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International Sites:

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Human Rights:

General Human Rights Info:

• Human rights links from WWW virtual library
• Human rights links from York University

Great magazines available on line:

• New Internationalist
• One World Web Site

UN Declarations and Conventions:

• UN Human Rights Instruments
• Instruments under development
  (including the Draft Declaration on Indigenous Rights ; Optional Protocol on the Sale and Trafficking of Children; the Optional Protocol on Children in Armed Conflict; the Working Group on the Rights of Migrants)
• UN introduction to the International Bill of Rights
• Universal Declaration
• Vienna Declaration
• Vienna plus 5
• ICESCR
• Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• ICCPR
• Optional Protocol
• 2nd Optional Protocol - (death penalty)
• UN Human Rights Commission Thematic Mandates (Special Rapporteurs)

International Criminal Court and Other Tribunals

• HRW. International Justice page.
• HRW ICC campaign 1
• HRW ICC campaign 2
• Coalition for ICC
• HRW Pinochet decisions

NGOs and MNCs

• HRW99 Corporations and HR
• Oneworld guide
• AI campaign on MNCs
• Defenders' Declaration
• Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals and Groups to Promote and Protect Human Rights
• HRW on corporations and human rights
• Corpwatch on Nike
• AI campaign on health professionals

Gender and Sexual Orientation

• CEDAW
• Women Watch
• Optional Protocol
• Special Rapporteur on Violence vs. Women
• Beijing Conference
• HRW. Women's rights page (and sexual minorities)
• HRW. Lesbian and Gay Rights page.
• HRW99 "Women"
• UN factsheet "Discrimination vs. Women"
• HRW99 report lesbian and gay rights
• HRW2000 report lesbian and gay rights
• International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Committee
• AI campaign FGM
• AI campaign on women's rights
• Rape as a war crime
• DIANA (Database of international women's human rights resources)
• Aviva Magazine on women's issues worldwide

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