Building Human Rights



 

 

Building
Human Rights
Online Network

 

Others web portals in this collection of reliable links:

 
Building Human Rights is a compelling master frame for building a progressive movement for social change.
 

The international human rights framework:

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (pdf)

Core Documents

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (pdf)

International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (pdf)

Convention on the Rights of the Child (pdf)

Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (pdf)

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (pdf)

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (pdf)

International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (pdf)

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (pdf)

International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance (pdf)
 
 
 
 
 

A collection of web portal pages

and selected websites

that link you to

reliable progressive web resources 
 
Coming Soon! Reports of Human Rights Abuses
compiled by the Bill of Rights Defense Committee
 
 

Selected Resources

Meiklejohn: Human Rights Organizations & Periodicals Directory
 

Why a Human Rights Framework?

U.S. Human Rights Network

Underlying all human rights work in the United States is a commitment to challenge the belief that the United States is inherently superior to other countries of the world, and that neither the US government nor the US rights movements have anything to gain from the domestic application of human rights. Network members believe that the US government should no longer be allowed to shield itself from accountability to human rights norms and that the US civil, women's, worker, immigrant, LGBTQ, prisoner and other rights movements that stand to benefit, perhaps now more than ever, from an end to US impunity in this regard. Read More
 

UNICEF

Human rights are those rights which are essential to live as human beings – basic standards without which people cannot survive and develop in dignity. They are inherent to the human person, inalienable and universal.

The United Nations set a common standard on human rights with the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Although this Declaration is not part of binding international law, its acceptance by all countries around the world gives great moral weight to the fundamental principle that all human beings, rich and poor, strong and weak, male and female, of all races and religions, are to be treated equally and with respect for their natural worth as human beings. Read More