Pakistan: Honour Killings of Girls and Women
A recent and detailed survey of "honour" killings in Pakistan, by Amnesty International.

Honor Killing: The Murder of Samia Sarwar
A page of materials on the April 1999 "honour" killing of Samia Sarwar in Lahore, Pakistan, compiled by Saxacali.com.

Violence Against Women in the Name of Honor
A fine overview of "honour" killings in Pakistan, prepared by CrescentLife.com.

Manavi
"Manavi ... is a community based organization for women who trace their cultural heritage to Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Manavi's goal is to increase awareness of women's rights in society and encourage social change to end all violence against them."

The Jordanian National Committee for Women
Website of the government-affiliated organization that has done much to raise consciousness about "honour" killings and other forms of violence against Jordanian women.

National Jordanian Campaign to Eliminate
the So-Called "Crimes of Honour"
A statement by "a group of Jordanian citizens who have no personal, political, or racial interests, but are gathered with [the] one unifying issue" of "honour" killings of women.

Crimes of Honour
An overview of the powerful video documentary on "honour" killings, concentrating on Jordan and the West Bank (Palestine). "A scorcher... a heartscalding expose of blithe murder." - Critical List.

Alliance in Memory of Victims of the Nanjing Massacre
"Our organization has as it aims: to promote memorial services in Nanjing and cities around the world ... to encourage related research, including interviewing survivors, collecting books, bibliographies and original material about the Nanjing Massacre ... to publicize the tragedy and the memory of its victims, especially in the Western world. ... [and] to take concrete actions or steps to achieve the purpose of justice."

WWW Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre
Site devoted to the memorial project constructed on the bank of the Yangtze (Changjiang) River, where Chinese men were killed by the tens of thousands.

The Nanking Atrocities
"An impressive collection of source materials, including numerous photographs and video clips, supports this well-researched site ..." Constructed by Masato Kajimoto.

Nanking.org
Web memorial commemorating the victims of the massacre.

Japanese Imperialism and the Massacre in Nanjing
An English translation of a classified Chinese document on the Nanjing Massacre. Extensive and detailed. Written by Gao Xingzu, Wu Shimin, Hu Yungong, & Cha Ruizhen.

The Nanking Massacre
An introduction and overview, with links, compiled by Dan Reeves.

Japanese War Crimes
Focuses on Japanese atrocities in China and elsewhere during the Second World War, with links to other resources.

Bamboo Shoots
"A new digest of comment on Japanese war crimes and their consequences."

TimorNet
An excellent collection of Timor links compiled by the University of Coimbra in Portugal. Includes up-to-date news coverage.

East Timor Action Network (ETAN)
A link to the largest East Timor activist group, a member of the International Federation for East Timor. Includes news reports and urgent-action bulletins. Link also to the Canadian office of the East Timor Alert Network.

"East Timor's Struggle for Independence"
A useful collection of essays and articles compiled by Znet. Includes a feature by Gendercide Watch executive director Adam Jones, "East Timor: Where Are the People?".

East Timor
A well-organized collection of links to news reports and primary documents, compiled by the Asia Observer.

East Timor Press
"The official site for East Timorese Independent Print News Media," based in Australia. Includes current and past editions of The Timor Post.

Gender-Selective Atrocities in East Timor
An exhaustive compilation of news reports from September-December 1999, highlighting the numerous accounts of gender-selective killings of Timorese males. Compiled by Gendercide Watch executive director Adam Jones.

The Struggle for East Timor
"A relatively painless primer on the history of the conflict in East Timor," prepared by Jeffrey Benner for Mother Jones.

East Timor News
A fine and up-to-date collection of links and news reports, compiled by the WorldNews Network.

East Timor Index Page
Links on genocide in East Timor compiled by Dr. Stuart Stein of the University of the West of England.

Indonesia (the Republic of) and East Timor
A collection of links to Amnesty International publications, bulletins, and news releases on Indonesia and East Timor from 1996 to the present.

War Resisters International
British-based organization founded in 1921. "War Resisters' International is a network of pacifists and nonviolent activists on every continent, who work on national, regional and international levels, as well as in local communities, to end war and the causes of war. ... We build support campaigns for individual objectors and anti-war groups that come under attack for standing up for their beliefs. And we promote active nonviolent strategies for transforming militaristic societies."

The Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
Based in the U.S. "The Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO) was founded in 1948 to protect and promote the rights of conscientious objectors to war. Our long term goals include demilitarizing our schools and communities, improving conditions for military personnel who come to realize their objections to war, and eliminating the Selective Service System. CCCO's counselor network has helped tens of thousands act on their consciences by refusing to participate in war and preparation for war."

The Religious Society of Friends
Home page of the Quakers, the religious group that has most consistently and passionately opposed all forms of war and conscription.

The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
"The National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee (NWTRCC) is a coalition of groups from across the U.S., formed in 1982 to provide information and support to people involved in or considering some form of war tax resistance (WTR)."

Anti-Conscription Links
An excellent collection of links to anti-conscription organizations and related resources. Includes a wide array of country-specific links.

Stop Conscription in Europe Now!
"We demand the abolition of conscription in all European countries! The campaign is open for any organization or individual to join." Includes links and contact information for anti-conscription organizations in Germany, Hungary, Italy, Russia, Turkey, and Yugoslavia. Also calls for "International Protection for Deserters."

Anti-Conscription Radical Initiative
"An initiative for the abolition of conscription, compulsory military and civilian service in the Czech Republic and, within the framework of international co-operation, all around the world. ... The goal is the total abolition of conscription and other forms of forced service under whatever situation." Also maintains an international anti-conscription mailing list.

Né Giusta Né Utile (Neither Fair Nor Useful)
Italian-based initiative (the link is to the English version of their homepage). "Every year over 250 thousand young men are forced to give up 10 months of their life in order to offer a service that our Movement considers unfair and useless, if not harmful. It is not fair because we believe the State must not arbitrarily and systematically oblige its citizens to go into a service, armed or not, against their will. ... The present conscription system is not even useful, if it has ever been, because a conscript army does certainly not respond to today's defense needs; neither can it be useful to society as a whole to exploit the underpaid and mandatory objectors' work, forcing them to delay their careers."

Stop Conscription in Taiwan!
"Males of Taiwan are not born free men! ... As of now, men aged 18 to 40 are liable (TW5A: A3) for 22-month military service (TW5A: A16-1-1), or 26-month alternative service if approved. Conscientious objectors with religious training and belief for at least 2 years serve 33-month alternative service. Conviction, or failure to respond to a draft notice, carries imprisonment of up to 5 years. ... Why do so many countries conscript males but not females? It should be due to traditional belief rather than physical differences."

The Military Service and Conscription Law Page
A fine page of background information on the history and current status of conscription worldwide.

The Emma Goldman Papers
A 1917 speech against conscription by the great American anarchist, jailed and finally exiled for her opposition to conscription policies in World War I.

The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
"The Coalition's primary objectives are: The adoption of, and adherence to, an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child prohibiting the military recruitment and use in hostilities of any person younger than 18 years of age, and the recognition and enforcement of this standard by all armed forces and groups, both governmental and non-governmental."

Soviet POWs: Photo Album
A collection of images of life and death in the Soviet POW camps, prepared by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

Operation Barbarossa
An overview of the Nazi invasion of Russia and the subsequent course of the war on the eastern front, the greatest military conflict in history.

ABC Federation
"This web site is designed for the purposes of informing the Internet community about political prisoners and prisoners of war, the movement for their freedom and the activities, directives and structure of the Anarchist Black Cross Federation (ABCF), which organizes programs and events for the material and political support of those prisoners."

Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
The full text of the convention, adopted on August 12, 1949, by the Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of International Conventions for the Protection of Victims of War.

Russian-American Joint Commission
on Prisoners of War and Missing in Action
"In 1992, the Russian and American Presidents established a joint commission to search for former Soviet and American servicemen who had been taken prisoner or reported missing in action in the period from World War II to the present day."

Yad Vashem
The home page of the Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem.

Museum of Tolerance:
Multimedia Learning Center
Created by the Simon Wiesenthal Center: "A comprehensive resource on the Holocaust and World War II, with over 3,000 text files, and tens of thousands of photos."

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
"An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, and literature."

The Holocaust History Project
"The Holocaust History Project is a free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial."

Holocaust / Shoah Educational Projects and Resources
A page of links created by David Dickerson.

Academic Info: Holocaust Studies
"An annotated directory of Internet resources."

Search Academic Info

Cybrary of the Holocaust
"As time passes, memory fades. The Cybrary of the Holocaust uses art, discussion groups, photos, poems, and a wealth of facts to preserve powerful memories and to educate scholars and newcomers alike about the Holocaust."

Women and the Holocaust
Prepared by Judy Cohen: "Dedicated to all those women who were murdered while pregnant. Holding little hands of children or carrying infants in their arms on the way to be gassed. In hiding. ... Or as fighters in the resistance: in ghettos, forests, partisan units. And to the lives of those few who survived and bravely carried on."

Court TV: A Look Back at Nuremberg
An excellent collection of materials on the Nuremberg war-crimes trials, including court transcripts.

Stalin's Purges

Stalin, Joseph
An overview of Stalin's life and crimes, assembled by Discovery Channel School and written by Albert Marrin, Chairman, Department of History, Yeshiva College.

Soviet History - Stalin's Era
A fine collection of links and resources on Stalin's rule, prepared by the Slavic Research Center at Hokkaido University, Japan.

J.V. Stalin Internet Library
An extensive collection of Stalin's speeches, compiled by Marx2Mao.org.

Stalin: The Red Tsar
A brief biographical overview of Stalin, prepared by About.com.

The Purge
A good short overview of Stalin's purges in lecture form, by Prof. Gerhard Rempel of Western New England College.

And They All Confessed ...
Another overview of the purge and "show trials," by the Swedish historian Gudrun Persson; illustrated.

The Moscow Trials
A Trotskyist critique of the trials, written by Rob Sewell and originally published in Socialist Appeal.

Charter of the Cyber-USSR
A collection of links and resources, often hysterically funny (!), on the Soviet era, with an emphasis on the Stalin years. Project coordinated by Hugo S. Cunningham.

Section 58, Criminal Code of the RSFSR (1934)
The full text of the infamous "Counterrevolutionary Crimes" section of the Soviet penal code that was used to condemn hundreds of thousands to death and millions more to incarceration.

Report of Court Proceedings:
The Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre
The transcript, in English, of one of the key "show trials" of the purge period (in 1936).

N.I. Bukharin's Last Plea
The text of the address delivered by Bukharin, one of Stalin's key rivals, at the conclusion of his 1938 trial ("The Case of the Anti-Soviet Bloc of Rightists and Trotskyites").

How Many Died? A Summary of Stalin's Victims
An evaluation of the scale of Stalin's holocaust, written by Jonathan DeMersseman.

Genocide and Conflict in Kosovo
A superb collection of links and resources compiled by Dr. Stuart Stein.

Kosovo Conflict Retrospective
A collection of Web resources for teaching on Kosovo, compiled by TeachersFirst.

Kosovo / Kosova: As Seen, As Told
Prepared by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE): the full text of a comprehensive 1999 report on Serb atrocities in Kosovo, with unusually detailed attention to gender issues.

Kosovo: Autonomy, Colonization, Genocide
A July 1999 report by the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights.

Kosovo: Focus on Human Rights
The index page for reports on Kosovo by Human Rights Watch, which consistently provided the most detailed and timely reports on atrocities by Serbs (and others) in the territory.

The International Labour Organization
The homepage of the pre-eminent international organization for labour standards and practices. Includes the "Forced Labour Convention, 1930", the full text of the ILO's key document limiting the legal imposition of forced labour to "adult able-bodied males."

The Fair Labour Association
"A non-profit organization established to protect the rights of workers in the United States and worldwide ... made up of consumer, human and labor rights groups." Opposes all forms of "forced labor, whether in the form of prison labor, indentured labor, bonded labor or otherwise."

That Magnificent African Cake:
Exhibit on the Belgian Congo
A wryly-titled gallery of photographs and illustrations of the Congo "rubber terror," compiled by Jennifer Brainard of HistoryWiz.

The Butcher of Congo
A profile of Belgium's King Leopold, architect of the genocidal "rubber terror," written by Baffour Ankomah and published in New African (October 1999.)

Heart of Darkness: Leopold's Congo
A collection of fascinating turn-of-the-century articles from The New York Times about King Leopold and the contemporary accusations of Belgian cruelty in the Congo. Includes links to Times reviews of Adam Hochschild's book King Leopold's Ghost.

Congo's Forgotten Holocaust
An article about the "rubber terror" by Stephen Bates in the Daily Mail & Guardian (South Africa).

Reforming the Heart of Darkness:
The Congo Reform Movement in England and the United States
An excellent collection of links on the reform movement that succeeded in stemming the tide of atrocities in the Congo. Includes a link to the complete text of Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness.

Histoire de la Colonisation Belge du Congo
"A site by Patrick Cloos of Belgium designed to create reflection among Belgians and Congolese about the history of King Leopold's and Belgium's colonization of the Congo."

Forced Labor Camps Under Communism
A good, brief summary of the forced-labour system in Stalin's USSR.

Photos: Forced Labour
A powerful gallery of photographs of Jewish forced labourers under the Nazi terror. Part of A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust.

Japan's War Crime
A good collection of links on Japan's use of forced labour during World War II, focusing on the "comfort women" issue. Compiled by the Korean organization Choson Simbo.

Bibliography on "Comfort Women" and Related Issues
A useful collection of resources on Japanese forced labour, compiled by the Korean Studies program of the University of California at Berkeley.

Comfort Women: A Web Reference
An extensive set of links on the "comfort women" issue, prepared by Jerry D. Boucher and Chunghee Sarah Soh.

Forced Labour Under the Third Reich
A detailed examination of the Nazis' use of forced labour, attempting to establish reasonable compensation figures for the survivors. Prepared by Nathan Associates.

Forced Labor in Myanmar (Burma)
The full text of the International Labour Organization's in-depth report on perhaps the most atrocious contemporary instance of forced labour.

BurmaForum Los Angeles
"Your source for the latest information on current economic and political conditions in Burma (Myanmar), as well as American local government and corporate involvement." Includes a strong human rights/forced labour component.

Forced-Labor Logging in Burma
A report by Tim Keating prepared for Rainforest Relief.

Slavery: Additional Sources

Note: Forced labour has often been defined as a "slavery-like practice."

Slavery Today
"Many people believe that slavery is a thing of the past ... but it isn't. It exists today in countries like India, the Dominican Republic, Thailand, and Sudan." A typically fine compendium of sources and links by About.com, this one prepared by Kevin Reid.

The American Anti-Slavery Group
"The only American organization solely dedicated to abolishing slavery worldwide. We monitor, document, and publicize the plight of slaves around the globe. Our special focus is on black chattel slavery in North Africa and involuntary servitude in the United States."

Incarceration/
The Death Penalty

Focus on the Death Penalty
An excellent page of links and resources prepared by the Justice Center Website of the University of Alaska.

U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial,
Summary or Arbitrary Executions
Home page of the U.N.'s special representative (working under the aegis of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights).

Amnesty International - Against the Death Penalty
A page of links and information supporting AI's longstanding campaign against the death penalty.

Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC)
An award-winning, law-focused collection of links and information.

Death Penalty.Net
An anti-capital punishment site sponsored by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty
An imaginative and eye-catching site co-founded by Dave Parkinson and Tracy Lamourie. "We searched for a group in Canada fighting against the continued use of the death penalty in the USA. We felt that it was shameful that there was no active group in Canada giving a strong voice against the death penalty, and that since Canada and the US have such close relationship, our silence, especially in light of strong European initiatives against the death penalty in the US, was allowing Canada to collude with the US in state murder." Danish and Slovenian translations.

Death Row Roll Call
The Nation's project provides a calendar of scheduled execution dates in the U.S., and allows readers to e-mail state governors "requesting a stay on [the] execution and a moratorium on all executions in the state." Updated monthly.

Human Rights Watch Prison Project
"Prison massacres, dramatic protests, and violent guard abuse earn occasional news headlines, but the deplorable daily living conditions that are the plight of the great majority of the world's prisoners pass largely unnoticed. ... Human Rights Watch has conducted specialized prison research and campaigns for prisoners' rights since 1987, to focus international attention on prison conditions worldwide."

The Gulag Collection
An impressive collection of original artworks depicting life and death in the Soviet "gulag archipelago." Sponsored by the Jamestown Foundation.

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The Montreal Massacre

December 6, 1989
A short and somewhat outdated page of links prepared by Men for Change.

December 6, 1989
A short and somewhat outdated page of links prepared by Men for Change.

The White Ribbon Campaign
"Men working to end men's violence against women. ... Wearing a white ribbon is a personal pledge never to commit, condone nor remain silent about violence against women."

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Colombia

Colombia Support Network
"The Colombia Support Network is a non-governmental organization striving to improve the human rights situation in Colombia and build solidarity between the peoples of North America and Colombia. The Colombia Support Network is the largest, grassroots activist- oriented group in the U.S. focusing on Colombian human rights."

Colombia Human Rights Network
"The Colombia Human Rights Network formed in October 1990 as a way of pooling the efforts of several volunteer organizations working for peace and justice in Colombia in several cities in the United States. The Network's activities are directed at defending and promoting human rights in Colombia through coalition building between organizations in the United States and in Colombia."

Peace Brigades International
"Peace Brigades International (PBI) is a unique grassroots organization that explores and implements nonviolent approaches to peacekeeping and human rights support. ... PBI provides protective international accompaniment for individuals and organizations who have been threatened by political violence or who are otherwise at risk."

Exodor
A bulletin about displaced persons in Colombia, in both Spanish and English.

Nizkor
A bilingual website on human rights in Colombia.

War on Drugs: Counterinsurgency Operations in Colombia
A strong collection of links exploring the relationship between the U.S.-sponsored "Drug War" and human-rights atrocities in Colombia.

1) War Without Quarter:
Colombia and International Humanitarian Law (1998)
and
2) Colombia's Killer Networks:
The Military-Paramilitary Partnership and the United States (1996)
Two seminal reports on atrocities in Colombia from Human Rights Watch.

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