HSTRY 498: The Global History of Human Rights: Human Rights Organizations

Other Sources

Nongovernmental Organizations

To find additional human rights organizations use the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions and see the University of Minnesota's Human Rights Library.

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Amnesty International
Doctors Without Borders
Freedom House
Global Justice Center
Human Rights First
Human Rights Watch
International Federation for Human Rights
Islamic Human Rights Commission
United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
WITNESS

Truth Commissions & Tribunals

The USIP has a created the Truth Commission Digital Collection that links to Truth Commission reports from more than 20 countries plus Commissions of Inquiry. Some examples online and in print:

Hatun Willakuy: Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa
Memory of silence : the Guatemalan Truth Commission Report

Intergovernmental Organizations

United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights
African Commission on Human and People's Rights
Association of South East Asian Nations Intergovernmental Comission on Human Rights
Claiming Human Rights (Africa)
Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights
Organization of American States: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

HSTRY 498: The Global History of Human Rights: Human Rights Organizations

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Nongovernmental Organizations

Truth Commissions & Tribunals

Intergovernmental Organizations

UN Human Rights News