Selected Internet Resources
General resources
- Amnesty International's South Asia: Human Rights Violations in the Region, a wealth of reports, news articles, press releases and links to organizations specializing in human rights in South Asia.
- Asian
Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances
- Asian Human Rights Commission, an independent, non-governmental body founded in 1986 by group of jurists and human rights activists in Asia, including an index (1997-2001) of articles published in their magazine, Human Rights Solidarity.
- Center
for Justice and Peace in South Asia, a web-based discussion group
on topics such as human rights, dalits, minority rights, language rights,
gender inequality, indigenous and native peoples, children's rights,
women's rights.
- Critical Asian Studies, a journal focusing on politics and social issues, including human rights and movements for the rights of indigenous peoples.
- Derechos.org: Human Rights in South Asia, a wide variety of sources.
- Human
Rights Watch's Asia section, an international organization documenting
human rights violations worldwide.
-
Human
Rights Solidarity, published since 1991 by the Asian Human Rights
Commission. Covers all Asian countries. Back issues are full-text online.
- Internet
Law Library, India, includes human rights reports. Hosted by the
U.S.
House of Representatives.
-
Project on Extrajudicial Executions, by New York University's Center for Human Rights and Global Justice,
includes reports on several South Asian countries.
- The South Asia Citizen's Web, promoting dialogue and information exchange between and about South Asian citizens initiatives.
- South Asian Human Rights Documentation Center
- South Asian Women's NETwork, covering human rights issues affecting women such as freedom of speech and movement, domestic violence, literacy, poverty, and health care access.
- United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- United Nations' Scholars Workstation, developed by the Yale University Library is a collection of texts, finding aids, data sets, maps, and links to print and electronic information on human rights and other issues.
- U.S. Department of State, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2000 (South Asia) and Country Reports on Human Rights for 2001 (South Asia). These reports are submitted annually to the U.S. Congress.
- Worldwide Refugee Information, includes country reports for South Asia
- Amnesty International's Afghanistan reports
- Human Rights Watch's Afghanistan reports
- The Plight of Women in Afghanistan, an article by Hassan Hathout, M.D., Ph.D of the Islamic Center of Southern California.
- Online Center for Afghan Studies, a site published by Afghans living abroad, with numerous links to human rights information.
- Physicians for Human Rights' Afghanistan Project, a number of reports on medical rights, prison conditions, and women's rights.
- Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, documents, reports, photographs, movie clips on the situation of women under fundamentalism in Afghanistan. Based in Kabul, RAWA is an independent organization of Afghan women.
- United Nations Human Rights Documents for Afghanistan, including treaties and reports
- Amnesty International's Bangaldesh reports
- Bangladesh Human Rights Network, the country's first human rights webportal in Bangladesh, run by activists
- Child Labor in Bangladesh, an article by Mohammad Zulfiquer Hossain
- Coordinating Council for Human Rights in Bangladesh, an independent NGO
- Institutional Development of Human Rights in Bangladesh, a joint project of the Bangladeshi government and the UN Development Programme.
- Mayerdak: Human Rights for Bangladesh, an online journal about human rights in Bangladesh.
- Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minorities, dedicated to ending human rights abauses against minorities in Bangladesh.
- Human Rights Watch's Bangladesh page
- Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh, a report from Human Rights Watch
- United Nations Human Rights Documents for Bangladesh, including treaties and reports
- Amnesty International's Bhutan reports
- Human Rights Watch's Bhutan reports
- United Nations Human Rights Documents for Bhutan, including treaties and reports
- Amnesty International's India reports
- Child Labor in India, a paper by Mitesh Badiwala
- Council of Khalistan, covering human rights of Sikhs
- Human Rights Watch's India page
- Indian government's Ministry of Home Affairs' human rights page
- Khalsa Human Rights Reports, from an independent rights organization based in the UK.
- Kashmir Council for Human Rights, based in London
- National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights
- National Human Rights Commission
- Reports from the South Asian Documentation Centre
- United Nations Human Rights Documents for India, including treaties and reports
- Amnesty International's Maldives reports
- Human Rights Maldives
- United Nations Human Rights Documents for The Maldives, including treaties and reports
- Amnesty International's Nepal reports
- Bhutanese Refugees in Nepal
- Child Workers in Nepal, includes a wide variety of full text reports, documents and statistics, such as State of the Rights of the Child in Nepal (2002)
- Human Rights Watch's Nepal reports
- Nepal Forward, focuses on human rights, environmentalism and sustainable development.
- United Nations Human Rights Documents for Nepal, including treaties and reports
- Amnesty International's Pakistan reports
- Child Labor in Pakistan (from The Atlantic)
- Reform or Repression? Post-Coup Abuses in Pakistan, issued by Human Rights Watch, October 2000.
- Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, an independent NGO based in Lahore.
- Human Rights Watch's Pakistan page
- Pakistan Institute of Human Rights, an independent NGO based in Islamabad.
- United Nations Human Rights Documents for Pakistan, including treaties and reports
- Amnesty International's Sri Lanka reports
- A collection of articles and reports from the Asian Commission on Human Rights' Cyberspace Graveyard for Disappeared Persons
- Derechos.org: Human Rights in Sri Lanka
- Human Rights Watch's Sri Lanka page
- Peace Brigades International Sri Lanka
- United Nations Human Rights Documents for Sri Lanka, including treaties and reports
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Photograph at top left, a poor woman rolls bidis (cigars) to survive, from The Atlas of Women and Men in India by Saraswati Raju, et al (New Delhi: Kali for Women, 1999).
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