarily used to target the LGBT community by violating the privacy of its members and by denying them basic human rights. The site contains resources on a wide variety of topics, including mental health, violence and advocacy.
Captured 11 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: civil and political rights--gay / lesbian / bisexual / transgender / queer rights
Description: In Danish. Website for the local Danish Helsinki Committee. Site includes reports, analysis and project information.
Captured 12 times between Jul 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--prisons and prisoners, armed conflict and persecution--terrorism
Description: In English and Hungarian. The Hungarian Helsinki Committee is an association founded in 1989. The Hungarian Helsinki Committee monitors the enforcement in Hungary of human rights enshrined in international human rights instruments, provides legal defence to victims of human rights abuses by state authorities and informs the public about rights violations. The website contains news articles and publications regarding various issue areas - refugees, law enforcement, access to justice, and ethnic minorities.
Captured 12 times between Jul 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--torture, civil and political rights--discrimination, ethnic and racial
Description: In Russian, Ukrainian, and English. The Association was established on the 1st of April 2004 and registered by the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine in June 2004. The aims of the Association’s establishment are realization and protection of rights and freedoms by promoting practical implementation of humanitarian articles of the Final Act of the Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) adopted in 1975, other international standards based on it and international obligations accepted by Ukraine in human right and freedoms spheres. The website includes a news and analysis covering a wide variety of issue areas, including torture, elections, privacy, child rights, refugees and criminal codes.
Captured 12 times between Jul 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 5 Videos Captured
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--torture, civil and political rights--right to privacy
Description: In English, Spanish, and French. HIC is an independent, internationally-based, non-profit alliance of some 400 organizations and individuals working in the area of human settlements. HIC organizes and supports organizers in the areas of land and housing rights. The site contains news, a map of urgent action areas, and downloadable documents (reports, training materials, articles, etc.).
Captured 4 times between Oct 30, 2011 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 7 Videos Captured
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--public policy organizations, economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--adequate housing
Description: In Spanish. Contains art gallery related to the disappeared as well as a photo gallery of some of the disappeared. This organization is run as a collective and subsists solely on donations. It focuses on promoting human rights, justice and activities that denounce state violence in Guatemala. They are specially focused on activities with the youth. members of HIJOS are continuously subject to threats that they should cease their educational and legal activities denouncing state violence (especially the involvement of the military in Human Rights Violations). In June 2008, according to Protectionline - Observatorio para la Proteccion de los Defensores de DDHH, organization members received death threats. Threats come from unidentified persons who are believed to be linked with the military.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--disappearances, civil and political rights--discrimination, ethnic and racial, armed conflict and persecution--genocide, armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--identity, ethnic
Description: In Spanish. This blog reflects the voices of a group of Honduran citizens who oppose the coup d'etat organized by Micheletti and carried out by the Honduras military. Materials include news coverage and analysis, political propaganda, and images and video clips from the protests that followed the coup.
Captured 14 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: civil and political rights--coups and attempted coups
Description: In English and Macedonian. Healthy Options Project Skopje is a non-governmental, non-profit and non-partisan organization that started operating as a project supported by The Lindesmith Center and The Open Society Institute Macedonia in 1997. During this period it has successfully implemented programs for reduction of drug related harm, prevention of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted and blood-borne diseases, as well as programs for social reintegration and re-socialization targeting young people and vulnerable groups (drug users and their families and sex workers and their families) in Skopje, Macedonia. Materials include program documents and a variety of resources on HIV issues.
Captured 12 times between Jul 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--sex workers, economic, social, and cultural rights--health and healthcare--AIDS/HIV, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists
Description: In English. A portal to human rights related resources including World Conference Against Racism, national human rights institutions, Asian Pacific Human Rights Network, training programs, and publications for order.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--torture, civil and political rights--discrimination, ethnic and racial, civil and political rights--good governance
Description: In English. Contains news articles from 2006 to the present, press coverage, opportunities for action, and links to outside resources on gender and religious-based human rights violations in Saudi Arabia. Human Rights First Society is a non-profit organization with an an office in Saudi Arabia and the United States.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--torture, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--death penalty, civil and political rights--freedom of religion, civil and political rights--women's rights, civil and political rights--discrimination, gender, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--press and media coverage, civil and political rights--freedom of speech, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists
Description: In English, Mandarin or Cantonese. HRIC is an NGO founded by Chinese students and scholars in 1989 to increase support for victims of human rights abuses and accountability for perpetrators. Materials include a variety of analytical reports, news media, and bibliographies pointing to additional information.
Captured 7 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Description: In Russian. Contains information on all types of human rights violations in Russia and surrounding areas. Organization run by one person.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--legal proceedings
Description: In Russian and English. Rights in Russia is a non-profit, non-governmental organization established on 19 January 2010 to mark the murder of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova who that day in 2009 were shot dead in Moscow. Rights in Russia is committed to supporting the human rights movement in the Russian Federation.
Captured 11 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 5 Videos Captured
Subject: advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations, armed conflict and persecution--harassment and humiliation, armed conflict and persecution--intimidation, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--legal proceedings
Description: In Korean and English. The Commission was established in 2001 as a national advocacy institution for human rights protection. It is committed to the fulfillment of human rights in a broader sense, including dignity, value and freedom of every human being, as signified in international human rights conventions and treaties to which Korea is a signatory. State-run, some of the commissioners have to be approved by the president. Contains press releases, background information, legal documents, photographs, cartoons, posters, videos, newsletter, form to file a complaint with instructions in Chinese, English, Hindustani, Monoglia, Thai, Russian, Vietnamese, and downloads of articles and publications.
Captured 5 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: civil and political rights--children's rights, economic, social, and cultural rights, civil and political rights--elderly rights, civil and political rights--migrant rights
Description: In English, Moldovan, and Russian. Contains information on all aspects of human rights in Moldova. Government continues to allow and in some cases condone discrimination based on ethnicity, gender, and religion; in some regions NGOs are routinely threatened and harassed. Contains reports, news, and information on organization's programs.
Captured 12 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--torture, civil and political rights--discrimination, ethnic and racial, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--prisons and prisoners, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--judicial reform, economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--identity, ethnic
Description: In Spanish. IDH-RD is a non-governmental organization that conducts human rights advocacy, education, and documentation. Lists areas of investigation, publications, activities, and contact information for reporting human rights violations.
Captured 10 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jan 31, 2012
Subject: economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--sustainable development, civil and political rights--democratization, civil and political rights--migrant rights
Description: In Spanish. Blog contains news updates on human rights issues in El Salvador.
Captured 12 times between Jul 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 6 Videos Captured
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--disappearances, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability
Description: In English and Romanian. IDOM is a human rights NGO in Moldova that advocates for patient rights, HIV/AIDS positive rights, non-discrimination for physical ability and mental ability, and prisoners' rights. Their work focuses on advocacy, litigation, education sessions, and human rights monitoring. The site contains reports, publications, links, and news.
Captured 2 times between Jan 31, 2012 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--incarceration, economic, social, and cultural rights--health and healthcare--AIDS/HIV, civil and political rights › discrimination--by type--mental ability discrimination, civil and political rights › discrimination--by type--physical ability discrimination, civil and political rights--reproductive justice
Description: In English. The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) is a leading international organization dedicated to human rights advocacy on behalf of people who experience discrimination or abuse on the basis of their actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. Reports and analysis can be found for a variety of issue areas: discrimination, privacy, violence, etc.
Captured 8 times between Jul 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 20 Videos Captured
Subject: civil and political rights--gay / lesbian / bisexual / transgender / queer rights
Description: In English. The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) is a leading international organization dedicated to human rights advocacy on behalf of people who experience discrimination or abuse on the basis of their actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. The blog site contains articles and commentary of events and news related to gay rights issues around the world.
Captured 11 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--harassment and humiliation, armed conflict and persecution--hate crimes, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--press and media coverage, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--internet advocacy, civil and political rights--gay / lesbian / bisexual / transgender / queer rights
Description: In English. IGLYO is the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Youth and Student Organization. It was created in 1984 as a reaction to the need for better co-operation among local, regional and national LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) youth and student organizations. IGLYO is a major source of information relevant for local youth groups and organizations. IGLYO’s work aims to build the capacity of its member organizations by providing spaces where information could be exchanged and shared. The website reflects this focus on networking and information sharing, including a variety of reports and information on conferences and networking events.
Captured 12 times between Oct 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 27 Videos Captured
Subject: civil and political rights--gay / lesbian / bisexual / transgender / queer rights
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