Community Portal

The Community Portal page is the place to come to find out about what projects are under way at ABRI, as well as to touch base with others to find out where your efforts might best be directed.

Contributing

As a general guide to contributing to this site, we suggest you have a think about an area of human rights that genuinely interests you and begin with that topic. You might visit the Bill of Rights to see if a topic of interest has already been begun. Alternatively you might have a look at the Trash.Questions? page - a page for listing and reading questions relating to the bill's formation and topics. Of course, you're welcome to begin new topics as well. For beginning new topics, please see the ABRIProtocols page.

Bulletin Board

Post on the Bulletin Board to let others know about areas of the site that need work and/or attention. You might also post here ABRI projects that you'd like to begin, are undertaking so that others know what projects are going on and where they might contribute.

Links and Resources

Have a look on the Resources Web (also located in the left navigational bar) to find links to many bill of rights and human rights resources online.

Current Events

Post your human right / bill of rights related events here? .

New Contributer Log

You may wish to say hello on the New Contributer Log. This gives you the opportunity to provide some initial feedback as well as making your self known to the other new users coming to the site.

Curios

Post interesting bits and pieces here that may be fun, fascinating, disturbing, interesting or down right odd.

Human Rights Art

Have a look at the web archive of Richard Minsky's Bill of Rights exhibition at the Louis K. Meisel Gallery, 141 Prince Street, New York City. The exhibition ran from April 27 - June 1, 2002. It's an interesting lateral approach relating 'book art' to the various articles of the American Bill of Rights (as near as I can tell). -- MarkElliott - 14 Jul 2005

The first charter of human rights circa 500 BCE

The charter of Cyrus the Great, a baked-clay Aryan language (Old Persian) cuneiform cylinder, was discovered in 1878 in excavation of the site of Babylon. In it, Cyrus the Great described his human treatment of the inhabitants of Babylonia after its conquest by the Iranians (c.539 BCE). The document has been hailed as the first charter of human rights, and in 1971 the United Nations was published translation of it in all the official U.N. languages... www.iranchamber.com -- MarkElliott - 26 Sep 2005