The United Nations	The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights offers a webpage on education aiding the belief that "human rights can only be achieved through an informed and continued demand by people for their protection." http://www.ohchr.org/english/issues/education/training/ The Universal Declaration of Human Rights Read the Declaration                                                 http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html Also available in over 300 languages                                           http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/ Learn about Eleanor Roosevelt's contribution                               http://www.nps.gov/elro/teach-er-vk/lesson-plans/er-and-udhr.htm Human Rights Education Decade:  Read the document establishing the Human Rights Education Decade. http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/48/a48r127.htm Learn about the inspiration behind the postal stamp design. http://www.un.org/Depts/UNPA/aboutissues/index.html UN Online Resources Learn more about the following resources through our United Nations webpage! http://www.library.uiuc.edu/doc/inter/un/main.htm United Nations Bibliographic Information System (UNBIS)                              http://unbisnet.un.org AccessUN (available through UIUC Online Reference Resources)                                          http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/results.php?instid=247950 AccessUN Tutorial                       http://www.library.uiuc.edu/doc/newpages/accessun/tutindex.html United Nations Treaty Collection--available through UIUC Online Reference Resources http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/results.php?instid=258296 Preview upcoming resources... UN Comtrade                                                           http://unstats.un.org/unsd/comtrade/default.aspx Monthly Bulletin                                                                 http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mbs/
U.S. and State Governments	U.S. Department of State Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2003: The State Department's annual report presents human rights conditions throughout the world. http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/index.htm U.S. Record on Supporting Human Rights and Democracy (2003-2004) http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/shrd/2003/ The U.S. Department of State, International Information Programs offers this webpage of human rights education information.    http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/0302/ijde/ijde0302.htm United States Agency for International Development (USAID) provides foreign assistance including human rights activities.     http://www.usaid.gov/ The Illinois Department of Human Rights offers the Illinois Human Rights Act in full text along with information on how to file discrimination charges.                                      http://www.state.il.us/dhr/ The Minnesota Department of Human Rights will host a "Human Rights Day and Forum" this December.                                                        http://www.humanrights.state.mn.us/events_hrday.html
Additional Sources	Amnesty International is the largest independent human rights organization in the world. http://www.amnesty.org Human Rights Watch:  This site is one of the most comprehensive resources for human rights information on the web.                                                                                  http://www.hrw.org/ Bibliographies The U.S. Department of State offers this annotated bibliography of human rights education sources http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/0302/ijde/0302bib.htm Also from the U.S. Department of State, an annotated listing of internet sites on human rights education                                                      http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/0302/ijde/websites.htm The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library offers links to a wealth of information including human rights education.                                                                                        http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/ The Maine State Library offers an annotated listing of human rights videos. http://www.maine.gov/msl/libs/media/subjects/humanr.htm The Human Rights Video Project: listing of films                                                            http://www.humanrightsproject.org/content.php?sec=video bibliography                                                                                                http://www.humanrightsproject.org/content.php?sec=resource&sub=bibliography list of human rights organizations by issue                                                              http://www.humanrightsproject.org/content.php?sec=resource&sub=organization Teaching Guides The ALAN Review (a publication of The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents) offers this guide to "Using the World Wide Web to Teach Human Rights." http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/spring00/ariew.html The National Park Service--Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site offers this guide to "Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:  A Lesson Plan for Middle and Upper Grades."     http://www.nps.gov/elro/teach-er-vk/lesson-plans/er-and-udhr.htm