HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY AND FIRST RESPONSE ALERT GROUPS
Amnesty International
Amnesty International - Working To Protect Human Rights Worldwide
Eyes on Darfur:
Explore the satellite evidence and detailed on the ground information about what is happening in Darfur using the power of high-resolution satellite imagery to provide unimpeachable evidence of the atrocities being committed in Darfur - enabling action by private citizens, policy makers and international courts. Eyes On Darfur also breaks new ground in protecting human rights by allowing people around the world to literally "watch over" and protect twelve intact, but highly vulnerable, villages using commercially available satellite imagery. The project was led by the Crisis Prevention and Response Center (CPRC) - Amnesty International USA's rapid response center for engaging members, policy-makers, and the public in preventing and responding to human rights crises around the world.
Eyes on Darfur 
ELDIS sources list for disasters and refugees. Eldis is one of a family of knowledge services from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex.
Eldis - Gateway to Development Information Home page
The Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex co-ordinates the University's inter-disciplinary human rights programme as well as a programme of research, training, external consultancy and publications on international, comparative and national aspects of human rights. The Departments of Law, Government, Philosophy, and Sociology all contribute to the work of the Centre, which has a world-wide reputation for its teaching and research.
Home Page of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, UK
Human Rights Watch: "includes five divisions covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Middle East, as well as the signatories of the Helsinki accords. It also includes three collaborative projects on arms transfers, children’s rights, and women’s rights."
Human Rights Watch
Impunity Watch:
A Syracuse University College of Law publication, Impunity Watch is an interactive website that operates as a law review, message board, and blog; it was created with the objective of giving a voice to people who are silenced. Impunity Watch's mission is to monitor and address horrific human rights abuses and possible situations of impunity. Whether the atrocities committed are acts of discrimination, acts of human trafficking such as the forced labor or sexual exploitation of individuals, the denial of access to food and water, acts of genocide, or other violations of fundamental human rights, those who commit these inhumane acts should be held accountable and brought to justice. Impunity Watch will be in the forefront creating awareness of these tragedies.
Impunity Watch
Intrastate Conflict Program: The Program on Intrastate Conflict is a program of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The program analyzes the causes of ethnic, religious, and other inter-communal conflict, and seeks to identify practical ways to prevent and limit such conflict. It is concerned with the vulnerability of weak, failed, and collapsed states, with enhancing good governance, with leadership in the developing world, with peace building and peace enforcement capabilities in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, and with the role of truth commissions in conflict prevention and conflict resolution.
Intrastate Conflict Program
International Committee of the Red Cross.
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) - Home
The Mass Atrocity Response Operations (MARO) Project at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Univeristy) aims to equip the United States, other states, and regional and international actors to respond effectively to genocide and mass atrocity when directed by national leadership. Among the menu of options—including diplomatic, informational, and economic—it is essential to prepare potential military responses. In collaboration with the U.S. Army's Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute, the MARO Project will harness professional military expertise to develop credible and realistic operational planning for responding to genocide and mass atrocity, when directed by National Command Authority. The MARO Project focuses on military operations to terminate and mitigate the effects of genocide and mass atrocity. When the complexities and challenges of using military force are well understood, states will be better prepared and more effective in responding to contingencies. Furthermore, greater awareness of the demands and dilemmas of military interventions should foster the development of preventive, non-military approaches, ultimately the preferable response to incipient crises.
Mass Atrocity Response Operations
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights. Lists its various projects, including those related to women’s rights and refugees.
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights Welcome to Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
Open Society Institute: International Initiatives. See esp. links to Burma Project, Forced Migration Project, Southern Africa Project.
Open Society Institute and Soros Foundation Network
Physicians for Human Rights
Physicians for Human Rights
The Post-Conflict Resolution (PCR) Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, develops innovative strategies to speed, enhance, and strengthen international conflict response. Established in 2001, the PCR Project is seen as a leading global source for authoritative analysis, evaluation, and recommendations for fragile states and post-conflict reconstruction. The Project focuses on the full spectrum of conflict-related concerns, from early warning and conflict prevention to rebuilding shattered societies. It incorporates the four essential pillars of reconstruction: security and public safety, justice and reconciliation, governance and participation, and economic and social progress. PCR project staff collaborate closely with U.S. congressional and executive branch decision makers—as well as local communities and international partners.
Post-Conflict Resolution
ReliefWeb: is a project of the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs (DHA). It disseminates information on prevention and disaster response. It has over 500 links and is updated twice a day.
ReliefWeb
Shared Humanity: Shared Humanity is a non-government organisation dedicated to working towards the elimination of gross human rights violations (human rights violations that are extreme and systematic or widespread). Shared Humanity seeks to accomplish this mission by increasing public awareness and advocating for a more effective response to atrocities.
Shared Humanity
Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA) is a long established organization dedicated to helping developing countries by providing useful information. Its "Emergency Information Service" has links to many humanitarian disaster situations that are frequently updated from official sources. See esp. "Humanitarian Response."
EnterpriseWorks Worldwide / VITA
United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)
UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency
