Human Rights
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Its main purpose is to produce, organize, and disseminate knowledge about sexuality from a human rights perspective, in order to help fight gender inequality and to contribute to the struggle against the discrimination of sexual minorities in the region.
Not for profit human rights organization whose core objective is to foster a culture of human rights in Zimbabwe.
Its aim is to work for a society that is peaceful, free, equal, just and sustainable by a process of empowering people and building a mass movement to uphold human rights. Malaysia.
The Children's Rights Centre is committed to establishing a sustainable children's rights culture in the context of human rights principles. South Africa.
A human rights and relief organisation which is non-governmental (NGO), non-political, and non-discriminating, with the vision of working for the practical realization of human rights in Cameroon by protecting the country’s vulnerable and deficient population. Cameroon.
NGO sites
Inter-american Platform of Human Rights, Democracy and Development (PIDHDD)
PIDHDD is a plural, convergent and autonomous association of various Latin American and Caribbean civil society organizations, concerned with the human rights and grouped in National Chapters. It is dedicated to promote the information, interchange, training and elaboration of proposals on demandability and watch of the human, economic, social and cultural rights, in national and international spheres.
International Institute for Human Rights, Environment and Development (INHURED)
INHURED is involved in monitoring international instruments on human rights, gender justice and environment; the establishment and strengthening of national and regional human rights instruments and mechanisms in Asia-Pacific; and electoral observation, training and monitoring the conventions on women, children, refugees, the disabled, racial discrimination (e.g. untouchability) and the indigenous peoples as well as science, technology; health; population and development in terms of human rights. Nepal.
International Protection
NGO performing research and advocacy in human rights and development issues.
International Solidarity Movement - ISM
Palestinian-led movement working to raise awareness of the struggle for Palestinian freedom and an end to Israeli occupation.
Iranian Human Rights Working Group (IHRWG)
An Internet-based community of individuals committed to campaigning for the improvement of human rights in Iran.
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
A group originally established to oppose and resist Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories. As a direct-action group, ICAHD is comprised of members of many Israeli peace and human rights organizations.
Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights
Palestinian human rights organization established by lawyers and members of the Palestinian community of Jerusalem. It provides legal assistance and representation to Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem subjected to discriminatory policies by the Israeli authorities.
Karen Human Rights Group
The organization is a small and independent group documenting the human rights situation of ordinary people in rural Burma. Myanmar.
Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC)
KHRC is a non-partisan, non-profit, membership NGO first organized in the US in 1991 by Kenyan exiles and activists to specifically lobby for the respect of human rights and promotion of democratization, accountability and good governance in Kenya. Since 1994, the KHRC has been registered as an NGO in Nairobi where it consistently monitors and documents human rights violations in Kenya and provides legal hosting to other human rights groups that have been denied registration by the Kenyan government.
Kenya National Commission on Human Rights - KNCHR
Independent national institution to lead in protecting and promoting human rights in Kenya. The Commission will contribute to the establishment of a society that respects human dignity, social justice and equal opportunity.
Kubatana - NGO Network Alliance Project
An online community for Zimbabwean activists. Kubatana aims to improve the accessibility of human rights and civic information in Zimbabwe. News and lists of NGOs, civil society organisations and social justice groups. Zimbabwe.
KwaZulu-Natal Programme for Survivors of Violence
The Programme aims to assist the individuals, families and communities of KwaZulu-Natal through the prevention of all forms of violence and through rendering services which are both healing and empowering. South Africa.
LACDO - Sri Lanka
LACDO - Sri Lanka (Legal Assistance & Community Development Organization) works for legal awareness and aid, human rights, child rights, women Rights, elders' rights, labour rights, consumer rights, environmental rights and community development. Sri Lanka.
Land Center for Human Rights
Nongovernmental, non-profit organization working to protect the rights of farmers and agrarian laborers in Egypt.
Land Center for Human Rights (LCHR)
An NGO established in Egypt to deal with farmers', agrarian workers, and rural women's and children's issues as an important dimension for the country's Human Rights movement.
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Israel under review by the UN Human Rights Committee
Mon Jul 12 2010 - Source: Al-Haq
The UN Human Rights Committee will review Israel’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Covenant). Despite that the Committee has reiterated to Israel that it has a duty to implement the Covenant in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Israel continues to deny its responsibilities.
US-Mexico: Lethal force on the border
Thu Jul 01 2010 - Source: Americas Program
Sergio Hernandez Guereca’s short life revolved around the U.S.-Mexico border that ultimately led to his death. A US Border Patrol agent shot the 15-year-old in the face in Mexican territory between Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and El Paso, Texas.
A more inclusive strategy needed for the MDGs
Mon Jun 28 2010 - Source: Third World Network
A fundamental problem in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been the lack of a more inclusive strategy of economic development that could integrate and support its "human development" ambitions, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

 
Migrations - Wed Jun 23 2010
Migration policies across the world are driven by three core concerns: border and law enforcement, economic interest, and protection. A new report by the NGO December 18 argues that official policies are failing partly because protection has been marginalised. Intensified efforts to suppress migration have not deterred people from seeking security or opportunity abroad but drive many into clandestinity.
Fuente: December 18

Durban Review Conference 2009 Children's rights The war on terror: a war on human rights Rights of persons with disabilities
Intellectual Property Rights Internally Displaced Persons Gender-based violence Migrations
Global labour rights Civil and political rights Economic, social and cultural rights - ESCR International Criminal Court
The right to communicate Sexual and reproductive rights The right to adequate housing Child soldiers

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