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Ship of Tolerance: Venice Biennale 2007
Focus: To promote tolerance among children around the
world through drawing and creative thinking
Region: Italy, Europe
Issues: Children & Youth, Tolerance

Ship of Tolerance: Beijing Olympics 2008
Focus: To promote tolerance among children around the
world through drawing and creative thinking
Region: China, Asia
Issues: Children & Youth, Tolerance

Dance For Tolerance
Focus: To break the vicious cycles of violence among
youth and promote positive social change through the
medium of dance.
Region: U.S.A., North America, Colombia, Brazil,
South America
Issues: Armed Conflict, Children & Youth, Peacebuilding,
Poverty, Tolerance

Caritas
Region: Jordan, Middle East
Issues: Poverty, Tolerance
Mission Statement: Caritas fights poverty, exclusion, intolerance and discrimination. More importantly, it empowers people to participate fully in all matters affecting their lives, and it advocates on their behalf at national and international forums. Caritas promotes partnership: local autonomy is paramount in ensuring effective teamwork for the good of all. By pooling expertise and resources, Caritas is able to identify issues at the grassroots, analyse them at national and international levels, and then take action locally, regionally and globally.

Institute for Democracy in South Africa
Region: South Africa, Africa
Issues: Capacity Building, Tolerance
Mission Statement: Idasa is an independent public interest organisation committed to promoting sustainable democracy based on active citizenship, democratic institutions, and social justice. IDASA is a nationally recognised public interest organisation in South Africa. It maintains international links with many similar organisations through the world movement for democracy.

National Center for Human Rights
Region: Jordan, Middle East
Issues: Human Rights, Tolerance, Transitional & Restorative Justice
Mission Statement: The Mission of the NCHR is to disseminate human rights culture, protect and provide consultation and legal assistance and observe human right violations especially inflicted against those in need. To fulfill this mission, the NCHR has embarked on many activities: studies and research , seminars, workshops, issue of statements and publications and finally prepared mid-term and annual reports.

To establish a society where justice, equality, and rule of law prevail and to safeguard the dignity of the individual and protect public freedoms and the rights of citizens in an atmosphere of brotherhood, tolerance, and solidarity among all members of our big Jordanian family.

International Center for Tolerance Education
Region: U.S.A., North America
Issues: Children & Youth, Education, Tolerance
Mission Statement: The Third Millennium Foundation is a private, not-for-profit foundation located in New York City. The Foundation was founded in the year 2000 as an initiative for unlearning intolerance in the new millennium. It makes grants all over the world and focuses on childhood education and human rights with emphasis on supporting social entrepreneurs among global youth.

The Foundation's principal goal is to support initiatives designed to promote tolerance and human rights, particularly among the young. Its work is focused on developing young children's understanding of and respect for the differences that exist among themselves, especially those related to culture, ethnicity, gender, race, and socioeconomic status. The Foundation's program builds on research findings demonstrating that gaining self-control and the ability to relate positively to others is developed in early childhood. In the field of human rights the support is mostly through fellowships in order to bring new leaders into the field.

Online Tolerance Test
Description: Project Implicit's interactive tool helps us to
better understand the implicit associations we make about
each other