RESOURCES: HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS
This section contains links to a variety of human rights organizations, grouped into three broad categories: Inter-Governmental (including UN and other global and regional bodies), Non-Governmental, and Academic Centers.
INTER-GOVERNMENTAL
United Nations/Global Organizations
UN International Law Commission
International Court of Justice
UN High Commisioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR)
UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
International Labour Organization (ILO)
ILO International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC)
International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre (ILO-CIS)
World Health Organization (WHO)
UN Development Programme (UNDP)
International Civilian Mission in Haiti
Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
UN Commission on the Status of Women
UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
UN Crime and Justice Information Network (UNCJIN)
UN Fourth World Conference on Women
UN Mission for the Verification of Human Rights in Guatemala (MINUGUA)
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Regional Organizations
African Union (AU)
Council of Europe (COE)
Organization of American States (OAS)
Organization for Security & Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
High Commissioner on National Minorities
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NON-GOVERNMENTAL
Aboriginal Law and Legislation Online
Action Canada for Population and Development
American Association for the Advancement of Science Human Rights Program
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Arab Association for Human Rights
Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Canadian Human Rights Reporter
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
Catholic Agency for Overseas Development
Caux Round Table: Charting a New Course for Business
Center for Economic and Social Rights
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
Child Rights Information Network
Committee to Protect Journalists
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
Danish Institute for Human Rights
East Timor and Indonesia Action Network
European Centre for Minority Issues
Franciscans and Dominicans for Human Rights
Global March Against Child Labor
Inter-American Institute of Human Rights
InterAction: American Council for Voluntary International Action
Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
International Center for Research on Women
International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development
International Committeee of the Red Cross
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
International Federation on Human Rights
International Institute for Sustainable Development
International Lesbian and Gay Association
International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
International Service for Human Rights
Islamic Human Rights Commission
Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
National Center for Human Rights Education
National Organization for Women (NOW)
NativeWeb: Resources for Indigenous Cultures Around the World
People's Movement for Human Rights Education (PDHRE)
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
RESULTS: The Power to End Hunger
Sierra Club: Human Rights and the Environment
Social Accountability International
South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre
Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy
United Nations Association USA
United Students Against Sweatshops
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
Washington Office on Latin America
World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)
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ACADEMIC CENTERS (Domestic & Foreign)
Domestic
• California
Center for Law & Global Justice (University of San Francisco)
• Colorado
• Connecticut
Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Law Project (Yale University)
Human Rights Institute (University of Connecticut)
Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights (Yale Law School)
• Georgia
• Illinois
Center for International Human Rights (Northwestern University School of Law)
• Indiana
Center for Civil and Human Rights (University of Notre Dame Law School)
International Human Rights Law Program (Indiana University School of Law)
• Massachusetts
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy (Harvard University)
Center for Human Rights and International Justice (Boston College)
François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health & Human Rights (Harvard University)
Human Rights & Justice Program (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Minnesota
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (University of Minnesota)
• New York
Buffalo Human Rights Center (SUNY-Buffalo Law School)
Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (New York University)
Center for the Study of Human Rights (Columbia University)
Crowley Program in International Human Rights (Fordham Law School)
• Ohio
• Texas
Rapoport Center for Human Rights & Justice (University of Texas at Austin)
• Virginia
Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law (American University, Washington College of Law)
Foreign
• Australia
Australian Human Rights Centre (University of New South Wales, Australia)
• Canada
Human Rights Research and Education Centre (University of Ottawa, Ontario)
Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism (McGill University, Montreal, Quebec)
• Finland
• Finland
Irish Centre for Human Rights (University of Ireland, Galway)
• Israel
Minerva Center for Human Rights (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• The Netherlands
European Research Centre on Migration & Ethnic Relations (Utrecht University)
Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (Utrecht School of Law)
• Sweden
Department of Peace and Conflict Research (University of Uppsala)
Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (University of Lund)
• Switzerland
University Centre for International Humanitarian Law (University of Geneva)
Centre for the Study of Human Rights (London School of Economics)
Centre for the Study of Human Rights Law (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
Human Rights Centre (University of Essex, England)
Human Rights Centre (Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland)
Human Rights Law Centre (University of Nottingham, England)
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