Surf these sites: 42 USC Chapter 21 - Civil Rights -- A hypertext version of the U.S. Civil Rights Code from the Legal Information Institute. Amnesty International - Dornbirn, Austria -- Western Austrian branch of the human rights organisation Amnesty International with special topic on the Death Penalty (Capital Punishment) in the USA. Amnesty International USA Group 133 -- Boston Area activists, currently focusing on Tibet, China, the Death Penalty, Human Rights in the USA, the North Andean Region, and Refugees and Asylum Seekers. Center for Trade with Vietnam -- Advocates for normalization of trade relations between the USA and Vietnam on the premise that advances in human rights follows economic advances and liberalization. Children In The Custody of The INS -- The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has a conflict of interest when it acts as both jailer and caretaker of children. The INS holds children and adolescents in detention while assessing their immigration status. The problem is that no matter what their status turns out to be, these children are still minors with needs that would better be served by caretakers concerned only with looking after their well-being, not prosecuting them. Death Penalty Focus of California -- A California non-profit organization dedicated to the abolition of the death penalty. Human Rights Watch World Report 2000 -- Report on the United States'' official position. International Concerned Family & Friends OF Mumia Abu-Jamal -- Mumia.org, with news and updates on his case and his writings. Know Your Civil Rights -- Fact Sheet - Know Your Civil Rights from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Leadership Conference on Civil Rights -- The LCCR is the nation''s oldest, largest, and most diverse coalition of organizations committed to the protection of civil and human rights in the United States. Locked Away -- Increasing numbers of immigrants are being incarcerated as the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) attempts to fulfill the provisions of the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and immigrant Responsibility Act. Nowhere to Hide -- Retaliation against women prisoners who protest sexual abuse includes a range of further abuse including rape. Police Brutality in the U.S. -- Although variable throughout the U.S., reported human rights violations knows no bounds as far as urban / rural, rich / poor areas. Human Rights Org''s details on major U.S. cities. The Boyertown Area Unity Coalition -- A grass-roots human rights organization whose mission is to create and nurture a caring community in which respect for all persons young and old is cultivated and in which bigotry is rejected. Tom Wood for (ORHS Jr Class) President -- Anarchist politician Tom Wood is seeking to change the way children are schooled. Virginia''s First Supermaximum Security Prison -- Red Onion State Prison was the first of two supermaximum security prisons to open in Virginia in the past year. Intended to hold the state''s most dangerous inmates, Red Onion -- and its twin, Wallens Ridge State prison -- restrict inmate movement and activities to a far greater extent than in maximum security facilities. When One Conviction May Mean Losing The Right To Vote Forever -- Losing the Vote, produced in collaboration between Human Rights Watch and The Sentencing Project, presents the first fifty-state survey of the effect of laws taking away the right to vote from people convicted of a felony. In fourteen states even ex-offenders who have fully served their sentences and are no longer even on parole have lost their right to vote. No other democracy in the world is known to withhold the right to vote permanently from ex-offenders who have repaid their debt to society. Yet fully one in fifty American adults, 3.9 million people, have lost the right to vote because of these laws.
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