civil rights

Center for Constitutional Rights

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) was established in 1966. It is a leading independent US body which campaigns and litigates for the protection of US civil liberties and international human rights. Its website provides information on the aims of the organisation and its campaigns. It includes access to press releases, case notes, campaign materials and full-text pamphlets and reports.

Special Residual Court For Sierra Leone

The Special Residual Court For Sierra Leone was established by the United Nations and the government of Sierra Leone to oversee the legal obligations of the Special Court after it closed in 2013.The Special Court of Sierra Leone was set up to deal with serious violations of international humanitarian law and Sierra Leonean law. The website provides background information on the structure and organisation of the Court and its current activities. It includes the full-text of its rules of procedure, judgements of the Court and United Nations documents about its operation.

Egale Canada

Egale is a civil rights group which is campaigning for equal rights for gay, lesbians and homosexuals in Canada. Key topics of concern include same-sex marriage rights and employment equality. The website includes details of the aims of the organisation and its current campaigns. It also offers news stories relating to Canadian legal developments, significant court cases and rulings. Information is offered in English or French.

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.

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.

Civil Rights Digital Library

The Civil Rights Digital Library is maintained by the University of Georgia. It covers the history of the African American civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, providing links to books, documents, news films, photographs, articles, bibliographies, cartoons and other ephemera available online. The site can be browsed by theme, person and event. Topics covered include school desegregation, civil rights protests, the contribution of Martin Luther King and key US civil rights legislation. There is a large teacher support section, with lesson plans, timelines and annotated bibliographies.
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