Political Science Resources

General Links :

• Canadian Social Research
• CBC.ca
• Globe and Mail
• Institute for Research on Public Policy
• National Post
• New York Times
• Online Resource Guide to Political Inquiry
• UBC Library - Bibliography of Canadian Politics and Society
• UNBSJ - Resources for Political Science & International Affairs
• Washington Post
  
• Women and Politics

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Canadian Sites:

• Association for Canadian Studies
• Canadian Constitution Acts, 1867 to 1982
• Canadian Elections
• Canadian Election Study
• Canadian Political Science Association
• CRIC
• Government of Canada
• Members of Canadian Legislatures
• Politics Watch™ - Canada's Political Portal™
• Legislative Assemblies in Canada
• Public Works and Government Services Canada
  
  

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International Sites:

• American Political Science Association
  
• European Consortium for Political Research
• Political Resources on the Net
• PoliSci.com
• United States Constitution
  
  

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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
• 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
• Coalition for ICC
• HRW Pinochet decisions

NGOs and MNCs

• HRW99 Corporations and HR
• Oneworld guide
• AI campaign on MNCs
• HRW on corporations and human rights
• 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
• Aviva Magazine on women's issues worldwide
• Adding Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity To Discrimination and Harassment Policies in School
• Canadian Bar Association Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Conference
• Dealing with Sexual Orientation
• GENDER & SEXUAL ORIENTATION
• Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
• States that Ban Discrimination Basied on Sexual Orientation Extending to Public Sector; Covering Only Public Sector HRC Work
• The Disparate Classification of Gender and Sexual Orientation in American Psychiatry
• UWE Career Development Unit - Equality, Disability, Race, Gender, Age, Sexual Orientation
• Welcome to the UCLGBTA
  

Children

• Children and War: Resources
• HCHR Children
• HRW World Report 2001 "Children"
• Convention on the Rights of the Child
• HRW. Children's Rights page.
• HRW re: child soldiers
• HRW99 report "Child Soldiers"
• Coalition to Stop of the Use of Child Soldiers. "Global Report on Child Soldiers 2001"
• ILO child labour file - proposed convention
• UNICEF
• Abandoned and Abused Child Slaves of Haiti
• Children's Rights Across the World, Human Rights - Multilingual Justice
• Children's Rights Council
• CNN In-Depth Specials - The World's Children
• HCR Zone - The Human and Children's Rights Website
• UNICEF Statistics
• VOY Children's Rights
• United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - Concluding Observations-Comments - Yugoslavia
  
  

Minorities and Indigenous Peoples

• World Conference vs. Racism
• HRW. Race and Human Rights page.
• Special rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism
• Cultural Survival
• Indigenous People of the Pacific
• Canadian Race Relations Foundation (with links to info on the World Conference against Racism)
• International Law and Native Americans
• Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• Minorities and Indigenous Peoples
• Researching Indigenous Peoples Rights Under International Law
• Indigenous Peoples
• FWDP - World Council of Indigenous Peoples
• Society for Threatened Peoples
• PDHRE - Indigenous Peoples
• The World Bank - Indigenous Peoples
• Land Tenure and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America : Resources
• An Analysis of the United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• eLandnet - The electronic highway to unrepresented nations, indigenous peoples and minorities worldwide
  

Genocide

• AI campaign on Rwanda
• HRW report on Bosnia
• Oneworld Guide
• Genocide, and Encarta Encyclopaedia Article
• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the crime of Genocide
• Cambodian Genocide Program
• Centre for Holocaust, Genocide and Peace Studies
• Turkey and the Genocide of the Kurds
• Overlooking Genocide in Laos and Beyond; Genocide: America's Double Standards
• The History Place - Genocide in the 20th Century; Chronicles the atrocities committed in 1994 in Rwanda
• SANCTIONS = GENOCIDE
• A copy of the infamous fax from a UN commander in Rwanda to UN headquarters detailing Hutu genocide plans which was completely ignored by high ranking officials
• A chronological summary of the 100 days of slaughter in Rwanda
• Comprehensive website detailing the mass genocide in Rwanda
• War Crimes Tribunal Watch
  

Refugees

• UNHCR
• IOM
• HRW. Refugees page.
• UN Factsheet "Human Rights and Refugees"
• Sierra Leoneans in Guinea and Liberia
• HRW99 Report "Refugees and Asylum Seekers"
• HRW2000
• AI campaign on refugees - 1
• AI campaign on refugees - 2
• HRW: 50 Years on: What Future for Refugee Protection
• HRW Burmese in Thailand
• Refugees International
• National Coalition of anti-Deportation Campaigns
• U.S. Committee for Refugees
• International Rescue Committee
• International Federation of Iranian Refugees
• Bhutanese Refugees
• Hear Palestine
• Map of distribution of Afghan refugees after Operation Enduring Freedom initiated by U.S. forces in Afghanistan
  

Forced Labour/ Migrant Labour/ Slavery

• UN Factsheet "Migrant Workers"
• International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
• AI trade union campaign
• Global Survival Network "Trafficking in Women"
• Global Alliance Against Trafficking in Women
• HRW. "Owed Justice: Thai Women Trafficked into Debt Bondage in Japan."
• UN condemns modern slavery
• Baltimore Anti-Slavery Society
• News article on Slavery in China
• UNHCR document on Contemporary forms of Slavery
• Press Release to abolish Bonded child labour in India
• Fujian Migrant workers in British Columbia
• Total child labour around the world
• Slavery in Guatemala
• International Organization for Migration
• Human Rights Portal which includes links to documents, articles, press releases, etc. with respect to Slavery, Forced labour and Migration issues
• The People's Decade of Human Rights Education - The Human Right to Work and the Human Rights of Workers
• Report on Trade Union Rights Worldwide
• Congressional Research Service Report on Trafficking in Women and Children
• Signs of the Times (Trafficking in women and children brings some 50,000 people into the US annually, while some one million are taken away annually)
• Trafficking of Women using the Internet
• Trafficking of young women and girls by international organized criminal bodies
  

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