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- 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
- Correctional Association
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Education, Transitional & Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: The Correctional Association of New York is an independent, non-profit organization founded by concerned citizens in 1844 and granted unique authority by the New York State Legislature to inspect prisons and to report its findings and recommendations to the legislature, the public and the press. Through monitoring, research, public education and policy recommendations, the Correctional Association strives to make the administration of justice in New York State more fair, efficient and humane. The Correctional Association envisions a criminal justice system that holds a person accountable for a crime yet does not condemn an entire life based on a person's worst act, a system that goes beyond a process of law and accountability to encompass social and racial equality on all levels.
- Foundation for Sustainable Development
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Capacity Building
- Mission Statement: The Foundation for Sustainable Development was founded in 1995 to support the efforts of local development organizations working to improve the welfare of the people living in their communities. FSD provides these grassroots organizations with human resources, financial resources, and technical assistance. Our primary goal is to increase their capacity to serve their communities. In striving to achieve this goal, other benefits emerge: we raise awareness of the challenges faced by those in the developing world, we train the development leaders of tomorrow, and we facilitate increased cross-cultural understanding.
- 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.
- CARE
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Capacity Building, Gender, Poverty, Public Health
- Mission Statement: CARE is a leading humanitarian organization
fighting global poverty. We place special focus on working alongside poor
women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power
to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are
at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education,
prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation,
expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources.
CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives. Our mission is to serve individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing strength from our global diversity, resources and experience, we promote innovative solutions and are advocates for global responsibility.
- 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!
- New Immigrant Community Empowerment
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Capacity Building, Education
- Mission Statement: New Immigrant Community Empowerment (NICE) is a cross-cultural, non-profit organization that uses organizing, advocacy, and public education to ensure that new immigrants are active, informed, and influential in civic, governmental and public affairs. Central to NICE's mission is challenging the access gap between recent immigrant communities and government, seeking systemic solutions to improving immigrants' voting rights, full language access, health care, and workplace protections under local, state and federal laws.
- National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Gender, Human Rights, Poverty, Public Health
- Mission Statement: The mission of the National Latina Institute
for Reproductive Health (NLIRH) is to ensure the fundamental human right
to reproductive health care for Latinas, their families and their communities
through education, policy advocacy, and community mobilization.Latinas face
a unique and complex array of reproductive health and rights issues that
are exacerbated by poverty, gender, racial and ethnic discrimination and
xenophobia.
These circumstances make it especially difficult for Latinas to access reproductive health care services, including the full range of available reproductive health technologies and abortion services. We believe that in order to substantially improve the reproductive health of Latinas and protect their rights to exercise reproductive freedom, NLIRH must locate reproductive health and rights issues within a broader social justice framework that seeks to bring an end to poverty and discrimination and affirms human dignity and the right to self-determination.
- 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.