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Websites  World Heritage Center - convention concerning the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage, for example, Ashur (Qal'at Sherqat). [Inundation of Ashur] Proudly endorsed by AIM. Posted: Apr-21-2004 | Visited: 400 | URL: http://whc.unesco.org Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies - the Australian leader in teaching, research and education within the field of Holocaust and Genocide studies. (http://www.aihgs.com) Posted: May-12-2004 | Visited: 145 | URL: http://www.atour.com/education/20011107a.html Center for the Study of Political Islam - is a group of scholars who are devoted to revealing the political doctrine of Islam to the world through its three foundational texts -- Koran, Sira and Hadith. Posted: Jun-19-2008 | Visited: 118 | URL: http://www.cspipublishing.com Center for World Indigenous Studies - access to knowledge and peoples' ideas reduces the possibility of conflict and increases the possibility of cooperation on the basis of mutual consent. By democratizing relations between peoples, between nations and states, the diversity of nations and their cultures will continue to enrich the world. Posted: Aug-6-2003 | Visited: 166 | URL: http://cwis.org Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture - the Institute�s flagship monthly, Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, edited by classicist Thomas Fleming, has defended Western Christian civilization for three decades. A magazine without peer, Chronicles aims to influence the influential. Posted: Jun-19-2008 | Visited: 112 | URL: http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org Dhimmis and Dhimmitude: The Status of Minorities Under Islamic Rule - the Islamic system of governing populations conquered by jihad wars, encompassing all of the demographic, ethnic, and religious aspects of the political system. The word "dhimmitude" as a historical concept, was coined by Bat Ye'or in 1983 to describe the legal and social conditions of Jews and Christians subjected to Islamic rule. Posted: Aug-6-2003 | Visited: 175 | URL: http://www.dhimmitude.org Jihad Watch - the website is directed by the renowned author, Robert Spencer, and explores the role that Islamic Jihad theology and ideology play in the modern world. Posted: Jun-19-2008 | Visited: 147 | URL: http://www.jihadwatch.org Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - the realization by the international community that �recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world�, and from the resultant pledge of States Members of the United Nations �to achieve, in cooperation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms�. Posted: Aug-6-2003 | Visited: 164 | URL: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Pages/WelcomePage.aspx United Nations - the purposes of the United Nations are to maintain international peace and security; to develop friendly relations among nations; to cooperate in solving international economic, social, cultural and humanitarian problems and in promoting respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms; and to be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in attaining these ends. Posted: Aug-6-2003 | Visited: 209 | URL: http://www.un.org/en/index.shtml  Related_Categories  Social Science Social Science : Genocide

The years of war have changed the face of the old world. Dynasties and empires have fallen; old freedoms have been reborn; revolutionary systems of government have arisen. But it is probable that, in proportion to its size, no community has undergone trials and upheavals to equal those of the little nation-church which bears the name of the Assyrians.

- (League of Nations, The Settlement of the Assyrians, A Work of Humanity and Appeasement, Geneva: 1935, foreword)