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The Commission for Racial Equality is a publicly funded, independent organization that exists to tackle racial discrimination and promote racial equality. It works in both the public and private sectors to encourage fair treatment and equal opportunities for all, regardless of their race, colour, nationality, or national or ethnic origin. (English) |
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The Runnymede Trust is an independent research and policy agency which addresses itself specifically to the development of a successful multi-ethnic society. The Trust's aim is to provide information, research and advice, and to promote the value of diversity in communities. (English) |
| The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance's web-site is part of its ongoing fight against racism. The range of information available includes international legal texts, summaries of relevant national legislation and 'good practices' in the policies of member states, guidance on conducting a campaign, initiatives in education and the media as well as a listing of the principal agencies active in the fight against racism. (English or French) | |
| The Nizkor
Project is dedicated to education about the Holocaust, and
to refuting those who deny it. It offers a precise and thoroughly documented
response to Holocaust denial, and provides information about those who propagate
and promote it. (English) | |
| The Migration Policy Group (MPG) is an independent, non-profit organization based in Brussels, committed to the development of improved policies on migration and related issues through the promotion of dialogue between key stakeholders - public, private and business sectors - in Europe, North America and the international community, and through the production of substantive, comparative policy analyses. (English) | |
| United for Intercultural Action is a European network of more than 500 organizations from forty European countries working together against nationalism, racism, fascism and discrimination, and in support of migrants and refugees. (English) | |
| Searchlight Magazine is Britain's leading anti-fascist magazine. Searchlight is a non-sectarian organization in political, ethnic and religious terms, which for over twenty-five years has been fighting fascism and racism, both in Britain and abroad. (English) | |
| Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. In particular, Amnesty International campaigns to free all prisoners of conscience; ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners; abolish the death penalty, torture and other cruel treatment of prisoners; end political killings and 'disappearances'; and oppose human rights abuses by opposition groups. AI is impartial and independent of any government, political persuasion or religious creed. (English) | |
| CARF is Britain's only independent anti-racist magazine, documenting resistance against racism from black and refugee organizations, monitoring groups, anti-deportation campaigns, football fans, and much more. The articles available on this web-site are a small sample of what's in the CARF magazine, published bimonthly in Britain. A full list of back issues is available on-line. (English) | |
| Anti-Racism.Net exists to provide information and technical assistance while serving as an Internet portal on race and diversity for anti-racism advocates. (English) | |
| Statewatch monitors state and civil liberties in the European Union. This free access database contains over 25,000 entries, including news, features, books, pamphlets, reports, EU resolutions and agreements, debates in the British Parliament and the European Parliament, as well as the European Race Audit of the Institute of Race Relations. This archive also contains Statewatch's bimonthly bulletin. (English) | |
| The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants is an independent, national organization working for justice in immigration, nationality and refugee law and policy in Britain. The organization provides free advice and casework, and trains, campaigns and lobbies for change. (English). | |
| Pro
Asyl is a German advocacy group, focusing on the legal rights
of asylum-seekers. (German, with some English) | |
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British Refugee Council gives practical help to asylum-seekers
and refugees and advances their rights both in Britain and abroad. It is
engaged at every level from grassroots work with refugee community organizations
to liaison with senior politicians. (English) | |
| Landelijk Bureau ter bestrijding van Rassen discriminatie (LBR), the National Bureau against Racism, is an amalgamation of three Dutch anti-racist organizations. The LBR uses its expertise primarily to combat racial discrimination in the field of work, housing, the media, education and welfare. (Dutch, English, French or German) | |
| RNN Online | The Roma National Congress is an independent body, established and run by Roma. It has been active in recent years in promoting the human and political rights of Roma, including: protection and humanitarian aid for refugees; education programmes and cultural activities; media documentation, and historic and linguistic research. (English) |
| Minority Rights Group (MRG) works to secure the rights of ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities and acts as an advocate of the rights of minorities. MRG has four main activities: researching and publishing reports and other information about minorities around the world; advocating (or lobbying for) the rights of minorities at the United Nations (UN), in Europe, with governments and elsewhere; educating children and teachers on minority issues in order to counter racism and prejudice; and working with organizations and activists who share its aims to build alliances, discuss ideas, develop skills and further minority rights worldwide. (English) | |
| UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, is mandated by the United Nations to lead and co-ordinate international action for the world-wide protection of refugees and their rights, and the resolution of refugee problems. UNHCR strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another state, and to return home voluntarily. (English, French, German, Japanese or Korean) | |
| European Court of Human Rights is an international institution which, in certain circumstances, hears complaints from persons who believe that their rights under the European Convention on Human Rights have been violated. Freely accessible on line from this site is the data base HUDOC (HUman rights DOCumentation), containing decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, the European Commmission of Human Rights and human rights resolutions of the Committee of Ministers. (English or French) | |
| Mouvement contre le racisme et pour l'amitié entre les peuples (French) | |
| The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA) is an interdisciplinary research organization dedicated to an independent, non-political approach to the accumulation and dissemination of knowledge necessary for understanding the phenomenon of antisemitism. SICSA engages in research on antisemitism throughout the ages, focusing on relations between Jews and non-Jews, particularly in situations of tension and crisis. (English) | |
| ARIS | The Anti-Racism Information Service (ARIS) has been created to broaden public knowledge of the UN International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and of the work of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which monitors its implementation. (English, French or Spanish) |
| The European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) is an organization established in 1973 to encourage co-operation between more than fifty non-governmental organizations in Europe concerned with refugees. ECRE's objective is to promote, through analysis, research and the exchange of information, a humane and generous asylum policy in Europe. (English) | |
| The League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada is dedicated to combatting antisemitism, racism and bigotry. The objectives of the League include the protection of human rights of all Canadians, the development of positive inter-community relations and the elimination of racial discrimination and antisemitism. The League's Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents has been published since 1982. (English) | |
| The Internet has often been cited as being a new breeding ground for racism and bigotry, especially since it seems a free-for-all environment, in which the laws of the outside world do not apply. I CARE questions that view by addressing the issues of how to combat racism and promote anti-racism on the Internet. | |
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Crosspoint is the Internet's largest collection of links in the field of human rights, anti-racism, refugees, women's rights, antifascism, Holocaust and so on. Crosspoint also lists links to Jewish organizations, migrant organizations and others. It was built and is being maintained by the Magenta Foundation in Amsterdam. |
| The European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) was established in 1997 by the European Union as an independent body to contribute to the struggle against racism, xenophobia and antisemitism throughout Europe. The EUMC works with the Council of Europe, the United Nations and other international organizations. It has the task of reviewing the extent and development of racist, xenophobic and antisemitic phenomena in the European Union and promoting 'best practice' among the member states. | |
| Southern Poverty Law Center is a non-profit US organization that combats hate, intolerance and discrimination through education and litigation. Its programmes include Teaching Tolerance and the Intelligence Project, which incorporates Klanwatch and the Militia Task Force. (English) |