- Time Magazine
- Region: UK, Europe
- Issues: Media
- Mission Statement: We value our people's leadership at every level - their creativity, talent and commitment to excellence - ensures that Time continues to provide the high-performance service, trustworthy information and enjoyable entertainment our audiences, members and customers expect.
- International Helsinki Founation
- Region: Austria, Europe
- Issues: Human Rights
- Mission Statement: The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights is a self-governing group of non-governmental, not-for-profit organizations that act to protect human rights throughout Europe, North America, and the Central Asian republics formed from the territories of the former Soviet Union. A primary specific goal is to monitor compliance with the human rights provisions of the Helsinki Final Act and its Follow-up Documents.
- 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.
- CIMADE
- Region: France, Europe
- Issues: Refugees, Transitional & Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: Each year, the Cimade welcomes and accompanies
several tens of thousands of migrants and petitioners of refuge in its permanence.
The Cimade contributes to their insert by the organization of specific formations.
It accommodates equally close to 200 persons per year in its two centers
of welcome of Béziers and of Massy.
Facing a legislation always more complex and more restrictive, the Cimade brings its expertise and its counsel to the foreigners so that they can exercise their rights. Intervening in the centers of administrative retention, it is loaded by the authorities of a mission of accompaniment and of defense of the rights of the constrained foreigners to leave the territory. Because it is necessary to let the law evolve and the mentalities, it campaigns more generally for the defense of the basic rights of the foreigners and the respect of their dignity.
To their side to the Newspaper, the Cimade can indicate what they live and difficulties that they meet. Because to welcome the foreigner is equally to understand from which it comes, the Cimade supports partners in countries of the South around projects linked to the defense of the basic rights, to the assistance to the refugees or to the support to the renewed persons in their country. It gives henceforth priority to the reinforcement and to the work with the civil corporations of the South and North for the defense of the rights of the migrant ones.
- 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.
- REPRIEVE
- Region: UK, Europe
- Issues: Transitional & Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: Reprieve provides frontline investigation and legal representation to prisoners denied justice by powerful governments across the world, especially those governments that should be upholding the highest standards when it comes to fair trials. Reprieve lawyers represent people facing the death penalty, particularly in the USA, or when those facing execution are British nationals. And we represent prisoners denied justice in the name of the ‘War on Terror', including those held without charge or trial in Guantánamo Bay and the countless secret prisons beyond. None of these prisoners can afford to pay for representation.
- 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.
- 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.