Human rights

Useful internet links

This page provides links to organisations involved in international activities in the justice sector.

Amnesty International (AI): a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.

Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity

Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)

Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation & Accountability

Harvard School of Public Health - 'The right to development project' examines how to realize the right to development in practice beginning with the rights to food, primary education, and health.

Human Rights Watch (HRW): An international NGO working to defend human rights worldwide. This site contains overviews of the human rights situation in almost every country, in addition to reports on themes, such as prisons, child rights and women's rights.

HURIDOCS- Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems International

HURIST: The UNDP's Human Rights Strengthening Programme, HURIST, provides useful guides and resources on applying a human rights-based approach to programming.

International Council on Human Rights Policy - ICHRP: This research institute is undertaking a major research programme on rights and poverty.

International Labour Organization: This website offers access to manuals, policy documents and articles relating to penal reform.

Open Society Justice Initiative

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - OHCHR

Overseas Development Institute - Rights in Action Programme

United States Institute for Peace, Rule of Law Programme
The website of USIP's Rule of Law programme provides information on events and publications about post-conflict justice and international law.

UK Government Foreign and Commonwealth Office
The FCO has developed a set of pages on human rights, as one of its international policy priorities. These pages provide an online introduction to human rights, including thematic issues, key multilateral organisations and instruments, and UK Government policy.
Full summary of FCO's Human Rights Policy Department (HRPD): available on GRC Organisation Database

UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund

UNIFEM - United Nations Development Fund for Women

UNIFEM Stop Violence Against Women - STOPVAW

United Nations Enable

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