**Note** This site is terrible incomplete. Eventually this page will have information about Human Rights in the US, Canada and island nations in North America

Human Rights in the
United States of America

The United States has a less-than-optimal record in the protection of human rights. The problems in this country are many, racial and other discrimination, threats to freedom of expression and individual liberties, deteriorating prison conditions, lack of respect to economic rights are just a few. You can find more information about human rights in the US at the sites below

Shielded From Justice HRW Report on Police Brutality in the US

American Civil Liberties Union

NAACP

The African American Holocaust - pictures

Electronic Fronteir Foundation - Privacy Rights on the Internet

The Inter-Faith Alliance - Working for religious freedom in the US.

Individual Rights & Responsibilities

US report required by the ICCPR

Center for Economic and Social Rights

National Security Archives

Refugee/Immigrant Rights Coalition - of Rio Grande

Contacting US Congress

Freedom of Information Act Info on what it is and how to file one

U.S. Civil Liberties and Human Rights Resources

Cop Watch

Coos County Coalition for Human Rights - Group working on Coos County, Oregon

US State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Affairs

Southern Center for Human Rights

Crimes Against Humanity During The Gulf War

Equal Justice USA

Human Rights in Canada

Just a collection of links - if that- until this page is actually built

Coalition On Human Rights In Alberta

Human Rights Research and Education Center - at the University of Ottowa

Department of the Solicitor General

Ontario Black Anti-Racist Research Institute
"Virtual organization made up of equality seeking and human rights litigants, researchers and policy makers".

Canadian Laywers Association for International Human Rights

Canadian Human Rights Reporter