Annex E
NGOs Active in Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Science and Human Rights Program
1200 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20005 USATel: 202 326 6600; Fax: 202 289 4950
E-mail: shrp@aaas.orgThe Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) seeks to protect the human rights of scientists and to bring the methods of science to human rights work. The Program develops and advances methods for human rights documentation and monitoring, fosters support for human rights among scientists, and conducts research on a variety of related issues. A major focus of the Program’s work is economic, social and cultural rights. The Program is currently working with HURIDOCS on a long-range project to develop tools and methodologies for monitoring violations of economic, social and cultural rights. See http://shr.aaas.org/escr for more information.
Amnesty International
International Secretariat
1 Easton Street
London WC1X 0DJ, United KingdomTel: +44 0 20 7413 5500; Fax:+44 0 20 7956 1157
E-mail: amnestyis@amnesty.orgAmnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. In particular, Amnesty International campaigns to free all prisoners of conscience; ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners; abolish the death penalty, torture and other cruel treatment of prisoners; end political killings and “disappearances”; and oppose human rights abuses by opposition groups. Amnesty International has around a million members and supporters in 162 countries and territories. Activities range from public demonstrations to letter-writing, from human rights education to fund-raising concerts, from individual appeals on a particular case to global campaigns on a particular issue.
733 15th Street NW, Suite 1126
Washington, D.C. 20005
USATel: 202 624 0623; Fax: 202 737 1155
E -mail: ktreakle@bicusa.orgThe Bank Information Center (BIC) is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation that provides information and strategic support to NGOs and social movements throughout the world on the projects, policies and practices of the World Bank and other Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). BIC advocates for greater transparency, accountability and citizen participation at the MDBs.
Canadian Human Rights Foundation
1425, boul. René-Levesque O., Bureau 307
Montreal, QC H3G 1T7, CanadaTel: 1 514 954 0382; Fax: 1 514 954 0659
E-mail: ianh@chrf.caThe Canadian Human Rights Foundation (CHRF) is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation dedicated to the defence and promotion of human rights through education, in Canada and around the world.
Center for Economic and Social Rights
162 Montague St., 2nd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201Tel: 718 237 9145; Fax: 718 2379147
E-Mail: rights@cesr.orgThe Center for Economic and Social Rights was established in 1993 to address a critical gap in human rights and activism in general. CESR believes that economic and social rights can provide a universally accepted framework for strengthening social justice activism. Through its projects abroad and in the United States, CESR has developed a strategy that combines research, advocacy, collaboration, and education. The Center’s basic aim is to mobilise people to confront the policies that keep them poor and hold decision-makers—be they governments or corporations—accountable for their actions.
Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)
1367 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20036
USATel: 202 785 8700; Fax: 202 785 8701
E-mail: info@ciel.orgCIEL is a public interest, not-for-profit environmental law firm founded in 1989 to strengthen international and comparative environmental law and policy around the world. CIEL provides a full range of environmental legal services in both international and comparative national law, including: policy research and publication, advice and advocacy, education and training, and institution building.
Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS)
Rodriguez Peña Piso 1°
1020- Buenos Aires, ArgentinaTel: +54 1 371 9968; Fax: +54 1 371 3790
E-mail: postmaster@cels.org.arCELS is a non-governmental organisation dedicated to the protection and the promotion of human rights in Argentina through the strengthening of democracy and the rule of law. Its Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Program seeks to raise awareness and to guarantee these rights within the Argentine legal system. CELS litigates cases before local courts and international organisations, conducts research, advocates for standards for the justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights, collaborates with local and international organisations and organises workshops and seminars. CELS also worked on a parallel report presented to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in November 1999 to accompany Argentina’s official state party report.
Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)
83 rue de Montbrillant
1202 Geneva, SwitzerlandTel/Fax: +41 22 734 1028
E-mail: sleckie@ibm.netCOHRE, established in 1992, is an international, non-governmental human rights organisation committed to ensuring the full enjoyment of economic, social and cultural rights for everyone, everywhere, with a particular focus on ensuring the human right to adequate housing and preventing forced evictions.
Charter Committee on Poverty Issues (CCPI)
517 College Street, Ste. 408
Toronto, Ontario M6G 4A2
CanadaTel: 800 263 1139; Fax: 800 944 1803
E-mail: CCPI@web.netCCPI is a national coalition founded in 1989 to bring together low-income activists and poverty law advocates for the purpose of assisting poor people in Canada to secure and assert their rights under Canadian and international human rights law.
Commonwealth Medical Association
BMA House
Tavistock Square London WC1H 9JP
United KingdomTel: +44 207 383 6095; Fax: +44 207 383 6195
E-mail: cma@commat.orgThe main objective of the Commonwealth Medical Association (CMA) is to strengthen the capacity of medical and other health professional associations in developing countries to promote the health and well-being of their communities. Having regard to the critical health issues involved, its activities are concerned mainly with women’s and youth health, sexual and reproductive health, and the ethical and human rights implications of providing health information and services in such countries.
2012 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington DC 20036
USATel: 202 466 5188; Fax: 202 466 5189
E-mail: eri@igc.orgEarthRights International (ERI) is a nonprofit NGO that combines the power of law and the power of people in defence of human rights and the environment. ERI works in Southeast Asia, where the exploitation of natural resources threatens indigenous cultures, local communities cannot obtain crucial information about environmental degradation, and governments and private businesses persecute environmentalists. Recognising that human rights and environmental abuses are often connected, ERI works to unite human rights and environmental activists and to provide them with the tools necessary to achieve sustainable change. ERI’s mission is to protect humans and their natural environment from abuses occurring in the name of development.
FIAN (FoodFirst Information & Action Network)
International Secretariat
P.O. Box 102243
D-69012 Heidelberg
GermanyTel: + 49 6221 830620; Fax: +49 6221 830545
E-mail: fian@fian.orgIn a world of plenty, hunger and malnutrition indicate violations of human rights. FIAN (FoodFirst Information & Action Network) was the first international human rights organisation to work in the field of economic human rights as codified in international law. FIAN fights for the fundamental human right to feed oneself.
Habitat International Coalition—Housing and Land Rights Committee
HIC UN Liaison Office
8, rue Gustave Moynier
1202 Geneva, SwitzerlandTel/Fax: +41 22 738 8167
E-mail: hic_hrc@iprolink.chHousing and Land Rights Committee
B-28 Nizamuddin East
New Delhi- 110013 IndiaTel/Fax: +91 11 462 8492
E-mail: hichrc@ndf.vsnl.net.inHabitat International Coalition is a global alliance of 350 civil society organisations from 70 countries. Basing its work on the human rights to housing and land, HIC works through its three Committees: women and shelter, housing and land rights, and housing and environment. The Housing and Land Rights Committee (HLRC) is made up of 20 organisations from 16 countries. The HLRC membership consists primarily of community-based organisations. It focuses on campaigns for housing and land rights and against forced evictions. HLRC’s work proceeds from a holistic perspective that stresses the inviolability of gaining and retaining housing and land rights, through alliance building, exchange programmes, training, and use of the UN system, research and fact-finding.
8 York Street, Suite 302
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 5S6
CanadaTel.: 613 789 7407; Fax: 613 789 7414
E-mail: hri@hri.caHuman Rights Internet (HRI) is a leader in the exchange of information within the worldwide human rights community. HRI communicates by phone, fax, mail and the Internet with more than 5,000 organisations and individuals. HRI promotes human rights education, stimulates research, encourages the sharing of information, and builds international solidarity among those committed to human rights principles. HRI’s primary role is to serve the information needs of international scholars, human rights activists, asylum lawyers, and other individuals and organisations via databases and an extensive documentation centre.
350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor
New York, NY 10118-3299
USATel: 212 290 4700; Fax: 212 736 1300
E-mail: hrwnyc@hrw.orgThrough its reports and advocacy efforts, Human Rights Watch works to stop abuses wherever it uncovers them. Its timely, reliable disclosures have made it a vital source for anyone concerned with human rights. Its experienced staff of over 100 regional experts, lawyers and linguists helps explain why abuses break out and—most important—what must be done to stop them. Its goal is to make governments pay a heavy price in reputation and legitimacy if they violate the rights of their people.
Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems, International
48, chemin du Grand-Montfleury
CH-1290 Versoix, SwitzerlandTel. +41 22 755 5252; Fax +41 22 755 5260
E-mail: huridocs@comlink.orgHURIDOCS is a global network of human rights organisations working to improve access to, and the dissemination of, information on human rights through more effective, appropriate and compatible methods and techniques of information handling. HURIDOCS functions as a decentralised network of organisations concerned with documentation and information. HURIDOCS encourages networking as the best way to deal with the increasing flow of human rights information. HURIDOCS focuses on developing tools such as standard formats and software for documentation and monitoring, conducting training activities, and providing advice and guidance to NGOs and other human rights organisations.
602 North Ewing Street
Helena, Montana 59601Tel: 406/449-2006; Fax: 406/449-2031
E-mail: mt@indianlaw.orgThe Indian Law Resource Center seeks to overcome the devastating problems that threaten Native peoples by advancing the rule of law, by establishing national and international legal standards that preserve their human rights and dignity, and by challenging the governments of the world to equally esteem all human beings. Founded and directed by American Indians, the Center, a Non-Governmental Organization in consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, has provided assistance to tribes and other indigenous peoples in the United States and in Central and South America since 1978. The Center's program is based on an indigenous concept that human welfare, human rights, environmental protection, cultural preservation, and spiritual values are all a single concern, not separate objectives.
Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First)
398 60th Street
Oakland, CA 94618
USATel: 510 654 4400; Fax: 510 654 4551
E-mail: foodfirst@foodfirst.orgThe Institute for Food and Development Policy, also known as Food First, is a member-supported, nonprofit think tank and education-for-action center. Its work highlights root causes and value-based solutions to hunger and poverty around the world, with a commitment to establishing food as a fundamental human right.
International Anti-Poverty Law Center (IAPLC)
511 Avenue of the Americas PMB 5
New York, NY 10011
USATel/Fax: 212 206 1458
E-Mail: iaplc@iaplc.org
The IAPLC is a resource and advocacy center for international economic, social and cultural rights—the human rights that protect against deprivations of food, health, housing, education, and decent working conditions. The IAPLC works to make information available to the public, non-profit organisations, and others concerning international economic, social and cultural rights; advocates at the international level for increased understanding and implementation of international human rights; undertakes research into the relevant legal standards and facilitates scholarly discussion; and promotes the protection of human rights, especially economic, social and cultural rights, within the United States.
International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights (INTERIGHTS)
Lancaster House
33 Islington High Street
London N1 9LH
Great BritainTel: 00 0171 278 3230; Fax: 00 0171 278 4334
E-Mail: 101737.1436@compuserve.com
INTERIGHTS was established in 1982 to provide leadership in the development of legal protection for human rights and freedoms through the effective use of international and comparative human rights law. INTERIGHTS helps judges, lawyers, practitioners, non-governmental organisations and victims with the practical application of international and comparative human rights law in national, regional and international courts and tribunals.
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
Boulevard du Roi Albert II, n°5 b.1
B-1210 Brussels, BelgiumTel: +32 2 224 0211; Fax: + 32 2 201 5815
E-mail: internetpo@icftu.orgThe International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) dedicates itself to the promotion and defence of human rights, especially as they relate to work. This includes the defence of trade union rights and actions designed to combat child labour, forced labour and discrimination at work, whether on gender, race, religion, political opinion or other grounds. It has three major regional organisations, the Asia and Pacific Regional Organisation, the African Regional Organisation, and the Inter-American Regional Organisation of Workers. It also maintains close ties with the European Trade Union Confederation and International Trade Secretariats, which link together national unions from a particular trade or industry at the international level.
International Human Rights Internship Program
1400 K Street NW, Suite 650
Washington, DC 20005
USATel: 202 326 7725; Fax: 202 326 7763
E-Mail: ihrip@iie.orgThe International Human Rights Internship Program (IHRIP) works to help strengthen the human rights movement by facilitating professional training projects for human rights organisations and activists in countries of the South as well as East Central Europe and the republics of the former Soviet Union. IHRIP has also recently established a Fellowship Program for experienced human rights activists in these same regions through which individuals with ten or more years’ human rights experience are able to take time off to reflect on and write about their experience. The Program is currently collaborating with the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development to produce a training manual on economic, social and cultural rights activism and an educational video on the work of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The manual and video will be available in mid-2000.
International Labor Rights Fund
733 15th Street, NW, Suite 920
Washington, DC 20005
USATel: 202 347 4100; Fax: 202 347 4885
E-mail: laborrights@igc.orgThe International Labor Rights Fund, a nonprofit action and advocacy organisation, uses new and creative means to encourage enforcement of international labour rights. International labour rights are necessary for life and dignity. However, these international rights are violated in every part of the globe: women labour in sweatshop conditions at garment factories, children spend long hours working in poor conditions making products that are shipped to developed countries, men are forced to labour without pay, and women and men are killed, harassed, and fired for their efforts to join with other workers and speak out.
International Commission of Jurists
81A, avenue de Châtelaine- P.O. Box 216
CH-1219 Châtelaine, Geneva, SwitzerlandTel: +41 22 979 38 00; Fax: +41 22 979 38 01 or 979 38 24
E-mail: info@icj.orgThe International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) is an international non-governmental organisation based in Geneva. The essential mission of the ICJ is to promote the rule of law and the legal protection of all human rights. The ICJ is involved in standard-setting at the universal and regional level and securing the ratification and domestic implementation of human rights instruments. A special focus of the ICJ has been to promote the indivisibility, interdependence and interrelation of economic, social, cultural, civil and political rights under the rule of law. The ICJ has actively campaigned for the adoption of an Optional Protocol to the ICESCR, which would make it possible for individual and group complaints alleging violations of these rights to be submitted for examination by the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The ICJ organises seminars and workshops at the regional and national levels on all continents to enhance the protection of economic, social and cultural rights.
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
333 Seventh Avenue, 13th Floor
New York, NY 10001Tel: 212 845 5200; Fax: 212 845 5299
E-mail: lchrbin@lchr.orgSince 1978, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights has worked to protect and promote fundamental human rights. Its work is impartial, holding all governments accountable to the standards affirmed in the International Bill of Human Rights. Its programs focus on building the legal institutions and structures that will guarantee human rights in the long term. Strengthening independent human rights advocacy at the local level is a key feature of its work.
National Anti-Poverty Organization
440-325 Dalhousie Street
Ottawa ON K1N 7G2
CanadaTel: 613 789 0096; Fax: 613 789 0141
E-mail: napo@web.netThe goal of the National Anti-Poverty Organization (NAPO) is the elimination of poverty in Canada. The complete elimination of poverty will occur when all Canadians attain an adequate income, access to high-quality human services, autonomy and choice within their own households and lives, recognition of the contribution (paid or unpaid) made to the community, freedom from all forms of discrimination, and complete social and economic equality. NAPO undertakes broad activities to raise public awareness, conduct research, and work with local activists to strengthen national and local efforts to eliminate poverty.
2nd Floor, Prama House
267 Banbury Road Oxford, OX2 7HT
United KingdomTel: +44 1865 31 39 39; Fax: +44 1865 31 39 35
E-mail: administration@oxfaminternational.orgOxfam International is an international group of independent non-governmental organisations dedicated to fighting poverty and related injustice around the world. The Oxfams work together internationally to achieve greater impact by their collective efforts.
The People’s Decade of Human Rights Education
526 West 111th Street New York, NY 10025, USA Tel: 1 212 749 3156 Fax: 1 212 666 6325 E-Mail: pdhre@igc.apc.org http://www.pdhre.org The People’s Decade of Human Rights Education (PDHRE-International) is a non-profit, international service organisation that works directly and indirectly with its network of affiliates — primarily women’s and social justice organisations — to develop and advance pedagogies for human rights education relevant to people’s daily lives in the context of their struggles for social and economic justice and democracy.
Rights & Democracy (International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development)
1001 de Maisonneuve Blvd. East Suite 1100
Montreal, Quebec
Canada, H2l 4P9Tel: 514 283 6073; Fax: 514 283 3792
E-mail: ichrdd@ichrdd.ca
Rights & Democracy works with citizens’ groups and governments in Canada and abroad to promote human and democratic rights, as defined in the International Bill of Human Rights. It focuses on democratic development and justice, women’s rights, indigenous peoples’ rights, and globalisation. Rights & Democracy provides support to frontline human rights groups and works to mainstream human rights into international trade regimes.
E-mail: socwatch@chasque.apc.org
Social Watch (Control Ciudadano) is a meeting point for citizen and civil organizations who care about social development and gender discrimination. It is about monitoring development policies that directly impact, positively or negatively, the situation of women and people living in poverty. And it is about influencing the outcome of policy decisions. Social Watch encourages networking. It assists groups through exchange of ideas, information, concerns, successful strategies. It collects, publishes and makes available through the Internet, local, national and regional reports.
Apartado Postal 5156
Carmelitas 1010-A
Caracas, VenezuelaTel: 58 2 862 1011 and 860 6669; Fax: 58 2 860 6669
E-mail: provea@derechos.org.vePROVEA is a nongovernmental organisation working for the promotion and defence of human rights, particularly economic, social, and cultural rights. It seeks to strengthen existing initiatives and to develop its own programmes on human rights education and defence.
Women, Law and Development International
1350 Connecticut Ave. NW Suite 407
Washington, DC 20036
USATel: 202 463 7477; Fax: 202 463 7480
E-mail: wld@wld.orgWomen, Law and Development, International (WLDI) is a women’s human rights organisation. It is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. WLDI works on several fronts, making important contributions to the global movement for women’s rights. Among its accomplishments, WLDI has organised a number of agenda-setting global and regional forums, launched independent regional women’s rights organisations across the globe, initiated and carried out participatory research projects on women’s human rights issues, and created innovative and practical strategy frameworks, “how-to” guides, case studies, fact sheets and other tools for advocacy.
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