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HUMAN
RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS
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ALGERIA
L'Algeria
nel Cuore. Non-profit woman's organization, combatting
Islamic extremism, authoritarianism, and the Algerian Family
Code. In Italian.
Algerian
League for Human Rights. The league, created in 1987,
has as its stated goals, to defend and promote human rights in
their political, economic, civil, social, and cultural aspects
in conformity with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,
the African Human Rights Charter and other international conventions.
Algeria Watch
Non-governmental organization engaged in the defense of human
rights in Algeria. Site is in German and French.
Not associated with AWI.
Algeria Watch International
AWI is a non-governmental, non-partisan, non-profit,
devoted to creating greater awareness around the world of the
conflict in Algeria.
Amnesty
International: Algeria 1997 report on Algeria and
its human rights situation.
Amnesty International
The AI's home page. Amnesty International reports on human rights
violations around the world are reported virtually every day
of the week, attempting to sort fact from fiction.
Attacks
on the Press, 1995 year in review, and CPJ
Country Report: Algeria: 1998 year in review. From Committee
to Protect Journalists.
Campaña
Por La Paz. (Campaign for Peace). Documents, list
of parties and brief histories. In Spanish.
COSDAL.
Site for the Committee for Support of Democracy and Freedoms
in Algeria (Comité de soutien à la Démocratie
et aux libertés en Algérie), a politically, institutionally,
and religiously independent organization in defense of democracy,
movements of women, intellectuals, artists and journalists, the
union, human rights organizations, and cultural and linguistic
pluralism. In French.
IDPs
in Algeria: profile summary, causes and background
of displacement, population profile and figures, information
on physical security and freedom of movement, subsistence needs,
humanitarian, access, and national and international responses.
Completed December 2000. From the Global IDP (internally displaced
persons) Project.
The National Observatory
of Human Rights (ONDH) in Algeria.
Silencing
the Protestors. From Amnesty International: "Hundreds
are killed and injured by security forces during mass anti-government
protests in the Kabylia region of northeastern Algeria."
LIBYA
The
Libyan League for Human Rights, contact information
for LLHR.
MALI
Association
Malienne des Droits de l'Homme, contact information
for AMDH (Mali).
MAURITANIA
Association
Mauritanienne des Droits de l'Homme, contact information
for AMDH (Mauritania).
MOROCCO
Organisation Marocaine
des Droits de l'Homme (Moroccan Organization of Human
Rights), OMDH.
Association Marocaine
des Droits de l'Homme (Moroccan
Association of Human
Rights),
AMDH.
NIGER
Association
Nigerienne des Droits de l'Homme, contact information
for the human rights organization.
TUNISIA
Ligue
Tunisienne Des Droits de l'Homme, contact information
for LTDH.
NORTH AFRICA/INTERNATIONAL
The Center for Strategic and International
Studies A public policy research institution dedicated to
policy analysis and impact.
Committee to Protect Journalists.
Documents the conditions of press freedom in 117 countries.
FIDH - International
Federation of Human Rights Leagues. La première organisation
internationale de défense des droits de l'Homme à s'être
constituée, en 1922.
Hijra International
Organization. NGO for the defense of Human Rights, which
helps victims of repression and asylum seekers from the Muslim world,
notably North Africa. Site offers information in French and English.
Human Rights Watch
The HRW investigates and exposes human rights violations.
International
Federation of Human Rights Leagues. English version of above.
The FIDH is the first international organization to defend human rights
since 1922. It's headquarters is in France.
The National Democratic Institute
for International Affairs. Calls on a global network of volunteer
experts and provides practical assistance to civic and political leaders
advancing democratic values, practices and institutions. NDI works with
democrats in every region of the world to build political and civic
organizations.
Relief Web, a project
of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Tazzla Institute for Cultural
Diversity. A non-profit, charitable and educational organization,
which conducts research on indigenous people of North America and North
Africa, and produces Public Access Television documentaries and program.
The
Unofficial Human Rights Letter Writing Center.
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