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European Roma Rights Center

The European Roma Rights Center (ERRC) monitors the human rights situation of Roma in Europe and offers legal defence to Romani victims in cases of human rights abuse. The organisation also publishes news about Romani civil rights and human rights abuses relating to Roma. The ERRC website provides the Center's quarterly newsletter Roma Rights, together with ERRC publications on Roma listed by country, region and theme. The site is in English, with some materials in Romani or Russian.

Global Exchange

Global Exchange is a US-based NGO carrying out research and campaigns and providing education to promote social, environmental and political justice. Its website offers information about its human rights, democracy and justice campaigns. It also provides news, webcasts and a blog.

Amicus

AMICUS is a free online supplement to the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (CR-CL). It seeks to offer a space for online debate about the latest research on civil rights (with a special emphasis on the civil rights of African-Americans). Although a broad range of other areas of civil rights are also covered including freedoms, online rights. The site includes articles, opinion pieces and a conversations area containing organised debates amongst scholars.

State-sponsored homophobia

Series of reports issued annually from 2006 to 2020 by The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA World).  Available in English and Spanish, they provide worldwide surveys of national legal systems and laws, highlighting discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Disability Studies Resources Guide: Disability Rights & Policy

Resource guide for disability rights and policy on the website of Syracuse University. The guide is arranged into broad sections providing access to policy websites, United Nations documents and United States organisations and government bodies. Direct links are given to the Americans with Disabilities Act 1990 and to related disabilities laws and regulations.

Doughty Street Chambers

Doughty Street Chambers is a UK-based barristers' chambers specialising in human rights and civil liberties law. The site provides profiles of barristers, academic experts and other staff and information on the areas of law covered. A collection of articles and papers by Doughty Street Chambers' barristers, associate tenants and academic experts is available under 'Insights'.

Australian Privacy and Surveillance Law Library

An AustLII project providing a searchable collection of Australian legal materials on privacy and surveillance law. The Library was been developed in conjunction with the interpreting Privacy Principles (iPP) Project at the Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre at the University of New South Wales. There are databases containing case law, legislation, law journals and law reform publications as well as links to external related resources. The content can be searched or browsed.

United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials

United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials (UNARKT) gives technical assistance to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), which was established to try members of the Khmer Rouge for genocide and crimes against humanity. Its website provides information about UNARKT's aims, activities and jurisdictions. It includes press releases, UN resolutions and mandates, court documents, UN reports and other material, including decisions in contract disputes with ECCC defence lawyers.

Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia for the Prosecution of Crimes Committed during the Period of Democratic Kampuchea

The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia was established by the Cambodian government with the assistance of the UN to serve as an independent body for trying former members of the Khmer Rouge for serious crimes (genocide and human rights abuses) committed during the Khmer Rouge regime 1975-1979. Its website provides information about the role of the Extraordinary Chambers makes available court proceedings, court rules and other legal documents, together with speeches, news articles and photographic images of the hearings.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

This site provides historical information and documentation on the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is a joint digitisation project of the UN's Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva. The site has details of meetings which took place between 1946 and 1948, including meeting records and reports. Documents can be downloaded in English and French. Profiles of members of the Drafting Committee are also given.

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