http://www.idt.unit.no/~isfit/human.rights.html (World Wide Web Directory, 06/1995)

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Human rights information

Newest updates

The many speakers who attended ISFiT-94 include famous speakers like Dalai Lama, Taslima Nasrin and Nafis Sadiq. Now you can read their speeches.
We have all the manuscripts in writing, and only a very few very given to us on disks. All manuscripts will be "converted" in the end.

Also updated:

Our AI page has grown to become much bigger than it used to be. Check it out!

Gopher sites

The sites below contain a very large amount of information:

1995 Annual Reports on Human Rights by the U.S. State Department [ftp.voa.gov] (OBS 1995!)

Institute for global communication's gopher. Lot's of relevant stuff here on Human Rights, Peace and Preservation of the Environment. There are also separate sections for Women's Information, Trade, Education , Labor Issues and more.

IGC also has World Wide Web pages!

Garnet.berkeley.edu also has interresting material. These are some of the sections: Economy, Peace, Racism, Human Rights, Gender and Sexuality.

U.S. State Departement reports on human rights are found at cyfer.esuda.gov. There is one report for almost every country in the world. These are from 1993.

The United Nations' gopher

Human Rights - documents and conventions from libaccess.essex.ac.uk

The same conventions are found in the U.S.A at
gopher.law.cornell.edu

Other WWW sites

The Human Right Information Through Essex pages are full of excellent information. Recommended!
The Human Rights Web is a place with many documents and links to resources. It is also highly recommended.
The Australian National University is a source of high-quality information on many subjects, also related to human rights.
The United Nations's many organizations have lots of information on-line. Lots of it is very relevant to human rights.

News groups

There are many more newsgroups related to human rights than soc.rights.human, but they are not in the ordinary 'big 7' hierarchy, and are thus only carried by sites with special agreements. ISFiT were also planning its own newsgroup, but that failed. ISFiT discussion takes place in the newsgroup unit.udusken.

Related events

East Timor has been occupied by Indonesia for years, and TimorNet has lots of information on the subject, including the human rights situation there.

The Rwanda crisis is slipping out of sight in media, so it's not so "hot" anymore, but if you want information, it is found here, www.intac.com.

Information on the hunger and famine problems are found at http://www.hunger.brown.edu/hungerweb/ .

The UN Conference on Population and Development has lots of information especially on population and women's rights. (We have links to a collection of stuff by Dr. Nafis Sadiq, who spoke at ISFiT (after Cairo))

Search results

The Internet contains too much information for anyone to have a complete overview. There are therefore many different search tools and subject lists available. Below are the most fruitful of those searches we have conducted so far. More might be added.

Note: The searches I made, was done in May 94. With the present growth rate of the Internet and the WWW, a lot of information sources might be missing from these result-pages. You could try to perform your own search using any of the search possibilities listed at mcom.com

Results from:: Veronica, an overview of all gophers in the world. This list has been slightly edited - but is still long.
Results from:: HUMAN RIGHTS as keywords by Galaxy search service
Results from:: Gopher-space (performed by Galaxy search service)
Results from:: RIGHTS as keywords by Galaxy search service

If you are Norwegian, you might want to perform your own search in the national university library database BIBSYS (or through BIBSYS (via UiT)).

You might want to look at the list found June 7th 1994 for the available books at Norwegian Universities on all aspects of human rights.

Amnesty International

Press the AI logo to go to our page with more links.

National documents on Human Rights

These documents may have both historical and present day interest.

The English Bill of Rights - 1689.
The French Declaration of Rights - 1789.
The U.S. Bill of Rights - 1791.

Local files

Below is a list of stuff that are related to human rights. It has been collected from various places in cyberspace, mostly gophers.

Written in 1869, John Stuart Mill's On the Subjection of Women is still interesting reading on Women's Rights. (264 kB)
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is here. It was written by the UN in 1948. (12 kB)
The 1979 Chinese Declaration of Human Rights, also known as the 19 Articles on Human Rights has been posted on Democracy Wall in Peking's Tian An Men Square. (14 kb)
This is a list of selected Internet Resources on Human Rights. If you are interested in using mailing lists, read this. (4 kB)
There is a document on Women's Human Rights and the Peace Process here. (2 kb)
There is an article on the history of universal human rights here. (6 Kb)
The announcement of what APC did at the UN Human Rights Conference in Vienna. It tells about the advantages of electronic communication.(2 kb)
The Convention On Discrimination Against Women was adopted by the UN in 1979.(30 kb)
The UN Conference on Human Rights in Vienna (June 1993) gave many results. Here is one report from Newsletter in Germany.(16 kb)
This is a report on Human Rights and Development. It was used at the 1993 Vienna Conference.(30 kb)
What about religion? A report on human rights and Islam can be found here. (6 kb)
Are human rights universal ? Here are two files on that issue:
A review of the book Human Rights in a Pluralist World (6 kb)
Human Rights: Cultural or Universal? from the Anti-Slavery Newsletter. (3 kb)
The ILO (Intl. Labor Org.) has written a report on human rights in the working life.(8 kb)
IGC (Institute of Global Communications) Networks provide computer services to people and organizations for environmental preservation, peace, human rights and labor issues. This is a list of HUMAN RIGHTS organizations and news conferences there.(4 kb) Here is some more information on IGC. (12 kb)
Here is the Bratislava Declaration of the Expert Seminar on The Right to Communicate in the Post Cold War Period (9 kb)
Thw main result of the Vienna Conference on Human Rights was maybe the VIENNA DECLARATION AND PROGRAMME OF ACTION(85 kb)

Remark: Some of the links may be of no interest to you, and any link may be unavailable at any time. This service is provided as is.

This page was made by , Nils Andreas Thommesen

This page was made primo May 94, being the first WWW site dedicated to Human Rights. Later, many others have entered the web. Last update: March 8, 1995

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