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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 Russian and English. Kyrgyz Committee for Human Rights (KCHR) - is an NGO established by internationally known human rights defender Dyryldaev Ramazan. The website principally contains news and monitoring information from Kyrgyzstan.
Captured 12 times between Jul 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--discrimination, gender, civil and political rights--freedom of the press, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, armed conflict and persecution--rape and sexual abuse , civil and political rights--borders, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--corruption, civil and political rights--migrant rights
Description: In English. KHRG documents the human rights situation in rural Burma by working directly with rural villagers who are suffering abuses such as forced labour, systematic destruction of villages and crops, forced relocation, extortion, looting, arbitrary detention, torture, sexual assault and summary executions. The vast majority of these abuses are committed by soldiers and officials of the State Peace \& Development Council (SPDC), Burma's ruling military junta. KHRG trains and equips local people to document villagers' stories and gather evidence of human rights abuses; disseminate this information worldwide; and work directly with local villagers in enhancing their strategies to resist human rights abuses. Site contains news, reports, and photographs.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 70 Videos Captured
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--torture, armed conflict and persecution--internally displaced persons, armed conflict and persecution--displacement, armed conflict and persecution--rape and sexual abuse , economic, social, and cultural rights--health and healthcare--right to adequate food, armed conflict and persecution--militarization, economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--forced labor
Description: In Moldovan and some English. Focuses on women's rights, domestic violence, and human trafficking. 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.
Captured 13 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: civil and political rights--women's rights, civil and political rights--discrimination, gender, armed conflict and persecution--rape and sexual abuse , economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--human trafficking, armed conflict and persecution--domestic violence
Description: In French. LIPRODHOR was the only independent human rights organisation in Rwanda that maintained human rights monitors at the provincial and district levels. It closed in 2005, but has since reopened.
Captured 12 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--genocide, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--prisons and prisoners, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists, armed conflict and persecution--rape and sexual abuse
Description: In English and French. Determined in 2000 according to a UN security council resolution, the UN peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo's mandate includes facilitation of humanitarian assistance and human rights monitoring, with particular attention to vulnerable groups including women, children and demobilized child soldiers. Site contains photographs, newsletters, maps, and press releases for download, audio and video clips, and press coverage.
Captured 12 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Videos: 13 Videos Captured
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries, civil and political rights--women's rights, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--laws and legislation, armed conflict and persecution--child soldiers, armed conflict and persecution--rape and sexual abuse , armed conflict and persecution--United Nations Peacekeeping, civil and political rights--children's rights, armed conflict and persecution--weapons--landmines and unexploded ordnance
Description: In French, some English. Contains information on human rights abuses, such as sexual violence and torture, in Burundi. APRODH is a non-profuit organization based in Burundi that seeks to combat torture, sexual violence and the abuse of human rights of prisoners by soldiers and police in Burundi.
Captured 4 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jan 29, 2010
Subject: armed conflict and persecution--disappearances, armed conflict and persecution--torture, civil and political rights--discrimination, gender, armed conflict and persecution--rape and sexual abuse
Description: In English. Includes photos, videos, mp3s, maps, reports, hearings, press releases, newsletters and news items related to Liberian civil war that occurred from 1979-2003. Users may also upload their own photos and testimonies for the website. The TRC also works with the Liberian diaspora in the U.S. and West Africa.
Captured 23 times between Apr 29, 2009 and Jul 19, 2012
Subject: civil and political rights--women's rights, armed conflict and persecution--child soldiers, armed conflict and persecution--rape and sexual abuse , armed conflict and persecution--war crimes, laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--transitional jusice, advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--memorials and commemoration events
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