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1. United Nations and other inter-governmental organisations
2. Bi-lateral donors
3. NGOs and practice networks
4. Selected databases and portals­

In addition, on the Resources page, materials are available regarding:

1. Capacity-building for NGOs
2. Human rights education
3. Resources for Participatory approaches

1. United Nations

• United Nations - main human rights website
  Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
  http://www.unhchr.ch
  http://www.unhchr.ch/development/ (General)
  
• Practitioners Forum on Human Rights and Development 2003
  http://www.un.or.th/ohchr/issues/rba/rba.htm
  
• A Rights-Based Approach to Development: What Policy Documents of UN, Development Co-operation and NGO Agencies Say (2002)
  http://www.un.or.th/ohchr/issues/rba/backgroundrba.pdf
  
• Emerging Features of a Rights-Based Development Policy of the UN, Develop Co-Operation and NGO Agencies (2002)
  http://www.un.or.th/ohchr/issues/rba/discussrba.pdf
  
• A Human Rights Approach to Poverty Reduction Strategy (2002)
  http://www.un.or.th/ohchr/issues/rba/povehrguide.pdf
  
• Commission on Human Rights (ECOSOC)
  http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/2/chr.htm
  
• Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education
  http://www.right-to-education.org
  
• ReliefWeb, a project of the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Assistance
  http://www.reliefweb.int/training/ (Humanitarian Assistance Database)
  
• Sub-Commission on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
  http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/2/sc.htm
  
• Treaty Body Mechanisms
  http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/convmech.htm
  
• Thematic Mechanisms
  http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/7/b/tm.htm
  
• Country Mechanisms
  http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/7/a/cm.htm
  
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
  http://www.unicef.org
  
• Statement of Rights based approach
  http://www.unicef.org/rightsresults/index.html
  
• United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
  http://www.unifem.org
  
• United Nations Development Programme
  http://www.undp.org
  
• (Fact Sheet Linking Human Rights and Development)
  http://www.undp.org/rbap/rights/enghr.pdf
  
• (Integrating human rights with sustainable human development, 1998)
  http://magnet.undp.org/Docs/policy5.html
  
• United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)
  http://www.unesco.org
  
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
  http://www.unhcr.ch
  
• World Bank: (Development and Human Rights Report 1998)
  http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/rights/
  
  International Tribunals
  International Criminal Court (ICC) www.un.org/law/icc/index.htm
  International Court of Justice (ICJ) www.icj-cij.org/
  International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (ICTFY) www.un.org/icty/
  International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) www.un.org/ictr/
  The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School -The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt.htm
  All Criminal Tribunals www.jagor.srce.hr/~mprofaca/tribunal.html
  The Project on International Courts and Tribunals www.pict-pcti.org
  United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) www.uncitral.org
  Coalition for an International Criminal Court Home www.igc.apc.org/icc/index.html
  International Alternative Dispute Resolution (IADR) www.internationaladr.com
  
  Regional Inter-governmental organisations
  
• Council of Europe
  http://www.coe.int/
  
• Council of Europe Directorate General of Human Rights
  http://www.coe.int/T/E/Human_rights/
  
• European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
  http://www.cpt.coe.int/en/default.htm
  
• European Court of Human Rights
  http://www.echr.coe.int/
  
• European Commission Development
  http://europa.eu.int/comm/development/index_en.cfm
  
• EuropeAid Co-operation Office
  http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/index_en.htm
  
• Information – communication, EuropeAid Office
  http://europa.eu.int/comm/europeaid/projects/eidhr/index_en.htm
  
• Humanitarian Aid Office
  http://europa.eu.int/comm/echo/index_en.htm
  
• DG External Relations
  http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/index.htm
  Human Rights and Democratisation Policy
  
• European Information Association
  www.eia.org.uk
  
• Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights
  http://www.osce.org/odihr/
  
• OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities
  http://www.osce.org/hcnm/
  
• Organisation of American States
  http://www.oas.org
  
• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR)
  www.cidh.org/DefaultE.htm
  
• Inter-American Court of Human Rights (CIDH - U of Minnesota)
  www.umn.edu/humanrts/iachr/iachr.html
  
• African Union
  www.africa-union.org/

2. Bi-lateral donors

• The Sustainable Development Reference – site for aid/technical assistance , bilateral, organizations
  http://www.sustainableworld.com/aibior.html
  
• Australian Agency for International Development - AusAid
  http://www.ausaid.gov.au/
  
• Canadian International Development Agency
  http://w3.acdi-cida.gc.ca/
  
• Development Cooperation Ireland (DCI, formerly Ireland Aid)
  http://www.dci.gov.ie/
  
• Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  http://www.um.dk/
  
• Danida
  www.um.dk/danida/
  
• Department for International Development
  http://www.dfid.gov.uk/
  
• Finnish Aid
  http://virtual.finland.fi/kyo/home.html
  
• France in the World
  http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/frmonde/index.gb.html
  
• International Cooperation For Development (Spain)
  
• Japan International Cooperation Agency
  http://jica.ific.or.jp/
  
• Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund
  http://www.oecf.go.jp/menu/menu0e.htm
  
• Norwegian Development Cooperation
  http://odin.dep.no/ud/nornytt/norad.html
  
• NORAD Handbook on Human Rights Assessment
  http://www.norad.no/files/Handbook.pdf
  
• Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
  http://www.sida.se/eng/index.html
  Local Democracy and Governance
  
• Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
  http://194.6.168.112/fs_e_w.html
  
• U.S. Agency for International Development
  http://www.info.usaid.gov
  
• Germany- GTZ (Gesellschaft für Technische ZusammenarbeitGer)
  http://www.gtz.de/home/

3. NGOs and Practice Networks

• Aid Workers Network - provides practical advice for aid workers by aid workers http://www.aidworkers.net/main.html
  
• ALNAP – Active learning Network for Accountability and Performance in Humanitarian Action
  http://www.alnap.org
  
• Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions
  http://www.apf.hreoc.gov.au/
  
• Asia Pacific Human Rights Network (APHRN)
  http://www.aphrn.org/
  
• AHRC - Asian Human Rights Commission www.ahrchk.net/
  
• African Foundation For Development (Afford)
  http://www.afford-uk.org/
  
• African Rights, human rights NGO
  http://www.unimondo.org/AfricanRights/
  
• African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies
  http://www.acdhrs.org/
  
• Association for the Prevention of Torture (APT)
  http://www.apt.ch/
  
• Amnesty International
  http://www.amnesty.org
  
• Centre for Human Rights and the Environment
  http://www.cedha.org.ar/
  
• Human Rights / Constitutional Rights
  www.hrcr.org
  
• Committee on the Administration of Justice (Northern Ireand)
  http://www.caj.org.uk/
  
• Dóchas - umbrella organisation of Irish development Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs)
  www.dochas.ie/
  
• ECPAT International
  http://www.ecpat.net/eng/index.asp
  
• ELDIS – gateway to development information
  http://www.eldis.org
  
• Emergency Nutrition Network
  http://www.ennonline.net
  
• Eurodad A network of European development NGOs working for national economic & international financing policies that achieve poverty eradication & the empowerment of the poor
  http://www.eurodad.org/
  
• European Council on Refugees and Exiles
  http://www.poptel.org.uk/ein/ecre/
  
• FIDH
  http://www.fidh.org/
  
• Front Line –International Foundation for Protection of Human Rights Defenders
  http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/
  
• Global Policy Forum
  http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/develop/demoindex.htm
  Human Rights and Development: One Will Suffer without the Other (Article, 2003),
  
• Human Rights Internet
  http://www.hri.org
  
• An Introduction to Right to Development
  http://www.hri.ca/education/development/
  
• Human Rights Watch
  http://www.hrw.org
  
• Humanitarian Practice Network
  http://www.odihpn.org
  
• International Service for Human Rights
  http://www.ishr.ch/
  
• Idealist/Action Without Borders – directory of some 16,000 NGOs
  http://www.idealist.org
  
• International Crisis Group
  http://www.intl-crisis-group.org/
  
• InterAction
  www.interaction.org
  
• Interaction Directory of African NGO Networks (1998)
  http://www.coop4coop.org
  
• International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development
  http://www.ichrdd.ca/frame2.iphtml
  
• International Council of Voluntary Agencies
  www.icva.ch
  
• International Development Network for improved information technology in sharing development information
  http://www.idn.org
  
• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
  http://www.ifrc.org/
  
• International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
  http://www.ihf-hr.org/
  
• International Rescue Committee
  http://www.theirc.org/
  
• International Service for Human Rights
  http://www.ishr.ch
  
• Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights
  http://www.lchr.org/
  
• NGO Exchange
  http://www.ecouncil.ac.cr/ngoexch/index.htm
  
• NGO Global Network
  http://www.ngo.org
  
• Physicians for Human Rights
  http://www.phrusa.org/
  
• Southern African Human Rights NGO Network (SAHRiNGON)
  http://www.oneworld.org/afronet/sahringon.htm
  
• South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre (SAHRDC)
  http://www.hrdc.net/sahrdc/
  
• Sphere inter-agency collaboration for minimum humanitarian standards
  http://www.sphereproject.org
  
• Third World Network - Human Rights Approach to Development
  http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/hrdev-cn.htm
  
• United Nations Non-Governmental Liaison Service (NGLS) database of developing countries with some 1600 entries and other databases under development
  http://www.un.org/moreinfo/ngolink/welcome.htm
  
• USAID directories of USA and non-USA NGOs (national and international)
  http://www.intranet.dimen-intl.com/usaid/index.html
  
• World Health Organisation directory of NGOs
  http://www.who.org/programmes/ina/ngo/1index.htm
• Studying-Development.org (international directory of courses on International Development and Humanitarian Aid) www.studying-development.org/Adding_Your_Courses.html

4. Selected databases and portals

• UN Practitioners Portal on HRBA Programming http://hrbaportal.org
• Bayefsky.com - website on all aspects of the UN human rights treaty system
  http://www.bayefsky.com/
  
• Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
  http://www.business-humanrights.org/Home
  
• CUSHRID Net (Canadian U.S. Human Rights Information and Documentation network)
  http://shr.aaas.org/cushrid.htm
  
• DIANA Human Rights Database
  http://www.law.uc.edu/Diana/
  
• For the Record
  http://www.hri.ca/fortherecord2003/ftrchoice.html
  
• Hieros Gamos Human Rights Links
  http://www.hg.org/human.html
  
• International Legal Resources on the Internet
  http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/forintlaw.html
  
• National Human Rights Institutions Forum
  http://www.nhri.net/
  
• Penn State University Internet Gateway: Human Rights Sources
  http://www.libraries.psu.edu/crsweb/docs/human.htm
  
• UN norms on business & human rights
  http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/links/norms-Aug2003.html
  
• University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
  http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/