Groups directory

Peace and Reconciliation for Northern Uganda

The Hub — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:12:22 -0700

For two decades the people of northern Uganda have suffered the effects of a brutal war between the rebel group, Lord’s Resistance Army, and the Government of Uganda. The Lord’s Resistance Army has targeted civilian areas of Northern Uganda resorting to barbaric tactics of murder, mutilation, rape, mass burnings of villages and camps, sexual enslavement, and abduction of civilians – especially children – as forced combatants.

24 Hours for Darfur

Krillian — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:08:46 -0700

24 Hours for Darfur is a grassroots video-advocacy campaign that uses the internet to mobilize people around the world to demand action to end the genocide in Darfur. Our mission is to focus international, national, and local media attention and popular political pressure on Darfur, catalyzing political actors to stop the genocide and provide adequate humanitarian support to its victims.

After massive protests in Burma, world refuses to let dust settle

Ryan Schlief — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:41:11 -0800

Beginning August 19, 2007 there was a series of peaceful protests across Burma as monks, activists and ordinary citizens challenged misrule and repression. On September 26, the Burmese military government responded with violence. Thousands were detained, hundreds disappeared and the country is in the grip of repression.

Alive in Baghdad

Krillian — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:57:44 -0700

Alive in Baghdad is empowering Iraqis to share their stories with the world, and provides a place of education and interaction for global citizens interested in the real life political, military, economic and social situation in Iraq.

To this end, Alive In Baghdad seeks to:

• Generate and publish at least one short (3-7 minute) video from Iraq, made by an Iraqi civilian, each week, and make this video easily accessible to the world via the internet.

• Keep all previously published videos easily accessible to the public.

Alive in Mexico

Krillian — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:03:21 -0700

Alive in Mexico was formed to counter the sound-bite driven, “Live From” news model. Through the work of a team of Americans and Mexican correspondents on the ground, Alive in Mexico shows the country through the voices of Mexicans. Alive in Mexico brings testimonies from individuals, footage of daily life in Mexico, and short news segments from Mexico to you.

Art for Amnesty

rebeccafanya — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:13:42 -0700

Art for Amnesty brings together international artists of all disciplines their patrons, management and friends in a collaborative effort to support Amnesty International’s work for human rights.

Bloggers Against Torture

Sameer Padania — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:49:03 -0800

BOMB Magazine

The Hub — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:17:18 -0700

BOMB Magazine has been publishing in-depth interview between artists for over a quarter of a century. What BOMB published then is relevant now: An international magazine with more than 80,000 readers and over 70 professional artists, writers, actors, directors, and musicians serving on
its editorial board, BOMB has reinvented the interview as an intimate and intellectually revealing dialogue.

Centre for Minority Rights Development

cemiride — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:50:53 -0800

CEMIRIDE provides a voice for the minorities and indigenous peoples, a voice through which they can articulate their needs and aspirations, and see these needs expressed in their rights, respected in the countries of their abode, thereby allowing them to enjoy all their humans rights, as members and part of, not only their respective societies, but the global society at large. CEMIRIDE is an active player in national, regional and international efforts to improve the position of minorities and indigenous peoples.

Congo Global Coalition

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:55:40 -0800

Congo Global Action is a global alliance of humanitarian, human rights, environmental, and faith-based organizations, students, members of the Congolese Diaspora, and other grassroots movements.

We have come together to advocate with one voice for people of the Democratic Republic of Congo and urge increased local and international response for the post-war and post-election situation in the Congo.

Over twenty-five organizations have officially become members of the coalition since its founding in 2006, including the International Rescue Committee.

Corporate Accountability International

CorporateAccountabilityInternational — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:37:48 -0700

Culture Project

Culture Project — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:29:47 -0700

A venue for acclaimed, prize-winning performance, Culture Project is also a magnet for today's best talent including Meryl Streep, Danny Glover, Mary J. Blige, Robin Williams, Marisa Tomei, Bob Balaban, Rinde Eckhert, Montel Williams, Frank McCourt, Staceyann Chin, Lynn Redgrave, Sarah Silverman, and other artists who share a passion for theater and public justice.

Educational Integration of Roma Children in Bulgaria

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:50:27 -0800

At an estimated 10 million people, Roma are the largest, yet most discriminated-against minority in Europe. In Bulgaria, 70 percent of young Roma, (approximately 30,000 children), attend sub-standard schools in segregated Romani neighborhoods. Inadequate material conditions and the poor quality of education provided by unmotivated teachers contribute to low attendance rates of Roma pupils. Altogether, they alienate Romani children from schools and perpetuate the cycle of illiteracy, unemployment, and poverty.

End Extraordinary Rendition and Torture in the World Community

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:53:36 -0800

Human rights groups and several public inquiries in Europe have found the U.S. government, with the complicity of numerous governments worldwide, to be engaged in the illegal practice of extraordinary rendition, secret detention, and torture. The U.S. government-sponsored program of renditions is an unlawful practice in which numerous persons have been illegally detained and secretly flown to third countries, where they have suffered additional human rights abuses including torture and enforced disappearance.

End Slave Labor in Brazil

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:54:19 -0800

Every year, more than 25,000 workers are enslaved by landowners in rural Brazil, mostly in the Amazon region.

End Slavery

The Hub — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:45:20 -0700

Through Free the Slaves’ research, first published in Kevin Bales’ Disposable People, our conservative estimate is that there are 27 million people in slavery today. This means that there are more people in slavery today than at any other time in human history. Slavery has existed for thousands of years, but changes in the world’s economy and societies over the past 50 years have enabled a resurgence of slavery.

Three trends have contributed most to the rise of modern-slavery.

End Torture Now

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:58:04 -0800

On September 6, 2006, President Bush asked Congress to pass the Military Commission Act of 2006. This Act - among other things - sought to re-define U.S. obligations under Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, international treaties signed by every country in the world. Common Article 3 places an absolute prohibition on inhumane treatment of detainees during an armed conflict.

HIV/AIDS in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

The Hub — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:48:19 -0800

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Investigate Chechnya's Disappearances

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:47:51 -0800

Chechnya has been deeply scarred by years of fighting between separatists and Russian federal forces. In the Chechen Mountains the conflict has forced families from their homes and is gradually destroying the unique culture of these communities. Thousands of people across Chechnya have disappeared, been imprisoned or tortured.

Please write to the following individuals to urge them to take action and investigate the disappearances:
President Vladimir Putin, Mr. Yuri Chaika, Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, and Mr. Valery Kuznetsov, Prosecutor of the Republic of Chech

Listen to Our Voice: Making the Case against Torture in Papua

Ryan Schlief — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:01:37 -0700

After her son was suspected of participating in protests lead by university students against a mining corporation, the Indonesian police apprehended Anselina Temkon from her home.

She was allegedly beaten with a gun, her hands burnt with cigarettes and, with a gun to her head, the police allegedly told her they were going to take her to a nearby town and “finish her off” if she did not disclose the whereabouts of her son.

Police reportedly detained Anselina for four days without access to visitors.

Panos

Krillian — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:55:54 -0700

Why communication? Our approach to development

The capacity to receive information, to debate, and to express one’s own ideas and needs is a right in itself and an essential part of people’s ability to lift themselves out of poverty and participate in the life of their society.

PEN World Voices Festival for International Literature

matisse_witness — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:22:38 -0700

PEN American Center is the largest of the 141 centers of International PEN, the world’s oldest human rights organization and the oldest international literary organization. International PEN was founded in 1921 to dispel national, ethnic, and racial hatreds and to promote understanding among all countries. PEN American Center, founded a year later, works to advance literature, to defend free expression, and to foster international literary fellowship. The Center has a membership of 3,300 distinguished writers, editors, and translators.

Please oppose vigilante groups such as the Minuteman Project

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:51:15 -0800

There have long been vigilantes harassing border crossers and communities, but this year has seen an alarming increase in their activity and visibility. For example, in April, a new group called the “Minuteman Project" stepped into the national spotlight when several hundred recruits gathered in Arizona to patrol the border. Only months later, they are expanding their activities into California, Texas and several other states
throughout the country.

Protect Refugee Victims in the US

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:56:01 -0800

Thousands of the world’s most vulnerable people, refugee victims of terrorism, are unable to get the protection they so desperately need in the U.S. today because of the overly broad application of the Patriot Act and REAL ID Act.

Victims of terrorism who were forced under threat of death or serious bodily injury into providing food or shelter to terrorist groups are now defined as having provided “material support” to terrorists. Others who supported the U.S. - or who the U.S. supports - are being defined as terrorists themselves.

Protect Women from HIV!

The Hub — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:08:25 -0700

For four years now, the US global AIDS program has been required to spend a minimum of one-third of all funding for the prevention of HIV on abstinence-until-marriage programs that have been overwhelmingly rejected by the international public health community as ineffective. This requirement means that rather than funding comprehensive prevention programs that enable all people to make safe choices that reflect the reality of their lives, the US is funding ideologically driven programs that leave people at risk of HIV.

Protect Women Rights Defenders

The Hub — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:10:48 -0700

Around the world, women are promoting human rights as advocates, social workers, nurses, counselors, grassroots activists, journalists, teachers, and lawyers. Their activism is vital as they effectively advance the rights of all people by challenging inequality and repression. As women taking a leading role in human rights promotion they challenge traditional gender roles in patriarchal societies.

Stop Cluster Munitions

The Hub — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:40:13 -0700

Cluster munitions are weapons that include cargo containers and submunitions. The cargo containers are fired, launched or dropped by aircraft or land-based artillery. The containers open over a target area and disperse large numbers of the submunitions that are designed to explode when they hit the target. Most of these submunitions are fragmentation weapons that include a shaped charge so that they are effective against soldiers as well as armoured vehicles.

Students for a Free Tibet (SFT)

Chris Michael — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:30:22 -0700

Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) works in solidarity with the Tibetan people in their struggle for freedom and independence. We are a chapter-based network of young people and activists around the world. Through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action, we campaign for Tibetans’ fundamental right to political freedom. Our role is to empower and train youth as leaders in the worldwide movement for social justice.

Sudan: The Challenges of Peace

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:52:01 -0800

While the conflict in Sudan’s western region of Darfur continues to rage, there are more hopeful signs for peace in the South and East of the country after the signing of two landmark peace agreements.

The first of these, the ‘Comprehensive Peace Agreement’ (CPA), was signed on 9 January 2005 between the Government of Sudan and the southern-based Sudan People's Liberation Movement, formally ending one of Africa’s longest and bloodiest conflicts in which more than 2 million people are estimated to have died.

Take Action: help Iraqi Refugees

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:52:58 -0800

More than two million refugees from Iraq have fled to neighboring countries, mostly in Jordan and Syria. Another two million Iraqis are displaced within Iraq due to violence and persecution. The needs of these uprooted people are enormous.

Many fleeing Iraqis have no legal status in nearby countries and desperately need our help. Inside Iraq they need food, medicine, jobs, and a safe place to live.

The Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers

Ryan Schlief — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:54:12 -0700

The APNSW was formed in 1994 by members of some of Asia’s first organizations to work on health and human rights with sex workers, Empower Thailand, Sweetly Japan, Pink Triangle Malaysia, the Scarlet Alliance Australia and Sonagachi.

The Elders

The Elders - Every Human Has Rights campaign — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:54:09 -0800

We are moving to a global village and yet we don't have our global elders. The Elders can be a group who have the trust of the world, who can speak freely, be fiercely independent and respond fast and flexibly in conflict situations. The Elders are:

The Hub

The Hub — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:38:21 -0700

The Hub is a grassroots-driven, participatory media website that enables anyone anywhere in the world with access to the internet to upload, share, discuss and take action around human rights-related media and resources. Through the Hub, organizations, networks and groups around the world are able to bring their human rights stories and campaigns to global attention.

The Office of Justice and Peace (Sekretariat Keadilan dan Perdamaian/ SKP)

Ryan Schlief — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:35:34 -0700

SKP stands for Sekretariat Keadilan dan Perdamaian or the Office of Justice and Peace, an integral part of the Catholic Diocese of Jayapura in Papua, Indonesia. This office was established by the Bishop of Jayapura, Most Rev. Dr Leo Laba Ladjar OFM on 1 July 1998. Since 15 August 2005, the Diocese of Jayapura and the Franciscans Friars in Papua agreed to establish the Board of Founders to assume all responsibility of this ministry.

The Real News

Tina — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:24:54 -0700

The Real News will investigate, report and debate stories that help us understand the critical issues of our time.
We won't blindly follow wire services or official press releases that attempt to set the news agenda. We will cover the big stories of the day, but we will broaden the definition of what's important.

The movements for the rights of working people, women, children, immigrants, indigenous peoples, for freedom of religion and conscience, for moral and spiritual values and for peace and against racism are news. The health of our planet will be a story, day after day.

The Victor Pineda Foundation

Hub Intern — Fri, 09 May 2008 07:24:07 -0700

Working with media and communications and empowering youth, the VPF hopes to achieve a world of inclusion and promote an understanding of the inherent dignity of all people.

Think Outside the Bottle

CorporateAccountabilityInternational — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:29:20 -0700

Think Outside the Bottle is a campaign working to promote, protect and ensure public funding for our public water systems. That means challenging corporations who undermine public confidence in tap water. It also means working with mayors, faith groups, restaurants, celebrities, campuses, and individuals to support public systems by opting for tap over bottled water.

Did you know?

*Seventy-four percent of Americans drink bottled water, and one in five drinks only bottled water.

*Worldwide, consumers spent $100 billion on bottled water in 2005.

Tibet Uprising - The Latest Updates, Resources and Actions You Can Take

Chris Michael — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:03:44 -0700

Monks marching in the streets, buildings being burned, students staging sit-in protests, midnight raids by the military, towns and cities sealed off…this is Tibet. The most violent protests in nearly 20 years continue after last Monday’s pro-independence rallies commemorating the 49th anniversary of the Dalai Lama’s escape from Tibet. The Chinese government reports 16 people dead while the Tibetan Government in Exile, reports at least 80 deaths.

This page will continue to feature the latest video, audio and photographs coming out of Tibet and links to the latest resources.

Torture and displacement in Northern Uganda

Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:49:56 -0800

Two decades of armed conflict between the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan government in the Northern Uganda, has caused some nearly two million civilians to be displaced from their homes. Ordered into so-called protected camps, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) face heightened insecurity, appalling living conditions and the lack the means of subsistence.

US Campaign for Burma

BurmaCampaign — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:14:15 -0800

The United States Campaign for Burma is a U.S.-based membership organization dedicated to empowering grassroots activists around the world to bring about an end to the military dictatorship in Burma.

Through public education, leadership development initiatives, conferences, and advocacy campaigns at local, national and international levels, USCB works to empower Americans and Burmese dissidents-in-exile to promote freedom, democracy, and human rights in Burma and raise awareness about the egregious human rights violations committed by Burma’s military regime.

US Human Rights Network

ushrnetwork — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:51:45 -0800

The Network is an outcome of the US Human Rights Leadership Summit "Ending Exceptionalism: Strengthening Human Rights in the United States," July 12-14, 2002 at Howard University Law School. The summit brought together more than 50 leading activists from a variety of different disciplines and issue areas to assess human rights work in the United States and identify ways to strengthen the human rights agenda.

West Africa: On the Edge of Hope

The Hub — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:26:54 -0700

Over the past 16 years, spillover conflicts in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Ivory Coast have resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths and uprooted millions of people across West Africa.

Although the fighting has eased and there is now an atmosphere of hope – particularly in newly democratic Liberia, which recently elected Africa’s first female head of state – the security situation remains fragile.

WITNESS

Chris Michael — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:46:13 -0700

WITNESS uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations. We empower people to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools for justice, promoting public engagement and policy change.

WITNESS Archive

WITNESS Archive — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:08:32 -0700

The video collection comprises over 3000 hours of video from human rights defenders around the world. Footage includes witnes and victim testimonies, abuses caught on tape, interviews with key human rights defenders, evidentiary submissions, and footage of cultural events and daily life.