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Civil liberties

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American Civil Liberties Union: Campaigning organisation with information on the church and state, criminal justice, the death penalty, free speech, lesbian and gay rights, and racial equality, among other topics.
Author: American Civil Liberties Union
Subjects: civil liberties, death, racism, united states law
DeweyClass: 323
Resource type: documents
Amnesty International: Amnesty International plays a specific role in the international protection of human rights. Its activities focus on prisoners: seeking the release of prisoners of conscience, working for fair and prompt trials for all political prisoners and opposing the death penalty and torture of prisoners. Information on current campaigns, activities and membership are available as well as reports and publications.
Author: Amnesty International
Subjects: civil liberties, death, human rights
DeweyClass: 323
Resource type: institution, news
Center for Democracy and Technology: CDT's mission is to develop and advocate public policies that advance constitutional civil liberties and democratic values in new computer and communications technologies. Includes news, issues and publications.
Author: Center for Democracy and Technology
Subjects: civil liberties, computer ethics
DeweyClass: 323
Resource type: institution
Electronic Frontier Foundation: A non-profit civil liberties organisation working in the public interest to protect privacy, free expression, and access to public resources and information online, as well as to promote responsibility in new media.
Author: Electronic Frontier Foundation
Subjects: civil liberties, computer ethics, cryptography, freedom and privacy, internet culture
DeweyClass: 323
Resource type: documents
Electronic Privacy Information Center: Public interest research centre in Washington DC, established to focus public attention to emerging civil liberties issues relating to the National Information Infrastructure.
Author: Electronic Privacy Information Center
Subjects: civil liberties, freedom and privacy
DeweyClass: 323
Resource type: documents, news
EmpowermentResources.com: Index to Internet resources covering personal growth, social change, personal, cultural and political empowerment.
Author: EmpowermentResources.com
Subjects: civil liberties, minorities, political science, trade unions
DeweyClass: 300
Resource type: index
Free-Market.Net: The Freedom Network: Database of libertarian information including freedom-related news stories, policy analyses, books, job openings, activist opportunities, and events. Covers topics such as campaign finances, gay marriages, independent juries, and socialised medicine.
Author: Henry Hazlitt Foundation
Subjects: civil liberties, political philosophy
DeweyClass: 320.521
Resource type: index, news
HateWatch: Confronting and Containing Hate on the Internet: Started in 1996, HateWatch provides an online resource for concerned individuals, academics, activists and the media to keep abreast of and to combat online bigotry. The information provided may be offensive to some.
Author: HateWatch
Subjects: civil liberties, internet culture, political philosophy, racism
DeweyClass: 320.5
Resource type: documents
Human Rights Foreign and Commonwealth Office Annual Report 2000: Report addressing the UK Labour Government's policies and activities on humanitarian issues, both nationally and internationally, between June 1999 and June 2000. The issues covered include topics such as the protection of war victims, child exploitation, refugees, the EU stance on the death penalty, and responses to issues raised by the Kosovan conflict. A list of sources detailing additional humanitarian resources is also provided.
Author: Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Subjects: civil liberties, humanitarian relief
DeweyClass: 323
Resource type: document
Human Rights Internet: International organisation, documentation and publishing centre concerned with human rights.
Author: Human Rights Internet
Subjects: civil liberties, human rights
DeweyClass: 323
Resource type: documents
Human Rights Web: Includes an introduction to human rights, a short history of the human rights movement, and biographies of prisoners of conscience.
Author: Hampton, Catherine A.
Subjects: civil liberties, human rights
DeweyClass: 323
Resource type: biography, documents, index
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights: A coalition of over 180 organisations committed to the protection of civil and human rights in the United States. These organisations include groups representing people of colour, women, labour unions, persons with disabilities, older Americans, major religious groups, gays and lesbians, and civil liberties and human rights groups.
Author: Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Subjects: civil liberties, disability, human rights, minorities, women's rights
DeweyClass: 323
Resource type: documents
Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore: Photographic archive commemorating the work of Charles Moore, with additional information on Moore's career. The images represent 1960s America and the civil rights issues of the time, providing important visual historical data. The collection features images of events such as Ku Klux Klan gatherings, the actions of Martin Luther King, and the Freedom March of 1963. Explanatory text accompanies each photograph.
Author: Moore, Charles
Subjects: civil liberties, historical data, human rights, photographs, racism
DeweyClass: 973.9
Resource type: image collection
Privacy International: Campaigning organisation based in London. Formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance by governments and corporations.
Author: Privacy International
Subjects: civil liberties, freedom and privacy
DeweyClass: 323
Resource type: documents, news
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library: Searchable collection of international human rights treaties and instruments, bibliographies, United Nations documents and human rights organisations.
Author: University of Minnesota
Subjects: civil liberties, human rights
DeweyClass: 323
Resource type: documents
We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement National Register Travel Itinerary: A travel itinerary of properties related to the modern US civil rights movement. The itinerary can be reviewed by property, state, or a clickable US map.
Author: National Park Service
Subjects: civil liberties, united states history from 1900
DeweyClass: 973.9
Resource type: documents
World Democracy Audit: Draws together comparative data relating to the level of democracy in over 200 countries and dependencies, using criteria such as political rights, press freedom, level of corruption, civil liberties, and human rights. Presents democracy rankings for country groupings such as the OECD, the European Union, G7, and the Arab League, and an overall ranking of nations with populations over 1 million.
Author: World Audit
Subjects: civil liberties, democracy, human rights
DeweyClass: 321.8
Resource type: reference data