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Chinese dissident Wei Jinsheng.
* HUMAN RIGHTS - Online Resource Guide to Political Inquiry *

| Dr. Michael Dartnell | Department of Political Science | University of Windsor | Windsor | Ontario | Canada |

* GENERAL RESOURCES *

Access to Justice Network (Canadian law and justice resource materials African Human Rights Resource Centre (Makerere University and University of Minnesota Human Rights Library) - Actions taken by the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU and African Commission on Human and People's Rights African Rights - African Rights in African Perspective Amnesty International
Asociacion Pro Derechos Humanos (Peru) Coalition for International Justice DIANA - international human rights database
L'esclavage à travers les siècles European Commission of Human Rights The Global Democracy Network Human and Constitutional Rights Resource Page (Columbia University)
Human Rights on the Internet: Sites that Encourage Activism (this annotated Webliography offers a host of sites and Internet resources devoted to human rights issues, with an emphasis on activism. Resources are categorized under Starting points, Web directories and meta sites, Organizations, Annual surveys, and Lists. Part of the Association of College & Research Libraries News series)
 Human Rights Watch - Abandoned to the State: Cruelty and Neglect in Russian Orphanages, Behind Bars in Brazil, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: Detentions and Abuse in Kosovo, Indonesia: Human Rights and Pro-Independence Actions in Irian Jaya, A Job or Your Rights: Continued Sex Discrimination in Mexico's Maquiladora Sector and United States - Detained and Deprived of Rights: Children in the Custody of the US Immigration and Naturalization Service Human Rights Internet Human Rights Web
Humanitarian Law Centre (Belgrade, Serbia) - Publications on human rights abuses in the Former Yugoslavia Index on Censorship Inter-American Human Rights Database (Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Washington College of Law, The American University) International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development
International Committee of the Red Cross International Court of Justice International Criminal Tribunals on Rwanda and the Former Yugoslavia International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
LawWorld Lawyers Committee for Human Rights Martin Hogan's Human Rights Homepage Médecins sans Frontieres / Doctors without Borders
Mike & Margarita's Human Rights Links Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights NDIMA (Pan-African human rights) Physicians for Global Survival World Court Project
Save the Children Fund South Asia Human Rights Page Statewatch Stop Child Sexual Slavery! Don't! Buy! Thai!
Truth & Reconciliation Commission (South Africa) United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
War Crimes Investigators Open Source Factual Resources WOMANKIND Worldwide World Organization Against Torture (OMCT)

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* SELECTED HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTS AND INSTRUMENTS *

African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights Canadian Charter of Rights Chartre des droits et libertés de la personne (Québec) Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Descrimination against Women Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Convention on the Rights of the Child
Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief European Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms European Convention on Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights Decisions French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
International Human Rights Instruments by Topic (University of Minnesota Human Rights Library) Ontario Human Rights Code Slavery Convention, 60 L.N.T.S. 253, entered into force March 9, 1927. U.N. Charter
U.S. Bill of Rights Universal Declaration of Human Rights

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* NATIONAL, REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COURTS *

European Court of Human Rights Supreme Court of Canada - Supreme Court of Canada, The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Charter of Rights decisions (1983-) and Judgments published in the Supreme Court Reports (S.C.R.) U.S. Supreme Court - Supreme Court - Decisions (Cornell University), Court Cases by Subject (Northwestern University), Decisions From 1937-1975 (FedWorld), Decisions From 1937- (FindLaw), Oyez, Oyez, Oyez (multimedia database about US Supreme Court), Recent Decisions (1990 onward), Selected Historical Decisions and U.S. Code (Cornell University) France - Conseil constitutionnel and La Cour de Cassation

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* THE HOLOCAUST *

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum World Jewish Congress

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* JOURNALS *

Human Rights Brief (Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington College of Law)

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Last update: October 28, 2000.

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