Human Rights

• Research Guide to Human Rights

  Good general IR site providing extensive set of annotated links to human rights resources and information on the Web. Links to treaties, documents, and general sites. Links to treaties and documents are extensive, with most being to full-text versions. Good jumping-off point.

  
  

• Human Rights Resources on the Internet

  Organized by the Yale Law School, site has links to general collections, law, governmental bodies, nongovernmental organizations, miscellaneous online documents and other resources, and newsgroups and discussion lists. Links to documents and nongovernmental organizations are especially strong. More annotation would be helpful, particularly on the miscellaneous human rights resources links.

  
  

• Human Rights Watch

  Site is maintained by independent, nongovernmental organization that monitors human rights abuses. Contains listing of research reports with abstracts that can be ordered, including the annual Human Rights Watch reports and country-by-country reports, editorials written by Human Rights Watch employees, and a fairly comprehensive set of links to other human rights-related links.

  
  

• Human Rights Web

  General information on human rights, human rights documents from the UN and elsewhere, and a lengthy set of links to human rights-related pages, many of which are well annotated. Site has low graphics load for easy downloading and quick navigation. Good jumping-off point for human rights resources links, with particularly strong links to regional organizations.

  
  

• Derechos: This Week in Human Rights

  From a Latin American human rights organization, site offers news reports from wire services, newspapers, and other online sources of human rights abuses and violations occurring around the world. Useful for keeping up-to-date in this area, with postings of information drawn from a wide variety of sources. General links to country-by-country reports of human rights abuses, also drawn from a wide variety of sources.

  
  

• DIANA Homepage

  Large cooperative database on human rights and international law; involves four distinct Web sites at Yale Law School Library, Bora Laskin Law Library at the University of Toronto, Robert S. Marx Law Library at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, and the University of Minnesota Human Rights Law Library. Each site has a different set of concentrated collections in areas such as general human rights documents (Minnesota), U.S. litigation documents (Yale), women's rights (Toronto), and UN and Organization of African Unity materials (Cincinnati). Collections are comprehensive and rapidly growing larger. Each sites offers good annotated links to a variety of resources and information. The University of Minnesota Human Rights Law Library, for example, is a massive jumping-off point in and of itself. Together, these sites are an invaluable resource base for electronic primary documents and general links on human rights and international law.

  
  

• The International Student Festival in Trondheim Human Rights Information

  site contains annotated collection of gopher and Web sites, newsgroups, related events, and information about human rights, national documents, results from various search engine queries on human rights, and some primary documents (such as John Stuart Mill's "On the Subjection of Women,"). Annotations are the strongest point of this well-organized, low-graphics site.

  
  

• Globalvision

  Main feature is the Globalvision Human Rights map--a clickable map to gopher sites containing regional information on human rights resources. Frame format of clickable map is somewhat awkward, but some might find it intuitively appealing. There are also general human rights links, with particularly good information on human rights listservs and nongovernmental organizations.

  
  

• International Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention

  Organized by Human Rights Interactive Network, and part of the Argus Clearinghouse, site includes links to subjects such as armed conflict, disaster relief, human rights and humanitarian law, immigration, development, multinational corporations, U.S. civil rights, United Nations, and urgent appeals. The latter includes human rights alerts and disasters from various other networks and news sources. Contains a full-text electronic journal called "Flashpoint," with articles on human rights and intervention issues, drawn from journals and periodicals such as The Economist and Atlantic Monthly. Site has a good listing of international and U.S.-based organizations in the human rights area, links to university databases, and some good links to general news sources. Excellent jumping-off point and resource base.

  
  

• Amnesty International (U.S.) and Amnesty International (Official)

  These links are to the U.S. and official homepages, respectively, of Amnesty International. Former has some news on human rights, links to Amnesty International offices from around the world, information on urgent action, newsletters, and summaries from annual reports. Latter is much more aesthetically interesting with much more accessible interface. Some full-text reports on urgent actions are included, as well as news releases dating back to 1995. Links to other human rights resources.