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: Homelessness, Human Rights, Media, Organizing, Poverty Research, Unemployment, Welfare, All of Canada, International
Since 1993, today has been recognized by the United Nations, and its members around the world, as International day for the eradication of poverty 2011. Today, October 17, 2011, the United Nations...
Keywords: Government Policy, Homelessness, Housing, Human Rights, Unemployment, Welfare, Women, Workers' Rights, International
Each played an important role in recent political conflicts of very different natures, but all three winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 have campaigned for greater equality for women, and...
Keywords: Government Policy, Human Rights, Women, International
An August 23rd Editorial in the New York Times investigates how economic inequalities affect access to justice. While the piece targets the situation in the United States, it's conclusions are just...
Keywords: Human Rights, Legal Aid, International
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, All of Canada, International
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, International
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, International
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, International
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, International
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, International
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, International
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, International
Human Rights Watch monitors human rights internationally. their website has news, information and stories about international human rights abuses.
Keywords: Human Rights, International
The online office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Keywords: Human Rights, united nations, International
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, International
Amnesty International is a worldwide organization monitoring and reporting on human rights abuses.
Keywords: Human Rights, International
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, International
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, International
Sharon McIvor will file a complaint against Canada at the United Nations. She says, "Canada continues to discriminate against Aboriginal women and their descendants in the determination of...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Human Rights, Women, All of Canada, International
For the past four years, the federal government has refused to endorse the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, claiming that Canada could not support resource rights, the right to...
Keywords: Aboriginal and First Nations, Human Rights, All of Canada, International
