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Human Rights Advocacy Group against Arbitrary Deprivation of the Urdu speaking minority in Pakistan and Bangladesh. - [Read more]

Highlighting contemporary indigenous peoples' issues from around the world, including the indigenous peoples of the Americas, Brazil, Central America, Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zeland, Siberia, Alaska, Polynesia, India, Chile, and much more. Topics include cultures and religions, intellectual property rights, archaeology, art, health, resources, rights, and much more. - [Read more]

Listen to the Voices of the people who have been violently forced from their homes, as they tell about their lives. Discover the personal stories behind the figures of internal displacement. The narratives in these pages are valuable complements to the official information on conflicts which governments and international organisations offer. - [Read more]

Circle of Rights-Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Activism: A Training Resource is about the substance of ESC rights and about strategies and tools that can be used to protect and promote them. by IHRIP and Forum-Asia. In English, French, Spanish, Arabic. - [Read more]

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Politics, rights and accountability in the budget process. Andy Norton and Diane Elson. Overseas Development Institute, June 2002. - [Read more]

This guide is about how to monitor government budgets as a means to advance child rights. Judith Streak, Idasa. - [Read more]

A practical guide to budget analysis, by Maria Socorro Dioknyo, 1999. - [Read more]

Provides a framework to help anticipate the positive and negative effects of a human rights intervention or programme. - [Read more]

In this blog post, Janet Haven makes the case for data visualisation, showing how human rights organisations need to make their data talk to add to their advocacy argumentations. She showcases some new Web 20.0 tools like Swivel and Many Eyes. - [Read more]

Online textbooks in several languages: human rights, democracy, peace education, and more. - [Read more]

Resources for the ever growing body of educators and activists seeking to build a culture of human rights, published by the Minnesota Human Rights Resource Center. - [Read more]

The Center for Repreoductive Rights offers an excellent information and resources. Check out their "issues" sections on abortion, adolescents, contraception, safe pregancy, human rights. We link to their publication section, which also offers reference manuals for download. - [Read more]

Interactive web site on the right to food. Provides easy access to the main documents (voluntary guidelines, etc.), and an extensive document library. Make sure you visit the distance learning module in the knowledge center, its very nice and you don't even need to register to get started! - [Read more]

Covers war crimes trial in the front of the Court of BiH, provides analysis and investigative stories about war time related issues, transitional justice and the process of dealing with the past. - [Read more]

Hans Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder.org, a non-profit that brings vital global data to life. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, he debunks a few myths about the "developing" world. This will really inspire you on how how to use indicators and data to communicate powerfully about human rights issues. - [Read more]

Hans Rosling is professor of international health at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, and founder of Gapminder.org, a non-profit that brings vital global data to life. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, he debunks a few myths about the "developing" world. This will really inspire you on how how to use indicators and data to communicate powerfully about human rights issues. - [Read more]

The Universal Human Rights Index provides instant access for all countries to observations and recommendations made by the export bodies (committees, working groups, rapporteurs, etc.) of the seven Treaty Bodies, the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council (since 2006), and the Human Right Council. - [Read more]

The Universal Human Rights Index provides instant access for all countries to observations and recommendations made by the export bodies (committees, working groups, rapporteurs, etc.) of the seven Treaty Bodies, the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council (since 2006), and the Human Right Council. - [Read more]

The Universal Human Rights Index provides instant access for all countries to observations and recommendations made by the export bodies (committees, working groups, rapporteurs, etc.) of the seven Treaty Bodies, the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council (since 2006), and the Human Right Council. - [Read more]