Here are a partial list of
NGOs. These websites provide a wealth of
non-country specific but particularly useful information
on the contemporary issues addressed in committee
topics. A few hours spent reviewing these sites could
save you many weeks of library research!
Aboriginal Law and Legislation Online
Abuse of Human Rights of Sikhs in India
ACDI/VOCA - Empowering Farmers and Entrepreneurs Worldwide to Succeed in the Global Economy
ACT - Alliance For Conflict Transformation
Action Against Hunger
Action Canada for Population and Development
Action Coalition
Action Contre la Faim (in French only)
Advancing Women
The Advocacy Project
Advocates for Survivors of Trauma and Torture
Advocates International
AEGEE - Associations des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de l'Europe
Afghan Women's Mission Organization
The Africa Centre, London, England
Africa Rights
African Network for the Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect
AIDS Law Project South Africa
The American Anti-Slavery Group
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
American Immigration Law Foundation
American Immigration Lawyers Association
Amnesty International -- Leicester UK
Amnesty International -- Sweden(in Swedish)
Amnesty International On-line - Main Site
Amnesty International U.S.A.
Ansar Burney Welfare Trust
Anti-Slavery International
Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR)
Arab Association for Human Rights (AAHR)
Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF)
Article 19 - Global Campaign for Freedom of Expression
Artists Against Racism
Artists Without Borders
Asian Human Rights Commission(.net)
Asian Human Rights Commission(.org)
Asian Research Center for Migration, Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University
Asociación España con ANCUR
(in Spanish)
Asociacion Pro Derechos Humanos (Peru)
(in Spanish)
Asociacion Tepeyac de New York
The Aspen Institute
Association of Tamils of Eelam in the USA
(Sri Lanka)
Associazione per i popoli minacciati
(in German)
Asylumlaw.org - Asylum Law Clearinghouse
Australian Human Rights Information Centre (AHRIC)
Avocats sans Frontières (in French)
Bahai International Community and the UN
Bahai World
Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies
Belarus Update
The Bellona Foundation
Bosnia Home Page at Cal Tech
The Bosnian Institute
Bulgarian Helsinki Committee
Cambodia Resource Center
Campaign for Human Rights in Tunisia
Canada - U.S. Human Rights Information and Documentation Network (CUSHRID Net)
Canadian Human Rights Foundation
Canadian Human Rights Reporter
Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR)
CARE
Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
Carter Center
Casa Alianza
Casa de Esperanza
Catholic Fund for Overseas Development
Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.
Caucasions United for Reparations and Emancipation
Caux Round Table
Center For Alternative Development Strategies Network (CADS)
Center for Defense Information
The Center for Effective Discipline
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota
The Center for Human Rights and the Environment, CEDHA
Center for Justice & Accountability
Center For Justice and International Law
Center for Migration Studies Home Page
The Center for Multicultural and Multilingual Mental Health Services
Centro Para la Investigacion y la Promocion de los Derechose Civiles
Center for Victims of Torture (Minneapolis, MN)
Central American Refugee Center, New York
Charity Choice
Child Rights International
Children Now, Child Advocacy
Children, Youth and Family Consortium
Childrens Rights - BBC World Service
Children's House!
Church World Service/Immigration and Refugee Program
Citizens and Immigrants for Social Justice (CIEJ)
Civil Military Relations Network
Coalition for an International Criminal Court
Colombia Support Network
Commission Internationale pour les Droits des Peuples Indigènes
Commission on Global Governance: Our Global Neighbor
Committee on the Adminsitration of Justice - Northern Ireland
Committee to Protect Journalists
Community of Bosnia Foundation
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI)
Conference Mondiale contre le racisme/ Durban, September 2001
Conseil canadien pour les réfugiés - Canadian Council for Refugees
Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos (Peru)
Coordination Intercommunautaire Contre le l'antisemitisme et la Diffamation / Geneve
Council for Civil Liberties
Crimes of War
Domovina Net - Bosnia and Croatia Information
Croix-Rouge de Belgique
Cross Cultural Solutions
Crosspoint Anti-Racism
Cultural Survival
Cyber Rights Home Page
Danish Refugee Council
Defense for Children International (DCI)
Derechos - Human Rights
Derechos Humanos: Ultima Hora
Doctors Without Borders (USA)
EarthRights International
East Timor Action Network
East Timor Relief Association (ETRA)
European Business Network forSocial Cohesion
Eelam House
Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (EZLN)
End Violence Against Women
Entre Arbitraire et Impunité- Les Droits de l'Homme au Congo-Brazzaville
European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI)
Falun Dafa Information Center
Families International
FIDH - Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l'Homme
Flights for Rights: Free Air Fare for Human Rights Work
Focus: HOPE
Food Not Bombs, San Francisco
Forced Migration Projects Archive
FOREFRONT - A Global Network of Grassroots Human Rights Activists
Forefront Leaders- A Global Network of Grassroot Human Rights Activists
Fourth World Conference on Women -Women, Power & Change
Fourth World Documentation Project
Franciscans International and Dominicans
Free The Slaves
Freedominfo.org
Free Viet Home Page
Gendercide Watch Main Page
Genocide Watch
Global Citizens Circle
Global Internet Liberty Campaign
Global Reporting Initiative
Global Volunteer Network
Global Volunteers Home Page
Global Witness
Grassroots International, a People to People Partnership for Social Change
GuideStar - The National Database of Nonprofit Organizations
Handicap International
Hate Watch
Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute (HDIP)
HealthWrights: Workgroup for People's Health and Rights
Heartland Alliance Human Resources
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
Human Rights Advocates
Human Rights Center of Azerbaijan
Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities
Human Rights Council of Australia
Human Rights in China (HRIC)
Human Rights Internet - A Human Rights Gateway
Human Rights Research and Education Centre - University of Ottawa
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Human Rights Web Home Page
Human Rights Without Frontiers
The Hunger Site Home - Donate Food for Free to Hungry People in the World
Huridocs Organization
Idealist.org
Idealist.org
ImmigrantRights
Immigration Law Practitioners' Association
Immigration and Refugee Services of America
Indonesia Human Rights Network
Institute for Human Rights, Abo Akademi University
Institute of Global Communications (IGC)
Institute of Investigation, Documentation and Human Rights of the Dominican Republic
Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos
InterAction - American Council for Voluntary International Action
Inter-American Center for Human Rights
INTERIGHTS: International Centre for the Legal PRotection of Human Rights
International Center for Establishing Justice
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
International Council of Voluntary Agencies
International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World
International Federation for Human Rights
International Federation on Human Rights
International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
International Freedom of Expression Exchange
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
International Human Rights Law Group
International Human Rights Observer
International IDEA (Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance)
International Legal Assistance Consortium
The International Lesbian and Gay Association
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
International Republic Institute
International Service for Human Rights
International Students Festival in Trondheim
International Training Centre (ITC)
Islamic Human Rights Commission
Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in The Occupied Territories
JRS Jesuit Refugee Service
Juristes Sans Frontières
Kav La'Oved
La Oficina en Washington para Asuntos Latinoamericanos
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
Le Maghreb des droits de l'Homme
Legal Aid of Cambodia
Liga Mexicana por la Defensa delos Derechos Humanos
MANDAT International
Maquila Solidarity Network
Martin Scheinin's Home Page
Médecins du Monde - Association Humanitaire
Médecins Sans Frontières
Media Institute of Southern Africa
Medicos Del Mundo
Memoire 2000
Micasa Sucasa
Middle East Organization
Migration and Refugee Services: Immigrant Refugee Resettlement Assistance in Baton Rouge
Military Sexual Slavery by Japanese Soldiers Towards Korean Women
Minnesota Charities Review Council
Minority Rights Group International
Monday Lobby Group
Mouvement Contre le Racisme et l'Amitie entre les Peuples / MRAP - Paris
The Multinational Force and Observers
National Democratic Institute For International Affairs
National Lawyers Guild - National Immigration Project
National Organization for Women (NOW)
National Organization of Men Against Sexism
National Security Archive
The National Immigration Forum
Native Web
NCCB/USCC -Office of Migration Refugee Services
Negative Population Growth
NERGÝZ UZUN'A ÖZGÜRLÜK ÇAÐRISI
Network for Korean Democracy and Human Rights
New Tactics in Human Rights
New Tactics in Human Rights
News and Comment on Middle East affairs
NGO Committee on UNICEF
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Nonprofit Careers
Norwegian Refugee Council
The November Coalition
The Objector: Home of the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
Office of Refugee Resettlement
Open Media Research Institute (OMRI)
Open Society Institute
Open Society Justice Initiative
Organisation Marocaine des Droits Humains
Orion Online
Orthodox Christian Mission Center
Oxfam America
Pakistan Institute of Human Rights
Panos London News
Peace Brigades International - Colombia Project
Peace Brigades International
Penal Reform International (PNI)
People's Union For Civil Liberties
Physicians for Human Rights
Planet Peace
Peoplesite
Population Communication International (PCI)
Prevent Genocide International
Project HappyChild
Public Committee Against Torture in Israel
Quaker U.N. Office, Geneva
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Readers International Publishing: Books from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe
Redress
REESWeb: Russian and East European Studies
Refugee Law Center, Boston, MA
RefugeeNet - EU Networks on Integration of Refugees
The Religious Society of Friends
Resource Center of the Americas
RESULTS - Creating Political Will to End Hunger
RESULTS: Creating Political Will to End Hunger
Rights Action
Rights Consortium
Rosemary Nelson Campaign
San Pedro Nolasko
Save the Children (Sweden)
Save the Children
School of the Americas Watch
Scolars at Risk Network
Servicio Paz y Justicia (Argentina)
Sierra Club -- Human Rights and the Environment
Simon Wiesenthal Center
Sinn Fein
Sisterhood Is Global Insitute
Sisters Online
Southern Poverty Law Center
Speak Truth to Power
Sweatshop Watch
Tamil Nation
Tibet Information Network
Tibet Women's Association
Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy
Together Foundation
U.S. Committeefor Refugees (USCR)
Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
UNPO - Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
Vera Institute of Justice
Victims Trust Fund Campaign
Victor Perton's Australian Human Rights Papers
Waging Peace
Washington Kurdish Institute
Western Sahara Online
Women Waging Peace
Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development and Peace
The World Council of Churches
World Citizen Government Web
World Organization Against Torture
World Peace Society
Zentrum für Türkeistudien / Türkiye Arastirmalar Merkezi / Centerfor Studies on Turkey
If you find other sites of interest, please let me know and I'll include them on the list!
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