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- Amnesty International
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Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. In particular, Amnesty International campaigns to free all prisoners of conscience; ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners; abolish the death penalty, torture and other cruel treatment of prisoners; end political killings and "disappearances"; and oppose human rights abuses by opposition groups.
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- Carr Center For Human Rights Policy
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The Carr Center is a research, teaching, and training institution at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government that critically examines the policies and actions of governments, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and other actors that affect the realization of human rights around the world.
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/cchrp/
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- Center for Economic and Social Rights
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Established in 1993, the Center for Economic and Social Rights is one of the first organizations to challenge economic injustice as a violation of international human rights law. Through its projects abroad and in the United States, CESR has developed an effective strategy that combines research, advocacy, collaboration, and education. CESR believes that economic and social rights -- legally binding on all nations -- can provide a universally accepted framework for strengthening social justice activism.
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- ConectaSur
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More than a portal for human rights news, ConectaSur is a collaborative space for human rights activists and academics from Africa, Asia and Latin America, members of the Networks HRDialogue - Southern Human Rights Activists Network and Sur - Human Rights University Network. At ConectaSur, each member of the HRDialogue and Sur can create its personal webpage (profile) which allows communication and information sharing with the other members of the networks. More than that, the profiles give the chance to put the human rights activists and academics in contact with potential partners and international organizations, especially with United Nations (UN) programs and agencies.
http://www.conectasur.org/en/index.php
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- Derechos Human Rights
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Derechos Human Rights, together with our sister organization Equipo Nizkor, work for the respect and promotion of human rights throughout the world. Our work includes the socialization of human rights related information and analysis through the internet and otehr media, the promotion of prosecutions of human rights violators and the support of local human rights NGOs and activists.
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- EarthRights International (ERI)
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ERI is a nonprofit group of activists, organizers, and lawyers with expertise in human rights, the environment, and corporate and government accountability. ERI has offices in the U.S. and Southeast Asia.
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- Global Exchange
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Global Exchange is a human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental, political, and social justice around the world. Since our founding in 1988, we have been striving to increase global awareness among the US public while building international partnerships around the world.
http://www.globalexchange.org/
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- Global Witness
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Global Witness campaigns to achieve real change by challenging established thinking on seemingly intractable global issues. We work to highlight the link between the exploitation of natural resources and human rights abuses, particularly where the resources such as timber, diamonds and oil are used to fund and perpetuate conflict and corruption.
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- Human Rights First
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Human Rights First works in the United States and abroad to create a secure and humane world by advancing justice, human dignity and respect for the rule of law. We support human rights activists who fight for basic freedoms and peaceful change at the local level; protect refugees in flight from persecution and repression; help build a strong international system of justice and accountability; and make sure human rights laws and principles are enforced in the United States and abroad.
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/
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- Human Rights Watch
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Human Rights Watch believes that international standards of human rights apply to all people equally, and that sharp vigilance and timely protest can prevent the tragedies of the twentieth century from recurring. Human Rights Watch is the largest human rights organization based in the United States. Its researchers conduct fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses in all regions of the world. Human Rights Watch is based in New York, with offices in Brussels, London, Moscow, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, and Washington.
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- International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
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The International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) is an emerging coalition of organizations and activists from around the world dedicated to advancing economic, social and cultural rights. This website contains four interactive, searchable databases (or directories) of organizations and individuals, project and activities, regional and domestic case law, and events.
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- International Service for Human Rights
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Since it was established in December 1984 by members of a variety of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Geneva, the International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) has fulfilled an indispensable role in the assistance to human rights NGOs and defenders by participating in human rights meetings and using international protection procedures. ISHR has gradually set up working programmes to inform, objectively and independently, thousands of human rights defenders and organisations around the world on United Nations proceedings and procedures regarding human rights. ISHR has also become specialised in training human rights defenders and their organisations in the use of international procedures for the protection of human rights.
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- Lawyers Without Borders
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Lawyers Without Borders, is a US-based non-profit organization whose goal is to engage the legal profession, on a global basis: * supporting capacity building of NGO's worldwide, * advancing Rule of Law, * protecting the integrity of legal process through neutral observation, * offering support to lawyers in the field and * serving as a law oriented clearinghouse linking needs with the legal resources to meet them. Our mission is to create a global association of lawyers dedicated to the promotion & protection of human justice via pro bono service.
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- More Business Than Usual: The Work Which Awaits the Human Rights Council
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Since it was created in June, the Human Rights Council has devoted significant attention to three human rights situations - Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories, Lebanon and Darfur. It has also received and discussed reports on human rights abuses in about a dozen more countries, without making recommendations or taking any action. In this first year of its existence, the Council is understandably preoccupied with institution building: establishing a "universal periodic review" in which the human rights records of all states will be considered, reviewing the system of independent experts which are responsible for reporting on human rights abuses, and developing its methods of work. But human rights violations haven't been suspended while the Council focused on these tasks; in fact they have worsened in many locations. The Council's attention to institution building has created a growing backlog of work that deserves the HRC's attention. (Human Rights Watch, March 12 2007)
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/03/12/sudan15471.htm
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- New Tactics in Human Rights
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The New Tactics in Human Rights project, led by a diverse group of international organizations and practitioners, promotes tactical innovation and strategic thinking within the international human rights community.
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- News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International
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Amnesty International defends access to abortion for women at risk and stood firmly by the rights of women and girls to be free from threat, force or coercion as they exercise their sexual and reproductive rights.
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- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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The main themes addressed by the Commission are: the right to self-determination; racism; the right to development; the question of the violation of human rights in the occupied Arab territories, including Palestine; the question of the violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in any part of the world; economic, social and cultural rights; civil and political rights, including the questions of torture and detention, disappearances and summary executions, freedom of expression, the independence of the judiciary, impunity and religious intolerance; the human rights of women, children, migrant workers, minorities and displaced persons; indigenous issues; the promotion and protection of human rights, including the work of the Sub-Commission, treaty bodies and national institutions; and advisory services and technical cooperation in the field of human rights.
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/2/chrintro.htm
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- Olympic living wage project
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The Olympic Living Wage Project, sponsored by Press for Change, and done in collaboration with the Nicaraguan Solidarity Committee, NikeWatch, and Call to Action USA, is an international human rights project focusing on the lives of sweatshop workers in Nike's Indonesian shoe factories. The two project participants, Jim Keady and Leslie Kretzu, will adopt the lifestyle, diet,customs and culture of the factory workers and live on their prevailing wages over approximately a two-month period.
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- Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative
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Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative (RR) addresses three urgent issues required for greater human development and security: Fostering more equitable international trade and development; Strengthening responses to HIV/AIDS in Africa; and Shaping more humane migration policies. RR's 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.
http://www.realizingrights.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=39&Itemid=111
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- Rights & Democracy: International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development
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Rights & Democracy (International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development) is a non-partisan organization with an international mandate. It was created by Canada's Parliament in 1988 to encourage and support the universal values of human rights and the promotion of democratic institutions and practices around the world. Rights & Democracy works with individuals, organizations and governments in Canada and abroad to promote the human and democratic rights defined in the United Nations' International Bill of Human Rights. Although its mandate is wide-ranging, Rights & Democracy currently focuses on four themes: democratic development, women's human rights, globalization and human rights, and the rights of indigenous peoples. It also has two special operations: Urgent Action/Important Opportunities, to respond to human rights crises and seize important opportunities as they arise, and International Human Rights Advocacy, to enhance the work of human rights advocates, in Canada and internationally, in the effective use of regional and international human rights mechanisms of the United Nations and regional human rights systems.
http://www.ichrdd.ca/frame2.iphtml?langue=0
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- Rights and Humanity
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Rights and Humanity promotes respect for human rights as a foundation for global economic and social justice and human development. We have a particular focus on empowering people living in poverty and social isolation. Rights and Humanity is best known for pioneering a human rights approach to HIV/AIDS and human development
http://www.rightsandhumanity.org
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- Speak Truth to Power
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Speak Truth to Power is dedicated to the promotion of human rights awareness. We are a not-for-profit organization that seeks to proactively engage the general public in an ongoing series of issue-related programs and events. We believe that we can leverage the capacity of the internet to provide a forum for individual action and to foster communication between human rights-interested individuals and organizations. In short, we hope to encourage each member of our new online community to take up the defense of human rights.
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- State of Anarchy: Rebellion and Abuses Against Civilians in Central African Republic
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This 108-page report is based on three weeks of on-the-ground research. It documents the human rights abuses and breaches of the laws of war committed in northern CAR by both rebel groups and the government forces, and also documents attacks by banditry groups in the northwest known as zaraguinas, who often kidnap children for ransom (Human Rights Watch September 2007).
http://hrw.org/reports/2007/car0907/car0907webwcover.pdf
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- The Access Initiative (TAI)
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The Access Initiative (TAI) is a global coalition of public interest groups collaborating to promote national-level implementation of commitments to access to information, participation, and justice in environmental decision-making.
http://www.accessinitiative.org/
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- The Advocacy Project
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The Advocacy Project was established in 1998 to strengthen the capacity of advocates who are working for human rights and peace in societies in conflict. AP currently maintains a loose partnership with over twenty community-based organizations around the world. We place special emphasis on helping them to become self-sufficient in their use of information technology, and on making it possible for students from the north to work directly with them.
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