Civil liberties and C Guide - Resources and Review

Started in 1996, HateWatch provides an online resource for concerned individuals, academics, activists and the media to keep abreast of and to combat online bigotry. The information provided may be offensive to some.
 
Campaigning organisation with information on the church and state, criminal justice, the death penalty, free speech, lesbian and gay rights, and racial equality, among other topics.
 
Includes an introduction to human rights, a short history of the human rights movement, and biographies of prisoners of conscience.
 
Report from the American Civil Liberties Union highlighting perceived positive and negative developments in civil liberties in the USA during 1999. Covers topics such as crime and punishment, education, health and medicine, law and order, privacy, and religion.
 
Public interest research centre in Washington DC, established to focus public attention to emerging civil liberties issues relating to the National Information Infrastructure.
 
Searchable collection of international human rights treaties and instruments, bibliographies, United Nations documents and human rights organisations.
 
Index to Internet resources covering personal growth, social change, personal, cultural and political empowerment.
 
CDT's mission is to develop and advocate public policies that advance constitutional civil liberties and democratic values in new computer and communications technologies. Includes news, issues and publications.
 
Amnesty International plays a specific role in the international protection of human rights. Its activities focus on prisoners: seeking the release of prisoners of conscience, working for fair and prompt trials for all political prisoners and opposing the death penalty and torture of prisoners. Information on current campaigns, activities and membership are available as well as reports and publications.
 
PeaceNet serves peace and social justice advocates around the world in such areas as human rights, disarmament, and international relations. A number of alternative news services provide a range of information about these and other topics from around the world. Other important issues covered include: African American Networking, Asian Community Networking, and prisoner rights.
 
Provides summaries of human rights concerns in countries throughout Africa, the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa during 1998. Includes information on abuse committed by security forces and armed opposition groups, and instances of arrest, detainment and imposed death sentences. Regional indexes offer details of Amnesty International's work and concerns within individual countries.
 
A coalition of over 180 organisations committed to the protection of civil and human rights in the United States. These organisations include groups representing people of colour, women, labour unions, persons with disabilities, older Americans, major religious groups, gays and lesbians, and civil liberties and human rights groups.
 
Photographic archive commemorating the work of Charles Moore, with additional information on Moore's career. The images represent 1960s America and the civil rights issues of the time, providing important visual historical data. The collection features images of events such as Ku Klux Klan gatherings, the actions of Martin Luther King, and the Freedom March of 1963. Explanatory text accompanies each photograph.
 
Report addressing the UK Labour Government's policies and activities on humanitarian issues, both nationally and internationally, between June 1999 and June 2000. The issues covered include topics such as the protection of war victims, child exploitation, refugees, the EU stance on the death penalty, and responses to issues raised by the Kosovan conflict. A list of sources detailing additional humanitarian resources is also provided.
 
Campaigning organisation based in London. Formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance by governments and corporations.
 
Draws together comparative data relating to the level of democracy in over 200 countries and dependencies, using criteria such as political rights, press freedom, level of corruption, civil liberties, and human rights. Presents democracy rankings for country groupings such as the OECD, the European Union, G7, and the Arab League, and an overall ranking of nations with populations over 1 million.
 
A travel itinerary of properties related to the modern US civil rights movement. The itinerary can be reviewed by property, state, or a clickable US map.
 
A non
profit civil liberties organisation working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to public resources and information online, as well as to promote responsibility in new media.
 
An international human rights database including documents from the UN, the Organization for African Unity and HURIDOCS and bibliographies on international terrorism, hostages and public international law.
 
Database of libertarian information including freedom
related news stories, policy analyses, books, job openings, activist opportunities, and events. Covers topics such as campaign finances, gay marriages, independent juries, and socialised medicine.
 
International organisation, documentation and publishing centre concerned with human rights.
 
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