- Bureau des Avocats Internationaux/ Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti
- Region: Haiti, Central America
- Issues: Human Rights, Transitional & Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: IDJH's mission is to work with the people of
Haiti in their non-violent struggle for the return and consolidation of
constitutional democracy, justice and human rights, by distributing objective
and accurate information on human rights conditions in Haiti, pursuing legal
cases, and cooperating with human rights and solidarity groups in Haiti
and abroad.
IJDH draws on its founders' internationally-acclaimed success accompanying Haiti's poor majority in the fields of law, medicine and social justice activism. We seek the restoration of the rule of law and democracy in the short term, and work for the long-term sustainable change necessary to avert Haiti's next crisis.
- Earthrights International
- Region: Burma, Asia
- Issues: Capacity Building, Human Rights, Transitional & Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: EarthRights International (ERI) is a nongovernmental, nonprofit organization that combines the power of law and the power of people in defense of earth rights. We specialize in fact-finding, legal actions against perpetrators of earth rights abuses, training grassroots and community leaders, and advocacy campaigns. Through these strategies, ERI seeks to end earth rights abuses, to provide real solutions for real people, and to promote and protect human rights and the environment in the communities where we work.
- 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.
- Human Rights Law Network
- Region: India, Asia
- Issues: Human Rights, Transitional & Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: The Human Rights Law Network (HRLN) is a collective of lawyers and social activists dedicated to the use of the legal system to advance human rights, struggle against violations, and ensure access to justice for all. A not-for-profit, non-governmental organisation, HRLN defines rights to include civil and political rights as well as economic, social, cultural and environmental rights. We believe human rights are universal and indivisible, and their realisation is an immediate goal.
- 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.
- The CRADLE
- Region: Kenya, Africa
- Issues: Children & Youth, Transitional & Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: The CRADLE - The Children's Foundation is a non-profit making and non-governmental organization committed to the protection, promotion and enhancement of the rights of the child through court representation, advocacy and law reform. The CRADLE institutionalized in 1999 by setting up a pilot and the first legal aid clinic of its kind for children and has since continued protecting and promoting the rights of the child to date.
- 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.
- UNICEF Child Protection Unit Eastern & Southern Africa Regional Office
- Region: Kenya, Africa
- 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.
- Stichting Russian Justice Initiative
- Region: Russia, Europe/Asia
- Issues: Human Rights, Transitional & Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: Russian Justice Initiative is a groundbreaking initiative that utilizes domestic and international legal mechanisms to seek redress for human rights abuses committed in the North Caucasus. Together with its implementing partner, Pravovaia Initsiativa (Ingushetia), RJI provides free legal counsel to victims of human rights violations and their families. The organization's lawyers and researchers investigate incidents of arbitrary detention, torture, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions and bring these cases to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.