Seeds of Tolerance | Issues

The Other Side of War: Women's Stories of Survival
and Hope
Photographers: Susan Meiselas, Sylvia Plachy, and Lekha
Singh
Curators: Anna Lopriore
Focus: To use photography as a medium for human rights
awareness, discussion, education
Region: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Europe, Democratic
Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Rwanda, Africa, Afghanistan,
Middle East, Colombia, South America
Issues: Armed Combat, Children & Youth, Gender, Human
Rights, Peacebuilding, Public Health, Poverty

Europe's Darkest Corner: Photographs from Chechnya
1994 - 2005
Photographers: Heidi Bradner, Stanley Greene, Mikhail
Galustov, James Hill and Thomas Dworzak
Curator: Anna Lopriore
Focus: To use photography as a medium for human rights
awareness, discussion, education
Region: Chechnya, Europe, Central Asia
Issues: Armed Conflict, Children & Youth, Human Rights,
Public Health, Poverty

Mission Statement: Physicians for Human Rights mobilizes health professionals to advance health, dignity, and justice and promotes the right to health for all. Harnessing the specialized skills, rigor, and passion of doctors, nurses, public health specialists, and scientists, PHR investigates human rights abuses and works to stop them.

World Health Organization
Region: Israel, Middle East
Issues: Public Health
Mission Statement: WHO is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the health research agenda, setting norms and standards, articulating evidence-based policy options, providing technical support to countries and monitoring and assessing health trends. In the 21st century, health is a shared responsibility, involving equitable access to essential care and collective defence against transnational threats.

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.

The Secretary of Health
Region: Mexico, Central America
Issues: Public Health
Mission Statement: The Secretary of Health's mission is to ontribute to a sustainable inclusive, just, and human development, by means of the promotion of the health as social objective shared and the universal access to high-quality and integral services that satisfy the needs and they respond to the expectations of the population, to the time that offer opportunities of professional advance to the lenders, in the framework of a fair financing, an efficient, transparent, and honest use of the resources, and Extensive civic participation.

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.

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.

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.

DramAide
Region: South Africa, Africa
Issues: Children & Youth, Education, Media, Public Health
Mission Statement: The DramAidE project uses drama methodologies to critically engage young people to communicate effectively about issues relating to sex, sexuality and HIV/AIDS. DramAidE aims to equip young people with increased knowledge about HIV/AIDS and the skills to inform and communicate with others about sexual health. The goal is to create a network of peer educators that practice safer sex and other positive behaviours, and initiate a social movement that promotes healthy lifestyles.

These peer educators are organised into clubs. These clubs provide a platform for them to undertake health promoting communication campaigns through generating ‘action media' and undertaking health promoting projects more broadly in their communities. ‘Action media' are plays, posters, songs and dances that have been created by young people through a participatory process.