- The Other
Side of War: Women's Stories of Survival
and Hope
- Photographers: Susan Meiselas, Sylvia Plachy, and Lekha
Singh
- Curators: Anna Lopriore
- Focus: To use photography as a medium for human rights
awareness, discussion, education
- Region: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe, Democratic
Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Rwanda, Africa, Afghanistan,
Middle East, Colombia, South America
- Issues: Armed Combat, Children & Youth, Gender, Human
Rights, Peacebuilding, Public Health, Poverty
- Europe's
Darkest Corner: Photographs from Chechnya
1994 - 2005
- Photographers: Heidi Bradner, Stanley Greene, Mikhail
Galustov, James Hill and Thomas Dworzak
- Curator: Anna Lopriore
- Focus: To use photography as a medium for human rights
awareness, discussion, education
- Region: Chechnya, Europe, Central Asia
- Issues: Armed Conflict, Children & Youth, Human Rights,
Public Health, Poverty
- Contra El Olvido:
Testaments on Colombia's Conflict
- Photographer: Jesus Abad Colorado
- Curator: Ellen Tolmie
- Focus: To use photography as a medium for human rights
awareness, discussion, education
- Region: Colombia, South America
- Issues: Armed Conflict, Children & Youth, Human Rights,
Peacebuilding, Poverty
- Bureau des Avocats Internationaux/ Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
- Region: Haiti, Central America
- Issues: Human Rights, Transitional & Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: IDJH's mission is to work with the people of
Haiti in their non-violent struggle for the return and consolidation of
constitutional democracy, justice and human rights, by distributing objective
and accurate information on human rights conditions in Haiti, pursuing legal
cases, and cooperating with human rights and solidarity groups in Haiti
and abroad.
IJDH draws on its founders' internationally-acclaimed success accompanying Haiti's poor majority in the fields of law, medicine and social justice activism. We seek the restoration of the rule of law and democracy in the short term, and work for the long-term sustainable change necessary to avert Haiti's next crisis.
- International Helsinki Founation
- Region: Austria, Europe
- Issues: Human Rights
- Mission Statement: The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights is a self-governing group of non-governmental, not-for-profit organizations that act to protect human rights throughout Europe, North America, and the Central Asian republics formed from the territories of the former Soviet Union. A primary specific goal is to monitor compliance with the human rights provisions of the Helsinki Final Act and its Follow-up Documents.
- Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales
- Region: Argentina, South America
- Issues: Human Rights
- Mission Statement: The Center for Legal and Social Studies (Centro
de Estudios Legales y Sociales, CELS) is a non-governmental organization
that has been working since 1979 in the promotion and protection of human
rights and to strengthen the democratic system in Argentina.
The institution's main objectives focus on: reporting human rights violations; influencing the policy-making process based on respect for the fundamental rights; promoting legal and institutional reforms designed to improve the quality of democratic institutions; and promoting an increased exercise of these rights by the most vulnerable sectors in society.
- Earthrights International
- Region: Burma, Asia
- Issues: Capacity Building, Human Rights, Transitional & Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: EarthRights International (ERI) is a nongovernmental, nonprofit organization that combines the power of law and the power of people in defense of earth rights. We specialize in fact-finding, legal actions against perpetrators of earth rights abuses, training grassroots and community leaders, and advocacy campaigns. Through these strategies, ERI seeks to end earth rights abuses, to provide real solutions for real people, and to promote and protect human rights and the environment in the communities where we work.
- Fiji Women's Rights Movement
- Region: Fiji, Oceania
- Issues: Gender, Human Rights
- Mission Statement: The Fiji Women's Rights Movement is a multi-ethnic and multicultural non-governmental organisation committed to removing discrimination against women through institutional reforms and additional changes. By means of core programmes, as well as innovative approaches, the FWRM practice promotes democracy, good governance, feminism and human rights. It strives to empower, unite and provide leadership opportunities for women in Fiji, especially for emerging young leaders. The purpose of the Movement is to work towards the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women, promote the equality of women, and support democracy and human rights in all areas of life in Fiji and the Pacific Island region.
- Stepping Stones Foundation
- Region: Vietnam, Asia
- Issues: Children & Youth, Education, Gender, Human Rights
- Mission Statement: Stepping Stones Foundation is a non-profit, non-governmental organization based in San Francisco and has its first country office in Hanoi. The organization is committed to four rights-based components, or "the 4 Rs" on human anti-trafficking: rescue, repatriation, rehabilitation, and reintegration. The Stepping Stones Foundation is now 60+ staff strong and has repatriated over 300 Vietnamese women and children.
- International Center for Transitional Justice
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Human Rights, Transitional & Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: The International Center for Transitional Justice
(ICTJ) assists countries pursuing accountability for past mass atrocity
or human rights abuse. The Center works in societies emerging from repressive
rule or armed conflict, as well as in established democracies where historical
injustices or systemic abuse remain unresolved. ICTJ assists countries pursuing
accountability for past mass atrocity or human rights abuse.
The Center is committed to building local capacity and generally strengthening the emerging field of transitional justice, and works closely with organizations and experts around the world to do so. By working in the field through local languages, the ICTJ provides comparative information, legal and policy analysis, documentation, and strategic research to justice and truth-seeking institutions, nongovernmental organizations, governments and others.