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Contents

Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Censorship
International freedom of expression
Regional freedom of expression
Libraries and library organizations:
Media organizations
International human rights
Regional human rights
AFRICA
LATIN AMERICA
MIDDLE EAST
NORTH ASIA
SOUTH ASIA
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Human Rights Country Reports
IGOs, governmental institutions and networks:
Legal resources
Databases and link collections

Bibliotheca Alexandrina
The Official Bibliotheca Alexandrina webpage :
http://www.bibalex.gov.eg/
Unescos Bibliotheca Alexandrina :
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=4539&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

Censorship
AUTODAFE, The Censored Library : http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=22375&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_SECTION=201.html
Banned Books Online, presented by The Online Books Page : http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html
Banned Books Week : http://www.ala.org/bbooks
Bonfire of the Liberties : http://www.humanities-interactive.org/literature/bonfire/
Canadian Heritage Alliance : http://www.canadianheritagealliance.com
Classification website - Australia : http://www.classification.gov.au/special.html
Index Librorum Prohibitorum of 1949 : http://www.cvm.qc.ca/gconti/905/BABEL/Index%20Librorum%20Prohibitorum-1948.htm
Internet Censorship Report Canadian Committee to Protect Journalists, April 1998 : http://www.cjfe.org/specials/internet/internet.html
Livres Interdit Centre de Recherches sur l'Histoire du Livre au 17e siècle : http://www.livresinterdits.org/
Project Censored : http://www.projectcensored.org/
The File Room : http://www.thefileroom.org/
The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000 USA : http://www.ala.org/bbooks/top100bannedbooks.html

International Freedom of Expression
Article 19 : http://www.article19.org/
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression : http://www.cjfe.org/
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) : http://www.cpj.org/
Digital Freedom Network : http://www.dfn.org/
Electronic Frontier Foundation : http://www.eff.org/
Freedom Forum : http://www.freedomforum.org/
Freedom of Information Center : http://nfoic.org/foi-center/
Freedom of opinion and expression - United Nations High commissioner for Human Rights : http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/i2civfre.htm
Freemuse - Freedom of Musical Expression : http://www.freemuse.org/sw305.asp
Index on Censorship : http://www.indexonline.org/
Inter American Press Association : http://www.sipiapa.com/
International Center for Journalists : http://www.icfj.org/
International Federation of Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) : http://www.ifex.org/
International Federation of Journalists : http://www.ifj.org
International PEN : http://www.internationalpen.org.uk
International Press Institute : http://www.freemedia.at/cms/ipi/
Organizations that work for Freedom of Expression - members of IFEX : http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/429/
Reporters Sans Frontieres : http://www.rsf.fr/
The Blue Ribbon Campaign for Online Free Speech : http://w2.eff.org/br/#brsite

Regional Freedom of Expression
American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression : http://www.abffe.org/
American Library Association : http://www.ala.org/cipa/
American Library Association, Office for Intellectual Freedom : http://www.ala.org/oif
Free Speech (USA) : http://epic.org/free_speech/
Freedom of Expression Institute - South Africa : http://wn.apc.org/fxi/
Freedom to Read Week Canada : http://www.freedomtoread.ca/
Glasnost Defence Foundation Russia : http://www.gdf.ru
Hong Kong Journalists Association : http://www.hkja.org.hk/
Independent Journalism Centre - Nigeria : http://www.derechos.net/ijc/
Institute for war and peace reporting UK : http://www.iwpr.net/
KidSPEAK : http://www.kidspeakonline.org/
National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) : http://www.ncac.org/
Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) : http://www.misa.org/
Network for the Defence of Independent Media in Africa (NDIMA) : http://www.freemediafoundation.org/
PEN American Center : http://www.pen.org/
PEN Canada : http://www.pencanada.ca/
Ralph McCoy's FREEDOM OF THE PRESS : http://www.lib.siu.edu/resources/freedompress
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press - USA : http://www.rcfp.org/

Libraries and Library Organizations
American Library Association : http://www.ala.org
BIBSYS - The Union Catalogue of Norwegian Libraries : http://www.bibsys.no/english.html
British Library Public Catalogue : http://blpc.bl.uk/
GABRIEL - Gateway to Europe's National Libraries : http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/index.html
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) : http://www.ifla.org/
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions / Free Access to Information and Freedom of Expression (IFLA/FAIFE) : http://www.ifla.org/faife/
LibDex - Worldwide Index of Library Catalogues : http://www.libdex.com/
Libris - The Union Catalogue of Swedish Libraries : http://www.libris.kb.se/english/indexeng.jsp
National Library of Australia : http://www.nla.gov.au/
Nobel Institute Library Catalogue (Norway) : http://www.nobel.no/eng_tow.html
Norwegian Library Association : http://www.norskbibliotekforening.no/index.php?c=234&kat=About+us
The Library of Congress : http://lcweb.loc.gov/

Media Organizations
1world communication: Voices From the Global Village : http://www.1worldcommunication.org
AMARC: - The World Association of Community Broadcasters : http://www.amarc.org/
European Press Network (EPN) - Freelance Journalists and Photographers : http://www.epnworld.com
Freedom of Expression Project (CEE) Romania : http://www.freeex.org
Impunity No More - Inter American Press Association : http://www.impunidad.com/
Inter American Press Association (IAPA) USA : http://www.sipiapa.org
International Center For Journalists (ICFJ) USA : http://www.icfj.org
International Journalists' Network (IJNet) USA : http://www.ijnet.org
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) : http://www.ifj.org
International Federation of the Periodical Press (FIPP) London : http://www.fipp.com
International Press Institute : http://www.freemedia.at/cms/ipi/
Internews USA : http://www.internews.org
Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) UK : http://www.iwpr.net
IPYS - Instituto Prensa y Sociedad Peru : http://www.geocities.com/ipyspe/
Journaliste En Danger (JED) D.R. Congo : http://www.jed-congo.org
Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Namibia : http://www.misa.org
Mediachannel.org : http://www.mediachannel.org/
National Writers Union USA : http://www.nwu.org
Network for the Defence of Independent Media in Africa (NDIMA)Kenya : http://www.freemediafoundation.org
Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) Fiji Islands : http://www.pinanius.org
Pacific Media Watch : http://www.pmw.c2o.org/
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) Pakistan : http://www.pakistanpressfoundation.org/
Pressnet: Journalists, Journalism and Mass Media in Internet Spain : http://www.pressnetweb.com
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) France http://www.rsf.fr
The Centre for War, Peace & the News Media : http://www.nyu.edu/cwpnm/
The Freedom Forum USA http://www.freedomforum.org
World Association of Newspapers (WAN) France : http://www.wan-press.org
World Press Freedom Committee (WPFC) USA : http://www.wpfc.org

International Human Rights
Amnesty International : http://www.amnesty.org/
Derechos Human Rights : http://www.derechos.org/
Human & Constitunional Rights : http://www.hrcr.org/
Human Rights Awareness : http://www.hrawareness.org/
Human Rights Interactive Network : http://www.webcom.com/hrin/
Human Rights Internet : http://www.hri.ca/
Human Rights Watch : http://www.hrw.org/index.html
HURID [=The Institute for Human Rights, Intellectual Property and Development Trust] : http://www.wiserearth.org/organization/view/92adcc72864ed91f2757f9339dbbfe82
HURIDOCS - The Human Rights Information and Documentation Ntwork : http://www.huridocs.org/
HURPEC - Human Rights Server : http://www.hurpec.net/
IGC Human Rights Internet-Resources Collection : http://www.geocities.com/vanessavonstruensee_2000/hrgood.html
INTERIGHTS, the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights : http://www.interights.org
International Council on Human Rights : http://www.ichrp.org
International Federation for Human Rights : http://www.fidh.org/
International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights : http://www.ihf-hr.org
Rights and Democracy - International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development : http://www.dd-rd.ca/site/
The Human Rights Web : http://www.hrweb.org/

Human Rights Country Reports
Amnesty International Library : http://www.amnesty.org
Antisemitism : http://www.axt.org.uk/
FIDH Reports : http://www.fidh.org
For the Record/BILAN - The UN Human Rights System and The European Human Rights System http://www.hri.ca/fortherecord2001/ftrchoice.html
HRW - Press Releases by Country : http://hrw.org/countries.html
Human Rights Watch : http://www.hrw.org/
IFLA/FAIFE World Report : http://www.ifla.org/faife/report/intro.htm
Index on Censorship http://www.indexonline.org/
International Committee Red Cross : http://www.icrc.org/eng/operations_country
United Nations Human Rights Documents : http://www.unhchr.ch/data.htm
U.S. State Department http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/

IGOs, Governmental Institutions and Networks
Council of the European Union : http://www.consilium.europa.eu/cms3_fo/showPage.ASP?lang=en
Elections Around the World : http://www.electionworld.org/election/indexfrm.htm/home.htm
European Court of Justice : http://http://curia.europa.eu./index.htm
European Union : http://europa.eu/
Inter-Parliamentary Union - IPU : http://www.ipu.org/
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights : http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diana/undocs/32798-10.html
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights : http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diana/undocs/33098-1.html
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights : http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Pages/WelcomePage.aspx
Organization of African Unity : http://www.oau-oua.org/
Organization of American States : http://www.oas.org/
OSCE - The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe : http://www.osce.org/
The European Convention on Human Rights : http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diana/undocs/32798-5.html
The European Parliament : http://www.consilium.europa.eu/cms3_fo/showPage.ASP?lang=en
The European Union : http://europa.eu/
UNESCO : http://www.unesco.org/
UNESCO - Unit for Freedom of Expression, Democracy and Peace (FED) : http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=2493&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
UNESCO; Universal Declaration of Human Rights : http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/navigate/alpha.htm
United Nations and important links : http://www.abo.fi/instut/imr/links/index.htm
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights : http://www.unhchr.ch/
UNITED NATIONS System of Organizations : http://www.unsystem.org/
Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Alphabetic listing of all translations : http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/navigate/alpha.htm
VIENNA DECLARATION AND PROGRAMME OF ACTION (1993) - World Conference on Human Rights : http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diana/undocs/33198-10.html
Web Sites on National Parliaments : http://www.ipu.org/english/parlweb.htm

Legal Resources
Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law : http://www.wcl.american.edu/pub/humright/home.htm
Centre for Constitutional Studies - links to constitutional resources worldwide : http://www.law.ualberta.ca/centres/ccs/Resources/index.php
Comparative Constitutional Law Links for Freedom of Expression : http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/xr00005_.html
European Court of Human Rights : http://www.echr.coe.int/echr/
FindLaw : http://www.findlaw.com/12international/countries/
Foreign and International Law Sources on the Internet : http://library2.lawschool.cornell.edu/ForeignLawGuide/
Human Rights First : http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/
International Constitutional Law (ICL) : http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/index.html
International Court of Justice Homepage (World Court in Hague) : http://www.icj-cij.org/
Internet Law Library : http://www.lectlaw.com/inll/90.htm
Internet Law Library : Treaties and International Library : http://www.priweb.com/internetlawlib/89.htm
Internet Legal Resource Guide : http://www.ilrg.com/
Internet Legal Resources : http://lib.law.washington.edu/research/research.html
PublicLegal: The Internet Legal Resource Center : http://www.ilrg.com/
Lawlinks (UK) : http://www.kent.ac.uk/lawlinks/
Worldwide legal directories : http://www.hg.org/

Databases and Link Collections
Action Without Borders, Inc. : http://www.idealist.org
Baltic Media Centre - International Media Development : http://www.bmc.dk
BLDS - British Library for Development Studies : http://blds.ids.ac.uk/
DATABASE ON HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION AND TRAINING United Nations (OHCHR) : http://www.unhchr.ch/hredu.nsf
Diana - University of Minnesota Human Rights Library : http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/
DIANA - Women's Human Rights Resources Database : http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/Diana/
European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation - Padua University : http://www.emahumanrights.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=118&Itemid=93
Harvard Law School - Research Programs and Centers : http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/
Human Rights Issues (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights) : http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/hrissues.htm
Human Rights in the OSCE Region (the Balkans, the Caucasus, Europe, Central Asia and North America) : http://www.ihf-hr.org
HUMAN RIGHTS LIBRARIES Common Database : http://www.abo.fi/instut/imr/commondb/
Human Rights Watch : http://www.hrw.org/
HURDOC databases (Norwegian Institute of Human Rights) : http://www.humanrights.uio.no/english/library/hurdoc.html
HURIDOCS - Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems, International : http://www.huridocs.org/
Library of Congress Online Catalog : http://catalog.loc.gov/
Native Web - Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the world : http://www.nativeweb.org/
Nordic Human Rights net : http://www.nordichumanrights.net/
Oneworld.net : http://www.oneworld.net/
United Nations Agreements on Human Rights : http://www.hrweb.org/legal/undocs.html
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library : http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/

Links by region

AFRICA
Human Rights Websites
Afronet - African News Blog : http://afronet.org.za/
allAfrica.com : http://allafrica.com/
Contemporary Conflicts - The Horn of Africa : http://conconflicts.ssrc.org/hornofafrica/
Nongovernmental Organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa : http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/africa/toc.htm

Human Rights NGOs
Africa - Human Rights : http://www-sul.stanford.edu/africa/hurights.html
Africa Legal Aid : http://www.africalegalaid.org/
African Human Rights NGOs : http://www.derechos.net/links/ngo/regional/africa.html
CASMAS - Coalition Against Slavery in Mauritania and Sudan : http://members.aol.com/casmasalc/
Centre for Democracy and Development : http://cddwestafrica.org/
Media Institute of Southern Africa : http://www.misa.org
The Southern African Human Rights NGO Network : http://www.sahringon-tz.org/
The Washington Office on Africa : http://www.woaafrica.org/

Research Centers
African Human Rights Resource Center : http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/africa/
Africa Policy Information Center : http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Urgent_Action/menu_APIC.html/
Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation : http://www.csvr.org.za/

International Organizations
Welcome to oau-oua.org : http://www.oau-oua.org/

Human Rights Documents
African Human Rights Instruments : http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/instree/afrinst.htm
OAU Documents : http://www.derechos.net/links/int/africa.html

Articles
African News Sources : http://www.derechos.net/links/news/africa.html
Digital Freedom Network - Africa : http://unix.dfn.org/africa.shtml
Human Rights and Governance in Africa : http://web.africa.ufl.edu/asq/v2/v2i3.htm
Humanitarian News Updates : http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/doc106?OpenForm
Religious Human Rights in Africa : http://africa.oneworld.net/article/archive/575/
The Case of Freedom of Expression in African and Islamic Contexts : http://www.flwi.ugent.be/cie/CIE2/an-naimcv.htm
The Monitor http://allafrica.com/publishers.html?passed_name=The%20Monitor&passed_location=Kampala

Links
Africa Online : http://www.africaonline.com/
Africa Online: ICG's Directory of Websites on Africa : http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=1098
Africa south of the Sahara - Human Rights : http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/hurights.html
African Reparations Movement (UK) : http://www.arm.arc.co.uk/
African Studies Internet Resources : http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/
Afrol.com : http://www.afrol.com/
Derechos Africa Links : http://www.derechos.net/links/geo/africa/
Index on Africa : http://www.afrika.no/index/index.html
International Conflict Research : http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/
Kabissa - Space for Change in Africa : http://www.kabissa.org/

LATIN AMERICA
Reports
Amnesty International Reports on the Americas : http://www.amnesty.org/
Human Rights Links : http://www.derechos.net/links/
Information Services Latin America : http://www.igc.org/isla/
Latin American Network Information Center : http://lanic.utexas.edu/
Latin World : http://www.latinworld.com/
Project for Global Democracy & Human Rights : http://www.worldpolicy.org/globalrights/
School of the Americas Watch : http://www.soaw.org/

MIDDLE EAST
Human Rights NGOs
Arab Commission for Human Rights : http://home.swipnet.se/~w-79939/
Gay and Lesbian Arab Society : http://glas.org/
Global Network of Arab Activists : http://www.egroups.com/group/GNAA
Human Rights Organizations in Middle Eastern countries : http://www.derechos.net/links/ngo/regional/mena.html
Middle East Children's Alliance : http://www.mecaforpeace.org
Middle East Facts : http://middleeastfacts.com/
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee : http://www.adc.org/
The Arab Organization for Human Rights : http://www.aohr.org
The Arab Program for Human Rights Activists : http://www.aphra.org/
The Kurdish Human Rights Project : http://www.khrp.org/

Research Centers
Center for Arab Gulf Studies - University of Exeter : http://www.exeter.ac.uk/ags/
School of Oriental and African Studies - University of London : http://www.soas.ac.uk/index.html
Middle East Network Information Center : http://menic.utexas.edu/menic.html

Human Rights Reports
Amnesty International Library : http://www.amnesty.org/en/library
State Injustice : Unfair Trials in the Middle East and North Africa - 1998 AI Report : http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aipub/1998/MDE/50100298.htm
The Internet in the Middle East and North Africa HRW, 1999 : http://www.hrw.org/advocacy/internet/mena/

Publications
Arabic News : http://www.ArabicNews.com/
MERIP - Middle East Research and Information Project : http://www.merip.org/
Mid-East Realities : http://www.MiddleEast.Org/
Middle Eastern News Sources : http://www.derechos.net/links/news/mena.html

Links
Al Bawaba - portal : http://www.albawaba.com/
The Arab Network for Human Rights Information : http://www.hrinfo.net/en/
Middle East & Islamic Studies Collection - at Cornell : http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/
Middle East & North Africa Links : http://www.derechos.net/links/geo/mena/
The Middle East North Africa Internet Resource Guide : http://www.cc.utah.edu/~jwr9311/MENA.html
Search for Common Ground in the Middle East : http://www.sfcg.org/programmes/middleeast/programmes_middleeast.html

ASIA
Human Rights Websites
General Human Rights Websites : http://www.derechos.net/links/gen/
South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre : http://www.hri.ca/partners/sahrdc/index.htm

Human Rights NGOs
AFAD - The Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances : http://www.desaparecidos.org/afad/
Asia Human Rights NGOs : http://www.derechos.net/links/ngo/regional/asia.html
Asian Human Rights Commission : http://www.ahrchk.net/
Human Rights in Southeast Asia : http://www.hr-alliance.org/aphr-ft/
Human Rights Organizations in Asian countries : http://www.derechos.net/links/ngo/regional/asia.html
The Asia-Pacific Forum : http://www.asiapacificforum.net/

International organizations
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation : http://www.apec.org/
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific : http://unescap.org/
Other International Organizations : http://www.derechos.net/links/int/

Women
SAWNET - The South Asian Women NETwork : http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/users/sawweb/sawnet
The Journal of South Asian Women Studies : http://www.asiatica.org/publications/jsaws/

Human Rights Reports and Articles
Links to reports on Human Rights in Asia : http://www.derechos.net/links/geo/asia/arti.html
Publications from the Asian Human Rights Commission : http://www.ahrchk.net/
NIASLINC - A Nordic Resource Centre for Research and Information on Asia : http://www.niaslinc.dk/news/permalink/?storyid=2778
The South and Southeast Asia Resource Centre on Sexuality : http://www.asiasrc.org

Links
Asia Pacific: Human Rights Education List Archive : http://www.hrea.org/lists/hre-asiapacific/markup/maillist.php
Derechos Asia Links : http://www.derechos.net/links/geo/asia/
Human Rights Links : http://www.derechos.net/links/dir/asiahr.html
Links from the Asia Human Rights Commission : http://www.ahrchk.net/
South Asia Citizens Web : http://www.sacw.net
Southeast Asian Archive - UCI : http://www.lib.uci.edu/libraries/collections/sea/sasian.html
The Asian Human Rights Commission : http://www.ahrchk.net/index.php/