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This collection of external links is a directory of organizations dealing with refugee, asylum and human rights topics or provide (country-specific) information otherwise useful for practitioners. The directory contains over 3000 links to relevant internet sources and has been compiled and organized by type of organization, topic/mandate, regions and countries they relate to. This additional service has been provided to facilitate research by providing a mechanism to access information that may be relevant for decision makers and is not as such included in Refworld.

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International Service for Human Rights (ISHR)

The International Service for Human Rights promotes the development, strengthening, effective use and implementation of international and regional law and mechanisms for the protection and promotion of human rights.

Type: Non-Governmental Organizations | Topic: Human Rights

International Victimology Institute, Tilburg University

"The International Victimology Institute Tilburg promotes and executes interdisciplinary research that can contribute to a comprehensive, evidence-based body of knowledge on the empowerment and support of victims of crime and abuse of power." (from website)

Type: Reference Information | Topic: Human Rights

Iran Human Rights Voice

Iran Human Rights Voice (IHRV), founded in 2008, is a web-based media outlet that monitors, reports, and provides news and analysis of cases of human rights violations among Iranian social and political activists, students, women, ethnic minorities, religious minorities, labor unions, and immigrant communities.

Type: News/Media Organizations | Topic: Human Rights

Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG)

The Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) is a small and independent group documenting the human rights situation in rural Burma by working directly with rural villagers who are suffering abuses such as forced labour, systematic destruction of villages and crops, forced relocation, extortion, looting, arbitrary detention, torture, sexual assault and summary executions.

Type: Non-Governmental Organizations | Topic: Human Rights

Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (CRG)

Developing as a forum of mostly young public activists and socially committed researchers, CRG is now well-known for its research, dialogues, and advocacy work. It carries out policy studies on autonomy, human rights, women's dignity, issues of forced displacement and migration, peace and conflict resolution, citizenship, borders and border-conflicts.

Type: Research Institution | Topic: Human Rights

National Human Rights Committee (NHRC), State of Qatar

The National Human Rights Committee is a legal entity which aims at protection of human rights and freedoms

Type: Governmental Organizations | Topic: Human Rights

Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM), Utrecht School of Law

The Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) has several databases in which its collection of documentation is made accessible.

Type: Reference Information | Topic: Human Rights

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), a department of the United Nations Secretariat, is mandated to promote and protect the enjoyment and full realization, by all people, of all rights established in the Charter of the United Nations and in international human rights laws and treaties.

Type: United Nations | Topic: Human Rights

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): Business and human rights

Type: United Nations | Topic: Human Rights

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR): Contemporary forms of slavery

Type: United Nations | Topic: Human Rights

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