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Amnesty
International Sites: |
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Amnesty
International USA
The United States section of Amnesty International |
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Amnesty
International, International Secretariat
The website of Amnesty International's worldwide movement. |
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Amnesty
International USA Group 15
The local Amnesty group serving Concord, Mass. |
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Amnesty
International USA Group 365
The local Amnesty group serving Belmont and Watertown, Mass. |
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Group 133 Related
Sites: |
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VGroup 133
Amnesty International Group 133's virtual group. Exchange information and
ideas with other human rights activists around the world. Post messages and
chat online. Everyone is welcome!
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A school for Iqbal
Group 133 authored this site to help Broad Meadows seventh graders honor the
memory of the slain 12 year old carpet maker, former slave, and human rights
activist with his own dream: raising money to build a schoolhouse in Masih's
village in Muridke, Pakistan. |
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Tibet Links: |
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Tibetan
Government in Exile
The official website of the Tibetan Government in Exile. The site is
maintained by The Office of Tibet in London, England. |
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International
Campaign for Tibet
This site has a lot of information about Tibet, both cultural and
political. It includes news along with more actions and ways to get
involved. |
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Tibet
Information Network
A good source for news updates on Tibet. |
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Canada Tibet
Committee
Includes the World Tibet News Archive, with daily updates. |
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Students for
a Free Tibet
The largest and most active student movement for Tibet. |
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Gu-Chu-Sum
An association of former Prisoners of Conscience from Tibet. |
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Refugee Links: |
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Amnesty's Refugee
Site
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iAbolish
Anti-Slavery Web Portal
iAbolish has two primary objectives: to make slavery a pressing human
rights concern and to mobilize a powerful anti-slavery movement. |
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United
Nations High Commission for Refugees
Mandated by the
United Nations to lead and coordinate international action for the
world-wide protection of refugees and the resolution of refugee problems. |
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U.S.
Committee for Refugees
USCR defends the
rights of all uprooted people regardless of their nationality, race,
religion, ideology, or social group. |
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Other Cool Sites: |
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FOREFRONT: Global
Network of Grassroots Human Rights Activists
FOREFRONT is an international network that supports and strengthens the work
of young leaders by helping them gain skills and resources, share
strategies, communicate with the international community, bring visibility
to their work, respond to crises, and share opportunities. FOREFRONT began
informally in 1993, when Reebok International brought together past
recipients of its annual human rights award honoring young leaders working
for social justice. |
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United Nations
Human Rights site
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, The Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, Human Rights Treaties, all available in six languages!
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Congressional
Human Rights Caucus
The Congressional Human Rights Caucus, open to all members of Congress, was
founded to focus broad bipartisan attention on human rights issues. "Human
rights are America's legacy to the world." |
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Human Rights Watch
Founded in 1978 as Helsinki Watch, Human Rights Watch is dedicated to
protecting the human rights of people around the world.
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U.S. Department of
State Human Rights Home Page
The U.S. Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor is
the lead U.S. Government agency responsible for promoting human rights
around the world. Read the State Department's human rights Mission
Statement, reports of the Commission on Human Rights, UN Human Rights
reports.
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International
Student Association for Health and Human Rights
The International Student Association for Health and Human Rights at the
Harvard School of Public Health endeavors to connect people's struggles for
dignity, political rights, and cultural survival with their struggles for
health.
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Derechos Human
Rights
Derechos Human Rights is the first internet based human rights organization.
Its purpose is to work for the promotion and respect of human rights all
over the world, for the right to privacy and against impunity for human
rights violators.
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Human Rights
Internet - A Human Rights Gateway
Human Rights Internet is a world leader in the exchange of information
within the worldwide human rights community. A key objective of the
organization is to support the work of the global non-governmental community
in its struggle to obtain human rights for all. HRI's primary role is to
serve the information needs of international scholars, human rights
activists, asylum lawyers, and other organizations via an extensive
documentation centre and computerized databases. |
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The Center
for Victims of Torture
The Center for Victims of Torture provides direct care to survivors of
politically-motivated torture and members of their families. The Center also
works in research, training, and public policy initiatives designed to
create new resources for torture survivors worldwide and new allies in the
campaign to end the use of torture. |
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The M.K. Gandhi
Institute for Nonviolence
The Mission of the Gandhi Institute is to promote and apply the principles
of nonviolence locally, nationally, and globally, to prevent violence and
resolve personal and public conflicts through research, education, and
programming. |
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Speak Truth to
Power
Speak Truth to Power is dedicated to the promotion of human rights awareness
by proactively engaging the general public in an ongoing series of
issue-related programs and events. Founded by former AIUSA board member,
Kerry Kennedy-Cuomo. |
