Human Rights Education & Advocacy Links
The Global Pages

www.amnestyusa.org

Amnesty International USA

www.hrw.org

Human Rights Watch

www.pih.org

 Partners in Health, whose mission statement says, in part, that it seeks “to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care.” Physician-anthropologist Paul Farmer, a PIH co-founder, has been a vigorous and articulate advocate for the poorest of the poor in Haiti, Chiapas, the slums of Peru and the prisons of Russia. His book Pathologies of Power (University of California Press, 2003) explores the dynamics of health care, human rights and poverty and is highly recommended.

www.hrea.org

Human Rights Education Associates; browse its valuable resource center

www.hrusa.org/

The Human Rights Resource Center, operated by the University of Michigan Human Rights Center. If you are new to the study of human rights, a useful starting point can be found on the page devoted to human rights education [www.unhchr.ch/udhr/index.htm], where you can access an excellent survey titled Human Rights Here and Now.

www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/

Women’s Human Rights Resources, where you can find databases, research guides and other links; maintained by the University of Toronto law library

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion or political views, that place must—at that moment—become the center of the universe.”

 — Elie Wiesel, excerpt from “The Nobel Address” (From the Kingdom of Memory, New York: Summit Books, 1990)

www.keepmedia.com/Search.do?criteria=human+rights&extID=10014

Keepmedia.com has a gathering of articles from popular magazines and journals on human rights, and access is free, although registration is required

www.hrw.org/press/2002/03/hrcqa.htm
”Questions and Answers on the U.N. Human Rights Commission,” an article posted by Human Rights Watch

www.icc-cpi.int

Home site for the International Criminal Court

www.cceia.org/viewMedia.php/prmID/4437#1

The Spring 2004 issue of Human Rights Dialogue is devoted to the subject of environmental rights. The 16 articles and commentaries are available free in pdf format.

www.geocities.com/r_traer/Religion/Christian/christian.fhr.htm

“Christian Support for Human Rights,” a revised version of a chapter in Faith in Human Rights: Support in Religious Traditions for a Global Struggle (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1991)

www.business-humanrights.org/Home

The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre describes itself as “an independent organization in partnership with Amnesty International Business Groups & leading academic institutions”

www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v3n3/wilson.html

“Why Human Rights Matter for Everyone,” an article by Sir Ronald Wilson, a former Justice of the High Court of Australia which appears in the Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law, based in Australia