Our fellows are able to have enriching and successful fellowship experiences because of the grassroots organizations that host them. The SoT Campaign partners with established organizations on the ground and can immerse the fellows in field experience. Our fellows greatly benefit from the experience of working alongside colleagues in the field of their choice, facing the same challenges they face on a daily basis.
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ministry of Education and Science
- Region: China, Asia
- Issues: Capacity Building, Education
- Mission Statement: Mission of the Ministry of Science and Technology is to research and set forth the macro strategies for science and technology development, as well as guidelines, policies and regulations for science and technology to promote economic and social development; to conduct research on key issues relating to the promotion of economic and social development by science and technology, to research and determine the major deployment and priority areas for science and technology development; to promote the building of the national science and technology innovation system and improve the national science and technology innovation capacity.
- 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.
- 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.
- Women's Agenda for Change
- Region: Cambodia, Asia
- Issues: Capacity Building, Gender, Poverty
- Mission Statement: In this strategic plan, the Womyn's Agenda for
Change (WAC) further evolves and matures into a locally run independent
NGO. This step is the natural outcome of the past six years of work, which
laid the groundwork for this evolution to happen. The WAC program has been
operating in Cambodia since inception in late 1999, originally a project
of Oxfam Hong Kong.
The previous Strategic Plan (2004-2006) saw WAC become an independent but still expatriate managed NGO. Many development challenges exist in Cambodia, notably the realistic addressing of the root causes of poverty through true grassroots empowerment and action. WAC has demonstrated that it is uniquely positioned to be able to undertake activities that challenge development hegemony, educate and assist the grassroots, organise and effect social change. This plan further refines the organisational goals based on our strengths and the challenges that still exist.
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