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"HURIDOCS is an international NGO helping human rights organisations use information technologies and documentation methods to maximise the impact of their advocacy work." (from website)

Type: Research Institution | Topic: Human Rights

"The International Human Rights Clinic gives students the opportunity for first-hand experience with the vital issues, institutions and processes of the human rights movement." (from website)

Type: Academic Institutions | Topic: Human Rights

"NCHR is a statutory National Human Rights Institution having a consultative status with the Greek State on issues pertaining to human rights protection and promotion. The creation of NCHR emanated from the need to monitor developments regarding human rights protection at the domestic and international level, to inform Greek public opinion on human rights-related issues and, above all, to provide guidelines to the Greek State aimed at the establishment of a modern, principled policy of human rights protection. The creation of the NCHR was based on the Paris Principles, adopted by the United Nations and the Council of Europe. According to Law 2667/1998, by which it was established, NCHR has the following substantive competence: 1. The study of human rights issues raised by the government, by the Convention of the Presidents of the Greek Parliament, by NCHR members or by non-governmental organisations. 2.The submission of recommendations and proposals, elaboration of studies, submission of reports and opinions for legislative, administrative or other measures which may lead to the amelioration of human rights protection in Greece. 3. The development of initiatives for the sensitisation of the public opinion and the mass media on issues related to human rights. 4. The cultivation of respect for human rights in the context of national educational system. 5. The maintenance of permanent contacts and co-operation with international organisations, similar organs of other States, as well as with national or international non-governmental organisations. 6. The submission of consultative opinions regarding human rights-related reports which Greece is to submit to international organisations. 7.The publicising of NCHR positions in any appropriate manner. 8.The drafting of an annual report on human rights protection in Greece. 9.The establishment of a Human Rights Documentation Centre. 10. The examination of the ways in which Greek legislation may be harmonised with the international law standards on human rights protection, and the subsequent submission of relevant opinions to competent State organs." (from website)

Type: Governmental Organizations | Topic: Human Rights

Type: Non-Governmental Organizations | Topic: Human Rights

The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) works to offer the best expertise and support to the different human rights monitoring mechanisms in the United Nations system : UN Charter-based bodies, including the Human Rights Council, and bodies created under the international human rights treaties and made up of independent experts mandated to monitor State parties' compliance with their treaty obligations. Most of these bodies receive secretariat support from the Human Rights Council and Treaties Division of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

Type: United Nations | Topic: Human Rights

Type: Non-Governmental Organizations | Topic: Human Rights

"The HURFOM was founded by pro-democracy students from the 1988 uprising and more recent activists and Mon community leaders and youths, and it main aim is for the restoration of democracy, human rights and genuine peace in Burma. HURFOM is a non-profit organization and all its members are volunteers who have the same opinion for the same aim. By accepting the main aim, we would like to participate in struggle for the establishment of a democratic Burma doing our part as a local ethnic human rights group, which is monitoring the human rights situation in Mon territory and other areas southern part of Burma." (from website)

Type: Non-Governmental Organizations | Topic: Human Rights

"The HRI team includes experts in human rights with experience in minority issues, diversity management, women's rights, reproductive rights, democratic institution-building, international human rights and humanitarian law, conflict prevention and resolution, as well as web-based human rights publishing." (from website)

Type: Reference Information | Topic: Human Rights

Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. It investigates and exposes human rights violations and holds abusers accountable, challenges governments and those who hold power to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law, enlists the public and the international community to support the cause of human rights for all.

Type: Non-Governmental Organizations | Topic: Human Rights

"In 1989, a number of human rights defenders founded an NGO called Bruxelles-Droits de l’Homme/ Brussels- Human Rights/ Brüssel Menschenrechte”, later re-named to Droits de l’homme sans frontières. The organization has gradually expanded into Human Rights Without Frontiers International (2001) to embrace its branch offices in Belgium, China, USA, and Nepal as well as its associate members in Armenia (Pro-Democracy Association), Bulgaria (Tolerance Foundation), Georgia (Human Rights Information and Documentation Centre), Iraq (Assyrian Aid Society), and Japan (Life Funds for North Korean Refugees), Russia, and South Korea." (from website)

Type: Non-Governmental Organizations | Topic: Human Rights