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• - Campaigns for Tibetans' right to determine their own future and preserve their culture, for an end to the violation of their human rights and for a Tibet free from Chinese occupation.
  
• - Information on migrant worker's rights and health issues, as well as prosecution of a whistleblower in Malaysia.
  
• - Promotes the ideals of democracy, human rights, freedom, and rule-by-law in Chinese communities.
  
• - Describes human rights violations in Bangladash.
  
• - The IID is a solidarity and advocacy group involved primarily in peoples' issues in East Timor, Burma and Mindanao in the Philippines.
  
• - Promotes human rights and political plurality in China.
  
• - Provides online journal and documents concerning unresolved human rights problems in India.
  
• - Grassroots performance organization supporting Tibetan freedom. Theatre, dance, music programs, community festivals and bazaars. Participate in demonstrations, campaigns, and celebrations.
  
• - A non-profit organization supporting non-violent efforts of the Dalai Lama to regain dignity and sovereignty for Tibetan people, to preserve the endangered culture of Tibet, and its Buddhist tradition.
  
• - A non-religious, non-political group dedicated towards improving the quality of life of ethnic Tibetan people.
  
• - A Yahoo group for persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Asia and the Pacific, and their supporters. Monitors the adoption, promotion and protection of the universal rights of PWDs.
  
• - A voluntary organization of Bangladesh working for children's, women's, environmental and civil rights.
  
• - Seeks to promote human rights in Asia by monitoring, investigations, advocacy, education, conflict resolution, truth commissions and international tribunals.
  
• - Founded by Kathi Padma Rao in 1985 in Andhra Pradesh to fight for human rights and against untouchability and discrimination. Site includes contact information and an article on caste discrimination.
  
• - Organization dedicated to protecting the human rights of people in Uzbekistan.
  
• - Official site, campaigning for an end to the Chinese occupation of Tibet and for the Tibetans' fundamental human rights to be respected. UK based.
  
• - Group of Australian lawyers and advocates dedicated to protecting the human rights of the indigenous Montagnard/Degar peoples of Vietnam's Central Highlands.
  
• - Organization producing articles supporting Taiwanese independence and opposing China and other communist countries.
  
• - Information about the worldwide campaigning movement dedicated to protecting the human rights of people in Bangladesh.
  
• - A nonpartisan NGO in Indonesia which seeks social, economic, and environmental democracy.
  
• - Monitors the human rights situation in China in the run-up to Beijing 2008 and to campaign for its improvement.
  
• - A non-profit, tax-exempt organization to establish and defend the basic rights of Afghan women. Includes current projects, reports, and news.
  
• - Mayer Dak newspaper aims to expose human rights abuses against minorities in Bangladesh, including Hindus, Buddhists, Christians, Ahmediyas, aborgines, tribals, and women.
  
• - An informal network of organisations and individuals committed to the realisation of the right to food in India. Promotes the fundamental right to be free from hunger and undernutrition.
  
• - Promotes understanding among international community about disadvantaged status of Sindhis in Pakistan and their human rights, including the right to self-determination. Also carries out welfare and relief work. Registered in England and Wales, and Kentu
  
• - Human rights organization working for the uplift of the Dalits, the black Untouchables of India.
  
• - Principles, objectives, and policies of the organization. Background information on the Hmong, methodologies, documentation, activities, demographics, and links.