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This page includes non-governmental groups supranational and international bodies and topic-specific bodies (race gender etc.). For national bodies please see the relevant jurisdiciton at Specific Jurisdictions page. The University of Minnesota's Human Rights Page is outstanding (and includes bibliographies for HR research and e-journals).

Contents

Journals
National Institutions 
Non-Governmental Human Rights groups and Research Centres 
Special Topics: Gender 
Special Topics: Human Rights and Terrorism 
Special Topics: International Criminal Justice 
Special Topics: Race and Ethnicity
Special Topics: Refugees
Special Topics: Torture 
Other Human Rights Resources

Include your website
If you would like to add a link to your Human Rights website, please email Deaglan Coyle d.p.coyle@qub.ac.uk

Non-Governmental Human Rights groups and Research Centres

NGOs based in Northern Ireland, Ireland and UK

• Amnesty International UK
• Amnesty Ireland
• British Helsinki Human Rights Group

• British Irish Rights Watch
• British Institute of Human Rights
• Charter88
• Children's Law Centre
• Committee on the Administration of Justice (Northern Ireland)
• Human Rights Consortium (NI)
• Human Rights in the US and International Community
• Irish Council for Civil Liberties
• Irish Centre for Human Rights
• Irish Law Site
• Irish Traveller Movement
• Incore (resources on conflict)
• Legal Action Group
• Liberty
• Northern Ireland Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders
• Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action
• Pat Finucane Centre
• Pavee Point Traveller Centre
• Statewatch
• Transitional Justice Institute
• University of Oxford: International Human Rights Law

NGOs world-wide

• American Civil Liberties Union
• Amnesty International
• Article 19
• Centre for Constitutional Rights
• Centre for Economic and Social Rights
• Committee to Protect Journalists
• Commonwealth Legal Education Association
• Human Rights Watch
• Human Rights Index
• Interights
• International Centre for Transitional Justice
• International Commission of Jurists
• International Committee of the Red Cross
• International Federation and Red Crescent Society
• International Service for Human Rights
• Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
• Medecins Sans Frontieres
• Minority Rights Group International
• Penal Reform International
• Rights and Democracy
• Times Law Section
• Statewatch

Foreign groups and centres

• Arab Centre for Human Rights
• Citizens' Alliance to help Political Prisoners in North Korea
• Human Rights Centre Padua
• Institute for Human Rights, Abo akademi Univ, Finland
• Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
• Legal Information Centre for Human Rights Estonia
• National Association for the Advancement of Colured People
• Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group
• Raoul Wallenberg Institute (Sweden)
• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Europe

• Council of Europe
• COE European Social Charter
• COE Minorities Home Page
• COE Committee for the Prevention of Torture
• European Community / Union
• Fundamental Rights in the EU
• Employment and Social Affairs Directorate
• European Court of Human Rights
• OSCE
• OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
• OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
• Venice Commission

World

• Committee on the Rights of the Child
• FAO
• ILO and ILO's database on national measures
• International Labour Organisation
• United Nations
• UN International Courts (including the ICJ, ICT Yugoslavia, ICT Rwanda ICC
• UN High Commissioner for Human Rights with links to:
  • CERD (Racial Discrimination)
  • CEDAW Committee (Gender discrimination)
  • HRC
• UNICEF
• UN High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR
• UN Human Rights Treaties, UN High Commissioner on Human Rights
• UN Office of High Commissioner for Refugees, OHCHR
• WHO
• World Trade Organisation

Africa

• OAU

Americas

• Inter American Court of Human Rights
• Inter American Commission of Human Rights

National Institutions

UK

• Equality and Human Right Commission
• Department of Constitutional Affairs 
 
• Equality Commission for Northern Ireland
• Human Rights Act 1998
• Joint Select Committee on Human Rights
• Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
• NI Commissioner for Children's Rights
• Office of Law Reform

Ireland

• Irish Foreign Affairs Human Rights Unit
• Irish Human Rights Commission

Other States

• Australian Human Rights Commission
• Canadian Human Rights Commission
• SA Commission on Gender Equality
• SA Human Rights Commission

Special topics | Gender

• CEDAW
• Council of Europe Site on Gender Equality
• HRI Women
• ILO's Gender site
• International Women's Rights Action Watch
• National Women's Council of Ireland
• SA Commission on Gender Equality
• University of Toronto's Women's Human Rights Resources
• UN Gateway on the Advancement and Empowerment of Women
• Women's HR Net

Special topics | Human Rights and Terrorism

• Council of Europe
• European Union: Commission site on terrorism
• High Commissioner for Human Rights
• United Nations site on terrorism

Special topics | International Criminal Justice

• International Criminal Court
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
• International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia :
• Coalition for International Justice: (resources of international criminal law)
• Genocide Watch

 

Special topics | Race and Ethnicity

• Campaign Against Racism and Fascism
• Commission for Racial Equality
• Council of Europe's Commission Against Racism and Intolerance
• EC Anti-racism policy
• Guardian Coverage of Race Issues
• Institute of Race Relations
• Irish Traveller Movement
• Multi-Cultural Resource Centre (NI)
• NAACP
• National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism
• Northern Irish Council for Ethnic Minorities
• Paul Connolly's page
• Pavee Point
• UNITED (Anti-racism)
• UN Racial Discrimination Convention's Committee

 

Special topics | Torture

• Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT)

 

Special topics | Refugees

• UN High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR
• UN Office of High Commissioner for Refugees (OHCHR)

 

Journals

• E-Journals: A-Z
• European Journal of International Law
• International Journal of Refugee Law
• International Lawyer
• Journal des droits de l'homme
• Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
• Nottingham Human Rights Law Review

 

Other Human Rights Resources

• Hurisearch Human Rights Search Engine
• Bayefsky.com
• Derechos Human Rights
• HR Internet
• HR Net
• Human Rights Web
• Information Clearing House
• Law Monkeys
• Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
• Minnesota Human Rights Library
• Netherlands Human Rights Centre
• Observer Liberty Watch
• Oneworld
• Opendemocracy
• Oxford University: International Human Rights Law
• Religious Freedom Homepage
• South Asia HR Documentation Centre
• Societe Droit et religion Institut des droits de l'homme
• The Guardian Special Reports
• Venice Commission Database

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