Sources of information

Human rights information - general

Amnesty International (AI)

Human Rights Watch

Freedom House

International Crisis Group

International Federation for Human Rights

Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR)

Transparency International

UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights

US Department of State
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

World Organisation Against Torture

 

Armed forces

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

War Resisters International

 

Children

Child Rights Information Network

Save The Children

United Nations Children’s Fund

UN Committee on the Rights of the Child

Child labour

International Labour Organisation

US Department of Labor
2009 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor

Child Solidiers

Coalition to Stop the use of Child Soldiers

UN Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict

Watch List on Children and Armed Conflict

 

Constitutions and national legislation

International Labour Organisation

Law Library of (US) Congress

Legislation online

Richmond University (Virginia, USA)

World Law

 

Death Penalty

Amnesty International, Abolish the death penalty

Hands Off Cain

 

Education

Right to Education

Save the Children - ‘The Future is Now’ (pdf)

 

Ethnic groups and minorities

Ethnologue

Minorities at Risk Project

Minority Rights Group International

Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization

 

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex persons

LGBT Asylum News

International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans And Intersex Association (ILGA)

International Gay And Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC)

Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration

The Love Exiles Foundation

Behind the Mask

Gay Law Net

Pink News

Sodomy Laws

The Social Institutions and Gender Index

Diva

More international links at LGBT Asylum News

 

Internally Displaced People (IDPs)/humanitarian issues

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

IRIN News: UN news service

Reliefweb

Thomson-Reuters Alertnet

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

 

Journalists and media

Article 19

Committee to Protect Journalists

Freedom House

International Federation Of Journalists

International Freedom Of Expression Exchange

Reporters Sans Frontie?res

 

Women

Center for Reproductive Rights

International Center for Research on Women

The Social Institutions and Gender Index

UN Women - United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women

UN Commission on the Status of Women

World Health Organisation
Women’s health

Female Genital Mutilation

Centre for Reproductive rights
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): Legal Prohibitions Worldwide

Human Rights Watch (HRW)
Q&A on Female Genital Mutilation