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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://amnesty-usa.maikon.net/getupstandup/03rights.html
In five pages, Amnesty USA presents the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as adopted by the United Nations in 1948.
The following websites generally give a view sympathetic to the Palestinians, with no attempt to be balanced:
The Hebron Institute
The message you will get from this site is that great injustice is being done to the Palestinian people at this time.
Applied Research Institute Jerusalem
This site uses high technology, such as satellite photography, to map what is happening in the Israeli Occupied Territories, particularly in regard to the environment, land use, water use and farming.
B'tselem: The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in The Occupied Territories
This site has more objective information about human rights in the Occupied Territory. The statistics don't necessarily point fingers at the Israeli government. One chart begins in 1994 and offers death statistics for those killed in violence. There is plenty killing on both sides, in an almost tit-for-tat fashion. A second chart records the various prisoners locked up in Israeli prisons (http://www.btselem.org/stat/prisonersdetainees.htm).
Law Society
This is a relatively new, well designed site created by a group in Palestine. Click on the golden olive award logo on this page and you will connect to a large selection of other Palestinian sites. Look up the report of home demolitions (http://www.lawsociety.org/reports/1998/hdlist.html). This list gives the date of destruction, the area where the home was located and the number of people displaced. Maps are also a part of this site.
This column is compiled by David Hiebert of Scottdale, Pa.
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