General Human Rights Information
The Human Rights Impact Centre does not provide general information on human rights. However the following resources are recommended.
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
Netherlands Institute for Human Rights Documentation Site
Derechos Human Rights and Equipo Nizkor website
The American Society of International Law
Human Rights Research and Education Centre
Human Rights Education Associates
Women's Human Rights Resources Programme
The following is a list of useful tools and resources for NGOs.
Tools for the daily work of NGO's
NGO-in-a-box from the Tactical Technology Collective (Tactical Tech) offers a set of selected Free and Open Source software tailored to the needs of NGO's. It provides them not only with software, but also with implementation scenarios and relevant materials to support this. See ngoinabox.org.
The latest version of NGO-in-a-Box, the BaseBox, is a collection of tools for the day to day running of small to medium sized NGOs. Produced by Tactical Tech in collaboration with Women'sNet, the BaseBox aims to make it easier to set up base, find the right software and learn how to use it.. See base.ngoinabox.org.
See also the NGO-in-a-Box Security Edition which is aimed at human rights, anti-corruption and womens groups, independent media and journalists, and the NGO-in-a-box Open Publishing Edition which is a toolkit of free and open source software, tutorials and guides for producing, publishing and distributing content.
Computer and Internet Training
ItrainOnline is a single source on the web containing a selection of the best and most relevant computer and Internet training resources for development and social change. See www.itrainonline.org.
Finding Human Rights Information
HuriSearch is a comprehensive search engine specialised in human rights information. It gives direct access to the content of over 4,400 human rights websites. See www.hurisearch.org.
