General links

This subsection provides you with general human rights links we consider useful in our work. It is a non-exhaustive list which will gradually be expanded. For project specific resources and links please refer to our project links.

• Center for Economic and Social Rights
  The Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) works to promote social justice through human rights. In a world where poverty and inequality deprive entire communities of dignity, justice and sometimes life, we seek to uphold the universal human rights of every human being to education, health, food, water, housing, work, and other economic, social and cultural rights essential to human dignity.

• Human Rights Watch
  Human Rights Watch is one of the world’s leading independent organizations dedicated to defending and protecting human rights.

• Hurights Osaka, the Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Center
  Hurights Osaka has in its collection more than 17, 000 books and other printed materials, microfiches, and video cassettes on human rights and related social science subjects. These materials are composed of publications and other documents of the United Nations, non-governmental organizations, national human rights institutions, and commercial publishing houses. The majority of these materials deal with issues in the Asia-Pacific region.
  We also provide with a Directory of Asia-Pacific Human Rights Centers.

• International Service for Human Rights
  Analytical and practical information to human rights defenders and other people wishing to follow developments within the UN human rights bodies and mechanisms.

• openDemocracy
  openDemocracy publishes high quality news analysis, debates and blogs about the world and the way we govern ourselves. openDemocracy is committed to human rights and democracy. We aim to ensure that marginalised views and voices are heard. We believe facilitating argument and understanding across geographical boundaries is vital to preventing injustice.

• Pambazuka News
  Pambazuka News is produced by a pan-African community of some 1,800 citizens and organisations – academics, policy makers, social activists, women’s organisations, civil society organisations, writers, artists, poets, bloggers, and commentators who together produce insightful, sharp and thoughtful analyses and make it one of the largest and most innovative and influential web forums for social justice in Africa.

• University of Minnesota Human Rights Center
  The University of Minnesota Human Rights Center trains and assists the work of human rights professionals and volunteers. The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library houses one of the largest collections of more than sixty thousand core human rights documents, including several hundred human rights treaties and other primary international human rights instruments. The site also provides access to more than four thousands links and a unique search device for multiple human rights sites.