We have included a small selection of links to the websites of international human rights and United Nations organisations. For more specific research needs we recommend you visit Human Rights Internet, which is the definitive portal site for human rights on the internet.

http://www.hri.ca/

Amnesty International

http://www.amnesty.org

Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognised human rights.

Human Rights Watch

http://www.hrw.org/

Human Rights Watch is the largest human rights organization based in the United States. Human Rights Watch researchers conduct factfinding investigations into human rights abuses in all regions of the world.

Interights

http://www.interights.org/

Interights, the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights, is an international human rights law centre established in 1982 to support and promote the development of legal protection for human rights and freedoms worldwide through the effective use of international and comparative human rights law.

The International Criminal Court

Websites of the International Criminal Court

http://www.icc-cpi.int/php/show.php?id=home&l=EN

http://www.un.org/law/icc/

Articles from Pambazuka news on the International Criminal Court

http://www.iccnow.org/

The Coalition for the International Criminal Court is a network of 1,000 non-governmental organizations advocating for a fair, effective and independent International Criminal Court.

Pambazuka news

http://www.pambazuka.org

Pambazuka News (Pambazuka means arise or awaken in Kiswahili) is weekly forum for social justice in Africa. Pambazuka News offers a comprehensive weekly round-up of news on human rights, conflict, health, environment, social welfare, development, the internet, literature and arts in Africa.

United Nations

http://www.un.org

The UN website, with a wide range of information on human rights, humanitarian and international law and development.

UNESCO

http://www.unesco.org

The main objective of UNESCO is to contribute to peace and security in the world by promoting collaboration among nations through education, science, culture and communication in order to further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion, by the charter of the UN.

UNHCHR

http://www.unhchr.ch/

The mission of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is to protect and promote all human rights for all. The website contains a large amount of information on human rights bodies and legal instruments, the state of human rights across the world, and on human rights training and education. The web addresses below link to overviews of a series of human rights treaties and law.

Overview of the Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/8/overcerd.htm

Overview of the Convention Against Torture

http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/8/overcat.htm

Overview to the Optional Protocol on Civil and Political Rights

http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/8/over.htm

Rules on UN consultation with NGOs

http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/2/rules5.htm

UNICEF

http://www.unicef.org

Working with national governments, not-for-profit organisations, other UN agencies and private-sector partners, UNICEF protects children and their rights by providing services and supplies and by helping shape policy agendas and budgets in the best interests of children.

World Health Organisation (WHO)

http://www.who.ch

The WHO, the UN specialised agency for health, was established on 7 April 1948. WHO's objective, as set out in its constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.