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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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The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceAmerican 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.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceInternet 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.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceNARA: 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.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceUS 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.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceUS Department of State: Human Rights 
Access fact sheets and reports on internationally recognized human rights practices.

The Best Bet symbol indicates an exceptional resourceUSIA: 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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