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Back to Organizations main Action Without Borders connects people, organizations and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives. Action Without Borders is independent of any government, political ideology or religious creed. Contact details: 79 Fifth Avenue, 17th floor New York, NY 10003 Phone: 212-843-3973 Fax: 212-564-3377 Website: http://www.idealist.org Email: info@idealist.org Amnesty International Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote internationally recognized human rights. 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. The organization has more than a million members and supporters in over 140 countries and territories. Contact details: Amnesty International Offices can be found at: http://web.amnesty.org/web/contacts.nsf Website: http://www.amnesty.org Article 19: The Global Campaign for Free Expression Named after Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the organization works worldwide to combat censorship by promoting freedom of expression and access to official information. Contact details: Lancaster House 33 Islington High Street London N1 9LH, UK Phone: +44 20 7278 9292 Website: http://www.article19.org Email: info@article19.org The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) is a regional research center specialized in the field of human rights. It was established in 1994. The CIHRS enjoys a special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. It also has an observatory status with the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. The CIHRS is also a member to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) and the Human Rights Education Network. Contact details: P.O. Box 117 (Maglis el- Shaab) Cairo, Egypt Tel: 7951112 - 7946065 Fax: 7921913 Website: http://www.cihrs.org/HOME/Home.htm Email: cihrs@soficom.com.eg and webmaster@cihrs.com Canadian Lawyers Association for International Human Rights (CLAIHR) Established to promote and protect human rights internationally through the use of law and legal institutions. CLAIHR puts Canadian lawyers' experience and expertise to work to further civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights worldwide. Contact details: 575 King Edward Avenue, Ottawa Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada Phone: (613) 233-0398 Website: http://www.claihr.org/ Email: contact@claihr.org Citizens Committee on Human Rights Western Australia (CCHR WA) The CCHR WA is a non-profit, public benefit organisation dedicated to investigating and exposing psychiatric violations of human rights. CCHR WA is a local chapter of the international organisation Citizens Commission on Human Rights (www.cchr.org). Contact details: Website: www.cchr-wa.org The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) is an independent, non-partisan, international non-governmental organisation, mandated to ensure the practical realization of human rights in the countries of the Commonwealth. In 1987, several Commonwealth associations founded CHRI because they felt that while the member countries had both a common set of values and legal principles from which to work and a forum within which to promote human rights, there was relatively little focus on human rights issues. Contact details: Website: http://www.humanrightsinitiative.org/default.htm Headquarter: CHRI New Delhi Office B-117, Second Floor, Sarvodaya Enclave New Delhi - 110 017 India Tel: +91-11-2685-0523, 2652-8152, 2686-4678 Fax: +91-11-2686-4688 Email: chriall@nda.vsnl.net.in CHRI London Office Institute of Commowealth Studies 28, Russel Square London WC1B 5DS UK Tel: +44-020-7-862-8857 Fax: +44-020-7-862-8820 Email: chri@sas.ac.uk CHRI Ghana Office The British Council P.O. Box GP 771 Accra Ghana Tel: +233-21-683068, 683069, 683070 Fax: +233-21-683062 Email: chri@gh.britishcouncil.org Freedom of Religion or Belief (FOROB) A coalition of experts and representatives from religious or belief communities, academia, NGOs, international organizations and civil society, which monitors and promotes freedom of religion or belief on a worldwide basis. Contact details: University of Oslo Universitetsgt. 22-24 NO - 0612 Oslo, Norway Phone: (47-22) 84 20 45 Fax: (47-22) 84 20 02 Website: http://www.hri.ca/partners/forob/ Email: lena.larsen@nihr.uio.no Global Rights.org Global Rights is a human rights advocacy group that partners with local activists to challenge oppressive ideologies and power structures, channel international pressure to secure human rights protections, and amplify new voices within the global discourse. With offices in 10 countries, we help local activists create just societies through proven strategies for effecting change. Contact details: Contact details 1200 18th St. NW #602 Washington, DC 20036, USA Phone: 202-822-4600 Fax: 202-822-4606 Website: http://www.hrlawgroup.org/ Email (Press Contact): media@globalrights.org Human Rights International Alliance The aims of the organization are to work in partnership with other national and regional human service organisations and human rights groups, to bring common objectives and issues to public awareness, to promote multi-cultural awareness, to relieve poverty, and to improve health. Contact details: 153 Boundary Road Woking, Surrey GU21 5BT England Phone: :+44 (0) 1483 767654 Fax: :+44 (0) 1483 721616 Email: HumanRights@HRIA.net Human Rights Solidarity Contact details P.O. Box: 2441 1211 Geneva 2 Switzerland Phone: 41.79.380.67.89 Fax: 41.62.216.93.37 Email: lhrs@lhrs.org Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. The organization stands with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice. Contact details 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th floor New York NY 10118-3299 USA Phone: 1-(212) 290-4700 Fax: 1-(212) 736-1300 Website: http://www.hrw.org/ Website in Arabic: http://www.hrw.org/arabic Email: hrwnyc@hrw.org Humanitarian Law Project The Humanitarian Law Project is a non-profit organization founded in 1985, dedicated to protecting human rights and promoting the peaceful resolution of conflict by using established international human rights laws and humanitarian law. Contact details Humanitarian Law Project International Educational Development, Inc. 8124 West Third Street, Suite 105 Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA Phone: 323 653-0726 Fax: 323 658-6306 Website: http://hlp.home.igc.org/ Email: hlp@igc.org Indigenous Peoples' Center for Documentation, Research and Information doCip is a Swiss NGO linking Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations. It is a non-profit organization established in 1978 at the request of Indigenous Representatives to the United Nations. Contact details doCip / 14, av. de Trembley / CH - 1209 Geneva Switzerland Website: http://www.docip.org/anglais/docip_en.html International Commission of Jurists The International Commission of Jurists is dedicated to the primacy, coherence and implementation of international law and principles that advance human rights. Contact details P.O. Box 216 1219, Châtelaine / Geneva Switzerland Phone: +41(0)229793800 Fax: +41(0)229793801 Website: http://www.icj.org Email: info@icj.org International Council on Human Rights Policy The Council work directly to human rights principles. Poverty and neglect of social and economic rights depress the quality of human life as much as violations of political and civil rights. Contact details Website: http://www.ichrp.org Email: idu@cybtec.net International Criminal Defence Attorneys Association (ICDAA) A network of lawyers involved in defence work relating to the prosecution of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide. Their bilingual site provides the organization's objectives, working paper and an online membership form. Contact details 380 Saint Antoine Street West Suite 3200 Montréal (Quebec) Canada H2Y 3X7 Phone: (514) 285-1055 Website: http://www.hri.ca/partners/aiad-icdaa/ Email: elisegroulx@citenet.net International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) The purpose of the FIDH, the International Federation for Human Rights Leagues, is to advance the implementation of all the rights defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the other international instruments protecting human rights. Contact details Website: http://www.fidh.org/ International Movement Against All forms of Descrimination and Racism IMADR is an international non-profit, non-governmental human rights organization devoted to eliminating all forms of discrimination around the world, forging international solidarity among discriminated minorities and advancing the international regime of human rights. Founded in 1988 by one of Japan's largest minorities, the Burakumin, IMADR has grown to be a global network of concerned citizens and minority groups with regional committees in Asia, North America, Latin America and Europe. IMADR is in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). Contact details 3-5-11, Roppongi, Minato-ku Tokyo Japan Tel: +81-(0)3-3586-7447 Fax: +81-(0)3-3586-7462 Website: http://www.imadr.org/index.html International Movement for a Just World The International Movement for a Just World is a non-profit international citizens' organization which seeks to create public awareness about injustices within the existing global system. Contact details P.O. Box 288 46730 Petaling Jaya Selangor, Malaysia Phone: 603-7727-6386/7727-7387 Fax: 603-7727-7389 Website: http://www.just-international.org/ Email: muza@po.jaring.my International Rescue Committee IRC helps people fleeing racial, religious and ethnic persecution, as well as those uprooted by war and violence. At the outbreak of an emergency, we provide sanctuary and lifesaving assistance: For refugees driven from their homes, we provide emergency assistance: water, food, shelter, sanitation and medical care. When the emergency has subsided, we enable people to rebuild their lives by providing education, training and economic assistance. We help thousands of refugees resettle in the United States every year, and our offices across the country make sure that all new arrivals receive shelter, food and clothing. We also provide recently arrived refugees with translation services, English-language instruction, job training, employment services and other counseling. Website: http://www.theirc.org/ The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies MIGS was founded in 1986, based in the departments of History and Sociology at Concordia University. Its approach is comparative and historical, involving scholars in Canada, France, Great Britain, Israel, and the United States. It collects and disseminates knowledge created by researchers about the historical origins of the mass killings that have become such a prominent part of the twentieth century. The Institute accomplishes its mission through research, teaching, workshops, conferences, and publications. Additional information and web links are made available on this WEB site. MIGS seeks to encourage research by offering its resources and its hospitality to Concordia students and faculty, as well as colleagues visiting from other universities and research centres. MIGS activities are supported by private donations and outside grants. Contact details Concordia University 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. West Montreal, Quebec Canada H3G 1M8 Tel: 514-848-2424 ext 2404 Fax: 514-848-4538 / 514-848-4539 Website: http://migs.concordia.ca/ People's Decade of Human Rights Education (PDHRE-International) Founded in 1988, the People's Decade of Human Rights Education (PDHRE-International) is a non-profit, international service organization that works directly and indirectly with its network of affiliates -- primarily women's and social justice organizations -- to develop and advance pedagogies for human rights education relevant to people's daily lives in the context of their struggles for social and economic justice and democracy. PDHRE's members include experienced educators, human rights experts, United Nations officials, and world renowned advocates and activists who collaborate to conceive, initiate, facilitate, and service projects on education in human rights for social and economic transformation. The organization is dedicated to publishing and disseminating demand-driven human rights training manuals and teaching materials, and otherwise servicing grassroots and community groups engaged in a creative, contextualized process of human rights learning, reflection, and action. Contact details The People's Movement for Human Rights Education (PDHRE) / NY Office Shulamith Koenig / Executive Director 526 West 111th Street New York, NY 10025 USA Phone: (212) 749-3156 Fax: (212) 666-6325 Website: http://www.pdhre.org Email: pdhre@igc.apc.org Rights and Democracy Rights and 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. Contact details 1001 de Maisonneuve Blvd. East Suite 1100, Montreal, Quebec H2L 4P9 Canada Phone: +1-514-283-6073 Fax: +1-514-283-3792 Website: http://www.ichrdd.ca/flash.html Email: ichrdd@ichrdd.ca United Nations Association USA United Nations Association of the United States of America is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that supports the work of the United Nations and encourages active civic participation in the most important social and economic issues facing the world. Contact Details 801 Second Ave, New York NY 10017-4706 USA Phone: 212-907-1300 Fax: 212-682-9185 Website: http://www.unausa.org/ Email: info@unausa.org Top |
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