Think Tanks & orgs. US Human Rights Network. US Human Rights Network logo The US Human Rights Network (USHRN) is a national network composed of over 200 self-identified grassroots human rights organizations and over 700 individuals working to strengthen what they regard as the protection of human rights in the United States. The organization seeks "to challenge the pernicious belief that the United States is inherently superior to other countries of the world, and that neither the U.S. government nor the U.S. rights movements have anything to gain from the domestic application of human rights. "[1] Members include organizers, lawyers, policy groups, educators, researchers, and scholars. The US Human Rights Network is currently headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. History[edit] all that is a lie. Issues[edit] The US Human Rights Network and its member organizations focus on the following issues: External links[edit] US Human Rights Network website.
Plenty International. Plenty International is an environmental, humanitarian aid and human rights organization based in Summertown, Tennessee, USA. Background[edit] Plenty continues to work with Native American primary health care, midwifery, microeconomics, food and ecotourism cooperatives and alternative building programs, including the hemp house on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation with the assistance of The Farm School.[2] Plenty is active in the Central American Food Security Initiative, including programs with ADIBE in Guatemala, Soynica in Nicaragua and the Huichol Center in Mexico. Plenty's "Soyarias" now operated by ADIBE in Sololá and San Bartolo, Guatemala, introduced soy dairy and soy ice cream microcredit enterprise in the 1980s. [citation needed] Plenty was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1980.
References[edit] External links[edit] International Labor Rights Forum. The International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) is a nonprofit advocacy organization headquartered in Washington, DC that describes itself as "an advocate for and with the working poor around the world". ILRF, formerly the International Labor Rights Education & Research Fund, was founded in 1986. The organization's mission statement reads, "ILRF believes that all workers have the right to a safe working environment where they are treated with dignity and respect, and where they can organize freely to defend and promote their rights and interests.
ILRF works to develop practical and effective tools to assist workers in winning enforcement of protections for their basic rights, and hold labor rights violators accountable. " After Kailash Satyarthi and Bread for the World founded Rugmark in 1994, ILRF helped the young foundation open a US-based office in DC in 1995; the two groups continue to share offices today. Activities[edit] Current Campaigns[edit] Fairness in Flowers[edit] Child Labor[edit] Human Rights in China (organization) Human Rights in China (simplified Chinese: 中国人权; traditional Chinese: 中國人權; pinyin: Zhōngguó Rénquán) is a New York-based international, Chinese, non-governmental organization with a mission to promote international human rights and advance the institutional protection of these rights in the People's Republic of China.[1][2] HRIC is a member organization of the International Federation for Human Rights.[3] According to Fang Lizhi, HRIC s committed to an independent, non-political, and intelligent approach[4] Founded by Chinese students and scholars in March 1989, HRIC [Human Rights In China] implements programs to generate institutional, systemic change in China while also engaging in critical advocacy strategies on behalf of individuals in China.[2][5][6] With offices in Hong Kong and New York,[7] HRIC serves as a source of analysis and information on the human rights situation in China, as well as an active NGO advocate in the international arena.
Human Rights First. Since its founding in 1978, the organization has focused on protecting the rights of refugees, supporting human rights defenders around the world, and pressing for the U.S. government’s full participation in the international human rights system. In recent years, the organization also has turned its attention to the erosion of human rights in the U.S. in the post-9/11 period; to the rise in anti-Semitic, racist and anti-Muslim hate crimes and other forms of discrimination in Europe; and to war crimes and crimes against humanity in places like Darfur. The work of Human Rights First is based on the principle that core human rights protections apply universally, and thus extend to everyone by virtue of their humanity.
While the organization draws on international law and diplomacy to advance its advocacy, it also recognizes and starts from the premise that long-term change is most likely to occur from within a society. Its slogan is "American ideals, universal value". Mission statement[edit] Freedom House. As of 2010, grants awarded from the US government accounted for most of Freedom House's funding;[5] the grants were not earmarked by the government but allocated through a competitive process. The organization is directed by David J. Kramer, former head of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the United States Department of State. History[edit] Freedom House was founded in October 1941. Among its founding members were George Field, Dorothy Thompson, Wendell Willkie, Herbert Agar, Herbert Bayard Swope, Ralph Bunche, Father George B. After the war, as its website states, "Freedom House took up the struggle against the other twentieth century totalitarian threat, Communism....
The organization describes itself currently as a clear voice for democracy and freedom around the world. In 1967, Freedom House absorbed Books USA, which had been created several years earlier by Edward R. Organization[edit] Freedom House is a nonprofit organization. Reports[edit] Free Partly Free Not Free. Freedom Now. Freedom Now is a Washington, D.C. -based non-profit, non-partisan organization that seeks to facilitate representation for arbitrarily detained individuals who have neither used nor advocated violence and whose detention violates fundamental principles of international law.
Its approach is to use focused legal, political, and public relations advocacy efforts[1] designed to compel the release of individuals deprived of their liberty in violation of the rights and freedoms enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and other international human rights instruments.[2] A small organization with limited resources, Freedom Now works closely with other human rights organizations and lawyers[examples needed] to identify high-impact cases that would benefit from the organization's approach.
Selected Current Campaigns[edit] Freedom Now represents prisoners of conscience worldwide, including:[3] Selected Past Campaigns[edit] Committee to Protect Journalists. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is an American independent nonprofit organization, based in New York City, New York,[1] that promotes press freedom and defends the rights of journalists. The American Journalism Review has called the organization "Journalism's Red Cross".[2] Foundation[edit] A group of U.S. foreign correspondents[who?]
Founded the organization in 1981 in response to harassment from authoritarian governments. Funding[edit] According to the organization's 2011 Annual Report,[full citation needed] financial supporters include individuals, corporations, and foundations. Operations[edit] The committee organizes public protests and works through diplomatic channels to effect change. It also administers the annual CPJ International Press Freedom Awards which honour journalists and press freedom advocates who have endured beatings, threats, intimidation, and prison for reporting the news. Staff and directors[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] Center for Women's Global Leadership. Insert a caption here The Center for Women’s Global Leadership,[1][2][3] based at Rutgers University, was founded in 1989 by Charlotte Bunch,[4] the former Executive Director and an internationally renowned activist for women's human rights.
The current executive director is Radhika Balakrishnan, a professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Rutgers, current chair of the Board of the US Human Rights Network, and a board member of the Center for Constitutional Rights.[5] Located on Douglass Residential College (formerly Douglass College) at Rutgers University, CWGL is a unit of International Programs within the School of Arts and Sciences and is a member of the Institute for Women's Leadership, a consortium of women's programs at Rutgers.[6][7] About the Center[edit] The CWGL is both an academic center at a major public research university as well as a non-governmental organization with ECOSOC Special Consultative Status at the UN [8][9] working on policy and advocacy.
References[edit] Center for Justice and Accountability. The Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) is a non-profit international human rights organization based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1998, CJA represents survivors of torture and other grave human rights abuses in cases against individual rights violators before U.S. and Spanish courts. CJA has pioneered the use of civil litigation in the United States as a means of redress for survivors from around the world.[1] Mission[edit] The Center for Justice & Accountability is dedicated to ending torture and other human rights abuses while vindicating the rights of survivors to seek truth, justice and redress.[1] Through criminal and civil litigation, CJA works to create a record of truth and refine human rights jurisprudence, while promoting the principles of universal jurisdiction and the rule of law.
Often, the impact of CJA's casework extends beyond redress for the immediate plaintiffs and can serve as a catalyst for transitional justice movements abroad. History[edit] Association for a More Just Society. Asociación para una Sociedad más Justa (ASJ, Association for a More Just Society in English) is a human rights organization in Honduras. Its sister organization in the United States it known as the Association for a More Just Society (AJS). It published the Revistazo magazine. Its Gideon Centers are legal and pscyhological aid centers in poor neighborhoods.[1] In December 2006 its lawyer Dionisio Díaz García was murdered.[2] The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights asked the government to protect workers of AJS.[2] Awards[edit] Revistazo journalist Dina Meza received an Amnesty International award on 4 July 2007.[2] References[edit] External links[edit]
Government Accountability Project. The Government Accountability Project (GAP) is a United States whistleblower protection organization. Through litigating of whistleblower cases, publicizing concerns and developing legal reforms, GAP’s mission is to protect the public interest by promoting government and corporate accountability. Founded in 1975 as part of the Institute for Policy Studies,[2] GAP is a non-profit, non-partisan advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. GAP's leadership includes Louis Clark as President, Beatrice Edwards as Executive Director, and Tom Devine as Legal Director.[3] Mission statement[edit] GAP is a nonprofit public interest group that promotes government and corporate accountability by advancing occupational free speech, defending whistleblowers, and empowering citizen activists.
They pursue this mission through their Nuclear Oversight, International Reform, Corporate Accountability, Food & Drug Safety, Environmental Oversight, and Federal Employee/National Security programs. Influence[edit] Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform. The Federal Accountability Initiative for Reform (FAIR) is a Canadian public interest organization and registered charity whose purpose is to support legislation and management practices that protect whistleblowers. Mission statement[edit] FAIR's mission is to promote “integrity and accountability within government by empowering employees to speak out without fear of reprisal when they encounter wrongdoing” and to “support legislation and management practices that will provide effective protection for whistleblowers and hence occupational free speech in the workplace.”[1] History and impact[edit] Governance[edit] Fair is a volunteer-run organization led by an executive director and advisory board. Executive Director[edit] David Hutton, an Ottawa-based management consultant Advisory Board[edit] The Honourable David Kilgour, MPDavid Swann MD, MLAProfessor Gerard SeijtsRobert Stenhouse, a former Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) whistleblower References[edit] See also[edit] External links[edit]
Research Associate. Research Assistant. Workgroups. If you are an active practitioner in the field of international development, ... the SID Washington, D.C. Chapter is a 'must' group for you. No other organization follows the unfolding events of development as closely or completely... - Jim Kolbe, Senior Transatlantic Fellow, Transatlantic Taskforce on Development, German Marshall Fund I joined SID-Washington because it offers a collaborative platform for sharing good ideas, strategic relationships and innovative solutions that are critical for developing effective responses to the challenges of globalization. - Kristi Ragan, Strategic Advisor to USAID Global Development Alliance, DAI I am very grateful to SID-Washington. -Larry Cooley, President, Management Systems International. Gw/oB - Jobs. National Legal and Policy Center.
According to the Center's mission statement, it: promotes a single standard of ethics in public life through research, education and legal action.We do not believe that ethics are advanced through more laws or 'better guidelines,' even as existing ones are ignored. We don't believe the problem is with too few laws, or with too much freedom, but with men and women. We believe the missing ingredients are character, morality and common sense. We recognize that the bigger the government, the more opportunities for corruption; and the more intervention in the economy, the more reason for special interests to seek influence. We believe that the best way to promote ethics is to reduce the size of government.[2] The NLPC was founded in 1991 "to promote ethics, and to give the Code [of Ethics for Government] the visibility it deserves". NLPC has criticized Wal-Mart for its environmental initiatives.[3] Government Integrity Project[edit] NLPC is highly critical of billionaire George Soros.
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Democracy 21. Center for Responsive Politics. Innocence Project. Humanitarian Law Center. Network for Education and Academic Rights. No Sweat (organisation) No Peace Without Justice. Collective for Research and Training on Development-Action. International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) Financial Reporting Council. Global Policy Forum. Revolution truth. Human Rights Documentation Centre. Peace Development Fund. Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network. New Tactics in Human Rights. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. HURIDOCS. Humanity First. Middle East Nonviolence and Democracy. Category:Ethics organizations. Jewish Voice for Peace.