Organization based in Washington, DC. working to change U.S. foreign policy and the policies of international institutions in order to support African struggles for peace and development.

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.

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.

Recent AI Publications on Africa.

Summary of concern with links to country reports.

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.

Range from short updates on country situations to full reports on the freedom of expression situation in the region.

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.

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.

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.

Columbia University African Studies link list.

Reports and information.

A non-profit, non-governmental pan-African organisation founded to advance respect for human rights in Africa through the use of international law.

Documents on human rights and economic justice.