- CIMADE
- Region: France, Europe
- Issues: Refugees, Transitional & Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: Each year, the Cimade welcomes and accompanies
several tens of thousands of migrants and petitioners of refuge in its permanence.
The Cimade contributes to their insert by the organization of specific formations.
It accommodates equally close to 200 persons per year in its two centers
of welcome of Béziers and of Massy.
Facing a legislation always more complex and more restrictive, the Cimade brings its expertise and its counsel to the foreigners so that they can exercise their rights. Intervening in the centers of administrative retention, it is loaded by the authorities of a mission of accompaniment and of defense of the rights of the constrained foreigners to leave the territory. Because it is necessary to let the law evolve and the mentalities, it campaigns more generally for the defense of the basic rights of the foreigners and the respect of their dignity.
To their side to the Newspaper, the Cimade can indicate what they live and difficulties that they meet. Because to welcome the foreigner is equally to understand from which it comes, the Cimade supports partners in countries of the South around projects linked to the defense of the basic rights, to the assistance to the refugees or to the support to the renewed persons in their country. It gives henceforth priority to the reinforcement and to the work with the civil corporations of the South and North for the defense of the rights of the migrant ones.
- 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.
- 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.
- Int'l Network for Economic, Social & Cultural Rights
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Human Rights, Transitional & Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: The International Network for Economic, Social
and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) is a collaborative initiative of groups and
individuals from around the world working to secure economic and social
justice through human rights. ESCR-Net seeks to strengthen the field of
all human rights, with a special focus on economic, social and cultural
rights, and further develop the tools for achieving their promotion, protection
and fulfillment.
Through ESCR-Net, groups and individuals can exchange information, develop a collective voice, amplify their actions, develop new tools and strategies. By facilitating joint actions, enhancing communications and building solidarity across regions, the network seeks to build a global movement to make human rights and social justice a reality for all.
- International Labor Rights Forum
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Human Rights, Transitional & Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: ILRF is an advocacy organization dedicated to
achieving just and humane treatment for workers worldwide. Advocacy for
these workers is essential to ensuring their protection, strengthening their
voice, and ending abuses that violate their rights and dignity. ILRF is
an advocacy organization dedicated to achieving just and humane treatment
for workers worldwide.
ILRF serves a unique role among human rights organizations as advocates for and with working poor around the world. We believe that all workers have the right to a safe working environment where they are treated with dignity and respect, and where they can organize freely to defend and promote their rights and interests. We are committed to ending the problems of child labor, forced labor, and other abusive practices. We promote enforcement of labor rights internationally through public education and mobilization, research, litigation, legislation, and collaboration with labor, government and business groups.
- International Labor Organization
- Region: Bangladesh, Asia
- Issues: Human Rights, Transitional & Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: The International Labour Organization (ILO)
is devoted to advancing opportunities for women and men to obtain decent
and productive work in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human
dignity. Its main aims are to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment
opportunities, enhance social protection and strengthen dialogue in handling
work-related issues.
In promoting social justice and internationally recognized human and labour rights, the organization continues to pursue its founding mission that labour peace is essential to prosperity. Today, the ILO helps advance the creation of decent jobs and the kinds of economic and working conditions that give working people and business people a stake in lasting peace, prosperity and progress.
- 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.
- REPRIEVE
- Region: UK, Europe
- Issues: Transitional & Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: Reprieve provides frontline investigation and legal representation to prisoners denied justice by powerful governments across the world, especially those governments that should be upholding the highest standards when it comes to fair trials. Reprieve lawyers represent people facing the death penalty, particularly in the USA, or when those facing execution are British nationals. And we represent prisoners denied justice in the name of the ‘War on Terror', including those held without charge or trial in Guantánamo Bay and the countless secret prisons beyond. None of these prisoners can afford to pay for representation.
- Creative Exchange
- Region: UK, Europe
- Issues: Conflict Resolution, Media, Poverty, Public Health, Transitional
& Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: Creative Exchange's activities help people connect
and share ideas and skills, learn about the use of culture and arts in social
settings, and change and influence policy and practice. Creative Exchange
projects are gathering knowledge about new ways of fighting poverty, conflict,
ill-health and injustice.
We focus on Culture as identity and values, and Arts as a way of expressing our identity and our ideas, and exploring opportunities for change. If culture is an important landscape for human development then the arts is the soundtrack - we need to understand how they are collectively contributing to our future and to resolving some of the challenges we face.