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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: IACHR Home

URL: http://www.oas.org/es/cidh/

Description: In English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese. Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos/Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is an organ of the Organization of American States that works with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to investigate and try human rights cases. Site contains publications and links.

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Subject:   laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--international law laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--judicial systems--Inter-American Court of Human Rights,  laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability

Title: IHRDA | Defend. Educate. Inform.

URL: http://www.ihrda.org/

Description: In English and French. The Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa's (IHRDA) mission is to improve the human rights protection mechanisms of the African Union. To this end, IHRDA trains NGO leaders, offers pro-bono legal counsel to NGOs, writes publications on human rights in Africa, and advocates for legal reform. The site contains information on cases, legal mechanisms, and other resources.

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Subject:   laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--judicial proceedings laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--international law,  laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability

Title: Women's Initiatives For Gender Justice

URL: http://www.iccwomen.org/

Description: In English. Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice is based in the Hague, the Netherlands (the seat of the International Criminal Court), and works globally to ensure justice for women, to advocate for the inclusion of gender based crimes in the investigations and prosecutions of the ICC and to promote the rights of women victims/survivors of armed conflict throughout the ICC justice process, including through their Trust Fund for Victims. The site is comprised of news updates on trials and crimes, reports and publications (including the Annual Gender Report Card), and other resources for activists and educators advocating for women's justice.

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Subject:   civil and political rights--women's rights civil and political rights--discrimination, gender,  laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability ,  laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--international law armed conflict and persecution--war crimes laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--judicial systems, International Criminal Court (ICC)

Title: NISGUA: Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala

URL: http://nisgua.org/

Description: In English. NISGUA is a U.S. based non-governmental organization that links people in the U.S. with the Guatemalan people and their grassroots struggles for justice, human rights, environmental protection, and dignity. The website includes coverage of news pertaining to Guatemala and Central America more generally, and information regarding campaigns on trade and development, impunity, land rights and militarization.

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Subject:   economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--mining laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--land rights economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--indigenous peoples,  laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability ,  civil and political rights--women's rights

Title: Blog del Instituto de los Derechos Humanos de la UCA / Central American University "José Simeon Cañas" Institute for Human Rights Blog

URL: http://idhuca.blogspot.com/

Description: In Spanish. Blog contains news updates on human rights issues in El Salvador.

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Subject:   laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability ,  armed conflict and persecution--disappearances

Title: Proyecto Desaparecidos

URL: http://desaparecidos.org/main.html

Description: In Spanish and English. The Desaparecidos Project is an initiative of a variety of human rights scholars and activists who hope to combat forced disappearances and the impunity that often enables them to continue occurring. The website includes current news on government repression of dissent, memorials to disappeared people, testimony of survivors and resources for attorneys.

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Subject:   laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability ,  armed conflict and persecution--political prisoners armed conflict and persecution--disappearances

Title: Comisión de Derechos Humanos de El Salvador / Human Rights Commission of El Salvador

URL: http://cdhes.org.sv/

Description: In Spanish. Non-governmental organization that conducts human rights advocacy and education. Focuses on issues of health, poverty, education, justice and migration. Contains documents, news items, and information on how to report human rights violations.

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Subject:   economic, social, and cultural rights advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--archives, libraries, and museums,  laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability ,  advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists armed conflict and persecution--disappearances

Title: Centro para la Acción Legal en Derechos Humanos / Center for Legal Action on Human Rights

URL: http://caldh.org/

Description: In Spanish and K'iche'. All aspects of human rights promotion, focusing on providing legal aid and documenting the genocide perpetrated against the Mayan population of Guatemala during the 1980s. They are leading the most important collective effort to bring former dictators (one of them currently a senator) to trial before the Interamerican Human Rights Court. The security of their members is seriously compromised--the Guatemalan government and its military forces are not in favor of any kind of investigation into war crimes. Since 2004, year in which CALDH brough the cases against Rios Montt and García before the Interamerican Court, their offices have been subject to raids and their members have been kidnapped and received death threats.

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Subject:   armed conflict and persecution--discrimination, ethnic and racial laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--courts and judicial systems--Inter-American Court of Human Rights laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--transitional jusice,  laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability ,  civil and political rights--children's rights civil and political rights--discrimination, gender armed conflict and persecution--genocide

Title: Association for the Defence of Human Rights in Romania - the Helsinki Committee

URL: http://apador.org/

Description: In Romanian and English. Formed in 1990, APADOR-CH is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that raises the level of awareness on and respect of human rights and rule of law. Site contains mission, objectives and the team of the association, annual reports, special reports (regarding the visits to prisons and lock-ups, as well as abuses of the police), press releases and publications of APADOR-CH. In addition, there is a special section dedicated to the free access to information of public interest, containing legislation (Law no 544/2001 regarding the free access to the information of public interest; the methodological norms for the application of Law no. 544/2001, adopted through the Governmental Decision no. 123/2002; Law no. 182/2002 on the protection of classified information; Law no. 677/2001 for the protection of persons related both to the processing of personal data and to the free circulation of such data), a practical guide for the use of Law no. 544/2001, studies, as well as summaries of APADOR-CH’s freedom of information court cases.

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Subject:   civil and political rights--democratization,  laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--accountability ,  civil and political rights--right to information laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--prisons and prisoners laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--police misconduct laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--laws and legislation advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations

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