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- “Promoting EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders” Case studies: DRC and India - Congo, Democratic Republic of, India
1 October | Front Line Defenders - Nepal : 258 dark days - Nepal
1 October | Protection International (former PBI BEO) - Human Rights Defenders in the State of Guerrero - Mexico
1 July | PBI Mexico Project - Front Line Handbook for Human Rights Defenders: What protection can EU and Norwegian Diplomatic Missions offer?*
27 June | Front Line Defenders - The manual
28 May |
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Organisation of professionels of the public health sector
Watch and comment on human rights video from around the world curated by WITNESS. This pilot project contains only a subset of the functionality of the forthcoming Human Rights Video Hub.
The bloggers listed on this page have one thing in common: they write about human rights, providing information and commentary you will not find elsewhere in mainstream media, sometimes putting themselves in personal danger by doing so.
Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) is an international non-governmental organisation that supports human rights learning; the training of activists and professionals; the development of educational materials and programming; and community-building through on-line technologies. HREA is dedicated to quality education and training to promote understanding, attitudes and actions to protect human rights, and to foster the development of peaceable, free and just communities.
HREA works with individuals, non-governmental organisations, inter-governmental organisations and governments interested in implementing human rights education programmes.
The Human Rights Impact Resource Centre (HRIRC) is an online database which brings together a wide range of information and documentation on the subject Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA). Measuring human rights has become an issue of growing interest to policy makers, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and academics. There is a growing amount of information and documentation available on the subject, which is often dispersed and difficult to find. The HRIRC aims to fill this gap by providing a platform to bring together, share and disseminate all sorts of information on HRIA
Consolidating the Profession: The Human Rights Field Officer
is a research, training and capacity-building project in support of enhanced delivery of services by human rights field operations. The project is informed by an overarching consideration that the Human Rights Field Officer (HRFO) is deployed to develop and enhance local human rights capacities and protection. It is convened and facilitated from within the University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC).
Provides comprehensive listings of training opportunities for the human rights professionals
The International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances gathers organizations of families of disappeared and human rights organizations working together in the struggle against enforced disappearances. The principal aim is the promotion of the International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances.
Founded in 1993 by the gynaecologist Dr. Monika Hauser at a time when rape was taking place on a massive scale in Bosnia Herzegowina, medica mondiale today sees itself as an international advocate for the rights and interests of women who have survived sexual violence in war situations.
Internet censorship and surveillance are growing global
phenomena. ONI’s mission is to identify and document
Internet filtering and surveillance, and to promote and
inform wider public dialogue about such practices.
Pax Christ International’s work is based in spirituality. It is a Catholic organisation but welcomes all religious groups and strives for dialogue and co-operation with non-governmental organisations and movements working in the same field – Christian, Jewish, Muslim and non-religious.
Its aim is to become a virtual community of people brought together around ideas. Essentially (but not exclusively) made up of persons connected with the field of psychosocial and community work, this group understands the concept of human rights at its widest perspective, placing special emphasis on the social, economic, cultural and political rights of peoples.
The Carter Center, in partnership with Emory University, is committed to advancing human rights and alleviating unnecessary human suffering. Founded in 1982 by former U.S.
The Universal Human Rights Index provides instant access for all countries to human rights information from the United Nations system. The index is based on the observations and recommendations of the following international expert bodies:
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