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.
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Adalah
Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel. Adalah's legal work draws on Israeli law, comparative constitutional law, and international human rights standards. The main goal of Adalah's work is to achieve equal rights and minority rights protections for Palestinian citizens of Israel. Their eight fields of interest are cultural and language rights, education rights, religious rights, land and housing rights, political rights, prisoners' rights, Palestinian women's rights, and social and economic rights. Israel.
Addameer
Prisoners Support and Human Rights Association. The center's activities focus on offering support for Palestinian prisoners, advocating the rights of political prisoners, and working to end torture through monitoring, legal procedures and solidarity campaigns.
Ahali Center for Community Development
Ahali was established to strengthen grassroots activism among Palestinian citizens in Israel through community organizing, as a means to struggle for full citizenship and minority rights, and to ensure the equal distribution of national resources.
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
Palestinian organization based in Jabalia Refugee Camp, in the heart of the Gaza Strip, working for the protection of the rights of the Palestinian and the democratization of society.
Al-Haq
Al-Haq, the West Bank affiliate of the Geneva-based The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), is a Palestinian human rights organization founded by Palestinian lawyers concerned with the protection and promotion of the principles of human rights and the rule of law. Palestine.
Albanian Human Rights Group (AHRG)
Non-governmental and non profit organization, aiming to work intensively in the field of freedom and human rights in the country.
Aliran
Aliran Kesedaran Negara (Malay for National Consciousness Movement) is Malaysia's multi-ethnic reform movement dedicated to justice, freedom and solidarity. They are also Malaysia's oldest human rights group, with a consistent record of championing democratic reforms.
Alliances for Africa (AFA)
AFA is an African non-governmental peace, human rights and development organisation.
Arab Association for Human Rights (HRA)
HRA was founded to promote and protect the political, civil, economic, and cultural rights of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel and to further the domestic implementation of international human rights principles. Israel.
Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR)
AOHR's aims are: Call for respect of human rights and fundamental freedoms of all citizens and residents of the Arab world; defend any individual whose human rights are subjected to violations which are contrary to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Egypt.
Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team
EAAF’s work in Argentina has focused on investigating cases of persons who were disappeared during the last military dictatorship (1976-1983). It had conducted missions to assist in other countries like Colombia, Bosnia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Haiti. Argentina.
Sign the petition to end all executions of juvenile offenders
Call to action for housing and land rights day 2008!
Uganda: condemn the arrest and torture of LGBT human rights defender
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Human Rights
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/Gender
- Fri Oct 10 2008
Lithuanian abortion vote looms beyond elections
Lithuania's parliament could soon vote on one of the most restrictive abortion bans in Europe.
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Women's News
Human Rights
- Wed Oct 08 2008
The last push to an effective Optional Protocol to the ICESCR
The text of the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) was adopted by the Human Rights Council (HRC) on 18th June 2008. The next and last step towards the final adoption of the OP will be taken in the 3rd committee of the 63rd session of the UN General Assembly.
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ESCR-net
Within the framework of the European Social Forum 2008, Peter Waterman analyzed the iniciatives put forward by trade unions and the labour agenda. In a special document, he develops critical opinions on the international union hegemons. Furthermore, he submitted his proposal "a global charter movement" to develop a declaration or manifesto on labour, relevant to all working people, under the conditions of a radically transformed and highly aggressive capitalism, neo-liberalised, networked and globalised.
