Africa

See also:

• Regional: Africa: Society and Culture: Aid and Development  (60)

African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights - - Research project that aims at legally analyzing the basic tenets of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights. Includes background information, bibliography and links.

African Human Rights Resource Center - - The Peace Resource Center includes a large collection of international human rights treaties, instruments, general comments, recommendations, decisions, and views of treaty bodies; other U.N. human rights materials, with an emphasis on peace and war related materials.

Amnesty International - Africa - - Ongoing collection of news and reports on the status of human rights.

Centre for Democracy and Development - - A non-profit, non governmental, institution dedicated to policy-oriented scholarship on questions of democratic development and peace-building in West Africa. Press releases, strategy statement, current projects and publications, and partner organizations.

Columbia University Libraries - African Studies: Human Rights and Governance in Africa - - Directory of categorized and annotated links.

Green Charter International - - Green Charter International is an African International Human Rights Organisation based on the Great Green Charter for Human Rights and Freedoms. Green Charter International works to propagate knowledge of, and campaigns for, these advanced rights and freedoms.

Hopes on the Horizon: The Rise of a New Africa - - Companion site to the PBS documentary film of the same name. Explores the rise of pro-democracy movements in six African countries --Mozambique, Morocco, Benin, Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa -- during the 1990s.

Human Rights in Africa - - Reports and information.

Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa - - A non-profit, non-governmental pan-African organisation founded to advance respect for human rights in Africa through the use of international law.

Richard Knight - Africa - - Documents on human rights and economic justice.

Wikipedia - Human Rights in Africa - - Hyperlinked encyclopedia article relating to human rights by country and topic.