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Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Collected by: University of Texas at Austin Libraries, Human Rights Documentation Initiative

Archived since: Apr, 2009

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The University of Texas Libraries’ Human Rights Documentation Initiative Collection features fragile websites containing human rights documentation and related content from human rights organizations and advocates across the globe. Browse collection by topic, geographic area, language or do a keyword search at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/hrdi/hr_archive.

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Title: COMUNICARTE

URL: http://asociacioncomunicarte.blogspot.com/

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.

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Subject:   economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--sustainable development economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous populations advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--eyewitness documentation advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--video advocacy

Title: ..:: Minga ::..

URL: http://asociacionminga.org/

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.

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Subject:   armed conflict and persecution--internally displaced persons armed conflict and persecution--seizure of property

Title: Center for Economic and Policy Research Community Action

URL: http://ciepac.org/

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.

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Subject:   civil and political rights--right to information advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations

Title: Instituto de Investigación, Documentación y Derechos Humanos de la República Dominicana / Insititute of Research, Documentation and Human Rights of the Dominican Republic

URL: http://idh-rd.org.do/

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.

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Subject:   civil and political rights--migrant rights civil and political rights--democratization economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--sustainable development

Title: Isis Internacional

URL: http://isis.cl/

Description: In Spanish. In 1974, Isis was founded in Chile with the aim to document women's struggles worldwide. Programs focus on violence against women, health, documentation and information resources on the topic of women and gender. Contains documents, newsletters, catalog of publications.

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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 armed conflict and persecution--domestic violence

Title: Movimento Nacional de Víctimas de Crímenes de Estado / Movement of Victims of State Crimes

URL: http://movimientodevictimas.org/

Description: In Spanish. Umbrella organization for ONGs and people who have been victims of or fight against state terrorism in Colombia. Denounces, promotes education, advocacy. MOVICE director, Ivan Cepeda Castro, has had to live in exhile twice due to death threats associated with his work denouncing state terrorism in Colombia. Criminal charges for libel and diffamation have also been made against him for his work exposing the links between governemnt officials and paramilitary forces. Site contains videos, photos, documents, and newsletters.

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Subject:   advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--community organizing advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists civil and political rights--freedom of assembly laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--impunity laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--police misconduct

Title: Otros Mundos Chiapas

URL: http://otrosmundoschiapas.org/

Description: In Spanish. The website of Other Worlds, a non governmental organization that seeks to present alternatives to current economic and environmental policies. There is a focus on sustainability and local action. Website contains articles,videos and pdfs.

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Subject:   economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--sustainable development advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations

Title: Paso de la Reina, Rios sin presas, pueblos VIVOS

URL: http://pasodelareina.org/

Description: In English. Consejo de Pueblos por la Defensa del Río Verde (COPUDEVER) is a land rights organization that was formed to fight a dam project in Oaxaca and organizes around land rights and environmental rights issues. Site contains news, reports, photos, videos.

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Subject:   economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--agriculture economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous populations economic, social, and cultural rights--environment laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--land rights

Title: Red National de organismos Civiles de Derechos Humanos

URL: http://redtdt.org.mx/

Description: In Spanish. Website serves as a collaborative meeting space for human rights organizations across Mexico.

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Subject:   advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--internet advocacy laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--legal proceedings laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--police misconduct armed conflict and persecution--political prisoners

Title: Reiniciar: corporación para la defensa y promoción de derechos humanos / Reinitiate: Corporation for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights

URL: http://reiniciar.org/

Description: In Spanish. Contains news articles, audiovisual materials, PDFs of publications, and opportunities for action. Focuses on the genocide of members of the Unión Patriótica, leftist political party whose members were targeted and killed during the 1980s by military and paramilitary forces. Founded in 1993 by surviving members of UP and others who had worked on human rights in the Barrancabermeja area of Colombia, Reiniciar is a non-profit organization based in Bogota, Colombia that provides human rights advocacy training, documents human rights violations nation wide, and provides legal, humanitarian and psychological aid to survivors of human rights abuses.

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Subject:   civil and political rights--political identity advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--memorials and commemoration events armed conflict and persecution--refugees civil and political rights--political parties and movements armed conflict and persecution--disappearances

Title: Intervención Bochinche: Instituto de Estudios en Salud, Sexualidad y Desarrollo Humano [IESSDEH ]

URL: http://seofrecencaricias.blogspot.com/

Description: In Spanish. Blog documents the Institute of Health, Sexuality and Development Studies project, 'Ciudadaniasx' which launched 'Intervención Bochinche' campaign to challenge and confront the stigma and denounce the violence against women and transgender/transsexual sex workers in Lima, Peru. Site includes videos, campaign ephemera, and testimonies from sex workers.

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Subject:   advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--demonstrations civil and political rights--gay / lesbian / bisexual / transgender / queer rights civil and political rights--women's rights economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights--sex workers

Title: El Blog del Narco

URL: http://www.blogdelnarco.com/

Description: Blog del Narco publishes videos, photographs, and news stories related to Mexico's drug war. The authors are anonymous.

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Title: Centro de Estudios Aplicados a los Derechos Económicos Sociales y Culturales (CEADESC)

URL: http://www.ceadesc.org/

Description: In Spanish. Centro de Estudios Aplicados a los Derechos Económicos Sociales y Culturales (CEADESC) is an indigenous/First Peoples rights NGO based in Bolivia with a Bolivian and international focus. CEADESC supports indigenous causes with lobbying and litigation assistance. CEADESC also publishes reports on indigenous rights issues. The site contains reports and news.

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Title: Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento / Consultants for Human Rights and Displacement

URL: http://www.codhes.org/

Description: In Spanish. Formed in 1992, CODHES is a non-governmental organization that promotes human rights in Colombia, with a special emphasis in assisting those who have been violently displaced by the internal conflict and state violence. Contains bulletins, statistics, reports, list of publications, calendar of events, and links to other resources.

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Subject:   armed conflict and persecution--displacement economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights armed conflict and persecution--internally displaced persons civil and political rights--elections and electoral activities armed conflict and persecution--disappearances advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations

Title: Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador

URL: http://www.conaie.org/

Description: In Spanish. Confederación de Nacionalidades Indígenas del Ecuador (CONAIE) is an indigenous rights advocacy NGO in Ecuador. The site contains news and reports about indigenous rights violations and movements, women's rights, and other rights movements in Ecuador, as well as photographs.

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Subject:   civil and political rights--women's rights economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous populations

Title: Educa Oaxaca, Servicios para Una Educacion alternativa A.C.

URL: http://www.educaoaxaca.org/

Description: In Spanish. Servicios para una Educación Alternativa (EDUCA) is an Oaxacan human rights organization that advocates for indigenous rights through economic programs and legal aid. Site contains publications.

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Subject:   economic, social, and cultural rights--economic and labor rights advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--legal organizations economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous populations

Title: Procuraduría General de la Nación: República de Colombia

URL: http://www.procuraduria.gov.co/

Description: In Spanish. Official government website for the ombudsman of Colombia. Contains news, publications, photographs, audio and video materials, and an event calendar. The Procuraduría oversees state employees in their exercise of their public duties. Within the ongoing peace process between the state and paramilitry forces, the Procuraduría is charged with promoting participatory mechanisms for the victims. They are organizing a project that archives the non-judicial materials produced in the course of the prosecution of paramilitary crimes: testimonies, objects, photographs. Organization has limited funding and security concerns associated with what is a highly controversial peace process between the state and the paramilitaries. Links between paramilitary forces and state agents have been publicly denounced, and in certain cases proved in court.

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Subject:   advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--public policy organizations laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--impunity laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--laws and legislation

Title: ASFADDES: Asociación de Familiares Detenidos-Desaparecidos en Colombia

URL: https://www.asfaddes.org/

Description: This is an updated URL for ASFADDES. Captures of the original can be found here: http://wayback.archive-it.org/1475/*/http://asfaddes.info/ 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.

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Subject:   armed conflict and persecution--death threats advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--community organizing advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries armed conflict and persecution--disappearances

Title: Bartolome Clavero: Ensayos, Opiniones y Actualidad

URL: https://www.bartolomeclavero.net/

Description: This is an updated URL for Bartolome Clavero. Find captures of Clavero's old site here: http://wayback.archive-it.org/1475/*/http://clavero.derechosindigenas.org 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.

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Subject:   laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--courts and judicial proceedings economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous peoples armed conflict and persecution--genocide

Title: Las Libres: Centro Las Libres de Información en Salud Sexual, Región Centro

URL: https://www.laslibres.org.mx/

Description: This is the new site for Las Libres. You can find captures of the old site here: http://wayback.archive-it.org/1475/*/http://www.laslibres.org In Spanish and English. Las Libres is a non-governmental organization based in Guanajuato, Mexico. In 2000, Las Libres formed in response to the state government's attempt to ban abortion for rape victims, the only legal reason a woman may seek an abortion. The bill was not passed and now Las Libres conducts legislative monitoring as well as training youth in the community to become leaders and teachers in sexual health education. Site contains news articles and information on the organization's work.

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Subject:   economic, social, and cultural rights--health and healthcare--abortion advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--community organizing economic, social, and cultural rights--health and healthcare--access to healthcare

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