- 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.
- Amnesty International
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Human Rights
- Mission Statement: Amnesty International's vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. In pursuit of this vision, AI's mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.
- Ethical Globalization Initiative
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Human Rights, Peace Building
- Mission Statement: Our mission is to put human rights standards at the heart of global governance and policy-making and to ensure that the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable are addressed on the global stage. We harness civil society, government, business, and economic forums to build awareness for our select issues of concern. We facilitate dialogues and relationships between decision makers and key stakeholders, particularly those most marginalized, to arrive at more transparent, ethical and responsible policies and joint actions to achieve change. We develop specific policy recommendations and seek to communicate our findings to key decision makers and the wider public.
- 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.
- Article 19
- Region: UK, Europe
- Issues: Human Rights, Media
- Mission Statement: ARTICLE 19 is an international human rights organisation which defends and promotes freedom of expression and freedom of information all over the world. ARTICLE 19 believes that freedom of expression and access to information is not a luxury but a fundamental human right. The full enjoyment of this right is the most potent force to pre-empt repression, conflict and war; it is central to achieving individual freedoms and developing democracy. We monitor, research, publish, lobby, campaign, set standards, and litigate on behalf of freedom of expression wherever it is threatened.
- Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
- Region: Kenya, Africa
- Issues: Human Rights
- Mission Statement: The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (the National Commission) is an independent national human rights institution established by the government through an Act of Parliament, namely the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights Act 2002. It's core mandate is to further the protection and promotion of human rights in Kenya. Many countries have similar bodies that audit the government on human rights. The UN encourages governments to create national human rights institutions as a strategy towards enhancing protection and promotion of human rights.
- Journalists for Human Rights
- Region: Ghana, Africa
- Issues: Human Rights, Media
- Mission Statement: In the spirit of Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) is dedicated to increasing the quality and quantity of human rights reporting in the African media. As a result of this work, the African public will be made more aware of their rights, improving peace and security, and strengthening the democratization process. By limiting JHR's presence in any one country to five years, it hopes to have a sustainable and enduring impact without creating dependency.