Seeds of Tolerance | Regions

Ola Shahba
Region: Egypt, North Africa
Main Areas Of Interest: community development,
social reform, conflict resolution
Fellowship Period: March - May 2007
Keywords: human rights, culture of tolerance

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

Caritas
Region: Jordan, Middle East
Issues: Poverty, Tolerance
Mission Statement: Caritas fights poverty, exclusion, intolerance and discrimination. More importantly, it empowers people to participate fully in all matters affecting their lives, and it advocates on their behalf at national and international forums. Caritas promotes partnership: local autonomy is paramount in ensuring effective teamwork for the good of all. By pooling expertise and resources, Caritas is able to identify issues at the grassroots, analyse them at national and international levels, and then take action locally, regionally and globally.

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.

Africa and Middle East Refugee Assistance
Region: Egypt, Middle East
Issues: Human Rights, Refugees, Transitional
Mission Statement: AMERA-Egypt operates as a foreign branch of AMERA-UK under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2000 there were no Egyptian lawyers trained in refugee/human rights law. Today, through the training that has been ongoing since 2000, AMERA's permanent staff are all Egyptian. In addition, three times a year, AMERA trains ten volunteer lawyers and psychologists/social workers from Egypt and the rest of the world. These volunteers are self-funded and remain with AMERA for at least six months.

The work of AMERA-Egypt is overseen by an Advisory Committee, chaired by Dr. Harrell-Bond and appointed by the AMERA-UK Board. AMERA-Egypt meets its goals and objectives through teams, each headed by a legal officer or psychosocial worker. The volunteer legal advisors and psychosocial workers are assigned to work with a team and are also responsible for representing individual refugee status determination cases.

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.