Resources
On this page you will find links to HR-related organisations, documents, databases, etc., which we find useful. Choose from the categories below:
- Human rights portals, directories and networks
- Funding
- Human rights defenders
- Independent international human rights organisations
- International governmental organisations
HUMAN RIGHTS PORTALS, DIRECTORIES, NETWORKS
Directory of Human Rights Resources on the Internet - links provided by The American Association of the Advancement of Science.
Human Rights Library - contains human rights documents and materials provided by the University of Minnesota.
Project Diana - searchable human rights archive of Yale Law School.
Institute for War & Peace Reporting - independent educational charity providing news from the Balkans, Caucasus and Central Asia.
menneskerettigheter.no - a Norwegian human rights portal, with searchable database, news, links etc. from the Human Rights House Foundation.
World Movement for Democracy is a global network of democrats, including activists, practitioners, academics, policy makers, and funders, who have come together to cooperate in the promotion of democracy.
Human Rights Monitor - provides human rights news from around the world.
CIVICUS - an international alliance dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world.
HELP - European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals by the Council of Europe.
Building a Europe for and with children - a Council of Europe program for the promotion of children's rights and the protection of children from violence.
International Human Rights Funders Group - designed for grantmakers and grantseekers who have an interest in human rights. Includes a funders database.
Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
EU Guidelines on human rights defenders (June 2004)
Front Line - the International Foundation for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders.
Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders - created by World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human RIghts (FIDH).
Compilation of International and Regional Instruments for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders - Human Rights Defenders Office (HRDO), Geneva.
INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL HR ORGANISATIONS
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) - a federation of 116 Human Rights organisations in nearly 100 countries.
The Centre for Civil and Political Rights (CCPR Centre)
World Organization against Torture (OMCT)
Association Prevention of Torture (APT)
Cairo institute for human rights studies (CIHRS)
Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development
International Commission of Jurists (IFJ)
International Service for Human Rights (ISHR)
INTERNATIONAL GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATONS
UNHCHR - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
OSCE - Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Organization of American States
United Nations main page Human Rights Internet - a portal with searchable database, youth centre, calendar of events, etc.