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News reports on press freedom.
http://www.dfn.org/_currentevents/africa.html
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African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights
Research project that aims at legally analyzing the basic tenets of the African Charter on Human
and Peoples' Rights. Includes background information, bibliography and links.
http://www.diplomacy.edu/africancharter/
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Human Rights and Governance in Africa
Columbia University African Studies link list.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/IORights.html
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Amnesty International
Recent AI Publications on Africa.
http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/REGIONS/AFRICA?OpenView&Start=1&Count=30&Expand=1&ft=S
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Centre for Democracy and Development
A non-profit, non governmental, institution dedicated to policy-oriented scholarship on questions
of democratic development and peace-building in West Africa. Site includes press releases, strategy
statement, current projects and publications, and partner organizations.
http://www.cdd.org.uk/
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Richard Knight - Africa
Documents on human rights and economic justice.
http://richardknight.homestead.com/
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Amnesty International Report 1999: Africa Index Page
Summary of concern with links to country reports.
http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/ar99/afr.htm
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Article 19: Africa publications
Range from short updates on country situations to full reports on the freedom of expression
situation in the region.
http://www.article19.org/homepage.asp?AreaID=31&SubAreaID=46&PageID=47
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Article 19: Africa Programme
The Africa Programme staff are based in London and Johannesburg and their current programme of work
takes in freedom of information (Nigeria), truth commissions (Sierra Leone) and media monitoring
(Zimbabwe, Malawi), as well as reporting and campaigning widely on general freedom of expression
issues in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia,
South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Zanzibar.
http://www.article19.org/Homepage.asp?AreaID=31&SubAreaID=46
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Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa
A non-profit, non-governmental pan-African organisation founded to advance respect for human rights
in Africa through the use of international law.
http://www.africaninstitute.org/
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The Africa Fund
Works for a positive U.S. policy towards Africa and supports human rights, democracy and
development.
http://africafund.prairienet.org/
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Human Rights in Africa
Reports and information.
http://www.derechos.org/human-rights/afr/
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Green Charter International
Green Charter International is an African International Human Rights Organisation based on the
Great Green Charter for Human Rights and Freedoms. Green Charter International works to propagate
knowledge of, and campaigns for, these advanced rights and freedoms.
http://mathaba.net/gci/
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African Human Rights Resource Center
The Peace Resource Center contains a large collection of international human rights treaties,
instruments, general comments, recommendations, decisions, and views of treaty bodies; other U.N.
human rights materials, with an emphasis on peace and war related materials.
http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/africa/
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African Rights
Working for Justice - Africa's problems seen from an African perspective.
http://www.unimondo.org/AfricanRights/
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Hopes on the Horizon: The Rise of a New Africa
Companion site to the PBS documentary film of the same name. Explores the rise of pro-democracy
movements in six African countries --Mozambique, Morocco, Benin, Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa
-- during the 1990s.
http://www.pbs.org/hopes/
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