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- About.com: Civil Liberties
Annotated links to websites about various civil liberties issues.
- ACLU
The American Civil Liberties Union has information on a wide range of social issues from criminal justice to free speech to religious liberty to workplace rights.
- Amnesty International
Amnesty International USA
"Nobel Prize-winning grassroots activist organization ... focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination.... ".
- Best Information on the Net: Hot Paper Topics
Links to information about "hot issues" including affirmative action, censorship, the death penalty, gender issues,human rights, internet issues, smoking and tobacco, and more.
- Center for Media Literacy Reading Room
Online articles about issues such as media violence, television and children, and values and the media.
- Child Labor
- Child Labor Coalition
"A national network for the exchange of information about child labor; provide a forum and a unified voice on protecting working minors and ending child labor exploitation; and develop informational and educational outreach..."
- CRIN: Child Rights Information Network
"Guided by our passion for social and legal change, CRIN is building a global network for children's rights. We press for rights, not charity, and advocate for a genuine systemic shift in how governments and societies view children."
- Global March Against Child Labour
"A movement to mobilise worldwide efforts to protect and promote the rights of all children, especially the right to receive a free, meaningful education and to be free from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be harmful to the child's physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development."
- UNICEF: Child protection from violence, exploitation and abuse
"Protecting children from violence, exploitation and abuse is an integral component of protecting their rights to survival, growth and development."
- U.S. Dept. of Labor: Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT)
OCFT's mission is to "perform public outreach by promoting the elimination of the worst forms of child labor, and increasing knowledge and information on child labor, forced labor, and human trafficking."
- Child Soldiers
- Amnesty International: Child Soldiers
"Worldwide, hundreds of thousands of children are recruited into government armed forces, paramilitaries, civil militia and a variety of other armed groups." Includes articles and personal stories.
- BBC: Children of Conflict
"There are an estimated three hundred thousand child soldiers around the world. Every year the number grows as more children are recruited for use in active combat. Here you can listen to these children explain how they became soldiers, what stops them from leaving and how some have managed to build new lives for themselves."
- Child Solidiers International
"Child Soldiers International works to prevent the recruitment and use of children as soldiers, to secure their demobilisation and to ensure their rehabilitation and reintegration."
- Human Rights Watch: Child Soldiers
News, reports, and commentary about the plight of child soldiers.
- Invisible Children
"We are story tellers. We make documentaries about war-affected children in east Africa and tour them around the world. ... With the support we receive from our tours and young supporters, we are able to implement cutting edge programs on the ground in Uganda." Program helps build schools, provide scholarships, make micro-loans for economic support, and build communications networks.
- IRIN: In-Depth: Child Soldiers
2003 report on child soldiers.
- UNICEF: Child Combatant
Links to UNICEF articles and reports about child soldiers.
- United Movement to End Child Soldiering
"UMECS supports secondary school and higher education for children and youth affected by conflict together with school-based peace education and counseling and guidance programs, and helps to build a culture of peace to prevent new wars."
- Wikipedia: Military Use of Children
Detailed article about military use of children in war, including as child soldiers.
- Civil Rights.org
Current issues in civil rights, focusing on policy and legislation, with hate crime information and statistics, and the "Civil Rights Monitor" journal online.
- Civil Rights Suite
"As current debates surrounding civil liberties, immigration, and changing demographics increase, CHSA is at the forefront of the movement to examine the historical impact of the Chinese American fight for equality on our society."
- Digital Freedom Network
"DFN supports classically liberal ideas in both the economic and the political realm. We seek to eliminate human rights violations through the implementation of the principles of freedom; robust property rights, free markets, rule of law, and legitimate democracy."
- EPIC - Electronic Privacy Information Center
"A public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values." Website includes an Online Guide to Privacy Resources.
- Facing History and Ourselves
"Facing History believes that students must be trusted to examine history in all of its complexities, including its legacies of prejudice and discrimination, resilience and courage."
- GlobalLex: International Human Rights Research Guide
Links to documents, international organizations, news sources, and educational websites.
- Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights
Hosted by the Thurgood Marshall Law Library, this special collection includes hundred of articles (mostly in .pdf format) from the United States Commission on Civil Rights from 1957 through the present.
- Human Rights (video)
"What exactly are Human Rights? Who is responsible for protecting them? And do they really apply to all people? These are the question the newest animated Video clip in the WissensWerte series deals with."
- Human Rights Watch
Information about human rights around the world today.
- An Introduction to Social Policy
"This set of web pages offers a brief outline of key topics and issues in Social Policy."
- IPL: Social Issues and Social Welfare Resources
Annotated links about various social issues.
- Minority Links
"Quick and easy links to the latest data on racial and ethnic populations in the United States" from the U.S. Census Bureau.
- NAACP - Natioanl Association for the Advancement of Colored People
"The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination."
- OneWorld.net
"A global information network developed to support communication media of the people, by the people and for the people — everywhere. Its goal is to help build a more just, global society, through its partnership community."
- Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
This organization has among its goals to "raise consumers' awareness of how technology affects personal privacy." They have guides on a variety of privacy-related topics including online privacy, identity theft, and other issues.
- Project Implicit
"Project Implicit blends basic research and educational outreach in a virtual laboratory at which visitors can examine their own hidden biases" via an interactive test.
- Public Agenda Online
"Public Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization" which supplies information about current social and political issues. Great source for quick facts and figures.
- Race: Are We So Different?
"Looking through the eyes of history, science and lived experience, the RACE Project explains differences among people and reveals the reality – and unreality – of race."
- Racial Profiling
"The ACLU's Campaign Against Racial Profiling fights law enforcement and private security practices that disproportionately target people of color for investigation and enforcement. We represent individuals who have been victims of racial profiling by airlines, police, and government agencies."
- Slavery (Modern)
For historical slavery in the U.S., see Slavery in American History
- Anti-Slavery
International organization to fight modern slavery, including bonded labor, child slavery, trafficking, and other sorts of forced labor.
- Anti-Slavery Society
Information on slavery, forced labor, child labor, and exploitation around the world.
- Free the Slaves
"Our mission is to end slavery worldwide. We believe that ending slavery is an ambitious–and realizable–goal."
- Human Trafficking Search
Interactive maps and news about slavery, child labor, and human trafficking issues.
- iAbolish
"a non-profit organization dedicated to eradicating modern-day human bondage and to promoting a non-politicized, bias-free human rights community."
- Products of Slavery
Interactive map showing where slavery is involved in the production of everyday items.
- Slavery Footprint: Made in a Free World
Offers the eye-opening "How Many Slaves Work For You?" quiz, showing how many products and services we take for granted are made by forced labor.
- U.S. Dept. of Justice: Human Trafficking
US DOJ information on modern slavery and human trafficking in the United States.
- UN Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking
"The United Nations Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) was conceived to promote the global fight on human trafficking, on the basis of international agreements reached at the UN."
- Social Statistics Briefing Room
Federal statistics about crime, demographics, education, and health.
- Tolerance.org
"Daily news about groups and individuals working for tolerance and fighting hate; Guidebooks for adult and youth activists; Practical resources for parents and teachers; and Entertaining and educational games for young children."
- Tracked in America
"This documentary Web site explores more than two centuries of surveillance in America. Included are two hours of audio interviews, 300 photographs, and 25 personal stories beginning in 1917."
- UNICEF
UNICEF USA
"Working in over 150 countries, UNICEF is a global humanitarian relief organization providing children with health care and immunizations, clean water, nutrition and food security, education, emergency relief and more."
- United Nations - Human Rights
United Nations - Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
News, treaties, research guide, and other information on human rights.
- United Nations Refugee Agency
News, publications, and statistics about refugees from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
- Understanding Prejudice
"Web site for students, teachers, and others interested in the causes and consequences of prejudice ... (with) more than 2,000 links to prejudice-related resources, as well as searchable databases with hundreds of prejudice researchers and social justice organizations."
- U.S. Dept. of State: Human Rights
Reports and information on human rights worldwide.
- Witness.org
"WITNESS uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. We empower people to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools for justice, promoting public engagement and policy change."
- Women's Human Rights Resources
"Introduces women's human rights law in general, emphasizes selected international and Canadian topics, and explores the interconnections between domestic and international human rights law."
- World Values Survey
"A worldwide investigation of sociocultural and political change." Downloadable.
- WWW Virtual Library: Human Rights
Annotated links to sites about human rights and humanitarian affairs.
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