Authoring and Contributing Organizations
Authoring Organizations
AAAS Science and Human Rights Program
The 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. The Program’s work is based on the premise that respect for human rights is essential to the conduct of science. For more information about the Program and its activites, visit http://shr.aaas.org.
ABA Central and East European Law Initiative
The Central and East European Law Initiative (CEELI) is a public service project of the American Bar Association (ABA). The project is designed to advance the rule of law by supporting the law reform process underway in Central and Eastern Europe and the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union (NIS). Through various programs, CEELI makes available the legal expertise of American and European volunteers to assist emerging democracies in modifying or restructuring laws and legal systems. The ABA/CEELI War Crimes Documentation Project (WCDP) began in May 1999 with funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. State Department. The WCDP main objectives are twofold: 1) to assist efforts to investigate war crimes and prosecute perpetrators, and 2) to increase public awareness of war crimes, their prosecution, and the role of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the process. On war crimes issues, ABA/CEELI has worked closely with several other nongovernmental organizations, the Coalition for International Justice (CIJ), Chicago-Kent College of Law, and The Center for Peace Through Justice. For more information about ABA/CEELI and its activities, visit http://www.abanet.org/ceeli/.
Contributing Organizations
The Center for Peace Through Justice
The Center for Peace Through Justice is a not-for-profit Albanian NGO of lawyers that operates in the field of law with a special focus on human rights and public international law issues. The Center was created in June 1999, formalizing a coalition of seven Albanian NGOs that had previously consolidated their efforts in a Human Rights Documentation Project on Kosovo with the support of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s ORT Democracy Network Program. The Center’s mandate provides for three main areas of assistance: a) Documentation and reporting of human rights violations and other public international law issues, primarily in the Balkans; b) Direct legal assistance through free clinics to meet the needs of certain vulnerable groups; and c) Training and instruction, predominately for the law faculty students in an effort to augment their curriculum with human rights and other international law information.
Since its creation, the Center has been actively involved in an intensive documentation project on war crimes and human rights violations in Kosova/Kosovo that occurred during the time period 1998-1999, primarily to assist The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Together with the ABA/CEELI War Crimes Documentation Project, The Center has gathered and processed a large number of interview forms into an ICTY-approved database, which have subsequently been sent to ICTY. These activities have been made possible through the financial and programmatic support of ABA/CEELI. For more information, visit The Center’s website at http://www.thecenter-ptj.org.
Human Rights Watch conducts regular, systematic investigations of human rights abuses in some 70 countries around the world. The organization addresses the human rights practices of governments of all political stripes, of all geopolitical alignments, and of all ethnic and religious persuasions. Human Rights Watch defends freedom of thought and expression, due process and equal protection of the law, and a vigorous civil society; we document and denounce murders, disappearances, torture, arbitrary imprisonment, discrimination, and other abuses of internationally recognized human rights. Our goal is to hold governments accountable if they transgress the rights of their people.
Human Rights Watch began in 1978 with the founding of its Europe and Central Asia division (then known as Helsinki Watch). Today, it also includes divisions covering Africa, the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East. In addition, it includes three thematic divisions on arms, children’s rights, and women’s rights. It maintains offices in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, London, Brussels, Moscow, Dushanbe, Rio de Janeiro, and Hong Kong. Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide. It accepts no government funds, directly or indirectly.
Human Rights Watch began work on Kosova/Kosovo in 1990. Since then, numerous reports and statements have covered human rights abuses in the province and, more recently, the armed conflict in 1998 and 1999. All material can be viewed or ordered at the Human Rights Watch website: http://www.hrw.org.
Physicians for Human Rights mobilizes the health professions and enlists support from the general public to protect and promote the human rights of all people. PHR believes that human rights are essential preconditions for the health and well-being of all members of the human family.
Using medical and scientific methods, PHR investigates and exposes violations of human rights worldwide and works to stop them. PHR supports institutions in holding perpetrators of human rights abuses, including health professionals, accountable for their actions. PHR educates health professionals and medical, public, health, and nursing students and organize them to become active in supporting a movement for human rights and creating a culture of human rights in the medical and scientific professions.
As one of the original steering committee members of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, PHR shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize. PHR currently serves as coordinator of the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines.
PHR has sent almost a dozen delegations to the Kosova/Kosovo region since 1998. For more information, visit the PHR website at http://phrusa.org.
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