- Physicians for Human Rights
- Region: Israel, Middle East
- Issues: Human Rights, Public Health
- Mission Statement: Physicians for Human Rights mobilizes health professionals to advance health, dignity, and justice and promotes the right to health for all. Harnessing the specialized skills, rigor, and passion of doctors, nurses, public health specialists, and scientists, PHR investigates human rights abuses and works to stop them.
- Human Rights Law Network
- Region: India, Asia
- Issues: Human Rights, Transitional & Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: The Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) is a collective of lawyers and social activists dedicated to the use of the legal system to advance human rights, struggle against violations, and ensure access to justice for all. A not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation, HRLN defines rights to include civil and political rights as well as economic, social, cultural and environmental rights. We believe human rights are universal and indivisible, and their realisation is an immediate goal.
- Haki Elimu
- Region: Tanzania, Africa
- Issues: Education, Gender, Human Rights
- Mission Statement: HakiElimu was established in early 2001 by a
group of 13 Tanzanian founder members. The group consists of some of the
leading members of civil society, academic, research, media, human rights
and critical gender community in Tanzania. Collectively, the group represents
over 200 years of experience in analysis, program development, activism
and management, including specialization in education.
The HakiElimu mission affirms the values of democratic governance, human rights, gender equity and meaningful public participation in decision-making. Consistent with our beliefs and ethics, HakiElimu is also committed to cultivating an explicit culture of openness, mutual respect, critical reflection and learning within the organization. We strive to practice these values in our programs, in relations with partners and affiliates and in internal processes. Where possible HakiElimu attempts to reach decisions through a process of consensus that encourages voicing of dissent and diverse viewpoints.
- Breakthrough
- Region: U.S.A., North America & Pakistan, Asia
- Issues: Education, Human Rights, Media, Transitional & Restorative
Justice
- Mission Statement: Breakthrough is an international human rights
organization that uses media, education and pop culture to promote values
of dignity, equality and justice. Our organization uses creative tools to
teach others about human rights. These rights make up the daily fabric of
our lives, of how we tend to live individually and as a community.
The rights to life, food, shelter, freedom of expression, freedom from violence, religious freedom - these are all human rights to which we are all entitled. The United Nations has codified many human rights in documents called conventions and treaties, which are ratified by member countries that promise to adhere by their rules. They are described in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Guaranteeing these rights for us and for others is what building a human rights culture is all about.
- Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Capacity Building, Human Rights
- Mission Statement: The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement is an organization
of Afrikans in America/New Afrikans whose mission is to defend the human
rights of our people and promote self-determination in our community. We
understand that the collective institutions of white-supremacy, patriarchy
and capitalism have been at the root of our people's oppression.
We understand that without community control and without the power to determine our own lives, we will continue to fall victim to genocide. Therefore, we seek to heighten our consciousness about self-determination as a human right and a solution to our colonization. While organizing around our principles of unity, we are building a network of Black/New Afrikan activists and organizers committed to the protracted struggle for the liberation of the New Afrikan Nation - By Any Means Necessary!
- UNICEF Child Protection Unit Eastern & Southern Africa Regional Office
- Region: Kenya, Africa
- Issues: Children & Youth, Human Rights
- Mission Statement: UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. We have the global authority to influence decision-makers, and the variety of partners at grassroots level to turn the most innovative ideas into reality. That makes us unique among world organizations, and unique among those working with the young. We believe that nurturing and caring for children are the cornerstones of human progress. UNICEF was created with this purpose in mind - to work with others to overcome the obstacles that poverty, violence, disease and discrimination place in a child's path. We believe that we can, together, advance the cause of humanity.
- Stichting Russian Justice Initiative
- Region: Russia, Europe/Asia
- Issues: Human Rights, Transitional & Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: Russian Justice Initiative is a groundbreaking initiative that utilizes domestic and international legal mechanisms to seek redress for human rights abuses committed in the North Caucasus. Together with its implementing partner, Pravovaia Initsiativa (Ingushetia), RJI provides free legal counsel to victims of human rights violations and their families. The organization's lawyers and researchers investigate incidents of arbitrary detention, torture, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions and bring these cases to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.
- Africa and Middle East Refugee Assistance
- Region: Egypt, Middle East
- Issues: Human Rights, Refugees, Transitional
- Mission Statement: AMERA-Egypt operates as a foreign branch of
AMERA-UK under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2000 there were no Egyptian
lawyers trained in refugee/human rights law. Today, through the training
that has been ongoing since 2000, AMERA's permanent staff are all Egyptian.
In addition, three times a year, AMERA trains ten volunteer lawyers and
psychologists/social workers from Egypt and the rest of the world. These
volunteers are self-funded and remain with AMERA for at least six months.
The work of AMERA-Egypt is overseen by an Advisory Committee, chaired by Dr. Harrell-Bond and appointed by the AMERA-UK Board. AMERA-Egypt meets its goals and objectives through teams, each headed by a legal officer or psychosocial worker. The volunteer legal advisors and psychosocial workers are assigned to work with a team and are also responsible for representing individual refugee status determination cases.
- UNICEF Hong Kong
- Region: Hong Kong, Asia
- Issues: Children & Youth, Human Rights
- Mission Statement: UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. We have the global authority to influence decision-makers, and the variety of partners at grassroots level to turn the most innovative ideas into reality. That makes us unique among world organizations, and unique among those working with the young. We believe that nurturing and caring for children are the cornerstones of human progress. UNICEF was created with this purpose in mind - to work with others to overcome the obstacles that poverty, violence, disease and discrimination place in a child's path. We believe that we can, together, advance the cause of humanity.
- Center for Economic and Social Rights
- Region: Ecuador, South America
- Issues: Capacity Building, Human Rights, Transitional & Restorative
Justice
- Mission Statement: CESR's mission is to advocate for social justice
using human rights tools and strategies. For more than ten years we have
contributed to the development of a human rights culture that integrates
economic security, social equality, and political freedom as established
in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
We build relationships with civil society groups and strengthen local initiatives for economic justice by connecting them with international institutions and legal mechanisms for protecting human rights.
The legal framework recasts basic human needs for health, housing, education, food, a healthy environment, and work as enforceable human rights. It provides an umbrella for a diverse set of communities, organizations and activists to join together in demanding accountability and policy change from state and non-state actors in accordance with universal standards of law.