- 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.
- 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.
- Save the Children
- Region: Vietnam, Asia
- Issues: Children & Youth, Education, Poverty, Public Health
- Mission Statement: In 1990, Save the Children received an unprecedented
invitation from the Government of Vietnam to help address widespread child
malnutrition. The result was a groundbreaking effort pioneering the "Positive
Deviance" approach — discovering, learning from and promoting the practices
of poor families whose children were thriving while children of other families
with access to the same resources and environment were not.
"Positive Deviance" not only became a hallmark of our work in Vietnam, but is the model we use to address children's malnutrition in other countries. From this foundation, we have broadened our focus in Vietnam and today work in 10 provinces, reaching children and women in both rural and urban areas.
- International Health
- Region: Austrailia, Asia
- Issues: Public Health
- Mission Statement: Established as a not-for-profit organisation
of the University of Melbourne in 1998, the Australian International Health
Institute (AIHI) aims to increase the capacity of health workers and planners
across the Asia-Pacific region to respond to the health needs of their populations
through education, research, leadership development and technical assistance.
Recognising that sectors other than health make a major contribution to the health of societies, AIHI brings a multidisciplinary approach to international health. AIHI collaborates with centres and professionals from the Faculties of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, Law, Education, Arts, Engineering and Economics.
Based on AIHI's commitment to building capacity and generating sustainable project outcomes, AIHI has fostered alliances with governments and non-government organisations (NGOs) in the region, Australian and regional institutes and universities, as well as multilateral agencies, bilateral donors and global foundations.
- 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.
- Salween Watch Coalition
- Region: Thailand, Asia
- Issues: Capacity Building
- Mission Statement: Salween Watch was formed in February 1999, and
is a coalition of different organizations and NGO's based in Chiang Mai,
Northern Thailand, who deal with different Burma-related and environmental
issues. It was set up with the primary aim of preventing the building of
harmful hydroelectric power dams on the Salween River.
The group members aim to inform and raise awareness to the local and international communities about the impacts of the proposed hydropower development projects in the Salween Basin. The coalition works to collect information directly from the affected project areas including data from the affected environment and the people, as well as information from the media, and other credible sources.
The information, along with various participatory activities is used to raise awareness about the dams, the environment, and looks at both the positive and negative aspects of development projects among the affected communities. The group strives to build the capacity of local activists, and supports local community initiatives to help organize against development projects that potentially harm their livelihoods.
At the same time, much of the groups information and campaign activities are directed outwards, with the aim of alerting and motivating key sections of the regional and international community who are in a position to access more information, influence policy, and block the financing of the hydroelectric power dams.
- Shwe Gas Movement
- Region: Thailand, Asia
- Issues: Capacity Building
- Mission Statement: The Shwe Gas Movement (SGM) is made up of individuals and groups of people from western Burma who are affected by the plans to extract natural gas from Arakan State as well as regional and international friends who share our concerns. SGM was initiated in late 2002 by the All Arakan Students' and Youths' Congress (AASYC) with the support of Arakan leaders and grassroots communities. AASYC is rooted in Arakan State and has offices in Thailand and Bangladesh.
- 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.
- 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.
- Jammu & Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society
- Region: Kashmir, Asia
- Issues: Armed Conflict, Peacebuilding
- Mission Statement: The Srinagar-based Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, founded in 2000, is an amalgam of eight non-profit organizations working for the betterment of civil society in Kashmir. The Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society was created with the goals of protecting international humanitarian law in Kashmir, promoting peace and democracy, taking a stand against militarization and violence, and resolving the Kashmir dispute as per the wishes of the people.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.