Actors

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• Coalition for the International Criminal Court
  The Coalition for the International Criminal Court is a network of well over 1,000 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) advocating for a fair, effective and independent International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC is the first permanent international judi ...
• Coalition of women for peace
  The Coalition of Women for Peace has become one of the leading voices in Israel advocating for a just and viable peace between Israel and Palestine ever since its founding in November 2000, just six weeks after the current Intifada began. The Coalition bri ...
• Foro Ciudadano de Participación por la Justicia y los Derechos Humanos
  FOCO was created in 1999 as an initiative of SAPRIN (Structural Adjustment Participatory Review International Network) . It was designed as a space for the convergence of many social organisations, with the purpose of promoting citizen participation in th ...
• Human Rights Watch
  Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide. It challenges gove ...
• Independent Sector
  Independent Sector is committed to strengthening, empowering, and partnering with nonprofit and philanthropic organizations in their work on behalf of the public good. Its membership of nonprofit organizations, foundations, and corporate philanthropy progr ...
• InterAction
  InterAction is the largest alliance of U.S.-based international development and humanitarian nongovernmental organizations. With more than 160 members operating in every developing country, we work to overcome poverty, exclusion and suffering by advancing ...
• INTERIGHTS
  INTERIGHTS, the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights works to promote respect for human rights through the use of law. We do so by providing legal expertise to lawyers, judges, human rights defenders and other partners concerning i ...
• International Commission of Jurists
  The International Commission of Jurists is dedicated to the primacy, coherence and implementation of international law and principles that advance human rights. What distinguishes the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) is its impartial, objective an ...
• International Council of Voluntary Agencies
  The International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA), founded in 1962, is a global network of human rights, humanitarian, and development NGOs, which focuses its information exchange and advocacy efforts primarily on humanitarian affairs and refugee issu ...
• Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
  CAHD is a non-violent, direct-action group originally established to oppose and resist Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories. As our activists gained direct knowledge of the brutalities of the Occupation, we expanded our resi ...
• Oxfam International
  Oxfam International is a confederation of 12 organizations working together with over 3000 partners in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice. With many of the causes of poverty global in nature, the 12 affili ...
• Pérez Esquivel, Adolfo
  Adolfo Pérez Esquivel was born in Buenos Aires in 1931. After training as an architect and sculptor he was appointed Professor of Architecture. In 1974 he relinquished his teaching post in order to devote all his time and energy to the work of co-ordinatin ...
• Physicians for Human Rights
  Physicians for Human Rights mobilizes health professionals to advance health, dignity, and justice and promotes the right to health for all. Harnessing the specialized skills, rigor, and passion of doctors, nurses, public health specialists, and scientists ...
• School of Law. Emory University
  At Emory Law School, we develop lawyers who are leaders - those who are recognized by their peers for excellence in the practice of law and who perform prominent community and governmental service, from sitting on the boards of well-known charities to serv ...
• Servicio Paz y Cultura
  El Servicio de Paz y Justicia (Serpaj) es una organización social de inspiración cristiano - ecuménica que tiene como finalidad promover los valores de la Solidaridad y la No violencia e impulsar la construcción de una sociedad que se funde en el reconocim ...
• South African NGO Coalition
  The South African National NGO Coalition, (SANGOCO), emerged in 1995 to coordinate NGO input into the Government policy and ensure that the rich traditions of civil society - forged in the resistance to apartheid - continue to serve the people of South Afr ...
• Strategy Group
  Just as clear was the recognition that no longer could military power alone deliver peace. Urgently needed were radically new approaches to peacebuilding – approaches which relied first on the peacebuilding capacities of citizens in local communities. The ...
• World Civil Society Conference
  The purpose of this conference is to enhance and broaden civil society participation in achieving the goals shared by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the UN system, notably social justice and the well-being of all people. The conference is envisa ...
• World Peace Centre
  World Peace Centre of MAEER's MIT, Pune, India was established formally on 1st December, 1996 and is a non-governmental, voluntary and non-profit organization devoted to the cause of protection of Human Rights, promotion of Culture of Peace and Democratic ...

Meetings

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• CIVICUS World Assembly, 1st
  The CIVICUS World Assembly is a forum for international civil society representatives to get together, exchange ideas, experiences and build strategies for a just world. The first CIVICUS World Assembly was held in Mexico City in 1995. Through plenary spee ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 2nd
  In 1997, the CIVICUS World Assembly moved to Budapest, Hungary, attracting more than 500 people from 76 countries and six continents. Participants reviewed CIVICUS’ activities and immersed themselves in issues around visibility, resource mobilisation and ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 3rd
  The following CIVICUS World Assembly took place in Manila in 1999, with the theme “Towards a New Civil Society: The Changing Roles of Civil Society Organisations, Business and Government”. Over 600 delegates from all sectors of society discussed the varied ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 4th
  In 2001, shortly after the “anti-globalisation” protests in Seattle, Genoa and Quebec City, the 4th CIVICUS World Assembly. This brought together over 730 people from 87 countries to reflect on “putting people at the centre,” and “the role of voluntary ac ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 5th
  The 5th CIVICUS World Assembly took place in Gaborone, Botswana at the end of March 2004, introducing the theme ‘Acting Together for a Just World’. Over 700 delegates from 105 countries gathered to discuss the issues of civic, economic, social and politic ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 6th
  Over 800 delegates from over 100 countries came to Glasgow to discuss the overarching theme "Acting Together for a Just World", with four sub-themes of political, social, economic and civic justice. 2006 marked the beginning of our new approach to the CIVI ...
• CIVICUS World Assembly, 7th
  The 2007 CIVICUS World Assembly, which was the second of the Glasgow series, was held from 23-27 May, 2007. Some 745 delegates attended from over 119 countries around the world. This was a definite increase from the number of countries recorded at the 2006 ...
• World Social Forum 2007
  The first WSF world on the African continent was conducted in Nairobi, Kenya. About 75 thousand participants attended the WSF 2007 and it held 1.300 different kind of activities: self-organised, co-organised, cultural, film and youth. The methodology of c ...

Documents

6 results found.

• Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
  The World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa, ended with a condemnation of those scourges and a call for action by the international community to eradicate them wherever they may be ...
• Report of the World Conference on Human Rights
  Report of the Secretary-General for the WORLD CONFERENCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS. Vienna, 14-25 June 1993
• Time for peace has come
  Article written by Federico Mayor, S. Ben Ami and S. Nair in “El País”, proposing solutions to the conflicts in the Middle East (Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, …).
• United Nations Millennium Declaration
  In 2000, 189 Member States agreed to help the world's poorest countries significantly progress towards a better life for their people by the year 2015. A framework for progress consisting of eight Millennium Development Goals was derived from the Millenniu ...
• Universal Jurisdiction : 14 Principles on the Effective Exercise of Universal Jurisdiction
  An overwhelming majority of states at the Diplomatic Conference in Rome in June and July 1998 favoured giving the International Criminal Court the same universal jurisdiction over genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes which they themselves have. ...
• Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
  Text adopted by the World Conference on Human Rights, held in Viena on the 25th June 1993.

Campaigns

3 results found.

• Campaign for Judicial Reforms and Accountability
  The issue of judicial reforms has thus far been discussed in only elite legal/judicial circles or among various official commissions and committees of the government. For some time now there has been an increasing realization that this issue needs to be di ...
• No to the death penalty
  This is a voice that rises from all over the world, stronger and stronger. Indeed the signatures collected for the appeal launched by the Community of Sant'Egidio at the dawn of the new century for a universal moratorium of all executions, were up to 5 mil ...
• Stop Torture
  As torture persists in our world and takes on new forms and enters into everwidening and complex contexts, Al continues its campaign for the eradication of this 21st century crime against humanity.

Agenda

Resources

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