See also the following sections of theRussiaSite.org.

Conflicts
Human Rights Law
Human Rights NGOs and Organizations
The Human Rights section of Rule of Law

International Human Rights Law, Treaties and Organizations Acceded to or Joined by Russia

Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

(European) Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms as amended by Protocol No. 11
http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/Commun/QueVoulezVous.asp?NT=005&CM=8&DF=20%2F10%2F00&CL=ENG
http://conventions.coe.int/treaty/Commun/ListeTraites.asp?CM=8&CL=ENG (complete list of the Council of Europe's treaties)

European Court of Human Rights
http://www.echr.coe.int/

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multi/texts/BH225.txt

International Court of Justice
http://www.icj-cij.org/

Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org.ru/rus/index-rus  (in Russian)

Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty: Andrei Babitsky
http://www.rferl.org/specials/russia/babitsky/

"Russian Federation: Violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in the Chechen Republic
Amnesty International's recommendations to the 56th session of the UN Commission on Human Rights"
http://www.web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/index/EUR460142000

Bellona Foundation (mostly environmental group, but also involved in Aleksandr Nikitin case)
http://www.bellona.no/

Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/

Chechnya: Renewed Catastrophe
http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/russia/chechnya/
Russia and Chechnya
http://www.hrw.org/hrw/pubweb/Webcat-83.htm
Missing Persons, Those Forcibly Detained, and Exchanges
http://www.hrw.org/hrw/reports/1997/russia2/Russia-03.htm
Displaced People in Ingushetia Face Life-Threatening Conditions
http://www.hrw.org/hrw/press/1999/dec/chech1202.htm

International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (see appeals and publications sections)
http://www.ihf-hr.org/

Report “A Form of Slavery: Trafficking in Women in OSCE Member States” (large .pdf file)
http://www.ihf-hr.org/viewbinary/viewdocument.php?doc_id=1948

Religious Discrimination and Related Violations of Helsinki Commitments
http://www.ihf-hr.org/viewbinary/viewhtml.php?doc_id=3980

Russian sections of Helsinki Federation annual reports:

2004
http://www.ihf-hr.org/viewbinary/viewdocument.php?doc_id=5469

2003
http://www.ihf-hr.org/viewbinary/viewdocument.php?doc_id=3480

UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (a good source for international law)
http://www.unhchr.ch/

UN High Commissioner for Refugees
http://www.unhcr.ch/

US State Department Human Rights Site Index
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/
http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/index.html (legacy site)

War and Human Rights
http://www.hro.org/war/english.htm

Children and Orphanages

Human Rights Watch: Abandoned to the State - Cruelty and Neglect in Russian Orphanages
http://www.hrw.org/hrw/campaigns/russia98/index.htm

Human Rights Watch: Orphans and Abandoned Children
http://www.hrw.org/hrw/about/projects/crd/child-orphan.htm

Human Rights Watch: The War Through My Eyes - Children's Drawings of Chechnya
http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/russia/chechnya/children/

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