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A new service for human rights professionals

We would like to tell you about a new website for human rights professionals called Human Rights Tools (see below).

It offers four services:

1. A library of carefully selected and commented resources:
You will find:
- monitoring and fact-finding tools, advocacy tools and other essential resources for human rights work
- thematic resources on the protection of detainees, human rights defenders, refugees, and more
- the top online databases for resources on human rights law, refugee law and humanitarian law
humanrightstools.org/index.htm

... and much more. We have even set up a section called "Your career" where you will find job vacancies and training opportunities:
humanrightstools.org/dcd/8_Your_career/

2. Key resources for country analysis:
To rapidly establish the human rights profile of a particular country and to facilitate analysis and follow-up of developments, you can draw on a number of resources listed here: the situation in terms of human rights, political and conflict analysis, national law, the economics, the legal instruments which that country has ratified, and human rights-relevant news. You even get a HuriSearch box to search over 3000 human rights websites:
humanrightstools.org/countryanalysis.htm

3. Daily updated human rights headlines:
This page will provide you with fresh human rights news from a selection of top sources - all on one convenient page and updated automatically every time you visit. We currently list headlines from: Human Rights Watch, Amnesty, FIDH, Human Rights Listings, Reliefweb, and now also JURIST's World Legal News. Be sure to bookmark this page!
humanrightstools.org/rssnews.htm

4. Our newsletter:
If you are interested in receiving updates on new tools and resources, then subscribe to our newsletter - join more than 700 subscribers. Subscribe from the Newsletter box on our homepage:
humanrightstools.org/

We hope you found our services useful. We would appreciate very much receiving your comments and suggestions. Do you know any resources to add? Any new areas to cover? Please also tell us about your work, about resources you have produced and would like to share. Send comments to Daniel at editors@humanrightstools.org.