The Center strives to catalyze thinking and to bring public health and human rights professionals together in recognition of the interaction between health and human rights. Through the development of methods, tools and skills, health professionals are encouraged to undertake concrete actions towards the promotion and protection of human rights in their work, while the capacity of human rights professionals to address public health concerns is enhanced. HRI's primary role is to serve the information needs of international scholars, human rights activists, asylum lawyers, and other organizations via an extensive documentation center and computerized databases, with access by subscription. Through interviews, reportage, banned literature and polemic, Index shows how free speech affects the political issues of the moment. The Witness program, founded in 1992 in partnership with the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Peter Gabriel and the Reebok Foundation, gives human rights advocates the tools to document human rights abuses.
Witness advances human rights through the use of video and related communications technologies.
The United Nations Photo Library contains a selection of the approximately 200,000 historical photos housed in the United Nations Photo Library archives. The collection dates back to 1945, and the website also contains selected recent photo coverage. Fair use, purchase and contact information are available on the site. Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights UN-OHCR Refugee photos The purpose of the cartoon gallery on the Index on Censorship site is to raise awareness of the current censorship of cartoonists around the world and to help campaign on their behalf.