The Human Rights Web

When individuals or organizations in a country mistreat people, the national government can still correct extreme injustices. In our world as it exists at present, when a national government becomes an abuser of its own citizens, there is no effective human court of appeal. (If you think the United Nations serves this function, I invite you to talk with some Bosnians, or some Rwandans, or some Burmese, or some Chinese, or some East Timoreans, who have tried to appeal to the UN or World Court and gotten nowhere.) Unless individual people get involved, the victims may get no help at all.

Here is a bunch of information on all kinds of human rights issues and how you can get involved.

The Human Rights Web
Amnesty International

U. S. National Section (better web site)
AIUSA Action Center (current human rights campaigns)
AIUSA Urgent Action Network (responds to human rights emergencies)

Human Rights Watch

U.S. Torture and Abuse of Detainees (American citizens, read this!!!)

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Last modified on Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 8:40 AM PDT.