REFUGEE LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
LINKS FOR COUNTRY RESEARCH
Africa
all Africa.com is a
well-organized site of up to date news reports on Africa, listed by region and country. This is the descendant of Africa Online.
Africa Online Taken over the name, but not as good as the original. A news site.
Somalia
Nomad Net A much slimmer site than 10 years ago, it does have some links to current news about Somalia.
Ethiopia First is a web site with links
to news reports on Ethiopia.
SIERRA LEONE WEB Not much here, but in addition to some useful proverbs, it does provide some links to current sources.
Asian Human Rights Reports:
Current human
rights reports on Asian nations, including South-East Asia. Often has current reports on Sri Lanka.
Human Rights in China> Human Rights in China web site.
British Refugee Council Refugee
Council: a very good source of
human rights and news reports on Sri Lanka, as well as on the treatment of
Tamil refugees in Europe. The site
now only includes reports up to 2004.
Tamil Week:The site includes of the latest articles on Sri Lanka and links to editorial
stories with a neutral stand, it covers links to a wide range of news (from
the entire political spectrum) and human rights sources, and is updated
every hour.
Tamil Canadian:Although the site includes links to editorial
stories with a pro-LTTE slant, it covers links to a wide range of news (from
the entire political spectrum) and human rights sources, and is updated
daily.
Tamil Net:
Often the first source to report on conditions affecting Tamils in Sri Lanka. Known as pro-LTTE site.
Lanka Web Links to some news articles.
Human Rights in Sri Lanka
has a number of links, some of which even work, to sources on Sri Lanka.
Peace Brigades International At first glance dated, frozen in 1998, the Sri Lankan Links on the left side of the page do lead to some current sources, including Sri Lankan newspapers.
Haaretz/ Frequently updated news about Israel, and offers a range of opinion.
The Karachi newspaper Dawn has news from Pakistan in a well-designed web-site.
General
Peru & Shining Path (Generously provided by Lina Anani, M.A., LL.B.).
Part 1
Part 2
Latin American Network Information Centre -dated, but kept here because some of the links to human rights sites are worthwhile -reports and news items on various latin american countries, organized by a university of texas professor. -good links to south american and mexican human rights sites (but no descritpion of sites, which vary in quality)
Mexican news is available to speakers
of Spanish in the website of the left-of-centre Mexico City Daily, La
Jornada. It contains a searchable archive--in Spanish, of course!
Links to Cuban opposition and human rights sites
Transitions Online is an improving source for analyses of events in Eastern Europe, including the European portion of the former USSR.
The European Roma Rights Center is a good place to start your research on issues concerning Roma clients. It has both current and historical information.