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1.      ABA Commission on Law and Aging
This site includes the work of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging with links to the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), the National Center on Elder Abuse and more. For documents on aging/elderly, also search WHO and UN websites.  

2.      Amnesty International USA                                                                                                                     This site provides links to Amnesty programs, world human rights news, publications, letter-writing campaigns and more as well as resources on female genital mutilation,and circumcision.

3.      Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
This organization is dedicated to promoting responses to HIV infection and AIDS that respect human rights. It also provides a link to the AIDS Law Project of South Africa.

4.      Carter Center
Founded by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, the Carter Center is an NGO dedicated to international democratization and development, urban revitalization, and global health.

5.      Center for Economic and Social Rights
The Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) informs economic and social rights practitioners; provides addresses for affiliated NGOs in Asia and Australia , Europe, Latin America, and North America .

6.      Children -- UNICEF
The United Nations Children's Fund address the health, nutrition, education and other needs of children worldwide; this website provides access to vital statistics, programs and reports, e.g., The State of the World's Children 1998, The Progress of Nations 1997.

7.      Physicians for Global Survival (PGS)
Physicians for Global Survival is an affiliation of international physicians for the prevention of nuclear war. This web page provides access to documents about the effect of war on children, including UNICEF reports as well as other human rights documents. Other resources include NGO reports and both gopher and online resources including access to information about human rights in Canada , Greece , Norway , Russia , Israel , Japan , and the United States .

8.      Carnegie Corporation of New York -- Children’s Health
Provides on-line access to publications of the Carnegie Corporation, some of which address child development, violence prevention, education, school health promotion, conflict resolution, parent education and more.

9.      Children’s Rights -- Cornell University
Maintained by the Legal Information Institute, this site provides ready access to over 20 U.S. federal and state laws, agencies, documents, and foundations, as well as national and international legal materials.

10.  Health Rights Connection
This group comprises Global Lawyers and Physicians, Physicians for Human Rights, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights.

11.  Court TV Casefiles
This "Court TV" homepage provides information about the Bosnia War Crimes Tribunal and a link entitled "A Look Back at Nuremberg ."

12.  Diana Project -- Univ. Cincinnati
This DIANA site focuses primarily on the United Nations and Organization of African Unity materials. You can also access other DIANA sites through this.

13.  Human Rights Library --  Univ. of Minnesota
This DIANA site provides links to UN documents, the Inter-American Human Rights system, Partners in Human Rights Education, the Peace Resource Center , and Human Rights USA. Also includes links to over 100 international human rights instruments (including French and Spanish versions) including those pertaining to rights of children, disabled persons, refugees, war victims and more.

14.  Women's Human Rights Resources -- Univ. of Toronto
This DIANA site focuses on women's human rights and provides links to bibliographies as well as governmental and NGO documents.

15.  Diana -- Yale Law School
This DIANA site provides access to human rights bibliographies, legal documents and other materials. (Under Construction as of 01/2004)

16.  EPA
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's mission is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment.

17.  International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC)
This site advocates a world in which the fundamental human rights of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, transgendered people, and people with HIV and AIDS are respected and accorded the protection of international human rights law. Provides links to publications, projects and more.

18.  Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
Describes the work of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights of the Harvard School of Public Health; provides links to health and human rights sites, publications, and foundations. Also links to children's health and human rights resources.

19.  Holocaust Memorial Museum
This U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum website provides information about the Nuremburg Code and human rights, with excerpts from the official trial record of the Doctors Trial.

20.  SUNY Binghamton's Political Science Resource Page
This web page provides links to human rights papers, conferences, data and Internet sites.

21.  BUSPH Health Law Department
The Boston University School of Public Health, Health Law Department provides comprehensive links to human rights and health, law, bioethics, and medicine resources, including UN and NIH homepages, Court TV Casefiles, NGOs, DIANA, the Holocaust museum, medical journals and more.

22.  Human Rights Internet (HRI)
HRI, an international NGO and documentation center, provides links to children's rights, other human rights websites, UN information and more.

23.  Human Rights Watch
This NGO Human Rights Watch site provides links to its publications, its regional divisions, special projects, e.g., children's and women's rights, and special initiatives, e.g., drugs and human rights, prison conditions, and more.

24.  Human Rights Web
Human Rights Web introduces human rights, provides legal and political documents, and links to over 20 NGOs, UN sites, and other resources.

25.  Hunger Web - TUFTS
Seeks to prevent and eradicate hunger through research, field work, advocacy and policy-making, education and training; collaborates with World Hunger Education Service, Food First, and FoodFirst Information and Action Network.

26.  Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS)
The goal of CWIS is to democratize relations between peoples to enrich the world community. This website provides comprehensive links to Fourth World studies, seminars, and library materials.

27.  CWIS' Fourth World Documentation Archive
The Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS)' Fourth World Documentation Archive allows access to comprehensive lists of UN and international documents, including tribal resolutions, treaties and other constructive arrangements.

28.  Int’l Health Action Group
Describes the A.M.A. Student Association's INTERNATIONAL HEALTH ACTION GROUP (IHAG) which is dedicated to increasing students' awareness of global health issues and ethical issues surrounding aid to poorer nations. Provides links to other sites.

29.  International Labour Organization (ILO)
ILO formulates international labour standards and provides information on child labour, equality for women and information about human rights in the work environment worldwide.

30.  Legal Information Institute -- Cornell University
This comprehensive site provides access to U.S. legal decisions both recent and historic. The "world" link accesses decisions of the International Court of Justice and national law materials from North and South America , Australia and New Zealand , Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa as well as other international law materials.

31.  International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
The ICRC homepage includes news, links to humanitarian law resources, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and more.

32.  Int'l Student Association for Health and Human Rights
The International Student Association for Health and Human Rights is an association of student organizations interested in health and human rights, dedicated to promoting involvement in local, national, and international health and human rights issues.

33.  American International Health Alliance (AIHA)
The American Int'l Health Alliance (AIHA)'s online publication of CommonHealth provides articles on such topics as public health, micronutrient deficiencies, risky teen behaviors as well as news and features pertaining to global health care.

34.  Human Rights and Foreign Policy News
This site provides access to the contents of the human rights magazine, containing both international news and articles.

35.  PrisonAct List
This page provides up to date information on the prision crisis in the United States and the world. 

36.  Human Rights First
HRF promotes human rights through legal advocacy worldwide; focuses especially on the rights of refugees and asylum seekers.

37.  Medicine & Global Survival (MGS)
MGS is the official publication of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

38.  Global Health Council 
A US-based non-profit organization -- strives to mobilize a global network to influence health policy by co-sponsoring conferences such as Women's Reproductive Health Initiative, Global HIV/AIDS Program and others.

39.  Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)
PHR seeks, among other goals, to improve the health and sanitary conditions of prisons and detention centers, to defend medical neutrality and to prevent medical complicity in torture and other abuses.

40.  Physicians for Human Rights - Israel
Physicians for Human Rights - Israel (PHR-Israel) was established in 1988 as a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, dedicated to promoting and protecting the medical human rights of all residents of Israel and the Occupied Territories.

41.  Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)
PSR emphasizes the relationship between environment and health and strives to influence global policy; provides research updates, publications, press releases and more.

42.  Global Reproductive Health Forum (GRHF)
Part of a multifaceted initiative, spearheaded by the Harvard School of Public Health to bring women from underserved populations and developing countries onto the Internet, where they can access information and take part in online discussion groups.

43.  Save the Children
Describes the United Kingdom 's international children's charity, which is dedicated to protecting children's human rights; provides numerous links.

44.  Genethics                                                                                                                                                      This site provides links to the Human Genome Project, Biotechnology and Biodiversity Resources, genetics and the law and more.

45.  National Institutes of Health Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP)
Provides extensive links to human and animal protection resources 

46.  Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR)
SGR examines and fosters the role of scientists in the development of socially responsible democratic society.

47.  World Organization Against Torture
The World Organization Against Torture (Organisation Mondiale contre la Torture) is an NGO dedicated to identifying torture, alerting other organizations, and assisting torture victims.

48.  United Nations Homepage
The United Nations homepage provides links and search capabilities to access UN treaties and declarations, press releases, country reports and more. Links to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the Office of Economic and Social Development.

49.  UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
The homepage for the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) provides extensive human rights information.

50.  UN — Office of Economic and Social Development
This site provides ready access to health, disability, aging and related resources.

51.  Video Project
This non-profit source lists over 250 educational videotapes for all ages on the environment, energy, science, technology, activism, violence, and global human rights.

52.  World Health Organization
This site contains links to current and historical documents, statistics, and international health initiatives. Has search capabilities for access to health and related topics.

53.  WHO — Child and Adolescent Health and Development
This World Health Organization web page provides comprehensive links to the WHO's Child and Adolescent Health and Development (CHD) programs.

54.  WHO -- Reproductive Health and Research
Describes World Health Organization research regarding human reproduction (HRP) in collaboration with the Women's and Adolescent Health Units. Provides a bibliographic database, recent publications and search capabilities.

55.  Institute for Global Communications (IGC)
The Institute for Global Communication website provides links to information about health/reproductive rights, women and technology, women's organizations, and more.

56.  World Bank's Early Child Development (ECD)
Describes the ECD program to integrate health, nutrition and early child care services in developing countries; links to the International Development Association (IDA) and other sites pertinent to children's health and human rights.

57.  World Bank — Developmental Goals
Provides links to the Health, Nutrition, and Population page of the World Bank's Human Development Department, including Early Child Development (ECD), HIV/AIDS, health care financing, women's health and more.

 

This database is prepared for M.A. Grodin & G.J. Annas by Jennifer Horner, J.D., Boston University School of Law. Maintained/Updated by: Karen Molloy, Boston University School of Public Health. Copyright 2005, all rights reserved
 
 
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