- Keu Apoema Ribeiro
- Region: Brazil, Latin America
- Main Areas Of Interest: Social change
- Fellowship Period: January - March 2006
- Keywords: art, storytelling, education
- Matilde Perez Romero
- Region: Mexico, Latin America
- Main Areas Of Interest: Human Rights law
- Fellowship Period: November - January 2005
- Keywords: Public interest law, conflict mediation
and arbitration
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- Dance For Tolerance
- Focus: To break the vicious cycles of violence among
youth and promote positive social change through the
medium of dance.
- Region: U.S.A., North America, Colombia, Brazil,
South America
- Issues: Armed Conflict, Children & Youth, Peacebuilding,
Poverty, 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
- Contra El Olvido:
Testaments on Colombia's Conflict
- Photographer: Jesus Abad Colorado
- Curator: Ellen Tolmie
- Focus: To use photography as a medium for human rights
awareness, discussion, education
- Region: Colombia, South America
- Issues: Armed Conflict, Children & Youth, Human Rights,
Peacebuilding, Poverty
- 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.
- Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales
- Region: Argentina, South America
- Issues: Human Rights
- Mission Statement: The Center for Legal and Social Studies (Centro
de Estudios Legales y Sociales, CELS) is a non-governmental organization
that has been working since 1979 in the promotion and protection of human
rights and to strengthen the democratic system in Argentina.
The institution's main objectives focus on: reporting human rights violations; influencing the policy-making process based on respect for the fundamental rights; promoting legal and institutional reforms designed to improve the quality of democratic institutions; and promoting an increased exercise of these rights by the most vulnerable sectors in society.
- Projecto Mentes e Portas Albertas (POMPA)
- Region: Brazil, South America
- Issues: Capacity Building, Children & Youth
- Mission Statement: Provides training for African-Brazilian students to become leaders in the public arena to foster constructive change within their communities. Working to empower citizens, especially youth, with respect to police activities in poor communities in Brazil.