Organizations involved in the
Fight for Freedoms
| Human Rights and Injustices | ||
 | Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch conducts regular, systematic investigations of human rights abuses in some seventy countries around the world. It addresses the human rights practices of governments of all political stripes, of all geopolitical alignments, and of all ethnic and religious persuasions. | |
| Human Rights in Africa From genocide, slavery, mass disappearances and torture, to denial of freedom of speech or of the press, there is little that will not be found somewhere in Africa. | |
| U of Minnesota Human Rights Library: African Resource Center This human rights resource center contains a collection of international human rights materials with a particular focus on Africa as well as a collection of global International Human Rights Instruments --treaties, declarations, and other materials --together with authoritative citations. | |
| ACLU Freedom Network The American Civil Liberties Union is the nation's foremost advocate of individual rights -- litigating, legislating, and educating the public on a broad array of issues affecting individual freedom in the United States. | |
| Amnesty International - USA Founded in 1961, Amnesty International is a grassroots activist organization whose one-million strong members are dedicated to freeing prisoners of conscience, to gaining fair trials for political prisoners, to ending torture and "disappearances," and to abolishing the death penalty throughout the world. | |
| Amnesty International - Carlow, Ireland branch | |
| Amnesty Journal Jan/Feb96 Afghanistan | |
| Tibet Foundation - Welcome Tibet Foundation is a registered charity founded in 1985 to create a greater awareness of all aspects of Tibetan culture. | |
| Free Speech, Freedom and Democracy | ||
| EFFweb - The Electronic Frontier Foundation The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit civil liberties organization 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. | |
| The Global Democracy Network The Global Democracy Network is a project of the Parliamentary Human Rights Foundation (PHRF). PHRF is a private, non-profit 501(c)(3) association that works with Members of Parliament worldwide to protect human rights and strengthen democracy. | |
| Peace | ||
| The Anti-Defamation League The Anti-Defamation League, founded in 1913, is the world's leading organization fighting anti-Semitism through programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and bigotry. | |
| Peace Troupe is a grass roots collective of artists, performers, and activists dedicated to non-violent conflict resolution. | |
| Institute for Global
Communication HomePage Five online communities of activists and organizations: PeaceNet, EcoNet, LaborNet, ConflictNet, and WomensNet, are gateways to articles, headlines, features, and weblinks on progressive issues. | |
