Merikasarmi, PO Box 176, 00023 Government, Finland
tel: +358 295 350 000
Contact information | How to find the Ministry
tel: +358 295 350 000
Contact information | How to find the Ministry
Human-rights related links
Human rights regulations
Human rights search tools
- ISN Links Library: Human Rights- an updated, multi-perspective library of links to human rights and minorities run by the International Security Studies Network
- Human Rights Library - University of Minnesota WWW Virtual Library on human rights, including a human rights search engine. Conventions and other instruments, documents, data on the UN, regional, refugee and asylum- related data. The links include organisations, institutions and centers, regions and countries, courts and tribunals
- Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - US State Department annual reports
- Amnesty International Library - search guide on Amnesty International data
- Hurisearch - HURIDOCS human rights directory and search engin
European Union
- Human rights and democracy
- Justice and Home Affairs - protection of fundamental freedoms
- EU-Russia Centre - relations between the EU and Russia and the promotion of human rights
International organisations
United Nations
- UN and Related Organizations - links to the human rights sites of the UN, its bodies, special and sub organizations and programmes run by it
- UN Human Rights - UN Human Rights home page
- UN Documentation: Human Rights Research Guide
- UN Human Rights Documents
- UN OHCHR (The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights)
- UNHCR (The United Nations Refugee Agency)
- ILO (International Labour Organization)
- UNESCO
Council of the European Union
- Council of the European Union site
- European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
- European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI)
Other
- OSCE/ODIHR
- International human rights organisations - links (IGO- Inter-governmental links)
International courts and tribunals
- International criminal courts and tribunals - links
- International Criminal Court
- International Court of Justice
- European Court of Human Rights
- Database of the Library of the Court
Non-governmental organizations
- Human rights organizations - links
- Amnesty International
- Human Rights Watch
- Human Rights Internet
- Ihmisoikeusliitto ry, or the Finnish League for Human Rights
- Pakolaisneuvonta ry, or the Refugee Advice Centre
- KIOS
Refugees and migration
- UNHCR (The United Nations Refugee Agency)
- ECRE European Council on Refugees and Exiles
- IOM (International Organization for Migration)
- Worldwide Refugee Information - Unites States Committee for Refugee
Indigenous peoples
- NativeWeb - Resources for Indigenous Cultures around the World
- Virtual Library: Indigenous Studies - general as well as country and continent -specific data on minorities and indigenous peoples
- Fourth World Documentation Project - Indigenous Peoples' Information for the Online Community pages contain documents in their rich body version by continent and by region, including UN instruments, international conventions, documents reporting on social, economic and political conditions
- Ethnologue - Summer Institute of Linguistics language approach to the minorities in the world: majority and minority languages, including dialects and the number of speakers. Search by country, region, language or language group.
- UNPO Unpresented Nations and Peoples Organisation
Status of children
- UNICEF
- Organizations related to the status of children - links
- Children's House in Cyberspace - a thematic directory of data on the status of children
- Children in Internet - a thematic directory of data on the status of children commented by ELDIS
Status of women
- Gender in Internet - a thematic directory of data on the status of women commented by ELDIS
- Women's Human Rights - a thematic directory of data on the status of women
- WomenWatch - UN home page on the status of women
- UN CEDAW
- UN Commission on the Status of Women
- UNIFEM
- WomensNet
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