Amnesty International
Head
Office, London, United Kingdom
The
worldwide voluntary organisation Amnesty International has worked since 1963 to
expose and combat fundamental violations of human rights by governments. Among
the organisation's goals are the release of people who have been incarcerated
on account of faith, origins, sex, religion, language or convictions, fair trials
for political prisoners, abolishment of capital punishment, torture and other
cruel and inhumane treatments of prisoners.
www.amnesty.org
Amnesty
International reports on Australia
each year and has commented on numerous human right issues effecting Indigenous
Australians.
If you
wish to contact Amnesty International section in your country you may email the
International Secretariat in London at: Email: amnestyis@amnesty.org
Human
Rights Institute, International Bar Association
271 Regent Street
London W1B 2AQ
Telephone +44(0)20 7629 1206
Fax +44(0)20 7409 0456
E-mail member@int-bar.org
www.ibanet.org/humri/action.asp
International organisation of lawyers concerned with the promotion, protection
and enforcement of human rights worldwide. Its activities include sending missions
to examine national legal systems and making recommendations for change; capacity-
building, technical assistance, conducting workshops, organising conferences and
developing resources in human rights.
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Human Rights Policy Department
King Charles Street,
London SW1A 2AH
Telephone +44(0)20 7270 3992
Fax +44(0)20 7270 5969
www.hrpd.fco.gov.uk
"The UK Government has made human rights a central theme of its foreign policy
and has undertaken to work through international forums and bilateral relationships
to spread the values of humanrights, civil liberties and democracy. The Human
Rgihts Project Fund supports programmes globally which help promote these values.
A searchable database of projects supported by the fund is available on the web
site."
British and Irish Human Rights Centres Network
School
of Law
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast BT7 1NN
Telephone +44(0)28
9027 3452
Fax +44(0)28 9027 3376
www.law.qub.ac.uk/humanrts/network/index.htm
Network of Human Rights Units at third-level institutions in the UK and Ireland.
Managed from the School of Law at Queen's University, Belfast. Other members are
centres at the University of Wales Aberystwyth, British Institute of Human Rights
(affiliated to King's College London), University of Essex, University of Glasgow,
Kings College London, London School of Economics, National University of Ireland
Galway, University of Nottingham, University of Strathclyde and the University
of Ulster. The aims of the network are the exchange of information and the encouragement
of inter-disciplinary research on human rights and related themes in each of the
jurisdictions and at European and international levels. Held its inaugural conference
in 2001.
International Human Rights Committee of the Law Society
113 Chancery Lane
London WC2A 1PL
Telephone +44(0)20 7242 1222
Fax
+44(0)20 7831 0344
E-mail info.services@lawsociety.org.uk
www.lawsociety.org.uk
Representative and regulatory body for solicitors of England and Wales which sets
professional standards and provides services and support for solicitors.
Human
Rights Lawyers Association
Henderson Chambers
2 Harcourt Buildings
Temple
London EC4Y 9DB
Telephone +44(0)20 7583 9020
E-mail members@hrla.co.uk
www.hrla.co.uk/
Subscription
organisation which offers membership to all solicitors, barristers, judges, legal
executives, in-house lawyers, government lawyers, legal academics, pupils, trainees
and students who have an interest in human rights law. Its aim is to facilitate
sharing and building knowledge and ideas about human rights law, in particular
by fostering communication between specialists in different areas, providing a
forum for those with an interest in human rights who work in diverse disciplines.
Organises seminars, lectures and workshops; publishes papers and articles; offers
consultancy and advice.
Physicians for Human Rights (UK)
c/o
The University Department of Forensic Medicine
The Royal Infirmary
Barrack
Road
Dundee DD1 9ND
Telephone +44(0)1382 200794
Fax +44(0)1382 322094
E-mail phruk@dux.dundee.ac.uk
www.dundee.ac.uk/med&humanrights/SSM/phr/home.html
Independent organisation of doctors and health professionals, whose aim it is
to direct the influence and special skills of the medical profession towards the
defence of human rights throughout the world. Conducts fact-finding missions,
produces a regular E-mail newsletter and offers a free on-line learning module
on medicine and human rights.
The Aire Centre
74 Eurolink Business
Centre
49 Effra Road
London SW2 1BZ
Telephone +44(0)20 7924 0927
Fax +44(0)20 7733 6786
www.johnmole.com/aire
Offers advice and assistance on international human rights law on a case by case
basis to individuals or to lawyers representing them, general advice to public
authorities., and direct legal representation before international tribunals.
Provides in-house training for judges and other legal practitioners.
Human
Rights International Alliance
153 Boundary Road
Woking
Surrey
GU21 5BT
Telephone +44(0)1483 767654
Fax +44(0)1483 721616
E-mail
HumanRights@HRIA.net
http://hria.net/index.html
An association of member organisations and individuals, working to promote peace
and human rights through research, education and rehabilitation. It organises
conferences and other events on various human rights issues. It also helps individual
human rights activists by making them available for interviews, speaking engagements
and seminars.
Human Rights Watch
2nd Floor
2-12 Pentonville
Road
London N1
Telephone +44(0)20 7713 1995
Fax +44(0)20 7713 1800
E-mail hrwuk@hrw.org
www.hrw.org/home.html
UK branch of a US organisation. Aims to protect the human rights of people world-wide
by the investigation and exposure of human rights violations. Lobbies governments
to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law.
Interights
(International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights)
Lancaster
House
33 Islington High Street
London N1 9LH
Telephone +44(0)20 7278
3230
Fax +44(0)20 7278 4334
E-mail 101737.1436@compuserve.com
www.interights.org
Works in the development of legal protection for human rights and freedoms through
the effective use of international and comparative human rights law.
British
Institute of Human Rights, King's College London
King's College
8th
Floor
75-79 York Road
London SE1 7AW
Telephone +44(0)20 7401 2712
Fax+44(0)20 7401 2695
E-mail bihr@kcl.ac.uk
www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/bihr
Aims to secure better human rights protection at home and abroad by public education
and by conducting research aimed at influencing policy where such policy is, or
could be, related to human rights. Also a member of the British and Irish Human
Rights Network.
The Netherlands Humanist Committee on Human Rights
Lucasbolwerk
7
3512 EG Utrecht
Postal address: PO Box 114
3500 AC Utrecht
Telephone:
+31 30 233 40 27
Fax: +31 30 236 71 04
E-mail: hom@hom.nl
www.linkingsolidarity.org
The
Netherlands Humanist Committee on Human Rights (Humanistisch Overleg Mensenrechten,
HOM) is a non-governmental human rights organisation (NGO) that is committed to
strengthening the respect and the implementation of human rights in the broadest
sense: universal, indivisible and interdependent. It is engaged in projects of
awareness raising in the Netherlands and abroad.
Other
- Human
Rights Internet Human Rights
World Calendar
- Human
Rights Education Calendar
- International
Court of Justice
- International
Commission of Jurists
- McGrigor
Donald Rights
International consultancy and advisory service on human rights. - Cultural
Survival
Started in 1972, Cultural Survival is a non-profit organization
dedicated to defending “the human rights and cultural autonomy of Indigenous
people and oppressed ethnic minorities”. David Maybury-Lewis, an anthropology
professor at Harvard, formed this group in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cultural
Survival is currently run in affiliation with Harvard’s Weatherhead for International
Affairs, an advocacy and research group (data.fas.harvard.edu/cfia/pncs/index.htm). - GlobalAware
- IMADR
(International Movement Against all forms of Discrimination and Racism)
International non-profit, non-governmental human rights organization devoted to
eliminating all forms of discrimination around the world, forging international
solidarity among discriminated minorities and advancing the international regime
of human rights. - Professors
World Peace Academy
- International
Federation of Human Rights Leagues - FIDH
- Pax
Christi
- Reporters without
Borders
- Papua Human Rights Website
- Science
For Humanity
- OneWorld
UK
- The
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
- Global
Witness
- One
World Action
- The Association
for Progressive Communications (APC)
International network of civil society
organisations dedicated to empowering and supporting groups and individuals working
for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, through
the strategic use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), including
the Internet.
- BBC
World Service International Human Rights information
This site helps you
understand your rights. Choose an article for a case study from around the world.
- Human
Rights Server
Global human rights news, updates, and links sorted by country.
- Human Rights Web
Includes
history of the human rights movement, information on prisoners of conscience,
and more. - Human Rights International
(HRI)
Founded in 1976, Human Rights International (HRI) is a leader in
the exchange of information within the worldwide human rights community. Launched
in the United States, HRI has its headquarters in Ottawa, Canada. From Ottawa,
HRI communicates by phone, fax, mail and the Internet with more than 5,000 organizations
and individuals around the world working for the advancement of human rights.
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