[Chechnya]
[Belarus]
[Businesses and human rights]
[Trafficking]
[Russia]
[NGO's]
[Other]
[The UN system for the protection of human rights]
[Regional institutions and systems for the protection of human rights]
Moldova
IOM (International Organisation for Migration)
The International Organisation for Migration is an international intergovernmental organization. It cooperates with several different international and voluntary organizations and has a close cooperation with the UN agencies.
IOM - Projects in Moldova
Svenska Institutet
The Swedish Institute (SI) spreads knowledge about Sweden abroad and supports exchange with other countries in the areas of culture, education and research, among others.
Human Rights Watch
Reports on Moldova from Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch is a politically independent international human rights organization.
OSCE Mission to Moldova
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is an international organization working, among other things, with conflict management. By the eighth chapter of the UN charter, the OSCE is a regional organization within the UN.
Chechnya
Human Rights Watch
Reports on Chechnya from Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch is a politically independent international human rights organization.
Human Rights Watch - Briefing Paper: Worse Than a War -
”Disappearances” in Chechnya as a Crime Against Humanity
Human Rights Watch's report on disappearances in Chechnya. Since the disappearances are systematic and occur in large scale they constitute a crime against humanity, according to the report.
UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
The UN working group on disappearances.
Belarus
Human Rights Center ´Viasna´
Människorättscentret Vjasna är en vitrysk NGO som bildades
under den demokratiska oppositionens massdemonstrationer 1996.
Charter´97
Charter´97 is an oppositional human rights organization providing daily news from and about Belarus.
Human Rights Watch
Reports on Belarus from Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch is a politically independent international human rights organization.
OSCE Office in Minsk
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is an international organization working, among other things, with conflict management. By the eighth chapter of the UN charter, the OSCE is a regional organization within the UN.
Amnesty International Appeals for Action
Call for Belarus to abolish Article 193
Belarus Actions
Amnesty International's campaign for Belarus.
Vitryssland och Ukraina - två vägar i Europa
Report from a seminar on 'Belarus and the Ukraine - two roads in Europe' published in Amnesty Press.
The Olof Palme International Center
Articles on Belarus from The Palmecenter. The Olof Palme International Center is the Swedish workers movement's organization for international development cooperation and the shaping of public opinion on related issues.
Vitryssland - det fria ordet
Belarus - the free word. Collection of articles on www.vitryssland.nu.
Trafficking
OSCE - Special Representative on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is an international organization working, among other things, with conflict management. By the eighth chapter of the UN charter, the OSCE is a regional organization within the UN.
ECPAT Sweden
ECPAT Sweden is a non-profit organization working to prevent and eliminate all forms of commercial sexual exploitation of children.
Russia
Human Rights Watch - Russia
Reports on Russia from Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch is a politically independent international human rights organization.
theRussiaSite.org - Rule of Law and Legal Resources
Translation of high-profile cases and Constitutional Court rulings.
Reporters sans frontières - Russia
Reports on Russia from Reporters Without Borders. Reporters Without Borders is an international organization of journalists.
Businesses and human rights
UN Global Compact -
the UN Global Compact´s ten Principles
OHCHR (Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights) - Business and human rights
Embedding Human Rights in Business Practice II (UN Global Compact Office and OHCHR)
OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
The ILO Multinational Enterprises Programme (MULTI)
Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy
(MNE Declaration)
OECD Watch
A network of NGO:s working with the OECD guidelines for multinational corporations.
The International Council on Human Rights Policy (ICHRP)
ICHRP conducts research into human rights problems.
Beyond voluntarism - Human rights and the developing international legal obligations of companies
Social Accountability International
Social Accountability International is behind the SA 8000, an international standard for social conditions in working life built on the standards of the International Labour Organization (ILO) and UN human rights conventions.
Human Rights & Business Project
Research project started by the Confederation of Danish Industries, the Danish Institute for Human Rights, and the Danish Industrialization Fund for Developing Countries, in cooperation with the Danish Government.
Global Reporting Initiative
An organization associated to the UN, developing guidelines for sustainability reporting.
The Ethical Trading Initiative
The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) is an alliance of companies, NGOs and trade union organisations, to promote and improve the implementation of corporate codes of practice which cover supply chain working conditions.
Amnesty Business Group Sweden
Amnesty Business Group Sweden is part of the Swedish section of Amnesty International.
Fair Trade Center
Swedish organization for the promotion of fair trade.
Rättvisemärkt
Rättvisemärkt is an ethical and social branding focusing on human rights. It consists of a non-profit organization and a company.
SOMO Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
SOMO is a Dutch organization. Here you can find examples of projects in which different agents work to create responsible enterprising that are then evaluated by an independent party.
Business and HR Resource Center
The homepage of Business and Human Rights Resource Centre gathers information on businesses and human rights. The centre cooperates with Amnesty Business Group and several universities.
LO-TCO Biståndsnämnd
A collaborative organization for international trade union development cooperation comprising two members, the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) and The Swedish Confederation for Professional Employees (TCO).
Agency for Social Information
ASI is a specialist agency reflecting the interests of a third sector which comprises hundreds of thousands of non-governmental organisations (NGOs): human rights and environmental groups, charitable foundations, women's and youth groups, academic collectives, and associations for employees from the culture, heritage and education sectors.
Business and social responsibility (ASI)
ASI's work concerning business and social responsibilty
NGOs
International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
Internationella Helsingforsfederationen för mänskliga rättigheter (IHF).
Svenska Helsingforskommittén för Mänskliga Rättigheter
Swedish Helsinki Committee for Human Rights. A politically and religiously independent NGO monitoring the observance of the human rights in accordance with the Helsinki Final Act from 1975.
Memorial
A Russian Human Rights Organization.
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch is a politically independent international human rights organization.
Amnesty International
Svenska sektionen av Amnesty International
International Committee of the Red Cross
Search for information on international humanitarian law.
The UN system for the protection of human rights
Treaty Monitoring Bodies
Human Rights Committee HRC
Human Rights Committee - General Comments
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights CESCR
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - General Comments
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination CERD
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women CEDAW
CEDAW Country Reports
Committee against Torture CAT
Committee on the Rights of the Child CRC
Committee on Migrant Workers CMW
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR
Commission on Human Rights CHR
Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances WGEID
International Labour Organization ILO
Penal institutions
International Criminal Court ICC
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Regional institutions and systems for the protection of human rights
The European system
Council of Europe
Treaty Office
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
European Court of Human Rights
HUDOK - Database of the case-law of the European Convention on Human Rights
Execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
European Social Charter
European Committee of Social Rights ECSR
European Social Charter Databases
OSCE - The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
For comparisons between the different regional systems we also provide links to the Inter-American and the African systems for the protection of human rights.
The Inter-American system
Organization of American States
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Inter-American Court of Human Rights
The African system
African Charter on Human and Peoples´ Rights
African Commission on Human and Peoples´ Rights
Other
www.manskligarattigheter.gov.se
The Swedish government homepage on human rights.
Mänskliga rättigheter i svensk utrikespolitik
How Swedish foreign policy is to promote respect for human rights.
MR-forum
A portal with the purpose to spread knowledge on human rights. Event tips, news and articles, inter alia.
