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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: For Human Rights, All-Russia Public Movement / Obshcherossiskoe Obshchestvennoe Dvizhenie Za Prava Cheloveka

URL: http://zaprava.ru/

Description: In Russian and English. Content on all types of human rights violations in Russia and surrounding areas. Site contains news articles and downloads of reports and newsletters.

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Subject:   laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--judicial reform civil and political rights--freedom of assembly laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--impunity,  laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--legal proceedings ,  laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--prisons and prisoners civil and political rights--discrimination, political

Title: Youth Initiative for Human Rights

URL: http://yihr.org/

Description: In English, Serbo-Croatian and Albanian. Formed in 2003, YIHR aims to provide protection for the victims of violations of human rights, establish new connections between the post-war generations and enhance the participation of youth in the processes of transitional justice by promoting the truth about the wars in the former Yugoslavia. Site contains reports and newsletters for download, news, press releases, information on programs, and individual pages for YIHR offices.

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Subject:   economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--identity, ethnic laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--truth commissions advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--impunity,  laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--legal proceedings ,  advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--press and media coverage civil and political rights--discrimination, political civil and political rights--discrimination, ethnic and racial

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: Memorial: International Historical, Enlightenment, Human Rights and Humanitarian Society and Memorial

URL: http://memo.ru/

Description: In English, Russian and German. The International Volunteer Public Organization “MEMORIAL Historical, Educational, Human Rights And Charitable Society” is a volunteer public association. Memorial is a community of dozens of organizations in different regions of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Latvia, and Georgia. Memorial is a group of specialized research, human rights, and education centers in Moscow, St. Petersburg, and several other cities. The site contains limited textual materials related to human rights, but links to a more comprehensive website with additional materials.

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Subject:   advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--memorials and commemoration events,  laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--legal proceedings

Title: Kosovo: the land of the living past

URL: http://kosovo.net/

Description: In English. Contains information on Orthodox Christians, a minority Christian group, in Muslim Kosovo.

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Subject:   economic, social, and cultural rights--social and cultural rights--identity, ethnic armed conflict and persecution--terrorism armed conflict and persecution--war crimes,  laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--legal proceedings ,  civil and political rights--freedom of religion

Title: Права человека в России / Human Rights in Russia

URL: http://hro.org/

Description: In Russian and English. Rights in Russia is a non-profit, non-governmental organization established on 19 January 2010 to mark the murder of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova who that day in 2009 were shot dead in Moscow. Rights in Russia is committed to supporting the human rights movement in the Russian Federation.

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Subject:   laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--legal proceedings ,  armed conflict and persecution--intimidation armed conflict and persecution--harassment and humiliation advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--non-governmental organizations

Title: Institute of Human Rights

URL: http://hrights.ru/

Description: In Russian. Contains information on all types of human rights violations in Russia and surrounding areas. Organization run by one person.

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Subject:   laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--legal proceedings

Title: Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala / Foundation for Forensic Anthropology - Guatemala

URL: http://fafg.org/

Description: In Spanish. Non-profit organization that documents and investigates human rights violations. Carries out forensic investigations to aid the justice system and the families of those disappeared in denouncing and establishing the facts related to human rights violations during Guatemala's violent internal conflict. From 1992-2008, FAFG conducted 946 forensic anthropological investigations related to massacres, arbitrary executions, paramilitary activities, general crime, disasters, forced disappearances, and femicide. FAFG maintains a database with maps, photos, figures and some information on the investigations they have conducted as well as PDFs with their forensic manuals and reviews of their publications reporting on their investigations. Fredy Peccerelli, Omar Girón, José Suassnavar y Leonel Paiz, members of FAFG, received email death threats in May 2008. FAFG has been active since 1997, and its members' security has been compromised since 2002. In their website they document some of these threats. In February 2008, Giron and Peccerelli received death threats to themselves and their families via cellphone.

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Subject:   economic, social, and cultural rights--environment--natural disasters armed conflict and persecution--mass graves armed conflict and persecution--mass killings advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--activists,  laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--legal proceedings ,  armed conflict and persecution--paramilitaries armed conflict and persecution--disappearances laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--forensic anthropology

Title: Coalition Against Genocide

URL: http://coalitionagainstgenocide.org/

Description: In English. Contains PDFs of publications, audiovisual materials, posters, press releases, action items, and news items related to the Gujarat genocide and subsequent protests against it. CAG is comprised of individuals and organizations from the United States and Canada who demand accountability and justice for the 2002 genocide in Guajarat, India.

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Subject:   armed conflict and persecution--crimes against humanity,  laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--legal proceedings ,  armed conflict and persecution--genocide

Title: Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos / The Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights

URL: http://cmdpdh.org/

Description: In Spanish and some English. The Comisión Mexicana de Defensa y Promoción de los Derechos Humanos was founded during the 1980s as a non-governmental organization that intervenes with legal measures in cases of human rights abuses and forced disappearances. The site is material rich, with photos videos and podcasts available. It includes detailed information on a variety of cases.

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

Title: The BALKAN Human Rights Web Pages

URL: http://cm.greekhelsinki.gr/

Description: In English. Site contains news articles dating from 2005 to 2009. All relate to human rights issues in Greece. In addition, the site links to other BALKAN Human Rights pages.

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Subject:   laws, justice, and judicial proceedings--legal proceedings ,  civil and political rights--discrimination, religious advocacy, activism, and responses to persecution--press and media coverage civil and political rights--freedom of religion armed conflict and persecution--hate crimes

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