Advancement of Science

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) provides links to the Directory of human rights resources on the Internet, with nearly 30 additional sites accessed via a search for "health," as well as the AAAS' Science and Human Rights Program.

ABA Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly (CLPE)

This site includes the work of the ABA Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly (CLPE) with links to the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), the National Center on Elder Abuse and more. For documents on aging/elderly, also search WHO and UN websites.

American Int’l Health Alliance (AIHA)

The American International Health Alliance (AIHA) includes health information by country, listed for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and New Independent States (NIS). See AIHA's publication "CommonHealth."

Amnesty International USA

This site provides links to Amnesty programs, world human rights news, publications, letter-writing campaigns and more as well as resources on female genital mutilation,and circumcision.

Canada-U.S. Network

The Canada-US Human Rights Information and Documentation Network (CUSHRID) provides links to member sites as well as to the AAAS Database of Human Rights Resources.

Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network

This organization is dedicated to promoting responses to HIV infection and AIDS that respect human rights. It also provides a link to the AIDS Law Project of South Africa.

Carter Center

Founded by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, the Carter Center is an NGO dedicated to international democratization and development, urban revitalization, and global health.

Center for Economic and Social Rights

The Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) informs economic and social rights practitioners; provides addresses for affiliated NGOs in Asia and Australia, Europe, Latin America, and North America.

Children -- NCRA

The National Child Rights Alliance (NCRA) seeks to improve children's human rights by changing economic, social, legal, medical, cultural, and parental practices.

Children -- UNICEF

The United Nations Children's Fund address the health, nutrition, education and other needs of children worldwide; this website provides access to vital statistics, programs and reports, e.g., The State of the World's Children 1998, The Progress of Nations 1997.

Children in War and Peace

This web page from Physicians for Global Survival (PGS) provides access to documents about the effect of war on children, including UNICEF reports and other documents.

Children’s Health -- Carnegie

Provides on-line access to publications of the Carnegie Corporation, some of which address child development, violence prevention, education, school health promotion, conflict resolution, parent education and more.

Children’s Rights -- Cornell University

Maintained by the Legal Information Institute, this site provides ready access to over 20 U.S. federal and state laws, agencies, documents, and foundations, as well as national and international legal materials.

Consortium for Health and Human Rights

This group comprises Global Lawyers and Physicians, Physicians for Human Rights, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, and the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights.

Court TV Casefiles

This "Court TV" homepage provides information about the Bosnia War Crimes Tribunal and a link entitled "A Look Back at Nuremberg."

Diana -- Univ. Cincinnati

This DIANA site (which is under construction as of 10/19/99) focuses primarily on the United Nations and Organization of African Unity materials. You can also access other DIANA sites through this.

Diana -- Univ. of Minnesota

This DIANA site provides links to UN documents, the Inter-American Human Rights system, Partners in Human Rights Education, the Peace Resource Center, and Human Rights USA.

Diana -- Univ. of Toronto

This DIANA site focuses on women's human rights and provides links to bibliographies as well as governmental and NGO documents.

Diana -- Yale Law School

This DIANA site provides access to human rights bibliographies, legal documents and other materials.

Disability -- ADA

This site provides access to a vast amount of information regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and related material. For international disability resources, search the WHO and UN websites.

EPA

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's mission is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment.

International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC)

This site advocates a world in which the fundamental human rights of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, transgendered people, and people with HIV and AIDS are respected and accorded the protection of international human rights law. Provides links to publications, projects and more.

Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights

Describes the work of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights of the Harvard School of Public Health; provides links to health and human rights sites, publications, and foundations. Also links to children's health and human rights resources.

Holocaust Memorial Museum

This U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum website provides information about the Nuremburg Code and human rights, with excerpts from the official trial record of the Doctors Trial.

Physicians for Global Responsibility (PGS)

This web page provides links to human rights documents, NGO reports and both gopher and WWW resources including access to information about human rights in Canada, Greece, Norway, Russia, Israel, Japan, and the U.S.

SUNY Binghamton's Systematic Studies of Human Rights

This web page provides links to human rights papers, conferences, data and Internet sites.

BUSPH Health Law Department

The Boston University School of Public Health, Health Law Department provides comprehensive links to human rights and health, law, bioethics, and medicine resources, including UN and NIH homepages, Court TV Casefiles, NGOs, DIANA, the Holocaust museum, medical journals and more.

University of Minnesota

This site provides links to over 100 international human rights instruments (including French and Spanish versions) including those pertaining to rights of children, disabled persons, refugees, war victims and more.

U.S. Department of State Foreign Affairs Network (DOSFAN)

Provides links to global affairs, treaties and publications, including its annual report on Human Rights Country Practices.

Human Rights Internet (HRI)

HRI, an international NGO and documentation center, provides links to children's rights, other human rights websites, UN information and more.

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library

Provides an extensive and comprehensive bibliography about human rights.

NGO Human Rights Watch

This NGO Human Rights Watch site provides links to its publications, its regional divisions, special projects, e.g., children's and women's rights, and special initiatives, e.g., drugs and human rights, prison conditions, and more.

Human Rights Web

Human Rights Web introduces human rights, provides legal and political documents, and links to over 20 NGOs, UN sites, and other resources.

Brown University's Watson Institute of International Studies

Seeks to prevent and eradicate hunger through research, field work, advocacy and policy-making, education and training; collaborates with World Hunger Education Service, Food First, and FoodFirst Information and Action Network.

Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS)

The goal of CWIS is to democratize relations between peoples to enrich the world community. This website provides comprehensive links to Fourth World studies, seminars, and library materials.

CWIS' Fourth World Documentation Project

The Center for World Indigenous Studies (CWIS)' Fourth World Documentation Project allows access to comprehensive lists of UN and international documents, including tribal resolutions, treaties and other constructive arrangements.

Int’l Health Action Group

Describes the A.M.A. Student Association's INTERNATIONAL HEALTH ACTION GROUP (IHAG) which is dedicated to increasing students' awareness of global health issues and ethical issues surrounding aid to poorer nations. Provides links to other sites.

International Labour Organization (ILO)

ILO formulates international labour standards and provides information on child labour, equality for women and information about human rights in the work environment worldwide.

International Law — Cornell University

This comprehensive site provides access to U.S. legal decisions both recent and historic. The "world" link accesses decisions of the International Court of Justice and national law materials from North and South America, Australia and New Zealand, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa as well as other international law materials.

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

The ICRC homepage includes news, links to humanitarian law resources, the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and more.

Int'l Student Association for Health and Human Rights

The International Student Association for Health and Human Rights is an association of student organizations interested in health and human rights, dedicated to promoting involvement in local, national, and international health and human rights issues.

American International Health Alliance (AIHA)

The American Int'l Health Alliance (AIHA)'s online publication of CommonHealth provides articles on such topics as public health, micronutrient deficiencies, risky teen behaviors as well as news and features pertaining to global health care. The AIHA's home page is at

Flashpoint — a human rights journal

This site provides access to the contents of the human rights magazine, containing both international news and articles.

Health and Human Rights — Harvard School of Public Health

This web page provides access to the contents of the Harvard School of Public Health's journal HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS.  Information on contents of each issue, subscriptions, back issues, submission of articles and Editorial Board.  The articles from the inaugural issue are available on-line, as well as the English, French, and Spanish abstracts of all articles.

Monitors — human rights and technology journal

On-line contents of Volume 1 include Richard Gosden's article about the human rights implication of involuntary psychiatric treatment.

Prison Activist Resource Center

This page provides recent news about medical neglect in prison.

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights (LCHR)

LCHR promotes human rights through legal advocacy worldwide; focuses especially on the rights of refugees and asylum seekers.

Medicine & Global Survival (MGS)

MGS is the official publication of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

National Council for International Health (NCIH)

A US-based non-profit organization -- strives to mobilize a global network to influence health policy by co-sponsoring conferences such as Women's Reproductive Health Initiative, Global HIV/AIDS Program and others.

NGOs — links

Provides over 40 websites for international non-governmental organizations with brief mission statements for each.

Physicians for Global Responsibility (PGS)

PGS's goal is to improve and sustain global health through prevention of war and violence. This website includes links to related health resources and publications.

Physicians for Global Survival, Canada

Physicians for Global Survival is an affiliation of international physicians for the prevention of nuclear war. PGS' website provides access to more human rights information under headings such as nonviolence, health, human dignity and more.

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)

PHR seeks, among other goals, to improve the health and sanitary conditions of prisons and detention centers, to defend medical neutrality and to prevent medical complicity in torture and other abuses.

Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)

PSR emphasizes the relationship between environment and health and strives to influence global policy; provides research updates, publications, press releases and more.

Global Reproductive Health Forum (GRHF)

Part of a multifaceted initiative, spearheaded by the Harvard School of Public Health to bring women from underserved populations and developing countries onto the Internet, where they can access information and take part in online discussion groups.

Save the Children

Describes the United Kingdom's international children's charity, which is dedicated to protecting children's human rights; provides numerous links.

McGill University's Clinical Trials Research Group (CTRG)

This site is dedicated to investigating ethical questions in human experimentation. Provides links to bibliographies, ongoing research projects and other research ethics websites.

Science — Ethics

Maintained by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, this website provides links to selected essays in ethics in science, bibliographies and other internet science ethics resources.

University of British Columbia's Center for Applied Ethics

The University of British Columbia's Center for Applied Ethics provides links to the Human Genome Project, Biotechnology and Biodiversity Resources, genetics and the law and more.

National Institutes of Health Office for Protection from Research Risks (OPRR)

Provides extensive links to human and animal protection resources.

Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR)

SGR examines and fosters the role of scientists in the development of socially responsible democratic society.

Syllabus -- Univ. of California

This site offers a complete human rights and health syllabus by Vincent Iacopino, M.D., Ph.D., of Physicians for Human Rights, University of California, Berkeley.

World Organization Against Torture

The World Organization Against Torture (Organisation Mondiale contre la Torture) is an NGO dedicated to identifying torture, alerting other organizations, and assisting torture victims.

Truth & Reconciliation

Prepared by Health and Human Rights Project, this website includes The Health Sector Hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa); examines the role of the health sector in past human rights abuses under apartheid; provides an extensive summary of the hearings.

United Nations Homepage

The United Nations homepage provides links and search capabilities to access UN treaties and declarations, press releases, country reports and more. Links to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the Office of Economic and Social Development.

UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

The homepage for the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) provides extensive human rights information.

UN — Office of Economic and Social Development

This site provides ready access to health, disability, aging and related resources.

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR50)

This is the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute's website for the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR50), with links to information about the Institute as well as to the UDHR50 National Coordinating Committee.

Video Project

This non-profit source lists over 250 educational videotapes for all ages on the environment, energy, science, technology, activism, violence, and global human rights.

World Health Organization

This site contains links to current and historical documents, statistics, and international health initiatives. Has search capabilities for access to health and related topics.

WHO — Child Health

This World Health Organization web page provides comprehensive links to the WHO's Child Health and Development (CHD) programs.

WHO — Child Health Links

This World Health Organization web page links to child health resources within WHO, the UN, NGOs, and university based children's advocacy programs.

WHO's Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)

From the World Health Organization's Statistical Information System (WHOSIS), this web page defines impairment, disability and handicap.

WHO — Health Reform

This website provides the World Health Organization's "Partners for Health Database on Health Reform" with economic and training database search options.

WHO — Reproduction

Describes World Health Organization research regarding human reproduction (HRP) in collaboration with the Women's and Adolescent Health Units. Provides a bibliographic database, recent publications and search capabilities.

Institute for Global Communications (IGC)'s WomenNet

The Institute for Global Communication (IGC)'s WomensNet website provides links to information about health/reproductive rights, women and technology, women's organizations, and more.

Women's Human Rights Resources — Univ. of Toronto Faculty of Law

List of Women's Human Rights resources; provides authorative and diverse information on women's international human rights law.

World Bank's Early Child Development (ECD)

Describes the ECD program to integrate health, nutrition and early child care services in developing countries; links to the International Development Association (IDA) and other sites pertinent to children's health and human rights.

World Bank — Developmental Goals

Provides links to the Health, Nutrition, and Population page of the World Bank's Human Development Department, including Early Child Development (ECD), HIV/AIDS, health care financing, women's health and more.