- International Labor Rights Forum
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Human Rights, Transitional & Restorative Justice
- Mission Statement: ILRF is an advocacy organization dedicated to
achieving just and humane treatment for workers worldwide. Advocacy for
these workers is essential to ensuring their protection, strengthening their
voice, and ending abuses that violate their rights and dignity. ILRF is
an advocacy organization dedicated to achieving just and humane treatment
for workers worldwide.
ILRF serves a unique role among human rights organizations as advocates for and with working poor around the world. We believe that all workers have the right to a safe working environment where they are treated with dignity and respect, and where they can organize freely to defend and promote their rights and interests. We are committed to ending the problems of child labor, forced labor, and other abusive practices. We promote enforcement of labor rights internationally through public education and mobilization, research, litigation, legislation, and collaboration with labor, government and business groups.
- Amnesty International
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Human Rights
- Mission Statement: Amnesty International's vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards. In pursuit of this vision, AI's mission is to undertake research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.
- Ethical Globalization Initiative
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Human Rights, Peace Building
- Mission Statement: Our mission is to put human rights standards at the heart of global governance and policy-making and to ensure that the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable are addressed on the global stage. We harness civil society, government, business, and economic forums to build awareness for our select issues of concern. We facilitate dialogues and relationships between decision makers and key stakeholders, particularly those most marginalized, to arrive at more transparent, ethical and responsible policies and joint actions to achieve change. We develop specific policy recommendations and seek to communicate our findings to key decision makers and the wider public.
- Global Kids
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Capacity Building, Children & Youth, Education
- Mission Statement: Global Kids (GK) is committed to transforming urban youth into successful students as well as global and community leaders. Using interactive and experiential methods to educate youth about critical international and foreign policy issues, GK provides students with opportunities for civic and global engagement. Through its professional development program, GK provides teachers and educators with strategies for integrating a youth development approach and international issues into their classrooms.
- Defense Democracies
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Armed Combat, Conflict Resolution, Tolerance
- Mission Statement: The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
(FDD) is the only nonpartisan policy institute dedicated exclusively to
promoting pluralism, defending democratic values, and fighting the ideologies
that drive terrorism. FDD was founded shortly after 9/11 by a group of visionary
philanthropists and policymakers to engage in the worldwide war of ideas
and to support the defense of democratic societies under assault by terrorism
and Militant Islamism.
FDD uniquely combines policy research, democracy training, strategic communications, and investigative journalism. We focus our efforts where opinions are formed and, ultimately, where the war of ideas will be won or lost: in the media, on college campuses, and in the policy community, at home and abroad.
- Youth Media Council
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Children & Youth, Media
- Mission Statement: Grounded in the idea that the purpose of progressive communications and cultural work is to amplify hope and pave the way for change - the Center for Media Justice is a member -driven media strategy and action center dedicated to creating a collaborative movement for racial justice and youth rights. Together with our participants, members, partners, and allies - the Center for Media Justice builds the power of grassroots movements and disenfranchised communities to transform public debate and win media accountability in the service of justice.
- Inuit Circumpolar Conference
- Region: Canada, Noth America
- Issues: Capacity Building, Human Rights
- Mission Statement: Founded in 1977 by the late Eben Hopson of Barrow,
Alaska, the Inuit Circumpolar Conference (ICC) has flourished and grown
into a major international non-government organization representing approximately
150,000 Inuit of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Chukotka (Russia). The organization
holds Consultative Status II at the United Nations.
To thrive in their circumpolar homeland, Inuit had the vision to realize they must speak with a united voice on issues of common concern and combine their energies and talents towards protecting and promoting their way of life.
- Amnesty International Film Festival
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Human Rights, Media
- Mission Statement: Few artistic media have the power to reach across
cultures, languages, and even time itself to influence millions of people
in the language of our daily lives. Film has such power. Each year dozens
of talented filmmakers work against long odds, short finances, and threatening
politics to bring to the screen powerful stories of human struggle, sacrifice,
and triumph.
Some documentary filmmakers have risked their very lives so that we may be moved by far-off stories that, once told, seem very much closer to home. The Amnesty International Film Festival is dedicated to bringing these stories to our communities so that our colleagues, neighbors, and friends can see for themselves the full-range of challenges facing people in every part of the world.
- International Center for Tolerance Education
- Region: U.S.A., North America
- Issues: Children & Youth, Education, Tolerance
- Mission Statement: The Third Millennium Foundation is a private,
not-for-profit foundation located in New York City. The Foundation was founded
in the year 2000 as an initiative for unlearning intolerance in the new
millennium. It makes grants all over the world and focuses on childhood
education and human rights with emphasis on supporting social entrepreneurs
among global youth.
The Foundation's principal goal is to support initiatives designed to promote tolerance and human rights, particularly among the young. Its work is focused on developing young children's understanding of and respect for the differences that exist among themselves, especially those related to culture, ethnicity, gender, race, and socioeconomic status. The Foundation's program builds on research findings demonstrating that gaining self-control and the ability to relate positively to others is developed in early childhood. In the field of human rights the support is mostly through fellowships in order to bring new leaders into the field.