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A Switch in Time: a New Strategy for America in Iraq (Brookings Institution)
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• Emergency Net News Emergency Response and Research Institute (ERRI)
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Journalist Training, Safety and Human Rights:

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• Reporters Without Borders
• International Federation of Journalists: Home Page
• Reporting Human Rights and Humanitarian Stories: A Manual
  
  
  

Human Rights and Peace Prizes:

• The Pulitzer Prizes
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• The Nobel Foundation
• The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
  

General:

• Amnesty International (AI) On-line
• AI Report 2006: charges "war on terror" undermines human rights
• Amnesty International Report 2008
• Amnesty International - USA
• Amnesty International Guide to Human Rights Links
• Human Rights Watch
• Human Rights Watch World Report 2009
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• Methods of Execution Death Penalty Education Center
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• Internet Research Resources: (Excellent Wellesley College Background Guide)
• Internet Resources for Maps: (Wellesley College)
• World Area Studies Internet Resources: (Connecticut State U.)
  
  

Genocide:

• Genocide: UN Convention on Genocide
• Genocide: Reservations and Declarations to the Genocide Convention
• Genocide Convention at 50: Exhaustive Web Links: USIP
• Genocide: Frontline; the Crime of Genocide
• The Cambodian Genocide Program: (Yale Graphics Version)
• Cambodian Recent History and Contemporary Society: Dr. Judy Ledgerwood
• Legacy of the "Killing Fields:" NY Times video on modern Cambodia
• A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide: Samantha Power
• Combatting "Genocide" in Darfur
• Darfur (Sudan): genocide or ethnic cleansing Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Human Rights Watch: Darfur
  
  

Conduct of War:

• The Avalon Project: Concise Collection Laws of War
• Geneva Convention on Wounded: 1949
• Geneva Convention on POW's: 1949
• Geneva Convention on Civilians: 1949
• UN Torture Committee Critical of US: Human Rights Watch
• Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World: by Michael Howard, George J. Andreopoulos, and Mark R. Shulman: from Amazon.com
• Doctors and Interrogators at Guantanamo Bay New England Journal of Medicine, June 2005
• Trial by Bombing: the Strategic Bombing of Japan
• U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey Europe W.W.II
• U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey Pacific W.W.II
• Wars amd Democide of the 20th Century
• Fire Bombing of Dresden W.W.II
• The Effects of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki W.W.II
• Fire Bombing in W.W.II
• Fire Bombing of Dresden W.W.II
• Death By American Bombing And Other Democide by R.J. Rummel
• Counter-terrorism, Armed Force, and the Laws of War: by Adam Roberts
• International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC
• 2002 ICRC editorial on humanitarian law, terrorism, 9/11, and guerrilla conflict
• Journalism and Crimes of War
• Media coverage of bombing of Civilians: Afghan/Iraq Wars by Frederic A. Moritz
• Body Count: civilians killed in Iraq war
• Media and Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan, Iraq: Frederic A. Moritz
• Off Target: The Conduct of the War and Civilian Casualties in Iraq dealing, Human Rights Watch dealing with civilian deaths from cluster bombs (overall conclusions)
• The Wages of War: Iraqi Combatant and Noncombatant Fatalities in the 2003 Conflict," October, 2003. Click here for a .pdf version, Project on Defense Alternatives.
• Surveys Point to High Civilian Toll in Iraq: The Christian Science Monitor, May 22, 2003
• Britain uses gas, "police bombs" against Iraq rebels, civilians, Kurds, 1920's.
• Cluster Bombs: Human Rights Watch backgrounder and call for action
• Cluster Bombs: Amnesty International on use in Iraq
• Cluster Bombs: Human Rights Watch on use in Iraq
• Cluster Bombs: Human Rights Watch on use near Baghdad, Iraq
• Cluster Bombs: Human Rights Watch on use in Afghanistan
• Cluster Bombs: Human Rights Watch on use in former Yugoslavia
• Jody Williams: Land Mine Activist; Winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Peace
• Land Mines: www reference sites
• International Campaign to Ban Land Mines
• Physicians for Human Rights urges inquiry into Afghan War pow massacres
• Physicians for Human Rights: war in Iraq
• The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR)
• Impact of Armed Conflict on Children (UNICEF)
• Hugo Grotius: On the Laws of War and Peace
  
  

Interrogation and Torture:

• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC): Study of Detainees GITM, 2007
• Bush Justice Department: Memos governing CIA interrogations, 2002
• New York Times: A Guide to 2002 memos justifying "water boarding"
• John Yoo Memo: Justice Dept. offical  legal framework for extreme interrogation, 2002
• Jay Bybee Memo: Justice Dept. official legal framework for extreme interrogation, 2002
• Donald Rumsfelt Memo: Sec. of Defense wants specific authorization when Geneva principles to be abandoned, 2003
  
• Colin Powell Advisory: Sec. of State argues extreme interrogation will backfire, 2002
• William Taft: State Department legal advisor calls for application of Geneva provisions in Afghanistan, 2002
• New York Times graphic: guide to interrogation used: sleep deprivation, nudity, diet, walling, waterboarding, slapping, etc.
• Senate Committee on Intelligence: executive summary and part one of report on American interrogation techniqes, April, 2009 expert reveals "Chinese origins" of American "torture" techniques, July 2008
• Darius Rejali: Torture and Democracy: how the United States, Britain, and France pioneered "torture leaving no marks," 2007
  
• Wikipedia: Definition and background of torture
• Paul Kramer: how the American military used torture and waterboarding to put down Filopino rebellion, 2002
  
• Geneva Convention 1949: banning torture of Prisoners of War
• Frederic A. Moritz, "A Century of Guerrilla War," torture and human rights violations common in guerrilla warfare
  

Peacekeeping:

• Congressional Research Reports numerous studies concerning Africa, Asia, Europe
• Social Science Information Gateway to peacekeeping related topics
• NATO's Role in Peacekeeping
• United States Institute of Peace (USIP) peacekeeping web links
• Peacekeeping the University of New Brunswick
• United Nations Peacekeeping UN web links
• The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace With Ameria's Military: Dana Priest

Africa:

• African Human Rights Resource Center
• Darfur (Sudan): genocide or ethnic cleansing Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Combatting "Genocide" in Darfur
• Human Rights Watch: Darfur
• Human Rights Watch: Report on Rwanda
• The US and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994 National Security Archives
• "Bystanders to Genocide" Samantha Power on US inaction in Rwanda
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
• USIP: Rwanda Web Links
• Triumph of Evil PBS special with Rwanda resources

Asia:

• China Digital Times
• Finding News About China
• Inside China Today Home Page
• Inside China Today - Tiananmen Square - Name of Democracy
• Amnesty International Report China 2007
• US State Department on China Human Rights
• Laogai Research Foundation (Labor Camps in China)
• Silicon Valley for Democracy in China
• Huaren: Overseas Chinese Human Rights
• Return of the Taliban, Afganistan: PBS
• Free Burma Home
• Myanmar Home Page
• Karen Refugees: How Burma's Darkness Escaped U.S. Media Spotlight
• "Karen Connection:" outstanding overview from a Baptist point of view
• Amnesty International on Burma
• Human Rights Watch on Burma
• Human Rights Watch: Army in Burma Displaces Thousands
• Refugees Recall how Burma's 2007 Protest Erupted: Washington Post
• United Nations in Burma
• Special UN Rapporteur on Burma 1999 Report
• United Nations on Children in Burma
• Ten Thousand Refugees Leave Thailand: UNHCR
• UNHCR on Burma
• Satellites Focus on Abuses in Burma: MSNBC
• Karen People in Burma: Wikipedia
• The Cambodian Genocide Program: (Yale Graphics Version)
• Cambodian Recent History and Contemporary Society: Dr. Judy Ledgerwood
• Legacy of the "Killing Fields:" NY Times video on modern Cambodia
• Human Rights Watch on China
• Korea: U.S. Army Report on the killings at No Gun Ri
• Tibetan Government in Exile's Official Web Site
• Quotes From the Dalai Lama
• Tibetan Studies WWW VL
• Tibet Resources - University of Virginia Library
• Tibet Current Affairs/virtual library
• The Tibet Foundation, London
• Tibet Online: Tibet Foundation
• Tibet O.R.G. - Human Rights
• Tibet Online Resource Gathering
• Tibet Information Network (TIN)
• The Tibet Journal - an unofficial page
• The Tibetan Studies Press Office - a homepage of the European study groups on Tibetan Buddhism
• Traditional society and democratic framework for future Tibet
• Welcome to the Magic of Tibet
• Tibet: Changing and Unchanged
• South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre (SAHRDC) - An HRI Partner Site
• Atomic Bomb: Decision (Hiroshima-Nagasaki)
• A-Bomb WWW Museum - June,1995

  
  

Bosnia:

• Human Rights in the Balkans: Amnesty International
• Bosnia Link: US Operations
• International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia
• Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave: PBS Production
• The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR)
• CNN - Bosnia - Mission: Peace
• Bosnia Home Page at Caltech
• Human Rights Crisis in Bosnia
• Bosnia: Index to the (New York Times) Site
• Bosnia: Context
• Map: Balkan History
• Context: Yugoslavia 1914-1990
• Chronology: 1990-1995
• Chronology: 1996
• Bosnia: Internet Resources
• European Political Resources
  
  

Chechnya:

• First Chechen War, 1994-1996: GlobalSecurity.org
• Second Chechen War, 1999-???: GlobalSecurity.org
• Chehnya: Renewed Catastrophe: Human Rights Watch
• Chechnya War Through Eyes of Children: Human Rights Watch
• Chechnya Situation Deteriorates: joint human rights agencies, April 2004
• Overview on Human Rights Violations in Chechnya

Iraq:

• Amnesty International on Iraq
• Amnesty International, 2002 report on Iraq
• Human Rights Watch on Iraq
• Human Rights Watch, 2003 report on Iraq
• Human Rights Watch background on possible war with Iraq
• Human Rights Watch: war in Iraq and international humanitarian law
• US Department of State Iraq country report, 2001
• The Media and Iraq: archive from Journalism.org
• USIP: Focus on Iraq
• USIP: Iraq Web Links
• Body Count: civilians killed in Iraq war
• Iraq Exit Plans: Project on Defense Alternatives
• If We Leave: Iraqis Will Learn to Deal: Barbara K. Bodine
• Iraq Study Group
• U.N.High Commissioner for Human Rights: report on the situation in Iraq, June, 2004
• The New Yorker Magazine by Seymour M. Hersh. May 2004 article details prison abuses revealed by American soldiers and military investigators. Hersh also uncovered the Vietnam War My Lai massacre.
• Major national and international human rights groups such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch join in May 2004 to urge changed American policies toward Iraq prisoners.
• New Accounts of Torture by US Troops: Human Rights Watch September 24, 2005
• Media and Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan, Iraq: Frederic A. Moritz
• Off Target: The Conduct of the War and Civilian Casualties in Iraq dealing, Human Rights Watch dealing with civilian deaths from cluster bombs (overall conclusions);
• The Wages of War: Iraqi Combatant and Noncombatant Fatalities in the 2003 Conflict," October, 2003 Click here for a .pdf version, Project on Defense Alternatives.
• Britain uses gas, "police bombs" against Iraq rebels, civilians, Kurds, 1920's
• The Other Gulf War- the British Invasion of Iraq in 1941: Douglas Porch
• Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative Iraq a timeline of historic maps
• Human Rights Cloaks U.S. "Real Politik" in Iraq: Frederic A. Moritz
• When "Cold Mountain Meets Iraq" Frederic A. Moritz on lessons from the past
• From Deterrence to Preemption Against Iraq: From Understanding 9/11: Frederic A. Moritz
  
  

Kosovo:

• Kosovo: Serb Site
• www.kosova.com
• Kosovo Crisis Cente: anti-Serb Site
• New York Times: Issue in Depth
• BBC News: Kosovo crisis: In depth
• HRW: Kosovo: Focus on Human Rights
• Kosovapress
• NATO Official Homepage
• Serbia Info News / Front page
• Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
• The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR)
• Human Rights in the Balkans: Amnesty International
• Humanitarian Law Violations in Kosovo
  
  

Latin America

• Amnesty International Report 2003: Americas
• Amnesty International Report 2003: Cuba
• Amnesty International Cuba Human Rights crackdown: 6/3/03
• Amnesty International: Cuba documents
• Human Rights Watch: Americas
• Human Rights Watch World Report 2003: Americas
• Human Rights Watch: Cuba
• The Vanished Gallery: Argentina

Middle East:

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• New York Times: reconstruction of Israeli attack on Jenin refugee camp
• Physicians for Human Rights: Release on Jenin refugee camp attack
• Physicians for Human Rights: Full Report on Jenin refugee camp attack
• Amnesty International: latest updates on Israel and Palestinians
• Amnesty International on Israel and occupied Palestinian territories
• Human Rights Watch report on Jenin refugee camp attack
• Human Rights Watch: Israel uses Palestinian civilians as shields, for military work
• Aerial Views Jenin: April, 2002 Israeli attack: has TV exaggerated destruction?
• Palestinian Terror: Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Israel Update: Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Eye-On-Palestine
• B'Tselem: Israeli Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
• The Temple Mount in Jerusalem
• American Kurdish Information Network (AKIN)
  
  

Refugees:

• UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Home
• Crisis in Afghanistan: UNHCR
• Michigan Refugee Case Law Site
  
  

Holocaust:

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Holocaust: Cybrary of the Holocaust
• Shoah-Projekt : a German language site
• Simon Wiesenthal Center
• Facing History Web (Instructional Materials) Home Page
• Nizkor: a Holocaust Remembrance
• Ken Kronenberg: Holocaust Translations
• The Warsaw Uprising
• Nazi era Swiss bank accounts
  
  
  

Women's Issues:

• The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women
• Women's Issues Third World Countries - Homepage
• Women's Human Rights Resources
• United Nations Comission on the Status of Women
• United Nations: Women Watch
• United Nations Report on Gender and the Status of Women
• National Report on Tibetan Women, 1995 Tibetan government in exile
• The Torture of Women in Turkey Amnesty International
• Celebration of Women Writers
• Women In American History
  
  
   

 

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