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What's Being Done On . . . Human Rights Networking ?
Global | Africa | Asia | Americas | Europe and New Independent States | Middle East | Professional Networks for Human Rights
The following is a sample list of human rights networks with global and regional focus. This list is not intended to be a comprehensive compilation of networks. In some cases, we provide more expansive information. Please send us information on human rights networks that you are part of so we can consider adding it to this Web site. GLOBAL: Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. The AI Web site provides the latest human rights news, human rights information organized by country and region and human rights themes, access to appeals, action campaigns, and other resources. Detailed information about AI and its history is also available. http://www.amnesty.org/ Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) is an international membership organization connecting, informing and mobilizing people and organizations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights. http://www.awid.org Forefront is a global network of human rights defenders committed to promoting sustainable social change by providing protection and support to activists defending human rights in their communities. It facilitates an exchange of experiences and works to connect activists to the international community to ensure their safety and security and to overcome adversity. http://www.forefrontleaders.org/ more... Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) is an international nongovernmental organization that supports human rights learning through training of activists and professionals; the development of educational materials and programming; and community-building through online technologies. It promotes networking among human rights educators. The organization's Web site includes links to other human rights education organizations and resources organized by issue. http://www.hrea.org/ Interview with Felisa Tibbitts, Executive Director, the HREA Human Rights House Network is a forum of cooperation among the established and emerging Human Rights Houses. Existing and emerging Human Rights Houses in Europe, the New Independent states, and Africa are working communities of human rights organizations that collaborate on projects and are located in the same building (house). http://www.humanrightshouse.org/ Interview wiht Maria Dahle, Executive Director, Human Rights House Foucndation Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems, International (HURIDOCS), based in Geneva, is a global network of human rights organizations and individuals who strive for effective documentation and information management to defend, assert, and promote human rights. http://www.huridocs.org/ Human Rights Internet (HRI), based in Ottawa, Canada, is committed to the empowerment of human rights activists and organizations, and to the education of governmental and intergovernmental agencies and officials, as well as others in the public and private spheres, on humans rights issues and the role of civil society. It maintains an extensive database on topics pertinent to effective human rights networking. http://www.hri.ca/index.aspx more... Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. HRW conducts extensive research and documents human rights violations in variety of human rights fields and around the globe. It also campaigns on behalf of individuals whose rights are violated, and on particular issues. The HRW Web site contains numerous reports, news, alerts, and other information. http://www.hrw.org International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) is a coalition of more than 116 organizations around the world that work for effective improvements in the protection of victims, the prevention of human rights abuses, and the prosecution of those responsible. http://www.fidh.org more... International Human Rights Network is a nongovernmental organization based in Ireland that strives to apply human rights-based solutions in their work. They follow the principle that the enjoyment of human rights is both a means and the goal of development. The members of the network share this principle and come from across the range of related fields. They share and exchange their skills and knowledge through a variety of trainings and seminars, and offer pro-bono services to other NGOs sharing the network's principles. http://www.ihrnetwork.org/ 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. http://www.newtactics.org Universal Rights Network is a meeting place for people from around the world to share their stories of the importance of universal human rights and freedom for all. The Web site contains the UN Declaration for Human Rights in 250 languages, as well as a simple version of the declaration in English. It includes links to major human rights bodies, numerous organizations, treaties, and people's stories. http://www.universalrights.net/main/index.htm World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) is the world's largest coalition of nongovernmental organizations fighting against arbitrary detention, torture, summary and extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances and other forms of violence. Its global network comprises nearly 300 local, national and regional organizations, which share the common goal of eradicating such practices and enabling the respect of human rights for all. http://www.omct.org/ AFRICA: African Judicial Network (AJN) is an international partnership to foster efficient and effective judicial systems in member's respective countries and to promote beneficial relationships among members coming from countries throughout the continent http://ajn.rti.org/ African Network for Prevention and Protection Against Child Abuse and Neglect (ANPPCAN) elevates the rights of children by enhancing, in partnership with others, the prevention and protection of children from all forms of maltreatment through information exchange, research and analysis, advocacy, policy recommendations for AU and national governments, assistance and advice for organizations working in the field of children's rights, and other efforts. http://www.anppcan.org/index.htm Human Rights Network (Uganda) - HURINET (U) - is a network of 23 Ugandan NGOs that strives to strengthen the networking capacity of member organizations through capacity building, research; and information sharing, and through collective advocacy at the national, regional and international levels. http://www.hurinet.or.ug/ Mano River Union Civil Society Movement unites more than 40 groups from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea to mobilize and coordinate their efforts in promoting peace, democracy, and human rights. Contact: civilsociety2004@yahoo.com Union Interafricaine des Droits de l'Homme (UIDH)- studies and promotes human rights throughout Africa, and assures a diffusion of information to citizens through communication and organization. http://www.hri.ca/partners/uidh/ West Africa Human Rights Defenders Network, formed recently, strives to increase the mutual support among human rights and pro-democracy organizations in West Africa, the capacity of human rights organizations, their regional solidarity, and develop regional solutions to human rights problems. The Network includes both Anglophone and Francophone groups. Contact: crs@yorku.ca ASIA: Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) focuses on the protection of human rights in Asia through the cooperation and sharing of information among human rights organizations in the region. It conducts various trainings, fact-finding missions, trial observations, and numerous advocacy and campaigns, and issues reports and publications. http://www.forumasia.org/ Asia Pacific Human Rights Network (APHRN) is a network of human rights organizations and individual activists across the Asia Pacific region. APHRN seeks to address trans-Asia Pacific human rights issues in an effective manner by developing formal relationships with its individual and organizational members and increasing cooperation to address such issues. http://www.aphrn.org/ Banglarights, the Bangladesh Human Rights Network, is a platform for media professionals and human rights activists who believe in a society respectful of the rights of all its members. The network champions the principles of democracy, gives voice to people at the grassroots level, and addresses social inequalities and domination at national and international levels. http://www.banglarights.net/ Democracy Network against the North Korean Gulag (NKGulag) is a human rights group based in South Korea working to stop abuses of the North Korean regime. The ultimate goal of NKGulag is to safely release the political prisoners of North Korea and completely dismantle the political prison camps in that country. http://nkgulag.org/english/ Human Rights Network is a meeting place for New Zealanders with an interest and commitment to human rights. The Network offers opportunities for frequent exchange of information, consultations with other human rights groups and activists, and rapid collective action and mobilization. http://www.humanrights.net.nz/ Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights (NKnet) is a network that joins citizens, North Korean defectors, students, and international groups who strive to alleviate suffering in North Korea through promoting human rights and democracy. It provides information on North Korea, publishes online newsletters, launches aid projects to benefit North Koreans and refugees, and is organizing the Committee for Truth about North Korea. http://www.nknet.org/en/NKnet.asp South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre (SAHRDC) is a network of individuals across South Asia that seeks to investigate, document and disseminate information about human rights treaties and conventions, human rights education, refugees, media freedom, prison reforms, political imprisonment, torture, summary executions, disappearances and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. http://www.hrdc.net/sahrdc/ Interview with Ravi Nair, Executive Director, SAHRDC Vietnam Human Rights Network promotes human rights, civil liberties and other basic freedoms set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent international human rights instruments. The network utilizes modern communication facilities, such as the Internet, to achieve its mission and to improve communication and cooperation among the network members. http://www.vnhrnet.org/ AMERICAS: Derechos works with human rights organizations and activists throughout the world, though its current focus is Latin America. It was born as an Internet-based organization, with members in the United States, Latin America and Europe. Derechos is committed to creating and providing channels of communications between human rights organizations, activists and the public. It maintains several electronic discussion lists. Membership is open to anyone sharing Derechos' principles and abiding by its mandates. http://www.derechos.org/ Montana Human Rights Network (MHRN, United States) is a grassroots, membership-based organization of over 1,400 members and 10 local groups. MHRN's mission is to promote democratic values such as pluralism, equality, and justice; challenge bigotry and intolerance; and organize communities to speak out in support of democratic principles and institutions. http://www.mhrn.org/ US Human Rights Network promotes United States accountability to universal human rights standards by building linkages among organizations and individuals working on human rights issues in the United States. It maintains online discussion forums focusing on a variety of human rights themes; conducts trainings; and provides resources, such as publications, reports, and texts of international human rights conventions. http://www.ushrnetwork.org/home.cfm EUROPE AND NEW INDEPENDENT STATES: British Council Human Rights Network is a news, information and networking tool for the global human rights community. It serves as a gateway to a network of people working in human rights; information about human rights organizations in the UK and internationally; news about activities, programmers, research, events, and publications from human rights organizations; and human rights news and information from around the world. http://humanrights.britishcouncil.org/ European Youth Human Rights Network (EYHR-Net) is a youth human rights organization that unites young people of different sex, age, nationality, race, religion, sexual orientation etc., to work for human rights understanding and protection in Latvia and in Europe. http://www.eyhr.net.lv/eng/eyhr.php Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights based in Warsaw, strives to develop human liberties and culture domestically and abroad. HFHR has engaged in numerous joint activities with international and domestic organizations. It maintains constant contact with the graduates of its School on Human Rights, over half of whom have cooperated with HFHR on various projects, human rights monitoring, and other activities. The organization also connects large groups of lawyers, human rights scholars, and volunteers. http://www.hfhrpol.waw.pl/en/ more... Human Rights Center "Viasna," based in Minsk with several branches throughout Belarus, defends victims of repression in court, offers legal advice and assistance to citizens, and monitors politically motivated trials and demonstrations. It also compiles information on human rights violations, organizes educational programs on human rights, disseminates reports on the country's human rights situation, and monitors elections. http://www.spring96.org/English/ International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights is a self-governing group of nongovernmental, not-for-profit organizations that act to protect human rights throughout Europe, North America, and Central Asia. A primary specific goal is to monitor compliance with the human rights provisions of the Helsinki Final Act and its Follow-up Documents. more... http://www.ihf-hr.org/index.php Jalal-Abad Regional Human Rights Organization "Spravedlivost" (Justice) Spravedlivost maintains a network of human rights NGOs in Jalal-Abad region of Kyrgyzstan and serves as a resource center and coordinator for the activities of groups within the region. Spravedlivost also provides free legal services for the poor, monitors the human rights situation in southern Kyrgyzstan, and trains lawyers and activists. http://www.justiceunion.org/ Interview with Valery Uleev, Executive Director, Spravedlivost Kyrgyz Committee for Human Rights (KCHR) KCHR is one of Kyrgyzstan's largest NGOs, uniting 1000s of human rights activists both in Kyrgyzstan and abroad. KCHR is a member of IHF, FIDH, OMCT and number of other organizations. KCHR cooperates with more than 1,000 international NGOs, inter-governmental and governmental organizations abroad, many well-known universities and with independent NGOs in Kyrgyzstan. http://www.kchr.org/index.html Memorial is a movement that arose in the years of perestroika in the former Soviet Union. Its main task was the awakening and preservation of the societal memory of the severe political persecution in the recent past of the Soviet Union. Today, it's a community of dozens of organizations in different regions of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Latvia, and Georgia conducting extensive research and documentation of human rights violations in the New Independent States, defending human rights, and providing legal services to vulnerable populations. http://www.memo.ru/ Youth Human Rights Movement -Russia Headquartered in Voronezh, Russia, the Youth Human Rights Movement (YHRM) is a network of young activists and youth organizations in Russia and other New Independent States working to shape a new generation of human rights leaders, to promote human rights and universal human values, and to develop effective methods for protection of rights and freedoms. http://www.yhrm.hrworld.ru/7_what/7_1_what.shtml Za Prava Cheloveka (ZPC) is an all-Russia public movement 'For Human Rights' that brings together human rights organizations and other civil society organizations and groups, including trade unions and individuals. The aim of the movement is to support the development of the rule of law and civil society in Russia. http://zaprava.ru/en/ MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA: Arab Institute for Human Rights (AIHR), based in Tunis, strives to propagate a culture of respect and adherence to human rights norms in the Arab World and to provide education about its principles. The AIHR's ten-member board of directors includes representatives from each of the founding organizations (the Association of Arab Lawyers, the Arab Organization for Human Rights, and the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights), in addition to representatives from UNESCO and the UN Commission on Human Rights. AIHR also has a Council of Experts that includes human rights experts from the Arab world. http://www.aihr.org.tn/ Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (Hrinfo) is a central repository for human rights information and Web sites in Arabic throughout the Middle East and North Africa. It strives to magnify the voices of human rights defenders by placing their publications, campaigns, reports, and statements on the Internet. http://www.hrinfo.net/en/ Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) based in Cairo, Egypt, works with human rights defenders throughout the region to defend the rights of citizens. The AOHR carries out field missions in an effort to release political prisoners, document human rights complaints, and offer legal advice. http://www.aohr.org/ Arab Program for Human Rights connects activists from throughout the Arab region. The widespread program aims to highlight issues relevant to human rights activists worldwide and specifically in the Arab world. Its activities include human rights campaigns; seminars, workshops, and discussions; and training and communication. The program is building an extensive database that will include a variety of human rights organizations, individuals, and potential services they can offer to the rest of the human rights community. http://www.aphra.org/ more... Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) is composed of more than 60 organizations from 20 nations around the Mediterranean region. The overall objective of the EMHRN is to contribute to the protection and promotion of the human rights principles embodied in the Barcelona Declaration of November 1995 and in the bilateral association agreements between the EU and its Mediterranean partners. http://www.euromedrights.net/english/engelsk.html PROFESSIONAL NETWORKS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies assists scientists and scholars around the world who are subjected to severe repression solely for having nonviolently exercised their rights as promulgated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It also promotes human rights consciousness-raising and institutional commitment to human rights work among counterpart academies and scholarly societies worldwide. http://www7.nationalacademies.org/humanrights/Network_Description.html Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) promotes health by protecting human rights. The network members are physicians, business people, dentists, social workers, nurses, lawyers, psychologists, homemakers, teachers, students, and those in many other walks of life. http://www.phrusa.org/index.html Scholars at Risk (SAR) is an international network of universities and colleges working to promote academic freedom and to defend the human rights of scholars worldwide. The Network arranges short-term academic positions for scholars of any discipline and from any country who suffer violence or other threats because of their work, prominence, or exercise of basic rights. Members participate in lectures, panels, conferences and other Network activities to promote academic freedom. Members also are invited, if appropriate, to host an at-risk scholar. http://scholarsatrisk.nyu.edu/index.htm About "What's Being Done On . . . " For three months at a time, we highlight the activities of various organizations in different global regions, and links to important resources, that are focused on a particular theme or area of democracy work. Each new theme is announced via DemocracyNews, and the information from the previous installment is placed in the archives below. We hope to receive and post information about the work you or others may be doing that is focused on these issues. Send information via e-mail to the or by fax to (202) 378-9889. |
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