Women's Human Rights Resources Database

This database lists hundreds of resources -- articles, documents and links -- related to international women's rights law and Canadian women's rights law. Annotations describe the content of each resource. Users can search by keyword and author as well as browse by women's rights topic. Full-text documents or links to full-text documents are provided where available.
Search Results for content type Link categorized with Race and Gender
Committe on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination , Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
This section of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) web site provides links to the documents for the sessions of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), which includes the State parties' reports to CERD and the Committee's concluding observations in response to the reports. The documents are available in English, French and Spanish. In addition, there are links to the biographies of elected members of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination on January 14, 2004, an introduction to the CERD, CERD thematic discussions, notes on CERD sessions, information on individual complaints to CERD, press releases, and the treaty body database.

 

The People's Movement for Human Rights Education , People's Decade for Human Rights Education
This web site provides information on 23 different human rights issues. The stated goal of this site is to illustrate "the universality, indivisibility, and interconnectedness of human rights." Under each topic issue, the site provides a brief definition of the specific human right and details the related rights including excerpts from the relevant international conventions and documents. The site also includes government obligations and commitments for each human rights issue. Relevant pages include the Human Right to Freedom from Discrimination, the Human Rights of Ethnic Minorities, the Human Rights of Minorities, the Human Right to Freedom from Racial Discrimination, and the Human Rights of Women.

 

Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance , United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
This is a series of United Nations Resolutions and Reports about racism, xenophobia and related intolerances. This page also links to other important United Nations documents concerning this subject. The materials are also available in French and Spanish.