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This is Amnesty International's headquarter website. If your are interested in specific local groups check their links page. The AAAS database for linking Human Rights Sites is quite extensive and thorough. The Worker's Rights Consortium is the Code of Conduct accepted and supported by TASC. This site is provided by the National Labor Committee (NLC) Human Rights Internet (HRI) is both a directory for finding human rights sites, but a location for current news and publications. HRI is quite extensive, 1796 organizations, and is a reputable site to gather information. Sweatshop Watch has been active on the internet since its creation in August 1995 around the discovery of a slave sweatshop industry in El Monte, California. This is a server, which is constantly searching the internet for new sites dealing with sweatshops. This could be a useful tool if you are in search of other sources. The most popular sites are listed first. Happy hunting. The Mission of IGC is to advance the work of progressive organizations and individuals for peace, justice, economic opportunity, human rights, democracy and environmental sustainability through strategic use of online technologies. This is a great site, with incredible photography and a well set up page. Global Exchange is a human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political, and social justice around the world. Since their founding in 1988, Global Exchange has been striving to increase global awareness among the US public while building international partnerships around the world. United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) is an international student movement of campuses and individual students fighting for sweatshop free labor conditions and workers rights. There are over 100 student chapters of USAS throughout the United States and Canada. The National Labor Committee is an indepenedent monitoring agency, which is very supportive of the student campus movement and has served through its monitoring methods to spread infromation concerning the nature of sweatshops. Charles Kernaghan, the executive director of the NLC came, at the request of UTK's chapter of Amnesty International, and spoke about sweatshops and the roles universities can have in providing some solutions. The UDHR was adopted on Dec.10, 1948 and its creation has helped push the fundamentals of human rights into common discourse. Amnesty International is one of the key supporters of the UDHR and encourages adherence to all of its parts. RAWA is a non-governmental organization working for women's human rights in Afghanistan. They are a strong oppositional force to the regressive policies of the Taliban. Their website is a great place to get educated about the plight of Afghan women with pictures, news and human rights reports updated frequently. |
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