THE ISSUES

• Globalization
• Population
• Food & Hunger
• Consumption
• Human Rights
• Energy
• The Environment
• War & Conflict

HUMAN RIGHTS

        Inequalities in the distribution of wealth weigh heaviest on women, children, and minority ethnic groups.   Human rights violations can be civil, political, or economic in nature.  The goals of the human rights movement include enforcing standards, preventing mass atrocities, protecting victims, rebuilding countries, and bringing persecutors to justice.  Human rights issues specific to women and children include infant mortality, violence against women, child labor, and discrimination.
 
 

RELATED SITES

Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. In particular, Amnesty International campaigns to free all prisoners of conscience; ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners; abolish the death penalty, torture and other cruel treatment of prisoners; end political killings and "disappearances"; and oppose human rights abuses by opposition groups.  Activities range from public demonstrations to letter-writing, from human rights education to fundraising concerts, from individual appeals on a particular case to global campaigns on a particular issue.

Children's Issues at UNICEF
The United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF works for the survival, development and protection of children, guided in its programmes by the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Children's Rights - UN Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch World Report.  Section on Children's Rights, including information on Child Soldiers, Juvenile Justice, Child Labor, Orphans and Abandoned Children.

Commission on the Advancement of Women
Site from Interaction, a coalition of over 170 non-profit organizations working worldwide and the U.S.'s leading advocate for sustainable development, refugee and disaster assistance and humanitarian aid.

Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an independent international medical relief agency aiding victims of armed conflict, epidemics, and natural and man-made disasters, and others who lack health care due to geographic remoteness or ethnic marginalization. 

Global March Against Child Labour
The mission of the Global March is to mobilize world-wide efforts to protect and promote the rights of all children, especially the right to receive a free, meaningful education and to be free from economic exploitation and from performing any work that is likely to be damaging to the child's physical, mental, spiritual, moral or social development.

Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human 
rights of people around the world.  We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice.  We investigate and expose human rights violations and hold abusers accountable.  We challenge governments and those who hold power to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law.  We enlist the public and the international community to support the cause of human rights for all.

Women's Environmental & Development Organization
The Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO) is a global organization working to increase women's visibility, roles and leadership in public policy-making through peace, gender, human rights, environmental and economic justice campaigns

Women's Human Rights - UN Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch World Report.  Section on Women's Human Rights, including information on violence against women, discrimination, and the role of the international community.