October 17, 2011
From PeacockPoverty:
PeacockPoverty is a collection of individuals with an experience of poverty who join together to share knowledge, strength, talent and wisdom with each other and our friends....
Keywords: Blogs, Homelessness, Human Rights, Media, Organizing, Poverty Research, Unemployment, Welfare, General resources, Multimedia, All of Canada, International
June 1, 2011
City Life/Vida Urbana is a community organization in Boston that has organized against evictions and for community controlled housing. They have long struggled for community control of local...
Keywords: Children and Youth, Ethnicity and Race, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, Organizing, Tenants' Rights, Welfare, Women, Organizations, United States
June 1, 2011
The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign is committed to uniting the poor across color lines as the leadership base for a broad movement to abolish poverty. We work to accomplish this through...
Keywords: Ethnicity and Race, Human Rights, Organizing, Campaigns and initiatives, United States
June 1, 2011
The no place like home website documents a complaint to the UN by the PIVOT Legal Society, Carnegie Community Action Project, and the Impact of the Olympics on Community Coalition (IOCC) about the...
Keywords: Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, British Columbia, Campaigns and initiatives
May 30, 2011
The Poverty and Human Rights Centre is an online library with a searchable database of relevant international human rights treaties, Canadian law documents, court decisions, legal briefs, and...
Keywords: Human Rights, Poverty Research, British Columbia, Organizations, All of Canada, International
May 30, 2011
CERA is one of the nation's leaders in human rights protection in housing.
Keywords: Homelessness, Human Rights, Organizations, All of Canada
May 30, 2011
This website includes an online data base of reported and unreported Canadian human rights decisions and links to related human rights sites.
Keywords: Human Rights, Media, British Columbia, General resources, All of Canada
May 29, 2011
The Red Cross is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide...
Keywords: Health, Human Rights, Violence, Organizations, International
May 29, 2011
The Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law is a US based organization acting as a legal resource for the international human rights community.
Keywords: Human Rights, Legal Research, Reports and documents, Research and education, United States
May 29, 2011
Justice Beyond the Walls is dedicated to the protection and advancement of human rights in Canadian prisons. There are links to various court, government, NGO, international, human rights and media...
Keywords: Human Rights, Legal Research, Prisoners' Rights, Organizations, All of Canada
May 29, 2011
The Ontario's Psychiatric Patient Advocate Office (PPAO) was established in 1983 to protect the civil and legal rights of inpatients in the current and former Ontario provincial psychiatric hospitals...
Keywords: Human Rights, Manuals and guides, Ontario, Organizations
May 29, 2011
Poverty and Human Rights Online Library is a searchable database of materials related to social and economic rights. It includes texts of relevant international human rights treaties, Canadian and...
Keywords: Human Rights, Reports and documents, All of Canada, Research and education
May 27, 2011
The following are the titles of the five advocacy booklets available online or through MSS:
(A PDF viewer such as Adobe Reader is required)
ADVOCACY
COMMUNITY AND LEGAL RESOURCES
MS AND HUMAN RIGHTS...
Keywords: Disability, Human Rights, Legal Assistance, Seniors and Elders, British Columbia, Manuals and guides
May 27, 2011
The Common Front for Social Justice is fighting to build a more human society based on the respect and dignity of all.
Keywords: Human Rights, Organizing, Tenants' Rights, Workers' Rights, New Brunswick, Organizations
May 25, 2011
A coalition of organizations and individuals formed to support Palestinian refugees in Canada facing deportation back to refugee camps in Lebanon and Palestine.
Keywords: Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, Organizations, International
May 25, 2011
The Don't Ask Don't Tell campaign is being organized by a coalition of groups in Toronto to encourage city workers to not demand residents give immigration status in order to access city services.
Keywords: Government Policy, Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, Campaigns and initiatives, Ontario
May 25, 2011
NOII is a movement of refugees, immigrants and allies that organizes various campaigns for regularization and for justice and self-determination for immigrants, refugees, and indigenous people.
Keywords: Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, British Columbia, Campaigns and initiatives, Organizations
May 25, 2011
This organization promotes secular and democratic values among South Asians living abroad and opposes the growth of intolerance in South Asia.
Keywords: Ethnicity and Race, Human Rights, Organizations, International
May 25, 2011
Status of Women Canada (SWC) is a federal government organization that promotes the full participation of women in the economic, social and democratic life of Canada.
Keywords: Human Rights, Women, Government information, All of Canada
May 25, 2011
NOII is organized by a group of immigrants, refugees and allies who are working to educate, mobilize and network to defend immigrants, migrant workers, refugees, and Indigenous peoples, and to oppose...
Keywords: Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, Ontario, Organizations
May 25, 2011
Part of the Edmonton Coalition Against War and Racism, Campaign to Stop Secret Trials and Deportations is interested in protecting and expanding civil rights, especially among those of racially and...
Keywords: Alberta, Ethnicity and Race, Human Rights, Legal Assistance, Campaigns and initiatives, All of Canada
May 25, 2011
The British Columbia Public Interest Advocacy Centre (BCPIAC) created fact sheets that are available for download. They include a summary of the Ombudsman's report into systemic unfairness at the...
Keywords: Disability, Government Policy, Human Rights, Welfare, British Columbia, Factsheets and FAQs
May 25, 2011
The International Poverty Pact was drawn up at a Summit in Copenhagen in 1995. It calls for an international action to eradicate extreme poverty and reduce overall poverty.
Keywords: Human Rights, Poverty Research, Reports and documents, International
May 25, 2011
This is a community-based social justice organization of low-income South Asian immigrants in New York City that organizes around immigrants and families affected by detention and deportation.
Keywords: Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, Organizations, United States
May 25, 2011
Based out of the University of California Hastings Campus, this organization acts as a resource for gender based asylum seekers.
Keywords: Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Assistance, LGBTQ, Women, Organizations, Research and education, United States
May 25, 2011
The Centre for Refugee Studies is engaged in research on refugee issues; it informs public discussion as well as policy development and practice innovation by international, governmental, advocacy...
Keywords: Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, General resources, Research and education, International
May 25, 2011
Forced Migration Online (FMO) provides access to a wide variety of online resources dealing with the situation of forced migrants worldwide.
Keywords: Human Rights, Immigrants and Refugees, Gateways, Organizations, International
May 25, 2011
Human Rights Internet (HRI) is committed to social justice, good governance and conflict prevention. It seeks to accomplish these goals through human rights informed policy formation, knowledge...
Keywords: Human Rights, Technology, Organizations, International
May 25, 2011
Human Rights Watch monitors human rights internationally. their website has news, information and stories about international human rights abuses.
Keywords: Human Rights, Organizations, Reports and documents, Research and education, International
May 25, 2011
The online office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Keywords: Human Rights, united nations, Organizations, International
May 25, 2011
The Human Rights Library, housed by the University of Minnesota, has a lot of information on Human Rights issues both within the United States and Internationally.
Keywords: Human Rights, Directories, Reports and documents, Research and education, International
May 25, 2011
The Human Rights section of the website of Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs at the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the US State Department.
Keywords: Human Rights, General resources, United States
May 25, 2011
The Canadian Human Rights Commission administers the Canadian Human Rights Act and is responsible for ensuring compliance with the Employment Equity Act. Both laws ensure that the principles of equal...
Keywords: Human Rights, Workers' Rights, Government information, Organizations, All of Canada
May 25, 2011
Amnesty International is a worldwide organization monitoring and reporting on human rights abuses.
Keywords: Human Rights, Campaigns and initiatives, Organizations, International
May 25, 2011
The WWW Virtual Library on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs is a searchable database in human rights and humanitarian issues and laws. This is an international humanitarian law and national...
Keywords: Human Rights, Directories, Research and education, International
May 25, 2011
Global Youth Connect works to create an international network supporting and encouraging the activism of the young persons on human rights issues compound in their own community and internationally.
Keywords: Children and Youth, Human Rights, Organizations, International
May 19, 2011
Founded in 1998, Women Thrive (Formerly Womens Edge Coalition) develops, shapes, and advocates for policies that foster economic opportunity for women living in poverty.
Keywords: Human Rights, human rights, Organizing, poverty, Women, women, Organizations, United States
April 14, 2011
Pivot Legal works to advance the interests and improving the lives of marginalized persons through law reform, legal education, and strategic legal action.
Pivot’s mandate is to use the law to...
Keywords: child welfare, child welfare, criminalization, criminalization, Downtown Eastside, Downtown Eastside, Homelessness, homelessness, homelessness, Human Rights, Legal Assistance, Legal Info (PLEI), Legal Research, Organizing, policing, policing, sex workers, sex workers, social change, social change, social justice, social justice, Welfare, Women, British Columbia, Campaigns and initiatives, Organizations, Reports and documents, Research and education, Services
April 11, 2011
The British Columbia Public Interest Advocacy Centre is a non-profit society that advances the interests of groups that are generally unrepresented or underrepresented in issues of major public...
Keywords: consumer advocacy, consumer law, consumer rights, credit, debit, Debt and Consumer Law, Disability, disability rights, factsheets, farmworkers rights, Homelessness, Human Rights, Legal Assistance, Legal Info (PLEI), Legal Research, PLEI, Tenants' Rights, Utilities, Workers' Rights, British Columbia, Factsheets and FAQs, Organizations, Research and education, Services
March 8, 2011
The Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition facilitates the elimination of poverty in the Yukon through awareness, advocacy and action. Our members are an action-based team who partner with other community...
Keywords: anti-poverty, Disability, food bank, Foodbanks and Food, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Organizing, Poverty Research, services, shelters, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Welfare, Organizations, Yukon
