- 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.
- Treatment Action Campaign
- Region: South Africa, Africa
- Issues: Education, Public
Health
- Mission Statement: The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) was founded on 10 December 1998 in Cape Town, South Africa. We campaign for treatment for people with HIV and to reduce new HIV infections. Our efforts have resulted in many life-saving interventions, including the implementation of country-wide mother-to-child transmission prevention and antiretroviral treatment programmes. The TAC also runs a treatment literacy campaign: this is a training programme on the science of HIV treatment and prevention.
- Instituto Latinoamericano de las Naciones Unidas para la Prevencion del Delito y el Tratamiento del Delincuente (ILANUD)
- Region: Brazil, South America
- Issues: Education, Transitional & Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: The Agreement of Creation of the ILANUD establishes
that the main objective of the Institute is to collaborate with the governments
in the stable social and economic development of the countries of Latin
America and the Caribbean, by means of the formulation and incorporation
in the national plans of development, and of politics and instruments of
adequate action in the area of the prevention of the crime.
Its most important activities are: Training through seminars, courses, workshops, and meetings of experts, on the themes of prevention of the crime and penal justice that be prominent for the governments of the region; Criminal investigation and of the systems of penal justice; Provision of technical support; Harvesting and diffusion of information in themes of its competence.
ILANUD carries out its main functions through programs and projects, which include, in each case, activities of investigation, training, technical support and diffusion of information.
- 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.
- Haki Elimu
- Region: Tanzania, Africa
- Issues: Education, Gender, Human Rights
- Mission Statement: HakiElimu was established in early 2001 by a
group of 13 Tanzanian founder members. The group consists of some of the
leading members of civil society, academic, research, media, human rights
and critical gender community in Tanzania. Collectively, the group represents
over 200 years of experience in analysis, program development, activism
and management, including specialization in education.
The HakiElimu mission affirms the values of democratic governance, human rights, gender equity and meaningful public participation in decision-making. Consistent with our beliefs and ethics, HakiElimu is also committed to cultivating an explicit culture of openness, mutual respect, critical reflection and learning within the organization. We strive to practice these values in our programs, in relations with partners and affiliates and in internal processes. Where possible HakiElimu attempts to reach decisions through a process of consensus that encourages voicing of dissent and diverse viewpoints.
- The Secretary of Public Education
- Region: Mexico, Central America
- Issues: Education
- Mission Statement: The Secretary of Education is responsible for the organization, management, and development of public, incorporated, or officially recognized schools, and to make sure that all requirements related to preschool, primary, secondary, technical and normal education as established by the Constitution are observed and completed, and to prescribe the norms to which the incorporation of particular schools in the national educational system should adjust. Mexico City's public schools have the curriculum established by the secretary and the funding made by the city.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Education for Peace Institute of the Balkans
- Region: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe
- Issues: Conflict Resolution, Education, Peace Building
- Mission Statement: The main purpose of EFP-International and its sister Institutes is to develop and implement peace education programs in all parts of the world for all segments of human society. Through in-depth, systematic and sustained programs of Education for Peace (EFP), every generation of new leaders and citizens is equipped with the necessary insights and skills to decrease the occurrence and intensity of conflict to prevent its descent into violence and war. More importantly, they are then able to dedicate their talents and energies to the creation of a sustained and progressive culture of peace.