Human Rights

Womankind Worldwide

Womandkind Worldwide is a UK charity devoted to empowering women to to improve their lives and lift their families and communities out of poverty. Womankind works closely with 55 partner community groups in 15 developing countries and funds projects that address local issues. All projects involve familiarising women with their rights and enabling them to use their rights to benefit their daily lives; when necessary projects also lobby for new legislation to protect women or improve their status.

Academy of European Law

The Academy of European Law was established by the European University Institute (EUI) in 1990 to promote teaching and scholarship in the fields of European Union Law and Human Rights Law. It holds annual advanced-level courses on these subjects and publishes the content as Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law. Full details of the courses and the Academy's special projects are given on the website.

Women's Human Rights Resources Programme

The Women's Human Rights Resources Programme is maintained by staff at Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto. Resources provided on the site include a searchable database of articles and documents relating to women's human rights law, a collection of research guides and bibliographies, details of law courses in Canada relating specifically to women and a directory of women's rights organisations in Canada.

B'TSELEM: Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories

B'TSELEM was founded in 1989 and acts to monitor human rights in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Its website offers information on the current research and campaigns of the Center, including its press releases relating to the current political and human rights situation in the area. It also contains a list of reports published by the Center, on issues including the condition of women, housing, free speech and brutality by Israeli security forces. Abstracts, and in some cases, the full text of the reports are available.

Index on Censorship

Index on Censorship is a bi-monthly magazine for free speech covering free expression and censorship issues from around the world. The site provides news updates and selected articles from the magazine made freely available online. There are also links to related blogs and a link to the Index on Censorship page on the Taylor and Francis website which provides subscription information.

Center For World Indigenous Studies

The Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS) is an independent, non-profit research and education organisation dedicated to wider understanding and appreciation of the ideas and knowledge of indigenous peoples and the social, economic and political situation of indigenous nations. The Center is active in areas of international law, health policy and public debate. The website provides information about CWIS activities, which include research, seminars, courses and fellowships.

International Labour Organization (ILO)

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a specialised agency of the United Nations which seeks to promote employment rights, human rights and social justice. The website gives details of the ILO's history, structure and work programmes. It provides numerous free databases of labour-related information and documentation, including national labour laws, international labour standards, treaty information, statistics and a bibliography compiled by the ILO Library.

Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet

The Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet is a non- partisan project devoted to the dissemination of ideas and scholarly information on the Palestinian refugee issue in the broader context of the Middle East peace process. The Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet is maintained by the Inter-University Consortium for Arab Studies (Montreal), with the support of the Faculty of Arts Computing Lab, McGill University, and the International Development Research Centre in Canada. Contains research papers, documents, and information on NGO and research projects.

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