HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY 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

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

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

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..
Mass Atrocity Response Operations

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

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

Task force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF) aims at mobilizing and coordinating political and social leaders' support for Holocaust education, remembrance and research nationally and internationally. The ITF sees the Holocaust as part of the collective memory of contemporary and future societies.

Task force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF)

United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)
UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

Montreal Institute For Genocide and Human Rights Studies
Concordia University
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West
Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1M8 Canada
Tel.: (514) 848-2424 ext 5729 or 2404
Fax: (514) 848-4538