Human+Rights+--+Minority+Groups

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**Reference Sources**
 * [|Gale Virtual Reference Library]
 * [|Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society]
 * [|Sharpe Reference Online]
 * [|World Geography]

Magazines and Newspapers

 * [|SIRS Researcher]
 * [|Proquest Research Library]
 * [|New York Times Upfront Magazine]
 * [|National Geographic]
 * [|World & I Magazine]

**Websites** //** Cite a ** **. **//

Child Marriage
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/03/08/child-brides-sold/1972905/
 * Child brides around the world sold off like cattle**

http://www.icrw.org/child-marriage-facts-and-figures
 * International Center for Research on Women: Child Marriage Facts and Figures**

http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/341/facts.html
 * Child Marriage :What We Know **

http://youtu.be/qFP4au5WbMQ
 * YouTube: Human Rights Watch: Child Marriage: South Sudan **

http://youtu.be/pGggjbi2DeI
 * YouTube: PRB: Early Marriage Has Consequences for Development **

Disability Rights
http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/related_material/2013_%20Disability%20One%20Billion_Brochure%20%28low%20res%29.pdf
 * One Billion Forgotton: Protecting the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities (HIV / AIDS; persons with disabilities)**

http://youtu.be/gnYHLORPuwk
 * YouTube: Human Rights Watch: One Billion Forgotten: Protecting the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities**

http://www.hrea.org/index.php?base_id=152
 * HREA: Persons with Disabilities**

http://youtu.be/04LeAT7SUsk
 * YoutTube: Human Rights Watch: Breaking Barriers: The Disability Rights Movement in Russia**

Female Educational Opportunities
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/MDG_FS_3_EN.pdf
 * UN Fact Sheet: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women **

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001924/192470e.pdf
 * Better Life, Better Future: UNESCO Global Partnership for Girls’ and Women’s Education**

(overview of a variety of topics, education, health, child marriage, etc., affecting girls and young women) []
 * Fact Sheet: Girls and Young Women **

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 * UNESCO eAtlas of Gender Equality in Education**

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 * Better Life, Better Future: UNESCO Global Partnership for Girls’ and Women’s Education**

(Online interactive tool highlighting the progress and pitfalls of girls’ and women’s education across the world) []
 * Mind the Gap: Gender & Education**

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 * United Nations Girls Education Initiative: Information by Country**

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 * Girls’ Secondary Education is a Pathway to Improved Health**

Human Trafficking
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/orr/fact_sheet_identifying_victims_of_human_trafficking.pdf
 * Fact Sheet: Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking**

http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/FactSheet14en.pdf
 * Fact Sheet: Contemporary Forms of Slavery**

http://www.project-thrive.net/human-trafficking.html
 * Project Thrive**

http://www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/fs/2012/194732.htm
 * State Department: What Is Trafficking in Persons?**

http://www.polarisproject.org/human-trafficking/human-trafficking-faqs
 * Polaris Project: For a World without Slavery**

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 * State Department: Moving Toward a Decade of Delivery (Prevention & Protection)**


 * State Department: Human Trafficking Report: Victims' Stories**
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LGBT Rights
http://www.pewforum.org/Gay-Marriage-and-Homosexuality/Gay-Marriage-Around-the-World-2013.aspx
 * The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life: Gay Marriage & Homosexuality**

http://www.justdetention.org/pdf/CFCLGBTQJan09.pdf
 * A Call for Change: Protecting the Rights of LGBTQ Detainees**

http://www.amnestyusa.org/our-work/issues/lgbt-rights/about-lgbt-human-rights
 * Amnesty International: LGBT Human Rights**

http://www.thebody.com/content/art2449.html
 * Fact Sheet: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth Issues**

http://idea.usaid.gov/gp/lgbt-fact-sheet
 * LGBT Fact Sheet (U.S. Agency for International Development)**

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