 American Association
for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): Science & Human Rights
Program |
Program based on the premise that "scientific
societies should encourage international respect for the human rights
standards": projects & features; alerts; directory of human
rights resources on the Internet; thesaurus of economic, social, & cultural
rights |
Amnesty
International Report
2007; 2006; 2005; 2004; 2003;
2002; 2001; 2000; 1999; 1998 |
Amnesty International's annual
documentation of human rights violations in countries of the world |
Amnesty International Report:
Asia and the Pacific
2007; 2006; 2005; 2004; 2003;
2002; 2001; 2000; 1999; 1998 |
Amnesty International's annual regional summary
for human rights violations in the Asia-Pacific region |
| Annex:
Human Rights, Country & Legal Information Resources on the
Internet |
Paper by Elisa Mason of the Refugee Studies
Centre, University of Oxford (February 15, 2001) |
| Annual
Report of the United States Commission on International Religious
Freedom: 2007; 2006;2005; 2004; 2003;
2002; 2001;
2000 |
Annual reports to Congress on the status of
religious freedom around the world by the Bureau of Democracy, Human
Rights, & Labor,
U.S. Department of State (PDF format) |
| Annual
Worldwide Press Freedom Index: 2007; 2006; 2005; 2004; 2003; 2002 |
Compiled by
Reporters Without Borders |
| Approaches
to Human Rights in Southeast Asia |
One of Asian Perspectives Seminar Series (Sept.
1999; PDF format) |
| Asia-Pacific
Centre for Human Rights & the Prevention of Ethnic Conflict |
Center founded "to promote the teaching & research
of human rights in the Asia-Pacific region [&] to provide online
access to Asian & Pacific human rights documents & resources" |
| Asian
Human Rights Commission |
"an independent, non-governmental body
...[seeking] to promote greater awareness & realisation of human
rights in the Asian region": programs; reports; papers; publications |
| Center
for Religious Freedom: Country Profiles |
Reports & documents for selected countries,
including China, Indonesia, North Korea, & Vietnam |
| Council
of Asian Liberals and Democrats |
"a forum for sustained discussion of changing
developments occurring in the countries and the region as a whole,
as well as assessing liberal solutions to political, economic, social
and cultural challenges in Asian democracies" |
Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices
2006; 2005; 2004; 2003; 2002;
2001; 2000; 1999; 1998; 1997; 1996 |
Annual reports by the Bureau of Democracy,
Human Rights, and Labor of the U.S. Department of State |
Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: East Asia and the Pacific
2006; 2005; 2004; 2003; 2002; 2001; 2000; 1999;
1998; 1997; 1996 |
Annual reports by the Bureau of Democracy,
Human Rights, and Labor of the U.S. Department of State |
| Cross-National
Indicators Of Liberal Democracy, 1950-1990 |
From The Inter-university Consortium for Political & Social
Research, a downloadable study by Kenneth A. Bollen |
| Democratic
Transitions & the Role of Islam in Asia |
An Asian Perspectives Seminar (Oct. 2000) |
| Digital
Freedom Network |
Organization
dedicated to promotion of human rights around the world through Internet
technology: current events; people in prison; survivors of tyranny;
violators of freedom; handbook; defenders of freedom; literature
of freedom; reading list; links |
| Focus
on Human Rights |
One of the Asian Perspectives Seminar Series
(Sept. 1998; PDF format) |
| Forum-Asia |
NGO launched "to facilitate collaboration
among human rights organizations in Asia so as to develop a regional
response for the promotion of human rights & democracy in the
region" |
Freedom
House: Freedom of the Press Survey
2006; 2005; 2004; 2003; 2002 |
Freedom House's survey of press freedom country
by country;
charts & statistics; map of press freedom |
| Freedom
in the World |
Freedom House's annual surveys monitoring
political rights & civil liberties
around the world |
| A
Guide for Human Rights Reporting on the Internet |
From Columbia University Graduate School of
Journalism (April 1998) |
| Human Rights
for Workers (HRFW) |
"focuses on how globalization affects
working men & women and on how it creates the need to incorporate
the human rights of workers into global rules" |
Human
Rights Watch World Report
2007; 2006; 2005;
2004: Human Rights & Armed Conflict; 2003;
2002; 2001; 2000; 1999 |
Human Rights Watch's annual reports with regional & country
overviews, & coverage of special issues |
Human
Rights Watch World Report: Asia
2007; 2006; 2005; 2003; 2002;
2001; 2000; 1999 |
Human rights developments in Asian countries
from Human Rights Watch's annual reports |
| International Freedom of Expression Exchange Clearing
House |
"accurate & up-to-date information
on freedom of expression issues & abuses" |
| International
Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission |
"a permanent international body whose main
purpose is to investigate allegations of grave breaches and serious
violations of international humanitarian law" |
| MOST
(Management of Social Transformations) Clearing House on Linguistic
Rights |
UNESCO program aiming at "furnishing information
useful for the peaceful & democratic management of societies
characterized by cultural & ethnic pluralism": MOST policy
on linguistic rights; international legal instruments; constitutions;
bibliography |
| NATLEX
Database |
International Labour Organization's "bibliographic
database that contains information on national laws on labour, social
security & related human rights" |
| Popular
Development and Democracy: Case Studies with Rural Dimensions in
the Philippines, Indonesia, and Kerala |
Olle Törnquist's essay commissioned under
UNRISD Research Programme on Civil Society & Social Movements
(2002) (PDF format) |
| Press
Freedom Guardian |
Searchable & browseable database at Yale
Law School |
| Privacy
International |
"a human rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog
on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations" |
| Project
Syndicate: The Human Rights Revolution |
Monthly commentaries
on whether "aspirations for universal human rights standards lead to greater human dignity,
or ... end in clashes between competing visions of the truth" |
| Report
of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
(May 2001) |
Available in HTML & PDF formats |
| Supporting
Human Rights and Democracy: The U.S. Record 2003-2004 - East Asia
and Pacific |
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights
and Labor, Dept. of State (May 2004) |
| Think
Centre (Asia) |
"an independent political think-tank which
critically examines issues related to political development; democracy;
rule of law; human rights & civil society" |
| United
Nations Documentation Research Guide--Special Topics: Human Rights |
Human rights documents of charter-based & treaty-based
UN bodies |
| United
Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database |
Information on the committees established to
monitor the implementation of the principal international human rights
treaties: committee members, documents, reporting status, & status
of ratification |
| University of Minnesota Human Rights Library |
Human rights documents & materials; human
rights search engines; other information at the Library |
| U.S.
Dept. of State: Democracy |
Issues in depth; publications; eJournals; links |
| U.S.
Dept. of State: Human Rights |
Issues in depth; key documents; publications;
eJournals; links |
| World
History of Democracy |
Writings on the world history of democracy
by Steve Muhlberger & Phil Paine, with chronologies, bibliographies, & Internet
resources |
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