Disabilities

• Centre for Equitable Library Access (CELA), public library services for Canadians with print disabilities.
• Disability Rights Fund resource page.
• Disabled Peoples’ International promotes human rights of disabled people through participation, equalization of opportunity and development.
• Jones, D. & Webster, L., et al. (2006). A handbook on mainstreaming disability. London: VSO United Kingdom. (1.95 Mb pdf)
• Katsui, H. (2012). Disabilities, human rights and international cooperation: Human rights-based approach and lived experiences of Ugandan women with disabilities. [n.l.]: Center for Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
• Miller, C. & Albert, B. (2005). Mainstreaming disability in development: Lessons from gender mainstreaming. (292K pdf)

Rights-Based Approaches to Development

• Suggested journal: IDS Bulletin Volume 36, No. 1.
• Eyben, R. (2003). The rise of rights: Rights-based approaches to international development. K. Cockburn, (Ed.). (IDS policy briefing 17). (108K pdf)
• Gold, L. (2005). More than a numbers game?: Ensuring that the Millennium Development Goals address structural injustice. Brussels: CIDSE. (704K pdf)
• Kapur, A., & Duvvury, N. (2006). A rights-based approach to realizing the economic and social rights of poor and marginalized women: A synthesis of lessons learned. Washington, DC: International Center for Research on Women.
• Maxwell, S. (1999). What can we do with a rights-based approach to development? (ODI briefing paper no. 3). (48K pdf)
• Nyamu-Musembi, C., & Cornwall, A. (2004). What is the rights-based approach all about?: Perspectives from international development agencies (IDS working paper 234). (547K pdf)

 General sites on Human Rights

• Amnesty International campaigns for internationally recognized human rights to be respected and protected for everyone.
• Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
• Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems (HURIDOCS) strengthens the capacity of human rights organisations to manage and communicate information.
• Human Rights Internet is committed to social justice, good governance and conflict prevention.
• Human Rights Watch is dedicated to defending and protecting human rights.
  • Women’s Rights
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) represents the world’s commitment to promoting and protecting all human rights.
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1948.
• Universal Human Rights Index of United Nations Documents provides access for all countries to human rights information from the United Nations system.
• WhatConvention.org – international legal search engine of human rights and humanitarian law.

Caste Discrimination

• Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. (2005). The missing piece of the puzzle: Caste discrimination and the conflict in Nepal. New York: CHRGJ. (794K pdf)
• Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. (2008). Recasting justice: Securing Dalit right’s in Nepal’s new constitution. New York: CHRGJ. (1.07 Mb pdf)
• International Dalit Solidarity Network works globally againt discrimination based on work and descent.

Truth and Reconciliation Commissions

• National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation is based at the University of Manitoba.
• Shaw, R. (2005). Rethinking truth and reconciliation commissions: Lessons from Sierra Leone (Special report 130). Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace.