Amnesty International - USA -- Human Rights Educators' Network
http://amnesty-usa.org/education/Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people acting on the convictions that governments must not deny individuals their basic human rights and that ordinary men and women can effectively pressure governments to live up to their commitments to human decency. Amnesty International promotes education about all human rights as outlined in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The Anti-Defamation League
http://www.adl.orgThis site includes a newly constructed on-line ADL Material Resource Catalog for the Classroom and Community. It contains over 90 titles categorized to help teachers, community leaders, parents and students select the most appropriate material to help them in their pursuit of promoting understanding among people of different races, creeds and ethnic backgrounds.
The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
http://www.aacte.orgThe American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education is a national, voluntary association of colleges and universities with undergraduate or graduate programs to prepare professional educators. The Association supports programs in data gathering, equity, leadership development, networking, policy analysis, professional issues, and scholarship. And, this particular site includes a database from which an educator may order materials.
Artists Against Racism
http://www.vrx.net/aarArtists Against Racism is a non-profit Canadian organization geared toward youth. Their primary emphasis is to educate youth about racial tolerance in schools and communities.
B.E.S.T. Education Search Engine and Awards
http://eyecatchers.com/eyecat/BEST/This site contains a large collection of what is great about the combination of the Internet and education.
BMA Foundation for AIDS
http://www.bmaids.demon.co.uk/The BMA Foundation for AIDS promotes specialised education about HIV, AIDS and sexual health for professional groups and policy makers. They work to influence attitudes, opinion, policy, prevention and professional practice.
The Center for World Indigenous Studies
http://www.halcyon.com/FWDP/cwisinfo.htmlThe Center for World Indigenous Studies is a non-profit research and education organization. It is dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of human rights in Indigenous nations.
The Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights
http://www2.deakin.edu.au/cchr/The Centre for Citizenship and Human Rights promotes and sustains research in the area of Human Rights, Citizenship and Social Justice. This research involves an inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary approach involving politics, international relations, sociology, community development, economics, the environment, law and history.
Creativity Cafe KidCase for Peace-KidCast Central
http://creativity.net/kidcast2.htmlAn excellent site for children looking to learn more about peace issues; very well designed with interactive technology.
Education Place
http://www.hmco.com:80/school/Education Place is a free online resource for teachers, parents, and students produced by Houghton Mifflin School Division. Education Place features links to the best educational resources, several online games, weekly brainteasers, and a searchable activity database.
Electronic Activist
http://www.berkshire.net/~ifas/activist/An email address directory of congresspeople, state governments, and media entities.
Electronic Embasssy
http://www.embassy.org/The Electronic Embassy links the staffs and resources of the Washington D.C. embassy community to their constituencies in business and industry, education, the press and government.
Global SchoolNet Foundation Home Page
http://www.gsn.org/Linking kids around the world, Global SchoolNet has links to interesting sites, information on using the web for education and other valuable connections.
History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers
http://execpc.com/~dboals/boals.htmThe major purpose of this home page is to encourage the use of the World Wide Web as a tool for learning and teaching and to provide some help for K-12 classroom teachers in locating and using the resources of the Internet in the classroom.
Human-Language Page
http://www.june29.com//HLP/The Human-Languages Page, a comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources. Here you will find online language lessons, translating dictionaries, programs to aid you in learning a language, and more.
Human Rights Internet
http://www.hri.ca/Human Rights Internet is an international network of human rights organizations, documentation centre, and publishing house. This cite contains a multitude of things, including U.N. documents, education materials, resource guides and site checked list of links.
Human Rights Research and Education Centre - University of Ottawa
http://www.uottawa.ca/~hrrec/hrc.htmlThe Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the University of Ottawa is a national centre devoted to the fields of equality rights, fundamental freedoms and social and economic rights, both domestic and international. It is the largest, most compre hensive facility of its kind in Canada. Supported by the university, by generous private endowments, and through grants and contracts, the Centre has, since 1981, developed as a force for rights and freedoms for all peoples.
Inmates and Alternatives: The Prison Projecthttp://168.216.210.13/mjhs/pproject/pproject.htmThis project gives students from around the world the opportunity to establish dialogue with inmates via virtual visits to the West Virginia Penitentiary, a maximum security prison located in Moundsville, West Virginia. The project which was developed by Bill Burrall, evolved over a three-year period and utilized the power of telecommunications to allow students and inmates to overcome the boundaries of distance and time as well as the physical boundary of prison walls. The project allows one to take an indepth look at some of society's most difficult problems and potential solutions to them. Students got a candid view from inmates of what forces within society lead, in some cases, to a life of crime and ultimately to incarceration.
International Human Rights Instruments - Education Human Rights
http://hrlibrary.law.umn.edu/instree/auop.htmThe Human Rights Library collection of instruments on education human rights in English and Spanish.
K-12 Electronic Guide for African Resources on the Internet
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Home_Page/AFR_GIDE.htmlInformation for K-12 students and teachers on Africa from the University of Pennsylvania Africa Studies web page.
http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/about.htmlDrawing on the depth of primary materials at the Michigan and Cornell libraries, these two institutions are developing a thematically-related digital library documenting American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. Over 5,000 volumes with imprints between 1850 - 1877 will be selected, scanned, and made available to the academic communities at each institution. Librarians, researchers, and instructors are working together to determine the content of this digital library and to evaluate the impact of this resource on research and teaching at both institutions.
Martin Luther King, Jr. education site
http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/A page for students and educators, the Seattle Times creation is to mark the 10th anniversary of the creation of Martin Luther King's birthday as a national holiday.
Mighty Media
http://www.mightymedia.com/Index.htmlThe Youth in Action site maintained by Mighty Media has basic information about aspects of human rights relevant to young people. It also identifies organizations and Internet resources for each of those aspects. It provides social action resources, educational resources, and chat forums for young people.
NAKAJIMA J.H.S. Homepage
http://kuniko-hs.higashiyodogawa.osaka.jp/nakajima/na_ind_e.htmlNakajima Junior High, in Osaka Japan has established a multicultural and Human Rights Education web-site. This site includes information about school trips to Nagasaki and Hiroshima, where the students talked to victims of the atomic bomb.
NativeWeb
http://web.maxwell.syr.edu/nativeweb/NativeWeb combined ancient teachings and modern technology with the purposeto provide a cyber-place for Earth's indigenous peoples. This page includes an education section.
Notable Citizens of Planet Earth
http://www.tiac.net/users/parallax/Notable Citizens of Planet Earth is a great Internet resource for both teachers and students. This searchable biographical dictionary provides references to over 18,000 notable people living from ancient times to today. Each entry contains the person's birth and death dates, professions, literary and artistic works, honors, and other noteworthy achievements. This is a valuable addition to anyone's Web bookmarks. The site also includes a "Master Biographer Challenge" question and ideas for using the database in the classroom. Notable Citizens is an updated version of an earlier online biographical dictionary, and is maintained by Eric Tentarelli.
Peace in Pictures
http://www.macom.co.il/peace/index.htmlThe "Peace in Pictures" project is a game, contest and collaboration involving children from all over the world. We launch this project to celebrate the peace process that we all hope is beginning to take root here in our region of the world. The "Peace in Pictures" project invites children of all ages to draw their impressions of peace. We will place these pictures on the internet for everyone around the world to view, enjoy, and be inspired.
Project Central America
http://www.adventureonline.com/pca/This World Wide Web site is a product of Project Central America, a two month, 1900 mile learning adventure designed collaboratively by Minnetonka Public Schools in Minnesota and the Bush Educational Leaders Program. This web contains teaching material which will allow educators to bring Central America to their classroom. Please use it as an electronic textbook, media resource, language tutor, map cabinet, and more. All materials are copyright-free but are not intended for commercial purposes.
Resource Center of The Americas
http://www.americas.org/RCTA/The Resource Center of The Americas is a Minnesota-based non-profit organization whose mission is to help U.S. citizens join the struggle for peace, justice and human rights across the hemisphere.
Retanet: Resources for Teaching About the Americas
http://ladb.unm.edu/www/retanet/The Latin America Data Base (LADB) web site for secondary educators, Resources for Teaching about the Americas (RETAnet) is the result of an educational project funded by the U.S. Department of Education. RETAnet is an outreach project of the Latin America Data Base (LADB), a part of the Latin American Institute at the University of New Mexico. RETAnet works with secondary teachers, educational specialists, and scholars to make accessible resources and curriculum materials about Latin America, the Spanish Caribbean, and the U.S. Southwest. A vital component of RETAnet is communications technology using computers and the Internet.
Right Margin: Computer education in developing countries
http://www.alcazar.com/rm/The aim of the Foundation is to provide young people in developing countries with a better chance to find a job. This is done by organizing typewriting and computerschools. To achieve this goal, the Foundation has succeeded to mix a rather unique combination of a number of factors into a quite successful blend.
The Rutherford Institute
http://www.rutherford.org/The Rutherford Institute is an international, nonprofit, legal and educational organization that specializes in the defense of religious liberty and human rights.
Save the Children - Educational Resources
http://www.oneworld.org/scf/educ.htmlSave the Children aims to give a voice to young people from many countries - including the UK - so their experiences can be heard and learned from. These resources draw on Save the Children's extensive experience both in the UK and overseas. They are developed in collaboration with teachers and are tried and tested in UK schools.
Soulforce: The Power of Nonviolence
http://www.fabian-baber.com/soulforce/index.htmlThis is a "linked-media" site. Students around the country are visiting this site after watching the video, Soulforce, the Power of Nonviolence, in classrooms, community centers, homes, and prisons. Violence is something that affects each of our lives. These linked-media resources were created to help you understand violence better and to explore the alternatives.
The Study of Human Rights Web Page at Binghampton
http://www.polsci.binghamton.edu/hr.htmThis site acts as a depository for data, research papers, conference announcements and other human rights information. It seeks to broaden the scope and hone the technique of systematic studies of human rights by increasing contact amongst the scholarly community, enabling replication of research, and by helping to provide notice of new research, methodology, etc.
United Nations Scholars' Workstartion Home Page at Yale University
http://www.library.yale.edu/un/unhome.htmThe United Nations Scholars' Workstation, developed by the Yale University Library and the Social Science Statistical Laboratory, is a collection of texts, finding aids, data sets, maps, and pointers to print and electronic information. Subject coverage includes disarmament, economic and social development, environment, human rights, international relations, international trade, peacekeeping, and population and demography. The workstation directly supports teaching and research in United Nations Studies as well as the Independent Working Group on the Future of the United Nations, headquartered at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS). Some access restrictions apply in accordance with licensing agreements.
University of Nottingham Student Human Rights Law Centre
http://www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/~llzweb/hrlc/hrnews/contents.htmThe University of Nottingham Student Human Rights Law Centre homepage has the SHRLC-Newsletter, as well as links to other human rights related sites.
The Video Project
http://www.videoproject.org/videoproject/The Video Project is a non-profit source for over 250 top-rated, affordable videos and multimedia programs for all age levels on theenvironment, hands-on science, nuclear issues, global human rights, and concerns, including Oscar and Emmy award-winners. Programs focusing on causes and solutions to violence in America have also recently been added.
Virtual Schoolhouse
http://sunsite.unc.edu/cisco/schoolhouse.htmlA meta-library of K-12 internet links including a keyword search engine.
World Wise Schools
http://www.peacecorps.gov/www/dp/wws1.htmlWorld Wise Schools (WWS) is Peace Corps' global education program. Each year WWS links about 4000 U.S. classrooms to Peace Corps Volunteers overseas. Through letter correspondence, U.S. students gain firsthand knowledge of the Volunteer's host country. Teachers enrolled in the program receive videos and study guides about Peace Corps countries to supplement their geography curriculum. The study guides are available through this web server.
Young Media
http://www.mare.ch/youngmedia/Young Media is a group of youths who cover human rights issues including Habitat II for the purpose of supplementing the mainstream media's coverage.
