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AlertNet
http://www.alertnet.org/
AlertNet
provides global news, communications and logistics services to the
international disaster relief community and the public.
Home page
presents daily updated news from member organizations and Reuters News
Service. The site also includes an international register of aid suppliers; an
information exchange for members (to apply to be a member visit members application);
databases of training,
events (diary),
and contacts in the relief community (AlertNet Members) and
background information relevant to disaster relief. Relief Resources
provide access to documents, articles, and links to sites on topics such as
satellite images, children and war, working in relief, refugees, and
technology. For specific inquiries use the search engine
Amnesty
International
http://www.amnesty.org
(Arabic, English, French, and Spanish)
Amnesty
International is a worldwide movement that works to promote all the human
rights enshrined in the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights"
and other international standards. In particular, Amnesty International
campaigns to free all prisoners of conscience; ensure fair and prompt
trials for political prisoners; abolish the death penalty, torture and
other cruel treatment of prisoners; end political killings and
"disappearances"; and oppose human rights abuses by opposition
groups.
Searchable
website provides recent press releases, information on their campaigns,
and a library
archive of online reports, press releases, and other documents that can be
searched by theme, country, and region. Click on desired search list
to get list of options.
Asian Forum for
Human Rights and Development
http://www.forumasia.org/
Forum-Asia
was launched in December 1991, to facilitate collaboration among human
rights organizations in Asia so as to develop a regional response for the
promotion of human rights and democracy in the region.
Web site is
developing but contains information on international criminal court and
regional conference on internally displaced persons.
Asian Human Rights
Commission (AHRC)
http://www.ahrchk.net
The AHRC
is an independent, non-governmental body, which seeks to promote greater
awareness and realization of human rights in the Asian region, and to
mobilize Asian and international public opinion to obtain relief and
redress for the victims of human rights violations.
Website
contains information about the Commission, appeals,
annual program reports, the "Asian
Human Rights Charter", and AHRC publications
(including monthly newsletter: Human
Rights Solidarity). Some of the information is available in
Chinese including the Charter. The Commission often reports on refugee
rights, and looks into legal assistance for human rights abuses. Use
the search engine (bottom of home page) to locate articles and information.
Information can also be obtained by country.
 http://www.hrschool.org/
Human Rights Correspondence School is still being developed, but numerous modules
on reporting and campaigning for human rights are available.
http://www.ahrchk.net/solidarity/199809/v89_06.htm
"Crisis in Refugee Protection:
Need to Strengthen International Refugee Regime" Paper by Tapan K
Bose.
Brookings
Institution, Project on Internal Displacement
http://www.brookings.edu/fp/projects/idp/idp.htm
The
Brookings Institution Project on Internal Displacement seeks to improve the
international community's response to the global crisis of internal
displacement.
Website includes notification of
upcoming conventions, articles and papers, and UN reports, regarding protection and other issues of
internally displaced persons.
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