Rule of Law and Human Rights

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	www.abanet.org American Bar Association The American Bar Association (America's professional association for attorneys) maintains a searchable site which, among other things, includes English resources and publications related to legal matters in Russia.
	www.abanet.org/ceeli Central and East European Law Initiative (CEELI) CEELI, a public service project of the American Bar Association, advances the rule of law in the world by supporting legal reform processes in Central and Eastern Europe and the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union. With the assistance of lawyers, judges, and law professors, CEELI helps to build the legal infrastructure needed to sustain strong, self-supporting, democratic, free-market systems.
	www.interights.orgu INTERIGHTS INTERIGHTS, the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights, provides leadership in the development of legal protection for human rights and freedoms through the effective use of international and comparative human rights law. Through our work we help judges, lawyers, practitioners, non-governmental organisations and victims with the practical application of international and comparative human rights law in national, regional and international courts and tribunals.
	www.wdn.com/asf The Andrei Sakharov Foundation (ASF) The Andrei Sakharov Foundation (USA) is closely related to several organizations in the United States and Russia, all dedicated to the preservation of the memory of Andrei Sakharov, promotion of his ideas, and the defense of human rights.
	www.ihf-hr.org International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights The IHF is a nongovernmental organization that promotes compliance of the states participating in the OSCE with the human rights provisions to which they committed themselves in the Helsinki Final Act and its Follow-up Documents, as well as with relevant international law. Based in Vienna, the IHF represents 39 Helsinki Committees and cooperating human rights groups in Europe and North America. In addition to supporting and providing liaison among its member committees and associated human rights groups, the IHF gathers information and documents on the human rights situation throughout the territory of the OSCE. In cooperation with affiliates, the IHF has organized transnational human rights projects and fact-finding missions in the Baltic States, in Central Europe, in the Balkans, and in the former USSR.
	www.ucsj.org Union of Councils for Soviet Jews Among other activities, the Union maintains a site for daily news, opinion, and advocacy for Jews and human rights in the former Soviet Union.