Useful Links

Citizenship

http://www.ulster.ac.uk/faculty/shse/unesco
The UNESCO Centre, University of Ulster, undertakes research and development on the role of education within divided societies, focussing on the themes of Education for Pluralism, Human Rights, and Democracy.

http://citfou.org.uk
Citizenship Foundation UK - comprehensive information on citizenship with reference to the national curriculum, case studies, resources, up-to-date news etc.

http://www.teachingcitizenship.org.uk
Association for Citizenship Teaching UK

http://www.actonline.ie
ACT - Association of CSPE (Civic, Social & Political Education) Teachers in the Republic of Ireland

http://www.citizen.org.uk
Institute for Citizenship

http://www.publicachievement.com
Public Achievement is a youth focussed civic education organisation based in Belfast, providing support to youth groups and to adult coaches who work with them.

Human Rights

http://www.nihrc.org
NI Human Rights Commission.

http://www.udhr.org/
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is on this site

http://www.amnesty.org/
Provides the latest international human rights news and a resource for sale section. Links to other human rights sites are provided.

www.amnesty.ie/
Amnesty International Ireland

www.caj.org.uk
Committee on the Administration of Justice

www.bbc.co.uk/education/archive/
Case studies of Human Rights stories BBC Education Human Rights site

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/humanrights/
BBC human rights page

http://erc.hrea.org/Library/secondary.html#top
Human Rights Education Associates Resources

www.hri.ca/
Human Rights Internet- a search engine for human rights on the web includes a youth rights forum

www.hrw.org
Up to date reports on human rights events around the world

human-rights.net/ehrn/
Network of Human Rights Educators- UK based network- newsletter on HRE available on site

http://www.unhchr.ch/
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

http://www.unhcr.ch/
UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The ‘For Teachers’ section shows how teachers can use information provided in the site for class purposes

www.unicef.org/crc/
UNICEF Site: Comprehensive Site with information and activities on the UN Convention on Children's Rights

www.unicef.org/voy
UNICEF, Voices of Youth Site- Quizzes, pictures and chat rooms for teachers on Rights Education

www.derechos.org/human_rights/world.html
Find out about human rights in countries around the world

www.pdhre.org
The People's Movement for Human Rights Education

http://www.refugeecouncil.org.uk
Refugee Council (GB)

http://www.irishrefugeecouncil.ie
Irish Refugee Council



Equality Issues

http://www.equalityni.org
Equality Commission for Northern Ireland

http://www.equality.ie
The Equality Authority ( Republic of Ireland)

http://www.blink.org.uk
Site for minority ethnic issues (GB)

www.minorityrights.org/
Web site of Minority Rights Group that contains reports and information about minorities around the world

http://www.cre.gov.uk
Commission for Racial Equality (GB)

http://www.ecre.org/
Organisation of 67 agencies working for just treatment of refugees and asylum seekers

http://www.enar-eu.org/
European Network Against Racism

http://www.iol.ie/~pavee/
Pavee Point (Travellers) IRL

http://www.itmtrav.com
Irish Traveller Movement

http://migration.ucc.ie/immigration
Irish Centre for Migration Studies




Political parties


www.conservatives.com
Conservatives

www.dup.org.uk
Democratic Unionist Party

www.fiannafail.ie
Fianna Fáil

www.finegael.ie
Fine Gael

www.greenparty.ie
(Irish) Green Party

www.greenparty.org.uk
(UK) Green Party
(This site has links to the different branches of the Green Party in the UK)

www.labour.ie
(Irish) Labour

www.labour.org.uk
(UK) Labour

www.libdems.org.uk
Liberal Democrats

www.progressivedemocrats.ie
Progressive Democrats

www.sdlp.ie
SDLP

www.sinnfein.ie
Sinn Féin

www.socialistenvironmentalalliance.org
Socialist Environmental Alliance

www.uup.org
Ulster Unionist Party




Development Education

www.developmenteducation.ie
Issues relating to international development and underdevelopment, human rights, j ustice and equality issues




Environment

http://www.ulsterwildlifetrust.org
Ulster Wildlife Trust

www.cat.org.uk
Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales





Community Relations

http://www.community-relations.org.uk
Community Relations Council for Northern Ireland



Northern Ireland

http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/
Database of resources on all facets of the Northern Ireland conflict. Useful links.



General

www.derryvisitor.com
Derry Visitor & Convention Bureau