 Civil
Liberties & Human Rights
US and World Civil Liberties, Civil Rights and Human Rights
resources, including links to actual US documents which guarantee the
rights of US citizens.
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American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Founded by Roger Baldwin in 1920, the American Civil Liberties
Union is an advocate of individual rights. This site supports the mission
of the ACLU, and has information on many issues including the death penalty,
freedom of speech, racial equality, women's rights, and more.
Center For Democracy and
Technology
The Center For Democracy and Technology is a non-profit public interest organization
that works for public policies advancing civil liberties and democratic values
in new computer and communications technologies. Read about issues in human
and civil rights as they relate to technology.
civilrights.org
A collaboration of the Leadership Conference on Civil
Rights and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund,
iIts mission is to provide current civil rights news and information.
International Committee
of the Red Cross: Issues and Topics
From the Red Cross. Issues include Land Mines, Humanitarian action in armed
conflicts, Children and war and more.
Internet
Access to UN Information by Research Topic:
Human Rights
Part of Yale University's United Nations Scholar's Workstation project. Access
UN reports on the state of human rights, particularly children's rights.
Liberty
Library of Constitutional Classics
From the Constitution Society, a private non-profit
organization dedicated to research and public education
on the principles of constitutional republican government.
Important documents in world history, including the Code
of Hammurabi, Plato's Republic, The
Mayflower Compact and much more. Note documents
may be in HTML, Text, Zipped WP, Adobe PDF, RTF, MS Word,
or an Image format.
NAACP
The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP) is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic
equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and
racial discrimination.
NARA:
The Charters of Freedom
From the National Archives and Records Administration.
View images of the original documents and read The
Declaration of Independence, The Constitution
of the United States, The Bill of Rights,
and The Magna Carta.
NOW
The National Organization for Women (NOW) works to eliminate discrimination and
harassment in the workplace, schools, the justice system, and all other
sectors of society; secure abortion, birth control and reproductive rights
for all women; end all forms of violence against women; eradicate racism,
sexism and homophobia; and promote equality and justice in our society.
United
Nations: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Read the full text of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights adopted by the UN on December 10, 1948.
US
Commission on Civil Rights
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is an independent,
bipartisan agency first established by Congress in 1957
and reestablished in 1983. Probably of most interest
are the publications Getting Uncle Sam to Enforce
Your Civil Rights and Civil Rights Directory.
US Department
of Justice: Civil Rights Division
The Civil Rights Division is the primary institution within
the federal government responsible for enforcing federal statutes prohibiting
discrimination on the basis of race, sex, handicap, religion, and national
origin. Access President Clinton's Speech on Affirmative Action,
selected cases and briefs involving civil rights, or special issues such
as Report of the National Church Arson Task Force.
US
Department of State: Human Rights
Access fact sheets and reports on internationally recognized human rights practices.
USIA:
Introduction to Human Rights
The United States Information Agency (USIA) strives to understand, inform and
influence foreign publics in promotion of the national interest. This portion
of the site includes access to key documents, policy statements, organizations
and Washington File articles on human rights.
University
of Minnesota Human Right Library: International Human Rights Instruments
by Topic
An extensive collection of human Rights documents. Topics include juveniles,
slavery, women's human rights and much more.
University of
Minnesota Human Right Library: US Human Rights Documents
Includes historical and current US documents on Human Rights.
Yahoo!
Civil Rights
Get links to sites on censorship, freedom of religion, property rights and
much more.
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