41. International Experts On Race Visit Civil Rights Museum comprehensive overview of the US civil rights movement to attend a conference on InternationalPerspectives on moments in the struggle of African Americans for http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/blackhis/experts.htm

Gateway 30 April 2001 International Experts on Race Visit Civil Rights Museum By David Pitts Washington File Staff Writer (Former Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King died) Memphis, Tennessee "I was very moved by what I saw here, even though I knew the basic story of the American civil rights movement," said David Sam of Norway. "I knew little about the details of that struggle," said Rosanna Wong from Hong Kong. They were talking about the National Civil Rights Museum located on the site of the former Lorraine Motel where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed on April 4, 1968. The museum not only honors King's memory, it houses a comprehensive overview of the U.S. civil rights movement. The international visitors were in Oxford, Mississippi to attend a conference on "International Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity and Intercultural Relations," held April 18-22 at the University of Mississippi. While there, however, they took time out to visit the museum located about 70 miles north of Oxford in Memphis, Tennessee. The main exhibits are vignettes capturing pivotal moments in the struggle of African Americans for equal rights in the United States, including the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision that outlawed school segregation, the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott that led to the ending of segregation in public transport, and the 1963 March on Washington at which King gave his electrifying "I Have A Dream" speech."

42. Civil Rights: Civil Rights In The United States to expand civil rights for African Americans has from HighBeam Research on civilrights civil rights in the the French in knots (international Herald Tribune http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/id/A0857363.html

HOTWORDS CITE PRINT EMAIL in All Infoplease Almanacs Biographies Dictionary Encyclopedia Home Almanacs Atlas Dictionary ... D-Day Infoplease Tools Periodic Table Conversion Tool Perpetual Calendar Year by Year ... Site Map Also from Infoplease Search Infoplease Info search tips Search Biographies Bio search tips Encyclopedia civil rights Civil Rights in the United States Since the Civil War , much of the concern over civil rights in the United States has focused on efforts to extend these rights fully to African Americans. The first legislative attempts to assure African Americans an equal political and legal status were the Civil Rights Acts of 1866, 1870, 1871, and 1875. Those acts bestowed upon African Americans such freedoms as the right to sue and be sued, to give evidence, and to hold real and personal property. The 1866 act was of dubious constitutionality and was reenacted in 1870 only after the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment . The fourth Civil Rights Act attempted to guarantee to the African Americans those social rights that were still withheld. It penalized innkeepers, proprietors of public establishments, and owners of public conveyances for discriminating against African Americans in accommodations, but was invalidated by the Supreme Court in 1883 on the ground that these were not properly civil rights and hence not a field for federal legislation. In 1965 the Voting Rights Act was passed, which placed federal observers at polls to ensure equal voting rights. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 dealt with housing and real estate discrimination. In addition to congressional action on civil rights, there has been action by other branches of the government. The most notable of these were the Supreme Court decisions in 1954 and 1955 declaring racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional, and the court's rulings in 1955 banning segregation in publicly financed parks, playgrounds, and golf courses.

43. International Civil Society Conference Of Palestinian Rights Committee Participating African NGOs submitted different ideas which of media coverage and civilsociety participation. the efforts of the international community aimed http://www.nieuwsbank.nl/en/2002/09/23/t001.htm

Zoek in archief: NL: 445314 berichten Presentatie: Op trefkans Chronologisch EN: 86672 berichten Presentatie: Op trefkans Chronologisch Vind boeken, muziek, films Alle producten Boeken (Nederlands Boeken (Engels) Muziek DVD/Video Software Games international civil society conference of Palestinian Rights Committee Scroll de pagina (druk op een toets of muisknop om het scrollen te stoppen) Datum nieuwsfeit: Bron: United Nations (UN) Press Release GA/PAL/897 Committee on Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People 265th Meeting (AM) PALESTINIAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE APPROVES WORK PROGRAMME FOR INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY CONFERENCE Meeting Scheduled for Headquarters on 23 and 24 September The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People this morning approved the work programme of the United Nations International Conference of Civil Society in Support of the Palestinian People, scheduled for New York on 23 and 24 September 2002. With the theme "End the Occupation!", the Conference is set to follow the general debate of the fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly. The two-day plenary will be devoted to discussions on "The daily face of occupation", "Civil society and occupation", "Challenging the occupation," and "Ending the occupation". Expert presentations on economic and humanitarian crises, strengthening networks of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in times of crisis and legislative and political advocacy will guide those discussions. The Committee also took note of the oral reports of two recent conferences the African Meeting on the Question of Palestine, and the most recent meeting of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) which marked the inaugural Summit of the African Union.

44. International Civil Rights Center & Museum City Councilwoman/Attorney Deborah Dennard, First African American female Earl JonesGreensboro Times Vice President international civil rights Center Museum http://www.sitinmovement.org/news/news_item.asp?n_id=19

45. Non-Discrimination In Civil Marriage: Perspectives From International Human Righ as they are to spouses.” 5 On September 1, 2003, the Law Reform Commission ofSouth africa released a 1 international Covenant on civil and Political http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/lgbt/civil-marriage.htm

Home News Releases About HRW Contribute ... Contact Us Non-Discrimination in Civil Marriage: Perspectives from International Human Rights Law and Practice A Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper Printer Friendly - PDF, 5 pages Many people take for granted that their government will acknowledge their relationships of love and care. Yet some relationships are arbitrarily denied that recognition. The results may be devastating. A partner may be denied the rights to share equal rights and equal responsibilities for children in their care; have their partner covered under their health or employment benefits; apply for immigration and residency if their partner is from another country; file joint tax returns and enjoy tax benefits for couples, obtain joint insurance policies, or even rent or own property together; obtain a protection order against domestic violence; get a fair settlement of property when the relationship ends; inherit from a deceased partner if he lacked a valid will; obtain pension benefits if the partner dies. In countries that deny same-sex partners access to marriage, such systemic inequalities are still routinely tolerated. In this briefing paper, Human Rights Watch looks at this inequality through the lens of international human rights law and practice.

46. Africa ICT Policy Monitor - Hafkin Prize civil Society Organisations (CSOs) need to be included delegations in regional andinternational forums, especially Given that africa is underrepresented in http://africa.rights.apc.org/workshop_dec_eng.shtml

Mobilising African Civil Society around the importance of ICT policy for the development of the continent Visit the Africa WSIS Civil Society Caucus Website ABOUT HELP CONTACT ... All themes Workshop statement English French Draft Action Plan Participants list Press release Information for participants [MSWord] ... Pictures Building an Inclusive Information Society in Africa Statement of the Addis workshop of African Civil Society organisations, November 2002 Introduction The ICT policy and civil society workshop was held in Addis Ababa from 6 to 8 November 2002. It was organized by the Association for Progressive Communication (APC), Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), and Article 19. Eighty-two African civil society representatives drawn from twenty-five countries, regional and international organizations (UNECA, UNESCO and the ITU) participated in the workshop to strengthen the role of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in national, regional and global ICT fora. Preamble The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) received a clear mandate from the UN Secretariat to outline a clear vision of the way human kind wants to build societies free from poverty, oppression and imbalances of all kind and exclusion from the benefits that can be derived from information and communication technologies and their fair utilization.

47. Bora Laskin Law Library - Links - Human Rights/Civil Rights uniquely integrates sources for human rights and civil rights in both internationaland domestic The new constitution and court of South africa formed the http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/resources/topic/human.htm

Quick Links Case Law on the Web Canadian Legal Texts Canadian Legislation Electronic Journals List International Material Other Legislation Quicklaw Lexis Westlaw WestlaweCarswell Law Related Internet Resources by Subject Human Rights/Civil Rights Sites related to major constitutional mechanisms for Canada and the United States in the areas of civil rights and domestic human rights are included in these links, along with general and selected topical sites for international human rights, such as indigenous peoples', gay/lesbian, and women's rights. Canada Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre Provides links to civil liberties and human rights groups and organizations as well as links to full-text international human rights instruments dealing with war crimes and armed conflict, slavery, asylum and refugees, indigenous peoples, women's rights, etc. Date Last Visited: February 26, 2004

48. Mobilize To Build An African Civil Rights Movement of Uganda, founded the african civil rights Movement (ACRM drive, involving many internationalsymposia, the Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, South africa, China, Uganda http://www.aboutsudan.com/conferences/african_civil_rights/mobilize_build_africa

Mobilize to Build an African Civil Rights Movement Executive Intelligence Review, Jan. 16, 1998, pp. 30-34 Dennis Speed On Dec. 20, 1997, in New York City, Dr. Godfrey Lukongwa Binaisa, former President of Uganda, founded the African Civil Rights Movement (ACRM). Binaisa had issued a call for the Movement's formation in April 1995 (p. 32). The product of a three-year organizing drive, involving many international symposia, the New York meeting was attended by 75 people from Nigeria, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, South Africa, China, Uganda, Haiti, Spain, Lado, Congo, Tanzania, Canada, Cameroon, Botswana, the United States, and other nations. Binaisa's initiative reminded some of the participants of the "spirit of Bandung." They were referring to the initiative, concretized in a conference hosted by Indonesia's President Sukharno, of 29 nations of Africa and Asia, that were emerging from the dark night of British, Dutch, French, and Belgian colonialism, in April 1955. It was this initiative that created what was termed the "Third World." Binaisa, like South Africa's President Nelson Mandela, and the late Frederick Wills, former Foreign Minister of Guyana and a founding member of the Schiller Institute, were part of the "Nkrumah generation," that group of Africans who were the fathers of the independence movements of the 1950s and 1960s. Wills chaired a conference, at the request of Lyndon LaRouche, on Jan. 30-31, 1988, in Andover Massachusetts, entitled, "The New Name for Peace is Development." (See "44 Years After Bretton Woods: Building a New Monetary Order," EIR, Feb. 12,1988.)

49. Dudziak, M.L.: Cold War Civil Rights: Race And The Image Of American Democracy. to American Cold War goals throughout africa, Asia, and best analysis of how internationalrelations affected Mary Dudziak interprets postwar civil rights as a http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/6924.html

PRINCETON University Press SEARCH: Keywords Author Title More Options Power Search Search Hints E-MAIL NOTICES NEW IN PRINT E-BOOKS ... HOME PAGE Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy Mary L. Dudziak Shopping Cart Reviews Table of Contents In 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two dollars. Shocking as this sentence was, it was overturned only after intense international attention and the interference of an embarrassed John Foster Dulles. Soon after the United States' segregated military defeated a racist regime in World War II, American racism was a major concern of U.S. allies, a chief Soviet propaganda theme, and an obstacle to American Cold War goals throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Each lynching harmed foreign relations, and "the Negro problem" became a central issue in every administration from Truman to Johnson. In what may be the best analysis of how international relations affected any domestic issue, Mary Dudziak interprets postwar civil rights as a Cold War feature. She argues that the Cold War helped facilitate key social reforms, including desegregation. Civil rights activists gained tremendous advantage as the government sought to polish its international image. But improving the nation's reputation did not always require real change. This focus on image rather than substancecombined with constraints on McCarthy-era political activism and the triumph of law-and-order rhetoriclimited the nature and extent of progress.

50. Human Rights Post talks to end the 21year-long civil war in A coalition of US and Korean human rightsand non Thais repel series of attacks in south international Herald Tribune http://archive.wn.com/2004/04/29/1400/humanrightspost/

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52. ReliefWeb: Palestinian Rights Committee Approves Work Programme For Internationa in terms of media coverage and civil society participation. all the efforts of theinternational community aimed at took place in Durban, South africa, from 30 http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/0/dd3363fbb06e4f2b85256c0e00663209?OpenDocume

53. Get Involved - Museums have been drafted for an international civil rights Center and or indirectly to thecivil rights Movement Avery Research Center for AfricanAmerican History and http://unbrokencircle.org/museums.htm

a production of the Southern Regional Council Get Involved Civil Rights Museums List of National Organizations Web Resources Search Civil Rights Museums CDs and Tapes Now Available! As Will The Circle Be Unbroken? demonstrates, those interested in the history of the Civil Rights Movement need not rely on the printed word alone. Civil rights history has also been documented through recorded sound, photographs, artifacts, moving images, and visual art. At the following museums and research centers, the public can learn about civil rights history through both visual and aural means, as well as primary written sources. Alabama North Carolina California South Carolina ... Read Get Involved Contact SRC News Alabama Alabama State University 815 South Jackson Street, Montgomery, AL 36101, (334) 229-4100 www.alasu.edu An intellectual resource for Montgomery's civil rights activists of the 1950s and '60s, ASU now houses the E.D. Nixon collection, which presents a look into the life and career of this central leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-56. Birmingham Civil Rights Institute 520 16th Street North, Birmingham, AL 35203, (205) 328-9696

54. NARA | ALIC | Black History: Topical information on slavery and the international slave trade for studying the historyof African Americans in civil rights NARA Resources African Americans and the http://www.archives.gov/research_room/alic/reference_desk/black_history_topical.

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55. Foreign Policy In Focus - Speakers: Civil Liberities, International Law And Huma Policy In Focus Advisory Committee Expertise includes the United Nations, the MiddleEast and North africa, and issues of international Law/civil Liberties http://www.fpif.org/students/firstmonday2002/speakers_body.html

Speakers: Civil Liberities, International Law and Human Rights Post-9.11 The following experts who work with Foreign Policy In Focus are available to speak about the various international aspects the post-9.11 war on terrorism and its impact on civil liberties, international law, and human rights. FPIF Experts Contact Information Human Rights: Samina Ahmed , Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, JFK School of Government, Harvard University Expertise includes Afghanistan, India, and Pakistan (democratization, human rights, and nuclear and arms control and disarmament). Tel: (617) 495-9809; Fax: (617) 495-1044 Email: samina_ahmed@harvard.edu Landrum Bolling , Director-at-Large, Mercy Corps International Expertise includes human rights, democratization, the United Nations, and peacekeeping with reference to the Balkans and the Middle East. Tel: (202) 463-7384; Fax: (202) 463-7322 Email: lboll13@aol.com Reed Brody , Advocacy Director, Human Rights Watch Expertise includes human rights and global governance with reference to the United Nations and the International Criminal Court. Tel: (212) 216-1206;

56. International Human Rights Law Group to participate in IHRLG s international advocacy training the Leadership Conferenceon civil rights / Leadership Conference 3 out of 5 African Americans live http://www.hrlawgroup.org/country_programs/united_states/capacity_building.asp

Search Sitemap Home About IHRLG ... Human Rights Awards HEADQUARTERS 1200 18th Street NW Suite 602 Washington DC 20036 202.822.4600 tel 202.822.4606 fax HumanRights@ hrlawgroup.org Program Updates There are no entries for this section. Program Team Meet our United States staff in Washington IHRLG IN THE UNITED STATES Capacity Building for Civil Rights and Social Justice Groups Since 1998, IHRLG has trained more than 200 civil rights and social justice groups throughout the US on integrating the language, techniques and procedures of international human rights law into their advocacy work. IHRLG's Criminal Justice Working Group has convened experts and practitioners from around the US to help them use international human rights treaties and UN fora to address racial biases in the US criminal justice system, including racial profiling, sentencing disparities and the death penalty. We also invite civil rights and social justice leaders to participate in IHRLG's international advocacy training program (Advocacy Bridge) , conducted in our Washington office and in Geneva during the annual sessions of the UN Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) Recent examples of IHRLG's capacity-building activities in the United States include Training and assisting US law firms, civil society and social justice groups in April through July 2001, to prepare and submit shadow reports to the

57. International Human Rights Law Group The consultations enabled South African activists to US Public Interest Group, InternationalCenter for Leadership Conference on civil rights and InterAction. http://www.hrlawgroup.org/country_programs/nigeria/capacity_legislative.asp

Search Sitemap Home About IHRLG ... Human Rights Awards HEADQUARTERS 1200 18th Street NW Suite 602 Washington DC 20036 202.822.4600 tel 202.822.4606 fax HumanRights@ hrlawgroup.org Program Updates There are no entries for this section. Program Team Meet our in-country Nigeria staff Africa staff in Washington IHRLG IN NIGERIA Building the Legislative Advocacy Capacity of Civil Society Organizations In 1996, IHRLG convened the first of a series of consultations between Nigerian activists and South African parliamentarians, officials and community leaders who had led the fight to overthrow apartheid. The consultations enabled South African activists to share mobilization tactics learned in the struggle against apartheid to help Nigerian civil society leaders develop a strategy for addressing the difficult situation they faced at that time. In 1998, we organized a follow-up consultation in Accra, Ghana, which coincided with a period of escalating state repression, lending great urgency to the discussions. In December 1999, IHRLG organized a legislative advocacy workshop in collaboration with Human Rights Monitor in Kaduna, which brought together a diverse group of civil society leaders and media experts to investigate the positive and negative role the media has played in advancing a human rights agenda for Nigeria, and envision useful strategies for expanding relationships between civil society and the media within the new democratic environment.

58. International Covenant On Civil Political Rights abirdson@next19pg2.wam.umd.edu (abirdson) Newsgroups soc.culture.african SubjectText of the international Covenant on civil and Political rights Date 5 Jun http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Govern_Political/International_Covenant

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER From: abirdson@next19pg2.wam.umd.edu (abirdson) Newsgroups: soc.culture.african Subject: Text of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Date: 5 Jun 1994 23:03:25 GMT Message-ID: Keywords: Human Rights INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS Part 1 ARTICLE 1 1. All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development. 2. All peoples may, for their own ends, freely dispose of their natural wealth and resources without prejudice to any obligations arising out of international economic co-operation, based upon the principle of mutual benefit, and international law. In no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence. 3. The States Parties to the present Covenant, including those having responsibility for the administration of Non-Self Governing and Trust Territories, shall promote the realization of the right of self-determination, and shall respect that right, in conformity with the provisions of the United Nations. Part 2 ARTICLE 2 1. Each State Party to the present Covenant undertakes to respect and to ensure to all individuals within its territory and subject to its jurisdiction the rights recognized in the present Covenant, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.

59. Crackdown On Civil Rights; War On Freedom Crackdown on civil rights; War on Freedom Amnesty Amnesty international No Shortcutto Genuine Security; Asian South African AntiTerror Bill Draconian; Rage. http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/WarOnTerror/WarOnFreedom.asp

War on Terror Email Page to a Friend Printer-Friendly Version You are here: Home Geopolitics War on Terror Crackdown on Civil Rights; War on Freedom by Anup Shah This page: http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/WarOnTerror/WarOnFreedom.asp To print full details (expanded/alternative links, side notes, etc.) use the printer-friendly version: http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/WarOnTerror/WarOnFreedom.asp?p=1 The following articles listed below look at various aspects of the war on terror and how it has affected civil liberties and human rights, etc. Next/Previous Page Navigation « Previous Page Next Page » Other pages in this section These are the pages within this section on this web site that you can also read. War on Terror FAQs Sept 11 Reaction and in Context Mainstream Media ... New War on Terror Crackdown on Civil Rights; War on Freedom Amnesty International: Human Rights Backlash U.S. Intensifies the War of Words America's hyperreal war on terrorism Post-September 11 Corporate Stance ... More Information Site Information Links Top of Page Home About This Site Site Map Main Section Links Human Rights Geopolitics Environment Page Utilities Email A Friend About This Page View a Printer-Friendly Version by Anup Shah Created: Friday, July 26, 2002

60. Kucinich For President - Civil Liberties Haiti 313-04 international Cooperation rev. Ethnicity Issues Affirmative ActionAfrican American Issues rights Issues Animal rights civil Liberties rev. http://www.kucinich.us/issues/civilliberties.php

HOME PETITIONS KUCINICH BIO ISSUES/PLATFORM ... CONTACT US HOW TO CREATE CHANGE: Sign up for e-alerts. state AL AK AS AZ AR CA CO CT DE DC FL GA GU HI ID IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MD MA MI MN MS MO MT NE NV NH NJ NM NY NC ND OH OK OR PA PR RI SC SD TN TX UT VT VI VA WA WV WI WY SEARCH: TOLL FREE: Civil Liberties PDF Just 45 days after the September 11, 2001, attacks, President Bush rammed the "PATRIOT Act" through Congress with virtually no debate. This law poses an unprecedented threat to Americans' individual freedoms and is a violation of our civil liberties. Many provisions of the act had been long sought after by law enforcement and repeatedly rejected by Congress in the past. Without a warrant or probable cause, the FBI can now search your private medical records or access your library records. Your doctor or local library is forbidden from notifying you when these searches take place. The government may search your home while you are away and in some cases even confiscate your property. Judicial oversight of these measures is virtually nonexistent. These are only a few of the PATRIOT Act's provisions that compromise our civil liberties. I believe that the only way to stop these unconstitutional infringements on basic American freedoms is to revoke the exorbitant powers the PATRIOT Act has granted the government. I am the only presidential candidate who voted against the PATRIOT Act. As president, one of my first moves would be to repeal it.

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