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Human Rights Websites

John Ruggie, Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) on business and human rights - Portal for documents and speeches by Ruggie in his work for the Human Rights Council
On 24 March 2011, Special Representative Ruggie issued "Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Implementing the United Nations 'Protect, Respect and Remedy' Framework," his final report. This followed an online consultation held by the Special Representative on a draft of the Guiding Principles from November 2010 through January 2011.

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Online multilingual (English, French, Spanish) debating forum on
Human Rights Principles and NGO Accountability
hosted by International Council on Human Rights Policy

Updated 4 May 2011- updates in this color

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights text
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights 50th anniversay information
• International Bill of Human Rights  and other human rights
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights Wikipedia
• 60th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights by UN
• UN Global Compact and the Univ Declation of Human Rights at 60
  

Human Rights Conventions
     Human Rights conventions, covenants, and protocols were issued
     by the United Nations General Assembly. Texts of conventions are
     at Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and status is
     at UN Treaty Series

• List of states party to human rights conventions
• International Human Rights Instruments Links to rights organized by categories: self-determination, indigenous, the child, women, older persons, etc.
• Human Rights Bodies 4 Charter-based bodies and 8 human rights treaty bodies that monitor implementation of the core international human rights treaties.
• Int'l Human Rights Instuments by U of Minn. Extensive list.
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
  
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol
  
• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
• Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
• International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families
• International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (not yet in force)
• Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• Opening for Signature videos, photos, for Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabiliteis, beginning 13 Dec 2006
  
• Geneva Conventions ICRC [Humanitarian Law]
  

• Commission on the Status of Women
• UN Development Fund for Women  (UNIFEM)
• United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women             
• UN Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action
• United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women Follow-up
• Women's Rights Are Human Rights
• Women Watch
• The Senaca Falls Declaration 1848

    Online Videos / Lectures

• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 23 min 23 sec
  by Amnesty International
• Lynn Hunt: Inventing Human Rights, 57 min o6 sec
• Conversations with History: Dignity, Human Rights and Torture 53 min 55sec
• Chicago United Nations Hearings and Testimonies on Racism,
  May 23, 2008
  - Part 1 - Mr. Doudou Diene's Opening Remarks,
                UN Rapporteur on Racism
  - Part 2 - Mr. Doudou Diene's Opening Remarks, UN Rapporteur
                on Racism
  - Joey Mogul's Testimony to UN Special Rapporteur on Racism
  - Doug Schenkelberg's Testimony to UN Special Rapporteur
• Law Lecture Series by Audio Visual Library of International Law
  Permanent collection of lectures of enduring value on virtually every subject of international law given by leading international law scholars and practitioners from different regions, legal systems, cultures and sectors of the legal profession.
• John Ruggie, Human rights and transnational corporations, 9min 49 sec
• John Ruggie, Presents Business and Human Rights Framework, 9min 59sec
• Oslo Freedom Forum speeches
  
• The Elders Campaign called by Nelson Mandela and Garca Machel, with Jimmy Carter, Demond Tutu, Charles Branson, etc.
• VIDEO: CEDAW convention -- list of articles
• VIDEO: Every Human has Rights - Nelson Mandela, Mary Robinson, Desmond Tutu, etc.
• Why non-discrimination is important. By 20 experts.
  
  

• Midwest Coalition for Human Rights Coaltion of 44 NGOs and universitiy programs working on human rights
• CERD Project by US Human Rights Network - lists CERD convention, US reservations, UN Committee on CERD, US 200 report, etc.
• CERD Shadow Reporting coordinated by US Human Rights Network
• Periodic Report of the US to UN Committee on CERD on compliance with CERD, by US Dpet of State, Apr 2007
• Brief Overview of 2007 US State Report on CERD 5 pages
• Chicago Shadow Report: Response to the Periodic Report of the United States
  to the United Nations Committee on the Eliminationof Racial Discrimination, Feb 2008
• Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination under Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights
• NGO Information relating to the US on US CERD Report to the UN, Feb 2008
• List of ratifications, accessions, and country reservations to CERD convention
• Chicago Human Rights MeetUp Group
• Chicago City Council Passed Resolution Supporting the Convention on the Rights for the Child by US Human Rights fund, 17 Feb. 2009
• Special Rapporteur on Racism US Mission.18 May to 6 June 6 at invitation of US government
• Southwest Youth Collaborative 7 Dec 2007 Protest at City Hall

• UN Global Compact 8,000+ members: companies, NGOs, universities work towards implementing labor rights, human right, environment care and anti-corruption in their operations
• Human Rights Council
• ITU World 2009 conference 5-9 Oct 09. Int'l Telecommunication Union (includes human rights and technology)
• International Labor Organzation (ILO) conventions and agreements on Indienous Rights
• The UN Human Rights Treaty System: An Introduction to the Core human rights treaties and bodies pdf 60pp
• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
• United Nations Commission on Human Rights
• World Conference on Human Rights 1993
• Health and Human Rights by WHO
• UNESCO commemorates the 60th anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- four rights which are within UNESCO’s direct competence:
  * Right to education (Article 26) ;
  * Right to take part in cultural life (Article 27) ;
  * Right to freedom of opinion and expression including the right to   seek, receive and impart information (Article 19) ;
  * Right to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its   applications (Article 27).
  

Human Rights Resources

• Australian Human Rights Information Centre  Text of human rights instruments: UN Charter, International Bill of Human Rights, Discrimination/Minorities, Women, Children, Indigenous; and, UN Commission on Human Rights decisions
• Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Sept 2007
• Indigenous Shadow Report Feb 2008
• Indigenous Rights: Fact Sheet 9, rev 1 Progreamme of Activities for Decade of Indigenous People 1995 - 2004
• Diana: An International Human Rights Database Yale University
• Directory of Human Rights Resources American   Science. Includes site on science and human rights
• Geneva Conventions ICRC
• Geneva Conventions Laws of war
• Human Rights Internet Links to NGO and other sites
• Human Rights Library  University of Minnesota
• Human Rights Resource Center USA U of Minn.
• Human Rights: The Essential Reference book by Carol Devine, Carol Rae Hansen, Ralph Wilde, Hilary Poole; Oryx Press, 1999. 314pgs pp 1-55 are free online-- human rights in ancient Greece and Rome. Must subscribe to Questia Online Books. DePaul does not subscribe. Book is available in print at Lincoln Park and Law libraries.
  
• International Humanitarian Law - Treaties and Documents - 100 treaties and other texts, current situation regarding signatures, ratifications, accessions and successions
• International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition - 2004
• Links to Human Rights Instruments  Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
• Human Rights Virtual Library
• Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) conference about human rights first held in May 2009 in Oslo, Norway. Second OFF took place in April 2010 in Oslo. Every speech was filmed and is posted at www.youtube.com/oslofreedomforum.
• Reference Guide to the Geneva Conventions
• United Nations Treaty Collection
• Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, 1993
• World Conference Against Racism 2001 South Africa
• World Conference on Human Rights 1993 Vienna

• Amnesty International Report 2010 The State of the World's Human Rights
• A Report Card on Child Protection, number 8, Sept 2009 Unicef
• Human Rights Watch World Report 2010 
• PracticeReport on International Religious Freedom released 19 Sept 2008
• Remarks on Release of 2008 International Religious Freedom Repor
• U.S. Department of State: Country Reports on Human Rights

International Courts Tribunals / Regional Courts

• European Court of Human Rights Strasbourg, Cedex, France
• International Court of Justice (ICJ) 
• Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia  Official documents
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rawanda
• International Criminal Court website
• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Entered into force 1 July 2002
• UN Conference on the Establishment of the ICC
  15 June to 17 July 1998, Rome, Ital

 Ranking Human Rights Achievements

• Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), by Tranparency International
• Freedom of the Press 2009 Survey Release Surverys independent media in 195 countries and territories.
• Map of Freedom in the World by Freedom House.
• Polity IV data series is a widely used data series in political science research. Polity IV contains coded annual information on regime authority characteristics and transitions for all independent states (with greater than 500,000 total population) in the global state system and covers the years 1800-2006.
• The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Index of Democracy 2008

• A CALL for HUMAN RIGHTS REPORTS: The Business and Human Rights Documentation (B-HRD.org) Project is a cutting edge advocacy and educational resource that digests existing, first-hand human rights documentation to identify the impacts businesses have across industries and regions on the full spectrum of rights embodied under international law. This is a new joint initiative of ESCR-Net and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at NYU School of Law.
• BASESwiki focused on non-judicial mechanisms available around world to help companies and their external stakeholders resolve disputes.
• Business and Human Rights Amnesty International reports. Amnesty International helped develop the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, which guide companies in maintaining the safety and security of their operations within a framework that ensures respect for human rights. Amnesty has remained involved in the process since their launch in 2002.
• Business and Human Rights Resource Centre Tracking the positive and negative impacts of over 4,000 companies worldwide.
• Business and Human Rights: A Survey of NHRI Practices (2008) by Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Analysis of the work of national and intergovernmental bodies with respect to business and related issues.
• Business | Human Rights Watch Exposes human rights violations by corporations in various industries.
• Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress Chair: Joseph Stiglitz. President Sarkozy created this Commission to identify limits of GDP as an indicator of economic performance and social progress, to consider additional information required for production of a more relevant picture, to discuss how to present this information in the most appropriate way, and to check the feasibility of measurement tools proposed by the Commission.
  - Report as pdf file and video speeches
  
• CorpWatch investigative research and journalism to expose corporate malfeasance andadvocates for multinational corporate accountability and transparency.Work to foster global justice, independent media activism and democratic control over corporations.
  
• Fair Labor Organization Est. 1999, network of companies, NGOs, universities dedicated to protecting owrkers' rights in member companyoperations worldwide through independent monitoring of labor standards.
• Global Business Initiative on Human Rights Global business-led project committed to advancing human rights in business around the world.
• Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) Many human rights courses, forums, lists publications, etc.
• Human Rights Quatertly website is good to see titles.
  Access articles via DePaul Library.
• Human Rights Watch: Business
• Institute for Human Rights and Business Works to raise corporate standards and strengthen public policy to ensure that the activities of companies do not contribute to human rights abuses, and in fact lead to positive outcomes.
• International Labor Organization (ILO) Labor standards, conventions, meetings, reports, etc.
• Kimberley Process Est. 2003 to certify diamonds as not being "conflict diamonds" or "blood diamonds"
• Mandate of Special Representative of S-G on Issue of HUman Rights and Transnational Corporatins... adoped 18 June 2008 by UN Human Rights Commission (Doc: A_HRC_RES_8_7)
• Multinational Corporations and Human Rights Links to codes, principles and norms for multinational and other corporations as to their human rights responsibilities, ethical investment indices, transnational litigation against companies and other relevant case law. Part of 3 year Australian Research Council project investigating human rights responsibilities of multinational corporations.
• Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights, U.N. Doc. E/CN.4/Sub.2/2003/12/Rev.2 (2003) at U of Minn
• John Ruggie, Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) on business and human rights - Portal for documents and speeches by Ruggie in his work for the Human Rights Council.
• John Ruggie List of documents prepared by and submitted to
  SRSG on Business and Human Rights, incl his offical reports to the Human Rights Council - pdf file. Available at Business and Human Rights Resource Center: John Ruggies portal
• Text of selected business & human rights standards
• Transparency International The global coalition against corruption
• United Nations Global Compact World's largest organization on Corporate Social Responsibility. Promotes 10 princples based on int'l law.
• Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights Launched in 2000, US, UK, Norway, Netherlands, companies in extractive and energy sectors NGOs, developed set of voluntary principles to guide Companies in maintaining safety and security of their operations within an operating framework that ensures respect for human rights.

• Amnesty International
• Anti-Slavery International first anti-slavery NGO
• Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
• Carter Center seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health.
• Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions Over one billion people are inadequately housed.
  
• Committee on Human Rights a standing committee of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. Serves as secretariat of International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies (H.R. Network).
• Derechos Human Rights
• European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights
• Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
• Freedom House supports democratic change, monitors freedom, and advocates for democracy and human rights.
• The Global Campaign for Ratification of Convention on Rights of Migrants
• Human Rights First
• Human Rights Watch
• Human Rights Web
• International Commission of Jurists has impartial, objective and authoritative legal approach to the protection and promotion of human rights through the rule of law.
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
• International Council on Human Rights Policy
• International Federation for Human Rights 155 human rights organizations throughtout the world
• International Gay and Lesbian Association (IGLA)
• International Helsinki Federation
• International Human Rights Network
• International League for Human Rights
• International Service for Human Rights (ISHR)
• Lawyers for Human Rights
• List of Human Rights NGOs by region by Duke Library
• Oxfam international confederation of 14 organizations working together in 99 countries and with partners and allies around the world to find lasting solutions to poverty and injustice.
• Physicians for Human Rights
• Realizing Rights The ethical globalization initiative
• The Advocacy Project helps marginalized communities to tell their story, claim their rights and produce social change.
• The Enough Project Helping to build a permanent constituency to prevent genocide and crimes against humanity. Initial focus was on Sudan, eastern Congo, northern Uganda, Somalia, Chad and Zimbabwe. Utilizes“3P” approach: promoting peace, protecting civilians, punishing perpetrators; and prevention.
• United for Human Rights
  
• World Organization Against Torture
• Youth For Human Rights
  

• CharityNavigator Provides spending by charitites, including CEO salaries, spending on office vs spending on charitie's mission
• Defining Contemporary Forms of Slavery: Updating a Venerable NGO Human Rights Quarterly, Feb 2009
• New Approaches to Combating Modern Slavery Book Review
• Caution and Confrontation in the International Criminal Court’s Pursuit of Accountability in Uganda and Sudan Aug 2009
• Working to Eliminate Human Rights Abuses of Children:
  A Cross-National Comparative Study Aug 2008
• Darfur and the Limits of Legal Deterrence Aug 2008
• Development as Health: Employing the Collective Right to Development to Achieve the Goals of the Individual Right to Health May 2008
• Flowers, Diamonds, and Gold: The Destructive Public Health, Human Rights, and Environmental Consequences of Symbols of Love Feb 2008
• Defining the Problem of Trafficking: The Interplay of US Law, Donor, and NGO Engagement and the Local Context in Latin America Feb 2008
• Mock trial: symbolic court held in conjunction with the 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP), which opened on 9 Aug 2009 at Indonesia.
  - First South East Asia Court of Women on HIV and Human Trafficking in South East Asia 7 Aug 2009
  - Court of Women hears testimonies from trafficked, sexually exploited
  

• The Advocates for Human Rights
  - Quizes: Rights for Women, Migrants, Education, Housing, Health, Food
  
• What are human rights
• World Programme for Human Rights Education (2005-ongoing)
• United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education (1995-2004)
• Human Rights Day 2008
• Human Rights Day 2009: Theme: Embrace Diversity - End Discrimination

• Youth Corner: 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  -- Take the Human Rights Quiz

• Student Conference on Human Rights 2008 - Climate Change and Human Rights

• Student Conference on Human Rights 2009 - Int'l Year of Human Rights Learning

• PDHRE The People's Movement for Human Rights Teaching materials include videos

• Human Rights The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

• 2048 Project Humanity's written agreement to live togerther; includes human rights day curriculum. This is a project within the Institute for Global Challenges and the Law at the Berkeley Law School.
• Human Rights Standford Encylopedia of Philosophy
• United For Human Rights Resources, Petiitions, Educ Materials
• World Forum on Human Rights is a platform for exchange of knowledge, good practices, general reflection, intensive debate in order to contribute to advancement of human rights in the world.
• Family-friendly website on children's rights
  presented at the Human Rights Council - 11 March 2009
  List and discussion of issues, video
• Obama Administration Seeks to Join U.N. Rights of The Child Convention 22 June 2009
  
• BLOG: Human Rights in Scotland, Youth for Human Rights - Boston, Human Rights Digest