Subsaharan Africa

Africa is an extremely heterogenous continent, and human rights violations come in many forms as well. From genocide, slavery, mass disappearances and torture, to denial of freedom of speech or of the press, there is little that will not be found somewhere in Africa. This website only hopes to guide you to some resources with information on human rights in Africa. If you know of other resources, please let us know.

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Human Rights Websites

• Afronet
• allAfrica.com
• Contemporary Conflicts in Africa

Human Rights NGOs

• Africa Legal Aid
• African Rights
• Centre for Democracy and Development
• Coalition Against Slavery in Mauritania and Sudan
• Media Institute of Southern Africa
• The Southern African Human Rights NGO Network
• Washington Office on Africa
  
  
• African Human Rights Organizations
  List from Afronet
• Directory of Human Rights Organizations in South Africa
• Nongovernmental Organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Human Rights Organizations in African countries

Research Centers

• African Human Rights Resource Center
  University of Minnesota
• Africa Policy Information Center
• Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation

International Organizations

• Organization of African Unity

Human Rights Documents

• African Human Rights Instruments
• OAU Documents

Human Rights Reports

• Afronet Reports
  On human rights in individual African countries

Articles

• The Contingent Universality of Human Rights:
  The Case of Freedom of Expression in African and Islamic Contexts
• Freedom of the Press in Africa
  Freedomforum
• Human Rights and Governance in Africa
  African Studies Quarterly
• Humanitarian News Updates
• The Monitor
  Afronet
• Religious Human Rights in Africa
• Voices of Freedom: Subsaharan Africa
  Digital Freedom Network
• News Sources on Africa

Links

• Africa Online
• Africa Online: ICG's Directory of Websites on Africa
• African Reparations Movement (UK)
• African Resources
• Africa south of the Sahara - Human Rights
• African Studies Internet Resources: Human Rights and Governance
• Afrol.com
  Portal, includes news.
• Index on Africa
• Internet Guide on Conflict & Ethnicity
• Kabissa
  space on the Internet for the African non-profit sector.
• Derechos Africa Links

Información en Español

Para más información consulte las páginas individuales de cada país de Africa

• Comité de Solidaridad con el Africa Negra
• Afrol.com
  Noticias y enlaces sobre Africa en castellano.

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