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NLG Committees
Center for Democratic Communications
The Center for Democratic Communications (CDC) is an organization
devoted to protecting the right to communicate of all people. The work
of CDC focuses on the rights of all peoples to a system of media and
communications based upon the principle of democracy, and cultural and
informational self-determination.
HEED
The International Law Project for Human, Economic and Environmental
Defense (HEED) is an arm of the National Lawyers Guild in Los Angeles
dedicated to using international law to protect the fundamental rights
of present and future generations of human beings and the biosphere.
National Police Accountability
Project
The National Police Accountability Project is dedicated to curtailing
police abuse of authority through coordinated legal action, public
education and support for grassroots and victims' organizations
combating police misconduct.
Sugar Law Center for Economic
Justice
The Sugar Law Center is a national public interest political legal
litigation center.
Immigration
ACLU Immigrants'
Rights Page
The Immigrants' Rights Project (IRP) of the American Civil Liberties
Union works to defend the civil and constitutional rights of
immigrants through a comprehensive program of impact litigation and
public education. The IRP files constitutional and class action
lawsuits protecting the historic guarantee to judicial review,
enforcing fair employment practices, and maintaining constitutional
safeguards against detention practices and biased asylum adjudication.
American Bar Association (ABA) Immigration Pro Bono Development
Project
The ABA Immigration Pro Bono Development Project/Bar Activation
Program has worked to promote immigrants' equal access to our justice
system. To this end the Project works to institutionalize, within the
national, state, and local bar, the unmet legal needs of immigrants,
refugees, and newcomers by awarding grants to bar-sponsored programs
to create or expand immigration pro bono programs.
American Immigration Law Foundation
(AILF)
AILF was established in 1987 as a tax-exempt, not-for-profit
educational, charitable organization. The Foundation is dedicated to
increasing public understanding of immigration law and policy and the
value of immigration to American society; to promoting public service
and excellence in the practice of immigration law; and to advancing
fundamental fairness and due process under the law for immigrants.
Working closely with leading immigration experts throughout the
country, AILF has established four core program areas: Legal Action
Center; Immigration Policy Center; Public Education Program; and
Exchange Visitor Program.
American Immigration Lawyers
Association (AILA)
AILA is a national bar association of over 6,700 attorneys who
practice and teach immigration law. Working closely with leading
immigration experts throughout the country, American Immigration Law
Foundation has established three core program areas: the Legal Action
Center, the Public Education Program, and an Exchange Visitor Program.
Through these programs, the Foundation sponsors numerous awards
programs, publishes policy reports, engages in impact litigation, and
provides policymakers and the public with complete and accurate
information about the benefits of immigration.
asylumlaw.org
asylumlaw.org was founded on March 1, 1999 with the sole purpose of
using the Internet to help lawyers worldwide prepare the best asylum
cases they can.
Catholic Legal Immigration
Network (CLINIC)
CLINIC operates as a legal support agency for a rapidly growing
national network of Catholic immigration programs. Beyond its menu of
trainings and technical support services to member agencies, CLINIC
organizes national programs for particularly needy populations and
directly represents vulnerable groups that its local partner agencies
cannot. The work of CLINIC and its network focuses on the most
vulnerable, such as INS detainees, refugees, asylum-seekers, families
in need of reunification, and victims of trafficking and domestic
violence.
The Center for Gender and
Refugee Studies
Part of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at the
University of California, Hastings College of the Law, the Center for
Gender and Refugee Studies seeks to enhance the protection of women's
human rights by providing expertise and resources in the cases of
women asylum seekers. The Center provides expertise to representatives
handling the claims of women asylum seekers, and seeks to educate
decision makers on relevant legal and factual norms and to contribute
to the formulation of national and international policy and practice.
Families for Freedom
Advocacy & deportation defense resources for directly effected
noncitizens & their families.
Immigrant Legal Resource Center
(ILRC)
ILRC staff attorneys provide onsite and telephone consultation,
training workshops and seminars, and educational curricula on
immigration issues to pro-bono attorneys and nonprofit agencies
serving immigrants throughout the United States. ILRC also offers
litigation support in select cases, including representing clients,
filing amicus briefs, serving as expert witnesses, and providing
analysis of rules and laws, both proposed and enacted.
Immigration Policy
Center (IPC) of the American Immigration Law Foundation
The IPC Web site contains a wealth of information about current
immigration trends including, self-published reports, current
statistics, legal updates, recent media coverage of immigration
issues, public education materials and more.
Indian American Center for
Political Awareness (IACPA)
IACPA is a national, professionally staffed organization dedicated to
serving the South Asian American community in the United States. Our
mission is the improvement of American democracy through the
development of active citizen-leaders.
Lesbian and Gay
Immigration Rights Task Force
Lesbian and Gay Immigration Rights Task Force is a volunteer
organization dedicated to providing information, support and a variety
of resources to gays and lesbians with immigration concerns.
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS)
"In response to God's love in Christ, we welcome the stranger, bringing
new hope and new life through ministries of service and justice. Our
work is a ministry. We are called as Lutheran Christians and others of
goodwill, to show love for God and neighbor by caring for and walking
with uprooted people."
National Immigrant Justice
Center
The National Immigrant Justice Center (formerly the Midwest Immigrant
& Human Rights Center) ensures human rights protections and access to
justice for immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers through direct
legal services, policy reform, impact litigation, and public
education. NIJC is a program of Heartland Alliance for Human Needs &
Human Rights, an anti-poverty, human rights organization that provides
housing, health care, and human services to improve the lives of
impoverished Chicagoans.
National Immigration Legal Center (NILC)
NILC is a national support center whose mission is to protect and
promote the rights and opportunities of low income immigrants and
their family members. NILC staff specialize in immigration law, and
the employment and public benefits rights of immigrants. The Center
conducts policy analysis and impact litigation and provides
publications, technical advice, and trainings to a broad constituency
of legal aid agencies, community groups, and pro bono attorneys.
National Immigration Forum
The purpose of the National Immigration Forum is to embrace and uphold
America's tradition as a nation of immigrants. Employing an effective
combination of advocacy, media work, targeted research, and public
education, the Forum provides accurate, reliable data to our nation's
policy makers, the press, and the public about the invaluable
contributions of newcomers to our multi-ethnic society.
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR)
NNIRR is a national organization composed of local coalitions and
immigrant, refugee, community, religious, civil rights and labor
organizations and activists. It serves as a forum to share information
and analysis, to educate communities and the general public, and to
develop and coordinate plans of action on important immigrant and
refugee issues.
New York
State Defenders Association - Immigrant Defense Project (IDP)
IDP promotes a transformation of the criminal justice and immigration
systems so that they do not result in the exile of immigrants from
their homes and families in the United States. The agency also seeks
to minimize deportation and detention under current laws for
immigrants facing criminal charges or subsequent deportation. The IDP
serves as a legal resource and training center for criminal defense
attorneys, criminal justice and immigrant advocates, and immigrants
fighting against deportation and detention; supports community-based
advocacy against unjust immigration laws and their aggressive
enforcement; and promotes immigrant-protective impact litigation
results by recruiting and mentoring pro bono attorneys to provide
legal assistance to immigrants challenging their detention or removal
order in federal court.
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Domestic
Violence and Immigrants
ASISTA
ASISTA is a collaboration between four nationally-recognized legal
experts who work to provide comprehensive and cutting-edge technical
assistance on the intersection between immigration and domestic
violence law. Its purpose is to centralize, enhance and expand
immigration assistance to frontline advocates and attorneys who
provide legal assistance to immigrant victims.
Battered Women's Justice Project
(BWJP)
Part of the Domestic Violence Resource Network, BWJP is a federal
Office on Violence Against Women-funded technical assistance center on
domestic violence. The Project offers training, technical assistance,
and consultation on the most promising practices of the criminal
justice system in addressing domestic violence. The BWJP Web site
contains a searchable resource database for attorneys, judges, and
other justice system personnel dealing with domestic violence cases –
including immigration (such as a recently published toolkit that
provides guidance on domestic violence and immigration).
Family Violence Prevention Fund
(FVFP)
FVFP is a national non-profit organization dedicated to the
elimination (prevention) of domestic violence. The goal of FVPF is to
create a society where domestic violence is not acceptable, tolerated,
nor excused. To achieve this goal, FVPF is committed to mobilizing
concerned individuals, allied professionals, women's rights, civil
rights, and other social justice organizations, and children's groups
to join the campaign to end domestic violence against all women and
children through public education/prevention campaigns, public policy
reform, model training, advocacy programs, and organizing.
National Network to
End Violence Against Immigrant Women
The National Network to End Violence Against Immigrant Women is a
coalition of survivors, immigrant women, advocates, activists,
attorneys, educators and other professionals committed to ending
violence against immigrant women by: working with diverse immigrant
communities to prevent violence against women; building capacity for
immigrant women to become leaders against all forms of violence;
promoting an understanding of the complex realities of immigrant women
facing violence; providing technical and training support to service
providers, attorneys, community advocates, and other professionals
(both governmental and non-governmental) working with immigrant women
at the local, state, federal, and international levels; Increasing
public awareness, education, and understanding of issues around
violence against women, and in particular, immigrant women; promoting
law and public policy reforms at the local, state, and national levels
that benefit immigrant women facing violence; and sharing best
practices throughout the network locally, nationally, and globally.
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Human
Rights
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works
to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights and other international standards.
Center for
Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
The Washington College of Law (WCL) has a long commitment to human
rights and to the rule of law internationally. Established in 1990,
the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law serves to coordinate
many of WCL's human rights efforts.
DIANA International Human
Rights Database
This site is designed to be a reference tool for research in human
rights law, with online litigation documents and links to reference
sites throughout the Internet.
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of
people around the world. HRW stands with victims and activists to
prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people
from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice.
HRW investigates and exposes human rights violations and holds abusers
accountable. HRW challenges governments and those who hold power to
end abusive practices and respect international human rights law. HRW
enlists the public and the international community to support the
cause of human rights for all.
Index on
Censorship
Index on Censorship, the bi-monthly magazine for free speech, widens
the debates on freedom of expression with some of the world's best
writers. Through interviews, reportage, banned literature and polemic,
Index shows how free speech affects the issues of the moment.
International Gay & Lesbian Human
Rights Commission
Every day, in countries throughout the world, the fundamental human
rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgendered people, and
people with HIV and AIDS are violated. These abuses include: murder;
incarceration; forced psychiatric "treatment"; torture; arbitrary
arrest and detention; denial of the freedoms of association, press,
and movement; denial of the right to seek refuge/asylum; immigration
restrictions; forced marriage; the revocation of parental rights; and
numerous other forms of discrimination. IGLHRC's mission is to protect
and advance the human rights of all people and communities subject to
discrimination or abuse on the basis of sexual orientation, gender
identity or HIV status.
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
Since 1978, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights has worked to
protect and promote fundamental human rights. Its work is impartial,
holding all governments accountable to the standards affirmed in the
International Bill of Human Rights. Its programs focus on building the
legal institutions and structures that will guarantee human rights in
the long term. Strengthening independent human rights advocacy at the
local level is a key feature of its work.
Library of
Congress - Country Studies/Area Handbook Program
This website contains the on-line versions of books previously
published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library
of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored
by the U.S. Department of Army. At present, 101 countries and regions
are covered.
University of Minnesota Human
Rights Library
Links to more than 6500 human rights documents and materials.
World Organization Against
Torture USA
The World Organization Against Torture USA is a non-profit human
rights monitoring, reporting and advocacy group, and a U.S. affiliate
of the international World Organization Against Torture (OMCT),
a worldwide network of over 200 human rights organizations, each
focusing attention on their own government's compliance with
international human rights standards, and a member of the SOS Torture
Network, an electronic information clearinghouse circulating case
alerts involving major torture related abuses worldwide.
Resource Center of the Americas
The Resource Center of the Americas, the Minneapolis-based nonprofit
publisher of AMERICAS.ORG, is devoted to the notion that every person
in this world is entitled to the same fundamental human rights. Our
starting point for promoting these rights is learning and teaching
about the peoples and countries of the Americas—their history, culture
and politics. We focus especially on the global economy, a system in
which a minority flourishes while millions of people lack adequate
food, shelter and employment.
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U.S. GOVERNMENT
Department of Homeland
Security
Executive Office for Immigration
Review
Department of State -
Bureau of Consular Affairs
Department of State - Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
THOMAS -- U.S. Congress
Legislative Information
Government Printing
Office - Superintendent of Documents
FedWorld Information Network
MISCELLANEOUS
ETHNOMED
Ethnomed is a website containing medical and cultural information on
immigrant and refugee groups.
Migration News
The purpose of Migration News is to provide a monthly summary of
recent immigration developments that can be read in 60 minutes or
less. Many issues also contain summaries and reviews of recent
research publications.
National Center for Health Statistics: How to Obtain U.S. Birth,
Death, Marriage and Divorce Certificates
Public Counsel
Public Counsel is the largest pro bono law office in the nation. It is
the public interest law firm of the Los Angeles County and Beverly
Hills Bar Associations, as well as the Southern California affiliate
of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
The Impact Fund
The Impact Fund is the only foundation dedicated to providing funding
and technical assistance and representation for complex public
interest litigation in the areas of civil and human rights,
environmental justice and poverty law.
Ue (UNITED
ELECTRICAl)
"UE" is the abbreviation for United Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers of America, a democratic national union representing some
35,000 workers in a wide variety of manufacturing, public sector and
private non-profit sector jobs. UE is an independent union (not
affiliated with the AFL-CIO) proud of its democratic structure and
progressive policies.
Federal Courts Finder
(Emory Law Library)
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