GENERAL - the following sites include many topics and links for specific topics listed
below.
United Nations High Commission for Human Rights:
www.unhchr.ch/
The International Center for Peace and Development:
www.icpd.org
Derechos Human Rights: www.derechos.org
The Human Rights Internet: www.hri.ca
Human Rights Watch Organization: www.hrw.org
1) Social development, including questions relating to the world social
situation and to youth, aging, disabled persons and the family.
UN Development Program: http://www.undp.org/
2) The advancement of the rights of women
Martha C. Nussbaum, Women and Human Development, Cambridge University Press, 2001
3) Refugees, returnees and displaced persons
Refugees International: www.refintl.org
The US Bureau of Population,
Refugees and Migration:
www.State.gov/www/global/prm/index.html
4) Promotion and protection of the rights of children
5) Promotion and protection of the rights of indigenous people
6) Elimination of racism and racial discrimination
7) The right of peoples to self-determination
8) Crime prevention and criminal justice
9) International drug control
10) Human rights education
11) Implementation of human rights instruments
12) Approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and
freedom
13) Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social
Development
14) Hunger, malnutrition, malaria, HIV-AIDS
The Hunger Web:
www.brown.edu/Departments/World_Hunger_Program/
15) The rights of offenders
16) Child soldiers
17) Science, technology and human rights
18) Law enforcement officials and human rights protection
19) Torture
20) Medical officials and health providers and human rights protection
21) Social workers and human rights protection
22) Respecting the principles of human dignity as research continues on
the human genome
23) Fostering a culture of protection through the consistent use of
international criminal law
Compiled by Chang-Seong Hong, MSUM Department of Philosophy, and members of the dept.
Last updated 01/25/06 [William G. Kenz]