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Collected by: Columbia University Libraries

Archived since: May, 2008

Description:

An initiative of CUL's Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research, the Human Rights Web Archive is an effort to preserve and ensure access to freely available human rights resources created mainly by non-governmental organizations, national human rights institutions, and individuals.

Subject:   Society & Culture Web archives National human rights institutions Human rights workers Non-governmental organizations Human rights

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Title: Qūwat al-ʻAmal li-Munāhaḍat al-Taʻdhīb

URL: http://against-torture.net/

Description: Egypt-focused organization. Task Force Against Torture is a group of bloggers, human rights defenders, activists and journalists working to stop torture in Egypt. This site was created for victims of torture and other to find information about reporting torture in Egypt.

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Subject:   Human rights Torture victims Torture,  Human rights advocacy

Title: Amnesty International Hrvatske

URL: http://amnesty.hr/

Description: Croatia section of Amnesty International. In Croatian.

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Subject:   Human rights,  Human rights advocacy

Title: Amnesty International Mauritius

URL: http://amnestymauritius.org/

Description: Mauritius section of Amnesty International. In French.

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Subject:   Human rights,  Human rights advocacy

Title: Arab Program for Human Rights Activists

URL: http://aphra.org/

Description: Arab countries-focused non-governmental human rights organization based in Egypt. APHRA works to protect human rights defenders and provides trainings, workshops, and seminars. In Arabic and English.

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Subject:   Human rights,  Human rights advocacy

Title: Amnistía Internacional Bolivia

URL: http://bo.amnesty.org/

Description: Bolivia chapter of Amnesty International. In Spanish.

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Subject:   Human rights,  Human rights advocacy

Title: Comité para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos en Honduras

URL: http://codeh.hn/v1

Description: Honduras's national human rights institution. Includes reports and case studies.

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Subject:   Human rights,  Human rights advocacy ,  National human rights institutions

Title: Association for Human Rights Legal Aid

URL: http://www.ahrla.org/

Description: Egypt-focused human rights organization based in Egypt. "Association for Human Rights Legal Aid is a non governmental, non profit organisation formed by a group of human rights activists. It was licensed on 18th December 1999 to provide legal aid for victims of human rights' violations, work on spreading human rights' culture and to try to remove legislation that is not in accordance with the Egyptian constitution or to the ratified agreements and conventions on human rights." In Arabic.

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Subject:   Legal aid,  Human rights advocacy

Title: Arab Association for Human Rights

URL: http://www.arabhra.org/

Description: Israel-focused human rights organization based in Nazareth that "works to promote and protect the political, civil, economic, and cultural rights of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel." Contains reports.

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Subject:   Human rights,  Human rights advocacy ,  Non-governmental organizations

Title: Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights

URL: http://www.byshr.org/

Description: The Bahrain Youth Society For Human Rights (BYSHR) is a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization. Mission Statement: to encourage and support young people learning about human rights and push them to participate actively in the protection of human rights cases, and the struggle to promote human rights among young people in accordance with international standards.

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Subject:   Human rights,  Human rights advocacy

Title: Comissão de Acolhimento, Verdade, e Reconciliac̦ão de Timor-Leste

URL: http://www.cavr-timorleste.org/

Description: Timor-Leste-focused truth commission based in Dili that operated from 2002-2005. Includes reports.

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Subject:   Human rights,  Human rights advocacy ,  Truth commissions Political atrocities

Title: Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in the Arabian Peninsula

URL: http://www.cdhrap.net/

Description: Arabian Peninsula-focused human rights organization based in Saudia Arabia. "The Committee for the Defense of Human Rights in the Arabian Peninsula (CDHRAP) is an independent, nongovernmental committee founded in 1992 , aims to promote human rights, and according to its believing that fundamental principles of human rights guaranteed by the international treaties and conventions so long as they do not contradict with Islamic Laws." In Arabic and English.

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Subject:   Human rights advocacy ,  Religion Islamic law

Title: Markaz al-Tawthīq wa-al-Iʻlām wa-al-Takwīn fī Majāl Ḥuqūq al-Insān

URL: http://www.cdifdh.org.ma/

Description: Morocco-focused organization based in Rabat. "The Human Rights Information and Training Resource Center (HRITRS), placed under the aegis of the Advisory Council of Human Rights since the June 2004 cabinet reshuffle, is vested with an advisory mission that consists in formulating proposals and giving impetus as regards issues referring to the promotion of the Human rights culture in Morocco."

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Subject:   Human rights,  Human rights advocacy

Title: Centre for the Development of People (Malawi)

URL: http://www.cedepmalawi.org/

Description: Malawi-focused human rights organization based in Malawi. "CEDEP is a registered human rights organisation dedicated to addressing the needs, improving the lives, and providing support for some of Malawi's most neglected minority groups through civic education, training, capacity building, networking and research." In English.

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Subject:   AIDS (Disease) Minorities Education Prisoners,  Human rights advocacy ,  Sex workers

Title: Canadian Friends of Burma

URL: http://www.cfob.org/

Description: Burma-focused pro-democracy organization based in Canada.

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Subject:   Human rights Democracy,  Human rights advocacy

Title: Commissie Gelijke Behandeling

URL: http://www.cgb.nl/

Description: The Netherlands' national human rights institution. Includes reports.

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Subject:   Human rights Civil rights,  Human rights advocacy ,  National human rights institutions

Title: Citizenship Rights in Africa Initiative

URL: http://www.citizenshiprightsinafrica.org/

Description: CRAI is a campaign dedicated to ending statelessness and the arbitrary denial of citizenship in Africa. CRAI is a joint project of the Global Pan African Movement, the International Refugee Rights Initiative and the Open Society Justice Initiative

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Subject:   Human rights Refugees,  Human rights advocacy ,  Statelessness

Title: Comité de Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos en Honduras

URL: http://www.cofadeh.org/

Description: Honduras-focused human rights organization based in Tegucigalpa. Includes reports.

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Subject:   Human rights Disappeared persons Civil rights,  Human rights advocacy ,  Missing persons

Title: Comité pour le respect des libertés et des droits de l'homme en Tunisie

URL: http://www.crldht.info/

Description: Site active 2010-present. Old URL: www.crldht.org. Tunisia-focused human rights organization based in Paris, France. The Comité pour le respect des libertés et des droits de l'homme en Tunisie (CRLDHT) was established in 1996 to raise awareness of the oppressive conditions in Tunisia and to advocate for change. In French.

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Subject:   Democracy Torture,  Human rights advocacy

Title: Comité pour le respect des libertés et des droits de l'homme en Tunisie

URL: http://www.crldht.org/

Description: Site active 1996-2010. New URL: http://www.crldht.info. Tunisia-focused human rights organization based in Paris, France. The Comité pour le respect des libertés et des droits de l'homme en Tunisie (CRLDHT) was established in 1996 to raise awareness of the oppressive conditions in Tunisia and to advocate for change.

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Subject:   Democracy Torture,  Human rights advocacy

Title: Comité Sénégalais des Droits de l'Homme

URL: http://www.csdh.sn/

Description: Senegal's national human rights institution. Contains reports.

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Subject:   Human rights,  Human rights advocacy ,  National human rights institutions

Title: Centre for War Victims and Human Rights

URL: http://www.cwvhr.org/

Description: Globally-focused organization based in Canada. "Centre for War Victims and Human Rights (CWVHR) is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan, human rights organization. Our primary focus and activity is monitoring and documenting human rights violations. We encourage and support the universal values of human rights. Through evidence collection and verification, we aim to assist the war victims in pursuit of justice against their perpetrators."

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Subject:   Human rights,  Human rights advocacy ,  War victims Documentation

Title: Defensor del Pueblo, República de Bolivia

URL: http://www.defensor.gov.bo/

Description: Bolivia's national human rights institution. Includes reports and newsletters. Old site: See www.defensoria.gob.bo for newer site.

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Subject:   Human rights,  Human rights advocacy ,  National human rights institutions Ombudspersons

Title: Defensoría del Pueblo

URL: http://www.defensordelpueblo.gov.ec/

Description: Ecuador's national human rights institution. Includes reports and newsletters.

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Subject:   Human rights,  Human rights advocacy ,  National human rights institutions Ombudspersons

Title: FOHRID National Protection Working Group

URL: http://www.fohridnetwork.org/

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Subject:   Human rights advocacy ,  Nonprofit organizations

Title: Héritiers de la justice

URL: http://www.heritiersdelajustice.org/

Description: Africa-focused human rights organization based in Bukavu, DR Congo, which specializes in "matters concerning human rights and peace promotion in the Great Lakes Region." Contains reports. In French with some content in English.

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Subject:   Human rights,  Human rights advocacy

Title: Human Rights Education Institute of Burma

URL: http://www.hreib.com/

Description: Burma-focused human rights organization based in Thailand. Includes reports.

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Subject:   Human rights,  Human rights advocacy

Title: Iran Human Rights Voice

URL: http://www.ihrv.org/

Description: Switzerland-based organization focused on Iran. "Iran Human Rights Voice (IHRV), founded in 2008, is a web-based media outlet that monitors, reports, and provides news and analysis of cases of human rights violations among Iranian social and political activists, students, women, ethnic minorities, religious minorities, labor unions, and immigrant communities." Contains reports and news items.

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Subject:   Human rights Political prisoners,  Human rights advocacy

Title: International League for Human Rights

URL: http://www.ilhr.org/

Description: International organization based in the United States. Includes reports and case studies. In English.

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Subject:   Human rights Civil rights,  Human rights advocacy

Title: INDICT

URL: http://www.indict.org.uk/

Description: INDICT was established in late 1996 to campaign for the creation of an ad hoc International Criminal Tribunal - similar to those established for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda - to try leading members of the former Iraqi regime on charges of war crimes. Last updated 2003.

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Subject:   Human rights Genocide War crimes,  Human rights advocacy

Title: Iraqi Human Rights Group

URL: http://www.irag.org.uk/

Description: "The Iraqi Human Rights Group (IRAG) is an Organisation that was established to study and deal with the issue of Human Rights in Iraq." In Arabic and English.

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Subject:   Human rights advocacy

Title: Lawyers Centre for Legal Assistance (Sierra Leone)

URL: http://www.lawcla.org/

Description: LAWCLA is an independent public interest human rights law centre, which among other things provides free legal services to the poor. It works to make justice more accessible to indigent members of the public through legal advice, impact litigation and research.

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Subject:   Human rights Legal aid,  Human rights advocacy

Title: Land Center for Human Rights (Egypt)

URL: http://www.lchr-eg.org/

Description: Egypt-focused non-governmental organization based in Egypt representing farmer's issues. The Center aims to help improve the agrarian laborers' economic and social condition in rural Egypt. In Arabic and English.

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Subject:   Agricultural laborers,  Human rights advocacy ,  Farmers--Social Conditions Agriculture and state Land use, Rural

Title: NAMRIGHTS

URL: http://www.nshr.org.na/

Description: Namibia-focused human rights NGO based in Windhoek, Namibia. Formerly known as National Society for Human Rights. NAMRIGHTS "is a national private, independent, non-profit making and non-partisan human rights monitoring and advocacy organization. Founded on December 1 1989 by concerned citizens, the Organization envisages a world free of human rights violations and its mission is to stop human rights violations in Namibia and the rest of the world."

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Subject:   Human rights,  Human rights advocacy ,  Human rights monitoring

Title: National Unity and Reconciliation Commission

URL: http://www.nurc.gov.rw/

Description: "The National Unity and Reconciliation Commission (NURC) is a national institution, provided for by the National Constitution adopted by Rwandans in June 2003. The main objective for such a commission was to assist the government of national unity then anticipated, to foster unity and reconciliation among the people of Rwanda who had experienced long periods of bad governance characterized by divisions, discriminations, human rights abuse and acts of violence."

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Subject:   Genocide Conflict management,  Human rights advocacy ,  Truth commissions Reconciliation

Title: Procuraduría para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos República de Nicaragua--América Central

URL: http://www.procuraduriaddhh.gob.ni/

Description: Nicaragua's national human rights institution. Contains news releases.

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Subject:   Human rights,  Human rights advocacy ,  National human rights institutions Ombudspersons

Title: Qalna, Eritrean Human Rights Group Toronto

URL: http://www.qalna.com/

Description: Eritrea-focused organization based in Toronto. Qalna is focused on raising awareness about human rights abuses in Eritrea and campaigning to end those abuses.

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Subject:   Human rights Refugees,  Human rights advocacy

Title: Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies

URL: http://www.rchrs.org/

Description: Palestine-focused organization based in Ramallah. The mission of RCHRS is to promote democratic values among the Palestinian people. RCHRS also documents and raises awareness of human rights violations in Palestine.

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Subject:   Human rights Palestinian Arabs,  Human rights advocacy

Title: Jamʻīyah al-Waṭanīyah lil-Taghyīr

URL: http://www.taghyeer.net/

Description: Egyptian National Association for Change. Web site of the opposition coalition pushing for constitutional reform in Egypt. In Arabic.

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Subject:   Civil rights Elections,  Human rights advocacy ,  Constitutional law Constitutional reform

Title: Konsort︠s︡ium zhenskikh nepravitelʹstvennykh obʺedineniĭ

URL: http://www.wcons.org.ru/

Description: Russia-focused women's rights organization based in Moscow. Includes reports. In Russian, with shorter English version.

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Subject:   Human rights Women's rights Women,  Human rights advocacy

Title: Yemeni Human Rights Network

URL: http://yhrn.org/

Description: Yemen-focused organization based in Ṣanʻāʼ, Yemen. "A non-profit organization which seeks to promote respect for and awareness of human rights, freedom of expression, democracy." In Arabic and English.

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Subject:   Human rights Civil rights Freedom of speech,  Human rights advocacy

Title: El Nadim Center

URL: https://alnadeem.org/

Description: Egypt-focused organization based in Cairo, Egypt. "Established in August 1993, al Nadim Centre provides psychological rehabilitation to victims of torture; issues medicolegal reports whenever necessary; publishes reports, participates in campaigns and in mobilization of different societal sectors against the practice of torture, and violence against women; it promotes other issues in support of democracy and freedom of Civil Society in Egypt." In Arabic and English.

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Subject:   Human rights Civil rights Torture victims Torture,  Human rights advocacy

Title: Malawi Human Rights Resource Centre

URL: https://humanrights.mw/

Description: "MHRRC is a Human Rights NGO that is committed to promoting a human rights culture in Malawi and SADC Region by working with Civil Society Organizations and other institutions through Capacity Building. The MHRRC works with civil society organizations to effectively support the developing democracy in the country. MHRRC contributes towards the consolidation of channels of free expression and other rights for the citizens by working with and building the capacity of NGOs and CSOs working on human rights."

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Subject:   Education,  Human rights advocacy ,  Documentation Civil society

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