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Government and Political Sites
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State run servers info
http://www.law.indiana.edu/law/states.html

Information on US State servers and free (public) internet access.
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CIA Web server
http://www.ic.gov

A great place for information of all sorts. Global facts galore! There is
so much info on so many countries and topics and subjects with included
graphics and detailed explanations that I could never begin to list it all.
This site is a wonderful resource for the info-hound and for the researcher
that needs to have a wealth of information for reports and writings.
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Congressional WWW
http://thomas.loc.gov

Congressional info galore - more than you thought they'd let you know!
This web page covers both houses of Congress.
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House of Representatives Web Site
http://www.house.gov/
http://us.house.gov/

Contains vast amounts of info relating to the House of Representatives.
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Defense of Freedom WWW
http://fohnix.metronet.com/HomePages/kira/revolution/revolution.html

Ze revolution home page comrade!
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Government Web sites
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White House homepage
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Contains info, links and virtual tours of the White House

Whitehouse FTP site
ftp to: whitehouse.gov
All sorts of Presidential papers are available to the public. Including
all White House transcripts and press releases.

Sunsite-based Gov. docs.
emphasis on telecom and high-tech policies
http://sunsite.unc.edu/govdocs.html

Infomine at Univ of Calif. at Riverside
http://lib-www.ucr.edu/govpub/

Wiretap Gopher
gopher://wiretap.spies.com/11/Gov/

Fedworld INFO NETWORK
http://www.fedworld.gov/
contains many up-to-date links of US Federal Govt.info

US Bureau of the Census
http://www.census.gov/

Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/

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Russian Information Telnet site
Telnet to:
ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu

This site has info on former and current Soviet Republics, former and
current leaders and a copy of the revised Russian Constitution. Other
Russian information is also available. Offers a list of related ftp sites.
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Welfare Gopher
Gopher to:
spike.acf.dhhs.gov

Complete database for the Administration for Children and Families, under
the Dept. of Health and Human Services. Full program descriptions including
Aid to Dependent Families stats and facts and much more.
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Indonesian Army Area Handbook
Gopher to: umslivma.umsl.edu:70/11/library/govdocs/armahbs/aahb8

This archive is housed at the Univ of Missouri-St. Louis gopher site and
contains a wealth of information. Early History of Indonesia, the coming
of Islam, sources of local identification, languages and many other topics.
Links to the Library of Congress Asia Field Operations study and a complete
chronology of events makes this the most authoritative source on the net
for Indonesian culture and information. You might even enjoy the info!
The info is exhaustive and full term and research papers can be done from
this site alone. Students - take note. One stop shopping for reports here.
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HEROES Homepage
http://www.clark.net/pub/heroes/

Kinda like "Soldiers of Fortune" web style. Information about the federal
government's "Counter Terrorism Rewards Program" which offers high price
awards of up to $4 million dollars (US) for information which leads to
the prevention and/or disruption of terrorist acts or the apprehension of
wanted terrorists or info that leads to arrest and/or conviction of wanted
terrorists. A listing of wanted terrorists is posted along with info on
previous terrorists activities including the Pan Am flight 103 bombing
and other assorted terrorist acts of violence. Each terrorist incident has
plenty of background info including photo clips and suspect profiles.
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Stanislaw Staszic Univ of Mining and Metallurgy (Cracow, Poland)
http://www.uci.agh.edu.pl
or gopher to:  gopher.uci.agh.edu.pl

Includes topical info but also includes info for foreign visitors and links
to the local gopher (above). Also has links to Polish Network Resources, a
JPEG photo collection and travelogue/tourist guide by Michael Rozek that
presents historical facts and cultural traditions in an easy to read and
informal style. You'll love this informative virtual trip to Poland.
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Amnesty International
Gopher to:  gopher.io.org/pub/human-rights

Learn about Amnesty International's mission and how they are battling
torture, political imprisonments, "dissapearances" and other human-rights
abuses. Political repression and capital punishment also are part of the
fray. Many other links to other resources can be found here as well.
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United Nations Gopher (U.N. Gopher)
Gopher to: nywork1.undp.org
also via WWW at --> http://www.undp.org

A thorughly educational experience awaits for those that travel here. World
Trade, the U.N. Charter, World Currencies, The U.N. mission of Peace, and
much more awaits the energized traveller. Includes daily journals of U.N
conferences and so much more that it will amaze you. Students - go here.
Teachers - go here. Everyone else - go here. Learn something of global
policies and how they affect each and every one of us. Well worth the trip!
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FedWorld
http://www.fed-world.gov
ftp://fedworld.gov
telnet://fedworld.gov

The United States Federal Gateway to over 10,000 different agencies and
Federal Bureaus. This has got to be one of the hugest repositories of info
available in the world. If it has to do with the U.S. govt - it's here.
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Russian Web server
http://www.elvis.msk.su:80

Has links in English and Cyrillic to a plethora of resources. Currency
exchange rates, an interactive Russian/English dictionary and links to
other Russian web servers. There is also a form that lets you send faxes
to Moscow addresses over the web. Getting better all the time. This web
server is a joint venture between Russia and Sun MicroSystems. Can you say
Unix in Russian?  Nyet!
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Vote Smart Project Web Page
http://www.oclc.org/VoteSmart/lwv

This site is sponsered by the League of Women Voters and makes the voting
process and the vagaries of politics easier to understand. This site also
has info on how to run a voter registration drive and contains guidelines
for grass-roots political support. The political processes of government
are presented in such an easy to understand way that you'll be politically
savvy in no time. Also has numerous links to other political and voter
related issues/topics located on various web pages and ftp sites.
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DOSFAN Foreign Affairs Network
http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/dosfan.html

A photographic tour of the Foreign Affairs Department. Links to the
department's Gopher where biographies and info on State Dept. officials,
press releases, treaties and other Dept. publications are located. There
are other links to division bureaus as well. Most of the lists and info
databases are searchable. This is another great source of information
for research work and for anyone interested in furthering their knowledge
of how government works in the United States.
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Native American (American Indian) Info via Alachua Free-Net
http://www.freenet.ufl.edu/~native

An extensive source of information devoted to the Native American culture.
Has links to other sites of related info as well as a complete list of
tribes and their histories and present day activities. Great resource!
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American Politics Gopher at Northwestern University
Gopher to: toby.scott.nwu.edu

Information on all branches (Judicial, Legislative and Executive) of our
US government is here. The Legislative archive section holds the greatest
amount of info including how Congress members voted and what bills were
proposed and what bills were passed along with what each bill was about.
Links to other gopher sites include the National Election Studies site
and many other government related links as well. Political junkies will
fall in love with this site and they'll be burrowing for a long time.
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Congressional Quarterly Gopher
Gopher to: gopher.cqalert.com

A decent gopher site that gives the user a general "briefing" on the goings
on ay Capitol Hill. Includes other links and in itself has a lot of info.
It is not merely to publicize the CQ publication but this site does a great
deal towards educating its visitors and that is commendable netiquette.
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C-SPAN Gopher
Gopher to: c-span.org

Contains a huge archive of information including a C-Span viewer's guide.
Also included is compilatins of public affairs programs like "Booknotes"
and "Cynical Reviews". There are also many features like "This Week in the
House of Representatives", "Inside Washington: Government Resource Center"
and listings of all House and Senate members. A very informative place.
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Thomas
http://thomas.loc.gov/

This is a new Library of Congress service (in the spirit of that great
statesman Thomas Jefferson) that anyone can use to retrieve the text of
congressional bills and resolutions. Legislative research projects will be
a little easier for this site also has pointers to information and will
contains search engines that let you search by bill numbers or keywords.
A hyper-text version of "How Our Laws Are Made" will prove beneficial to
the educational crowd and there is also a subject based index for easy
retrieval of what you want. There is even numerous links to other web, ftp,
and gopher sites including the House and Senate gophers. It doesn't get
much better than this. If you need to find out about US government - start
here. This is also a great educational resource as well.
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REESweb (Russian and East European Studies Internet Resources Page)
http://www.pitt.edu/~cjp/rsecon.html

It's amazing that web sites that one would think would be serviced by
a site other than that located in the US are actually served up from
sites and servers right here in the US. It's like someone saying that
this is a genuine imported work of Chinese Art and on the bottom of the
vase reads "Made in America". Just an odd little tidbit. In any case -
right from the University of Pittsburgh, PA (US) comes a very good site
that offers tons (and I mean *tons*) of information and links that deal
primarily with Russian and Eastern European affairs. This is a gigantic
resource that features economic, business, legal and financial info and
all sorts of info that is even remotely related to any of these topics.
What you won't find are cultural exhibits and tours as this page is
strictly "business" and remains in focus and retains this focus throughout.
An excellent resource for both business and for research work. Even has
land use and geographical info on the eastern European region. You'll be
completely amazed at how much info this site has and points to.
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CapWeb
http://policy.net/capweb/congress.html

This page was written by Capitol Hill staffers in order to inform the
public taxpayers just who is in Congress serving them. A complete list of
all Senator's and Representative's office locations, phone numbers and
committee assignments are posted here along with their photos and email
addresses. You can search member listings by name, state or political party
and there is also an informative FAQ document. There's a map of the Wash.
D.C. Metro and you can use the subway "navigator" to plan your travels
while in Washington DC. If you need toknow all about your Congressman -
here's the place to start your findings.
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The Rush Limbaugh WWW page
http://www.rtis.com/natnl/rush/

Rushisms abound here and everything you wanted to know (and more) about
Rush Limbaugh is at this site.  There's a Rush sound-byte collection a Rush
Limbaugh FAQ and Rush's 14 Commandments of the Religious Left. What more
could you ask for? (ahem...) Well there's radio station lists of his
syndicated talk shows and a list of upcoming television appearances. The
piece de resistance is a web form that lets you talk back to Rush as easy
as the click of a button - an email or a fax (you choose) goes right out
to Limbaugh. I've included this Rush page just to show that I am an equal
opportunity net lister and not possesed of a narrow mind... (ahem)
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The Anti-Limbagh Home Page
http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~cubsfan/antirush.html

All's fair in love, web and war and so soon after the Rush Limbaugh web
page came into existence - so did the anti-Limbaugh page. This is a funny
web page that has a satirical view of Rush's "35 Truths" and also has lots
of Limbaugh jokes and one-liners. There are some serious rantings and
writings but most are intended to poke fun at Rush. Who could argue? There
is even a forms section where readers are invited to send in their own
"Rush jokes and lies" to the page and more is planned. I wonder if a
Democrat organized this page... ?
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Volunteers in Technical Assistance's Non-U.S. Disaster Update Gopher
Gopher to: gopher.vita.org
in the --> /disaster information/disaster situation and status reports/
international reports/situation reports/

Want to know about all the world's disasters (except in the USA) - then
here is the place to come visit and learn. Most reports contain photos as
well as mortality rates, damage statistics, economic loss and foreign-aid
totals. Disasters are listed either chronologically (the most recent
tragedy is at the top of the list) or you can view by region or geographic
area of the world. If you think *your* life is a mess - stop over here!
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Internet Disaster Information Network
http://www.disaster.org
http://165.247.199.30
email to: [e-mail]

APRIL 22st, Tucson, Az, USA - Hundreds of Internet users across North
America and the Globe responded within hours to Wednesday's terrorist
bombing of the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Individuals posted news updates, photos and emergency phone numbers
electronically to the World Wide Web.

Live discussions of the disaster have been going on around the clock since
word of the explosion first hit the Internet. One Internet user likened
this distribution of emergency information in and out of the disaster
stricken area to the efforts of amateur radio HAM operators in past
disasters, such as the California earthquakes.

Similar efforts to provide important information were made following the
recent earthquake in Kobe, Japan, but the disorganized nature of the
Internet has made this  valuable information hard for individuals to
locate.  Internet Direct, Inc., an Internet Access Provider with corporate
offices in Arizona, has dedicated its resources to making disaster
information available to all of the millions of Internet users around the
world from one centralized location.

This new service, the Internet Disaster Information Network (IDIN) which
is also being referred to as the DisasterNet, acts as a central clearinghouse
and index for worldwide disaster-related information. The IDIN allows
Internet users to access complete, detailed information from a single
address on the World Wide Web.

"We wanted to create a way for people to easily access the available
information surrounding events such as the recent bombing," said Mike
March, President of Internet Direct.  "We have dedicated a server and
staff to centralizing this information. Now, instead of spending 12
frustrating hours trying to find information in an emergency, the click
of a button is all that it takes for people to have complete access to
helpful and necessary information."

Late Wednesday afternoon, Internet Direct made a request to InterNIC
Registration Services in Herndon, Virginia, the organization controlling
address registration for the global Internet, to obtain the name
www.disaster.org for use as a publicly accessible, civic information
server. At approximately 2.00am Thursday morning, the InterNIC granted
this unusual request.

"Normally, it takes about four weeks to get registration approved.  We
felt this request was critical enough to approve the registration
immediately," said Jean Gallagher of InterNIC Registration Services.

Since the granting of the request, the technical and design staffs have
worked around the clock to create an entire World Wide Web site in under
24 hours. "Usually, we will work on a site for two to three weeks before
releasing it to the public. In this case, the technical staff put
together a server in about four hours, and our design team worked around
the clock to develop the content for the IDIN site," said Jason Ayers,
Head of Graphic Design for Internet Direct. "Everyone here is enthusiastic
to be working to help create this public site for everyone. They have all
volunteered their time and expertise to assist with IDIN."

Information that has already been made available includes the composite
photo of bombing suspects released by the FBI, a list of fatalities and
hospitalized survivors and their locations, phone numbers for Oklahoma
City hospitals and relief organizations and addresses for charities
accepting donations, and hundreds of other photographs, articles,
eye-witness accounts and progress updates.

"We plan to continue and fully maintain the Internet Disaster Information
Network site permanently," guaranteed William Fisher, Business Mananger of
Internet Direct, Inc.  "Unfortunately, this won't be the last time people
need information quickly in times of great need.  Internet Direct and the
IDIN will be there to provide stability and support for people whenever
and wherever a disaster may happen.  This is a fantastic opportunity for
all of us [at Internet Direct] to give back to the Internet community that
is our business."

The www.disaster.net WEB site has received over 7,000 queries from around
the world in its first 24 hours of operation. Right now, the requests are
increasing by about tweny-five per cent each hour. "We expect to be
receiving 8,000 to 10,000 requests an hour by tomorrow morning, as the
information about the existence of the IDIN becomes available," reported
Matthew Grossman, head of Operations for this effort and a lead designer
for Internet Direct.

Internet Direct has pledged to keep this server up to date and online for
this and all future disasters as a public service to the Internet
Community.

For more information about the Internet Disaster Information Network or
for those that do not have access to the World-Wide-Web, please send email
to: [e-mail]
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Earthquake Info server
http://www.civeng.carleton.ca/cgi-bin/quak

This is a neat way to find out about earthquake info and where earthquakes
are happening as it is displayed graphically on a world map. Links to other
earthquake info-sites. Very well done and informative site and a fine way
to use clickable image-maps to access information.
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Champlain Canadian Govt. info-searcher
http://info.ic.gc.ca/champlain/champlain.html

A global search utility for Canadian Government Information. Champlain is
a WWW based tool for scanning dispersed all Canadian government databases
for information using keywords. Champlain contains an index of most of the
information contained in the Internet databases of over 50 Federal,
Provincial and Municipal agencies - representing the entire Canadian
government presence on the Internet. Champlain will perform searches on
keywords and return the users with a hypertext list of documents most
likely to be of interest. The list will have a hyper-link to the document
on the database on which in resides, and indication of the document title,
if any, and will display the matched line of text to help determine the
exact context of the document.
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Persian Gulf War family support center
http://www.wwa.com/~szabo/gulf.html

I wasn't sure where to place this site listing - but it's governments that
start wars and it takes soldiers to stop them. Unfortunately politicians
don't have to hump with the soldiers and so the very ones who risk their
lives and do their duty in brave fashion many times have post-war syndromes
and need help and support and a place to talk with others who were caught
up in the war. I won't even pretend to know the pressures and stress these
brave men and women went through (and their families) but I'm happy to say
that there is now a web site for Gulf War veterans and their families to go
to and find information pertinent to the Gulf War. There are support groups
here for both combatants directly involved in the war and their families
that also suffered many sleepless nights. There are also many other links
for veterans to check out and links to veteran services that are offered.
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Forza Italia Internet Home Page
http://www.iunet.it/~forza-it

The biggest political party in Italy. A site full of info, photos, about
the italian constitution, political members, usefull for students and
researchers. Still in Italian but soon in the English translation too!
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Canadian Home Pages Info
http://info.ic.gc.ca

A complete listing of Canadian Govt pages is available at the above
home page URL. This home page will be continually updated and new
sites and URLs will become listed when available.
Specialty sites and web pages are shown below...

The Government of Canada, Department of Foreign Affairs and International
Trade, has several of the Embassies and Consulates with Home Pages on the
World Wide Web, they are:

Canadian Consulate General, Detroit
http://bizserve.com/canadian-detroit

Canadian Embassy, Washington
http://www.nstn.ca/wshdc

Canadian Embassy, Milan
http://www.agora.stm.it/canada

Trade Office, San Diego, CA (US)
http://www.cts.com/~cdntrade

Trade Office, San Jose, CA (US)
http://www.globalx.net/ccto
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Free Burma
http://199.172.178.200/freebrma/freebrma.html

This site covers Burmese liberation efforts and all sorts of human rights
abuses occuring there today. Also contains a collection of photos and
sound clips about the country's culture and topography. Reports on the
cruelties of General Ne Win, a fearsome dictator, are also featured. Links
to The Carter Center (mentioned elsewhere in BIGSURF), Amnesty Intl. and
several Burmese activist groups are also here. Read, look and learn.
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Parliament of Australia Home Page
http://www.aph.gov.au/

Australian Senate
http://senate.aph.gov.au/

Australian House of Representatives
http://www.aph.gov.au/house/

Australian Parliamentary Library
http:/library/aph.gov.au/library/
gopher://lib18.aph.gov.au
Gopher to: lib18.aph.gov.org

The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia (Parliament of Australia
for short) is now offering a home page from which a variety of Australian
Parliamentary information may be accessed. The www pages are still under
development, with a trial of weekly Hansard and related information
accessible from this home page as well as separate access to Senate,
House of Representatives and Parliamentary Library information.
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Statistical Abstract of the United States
http://www.census.gov:80/stat_abstract

This statistical site has info on such things as state rankings in various
topics, charts, tables, graphs and county profiles from all 50 states.
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ACLU Gopher site (American Civil Liberties Union)
Gopher to: aclu.org 6601

This gopher site of the ACLU includes related literature, ACLU newsbriefs,
publications and Congressional reports and Congressional efforts in which
the ACLU is involved. The ACLU has also become involved with civil liberty
in cyberspace and on the Internet specifically. This gopher site also has
a complete history of the organization, a list of affiliate offices and
guidelines on where and how to obtain help from the ACLU.
Consumer Info Center (CIC)
http://www.gsa.gov/staff/pa/cic/cic.htm

Listing of all available CIC brochures and info-pamphlets
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Flags of the World
http://osprey.erin.gov.au/flags/flags.html

A very complete collection of images of National Flags of world's countries
and also includes flags pertaining to many other topics such as images of
flags used for racing, signaling and semifore flags. If you need to find
out about a flag or what a particular flag looks like - then here they are!
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Republican Web Pages
http://www.umr.edu/~sears/primary/main.html
http://www.berkelyic.com/conservative

The conservatives on the loose on the web! Informative and well done sites
with various links to many Republican and conservative topics and issues.
GOP Primary information is abundant here as well as a direct fax link to
Rush Limbaugh (hmmm...). All sorts of news and views abound and it seems
as if this was created just before the Democrats got their web page going.
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Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
http://www.dscc.org/d/dscc.html

This site contains news, press releases and candidate's quotes all relating
to the upcoming 1996 election. Info on straw polls, poll statistics and
candidate ratings are here also. Many other included links are present that
relate to the Democratic political structure and other governmental links
are here also. A good site that contains a wealth of political information.
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Libertarian Party Home Page
http://www.lp.org/lp
http://w3.ag.uiuc.edu/liberty/libWeb.html

Not to be outdone - the Libertarians have also set up web shop. They offer
their own political insights and information. Info on their party platform
and ideology is here as well. Includes the usual press releases, candidate
reviews, party literature and other political paraphenalia.
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Human Rights Gopher
gopher://gopher.humanrights.org:5000
Gopher to: humanrights.org 5000

Contains information from non-partisan sources concerning groups devoted to
human rights and human rights related issues. Amnesty International, Human
Rights Watch and others are located here and each has its own directory.
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