Human Rights and Liberties (Issues)

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Human Rights and Liberties Sites:

Amnesty International Report 1999: Africa Index Page Summary of concern with links to country reports. http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/ar99/afr.htm African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights Research project that aims at legally analyzing the basic tenets of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. Includes background information, bibliography and links. http://www.diplomacy.edu/africancharter/ Centre for Democracy and Development A non-profit, non governmental, institution dedicated to policy-oriented scholarship on questions of democratic development and peace-building in West Africa. Site includes press releases, strategy statement, current projects and publications, and partner http://www.cdd.org.uk/ Human Rights and Governance in Africa Columbia University African Studies link list. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/IORights.html Human Rights in Africa Reports and information. http://www.derechos.org/human-rights/afr/ The Africa Fund Works for a positive U.S. policy towards Africa and supports human rights, democracy and development. http://africafund.prairienet.org/ Article 19: Africa Programme The Africa Programme staff are based in London and Johannesburg and their current programme of work takes in freedom of information (Nigeria), truth commissions (Sierra Leone) and media monitoring (Zimbabwe, Malawi), as well as reporting and campaigning w http://www.article19.org/Homepage.asp?AreaID=31&SubAreaID=46 Hopes on the Horizon: The Rise of a New Africa Companion site to the PBS documentary film of the same name. Explores the rise of pro-democracy movements in six African countries --Mozambique, Morocco, Benin, Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa -- during the 1990s. http://www.pbs.org/hopes/ Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa A non-profit, non-governmental pan-African organisation founded to advance respect for human rights in Africa through the use of international law. http://www.africaninstitute.org/ African Human Rights Resource Center The Peace Resource Center contains a large collection of international human rights treaties, instruments, general comments, recommendations, decisions, and views of treaty bodies; other U.N. human rights materials, with an emphasis on peace and war relat http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/africa/ Amnesty International Recent AI Publications on Africa. http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/REGIONS/AFRICA?OpenView&Start=1&Count=30&Expand=1&ft=S Richard Knight - Africa Documents on human rights and economic justice. http://richardknight.homestead.com/ Green Charter International Green Charter International is an African International Human Rights Organisation based on the Great Green Charter for Human Rights and Freedoms. Green Charter International works to propagate knowledge of, and campaigns for, these advanced rights and fre http://mathaba.net/gci/ Article 19: Africa publications Range from short updates on country situations to full reports on the freedom of expression situation in the region. http://www.article19.org/homepage.asp?AreaID=31&SubAreaID=46&PageID=47

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