Defending Human Rights: A Resource Book for Human

Annex 4
Organizations working with Human Rights Defenders
Amnesty International
A UK-based, not-for-profit organisation advocating
for every person to enjoy all of the human rights
enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights and other international human rights
standards.
Official Link: http://www.amnesty.org
Article 19
A UK-based not-for-profit organisation advocating
for the freedom of expression as stipulated in Article
19 of the Universal Declaration for Human Rights.
Official Link: http://www.article19.org
Avocats Sans Frontières
ASF intervenes in countries where human rights are
not respected, where political violence and armed
conflict reign, and where legal rules are flouted.
Justice in those countries, too often arbitrary,
does not guarantee the security of the population.
Conflicts are not satisfactorily resolved before the
local courts. People whose rights have been abused
tend to resort to vigilante justice, which evolves into
the law of the strongest or richest, and contributes
to a climate of violence.
Official Link: http://www.asf.be/
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
The Committee to Protect Journalists is an
independent, non-profit organization promoting
press freedom worldwide by defending the rights
of journalists to report the news without fear of
reprisal.
Official Link: http://www.cpj.org
Commonwealth Human Rights
Initiative (CHRI)
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI)
is an independent, non-partisan, international nongovernmental
organisation, mandated to ensure
the practical realisation of human rights in the
countries of the Commonwealth. In 1987, several
Commonwealth professional associations founded
CHRI. They believed that while the Commonwealth
provided member countries a shared set of values
and legal principles from which to work and
provided a forum within which to promote human
rights, there was little focus on the issues of human
rights within the Commonwealth.
Official Link: www.humanrightsinitiative.org/
European Centre for Development
Policy Management (ECDPM)
ECDPM helps to reduce the ‘asymmetries’ in policy
making between Africa, Caribbean and Pacific
(ACP) and the European Union. This is done by
reinforcing the capacities of public, private and
non-profit organisations in ACP countries to better
manage their own development policies and
international cooperation. ECDPM also works with
governments and organisations in Europe to make
their development policies and instruments more
effective.
Official Link: http://www.ecdpm.org/
Front line
Front Line was founded with the specific aim of
protecting Human Rights Defenders, people who
work, non-violently, for any or all of the rights
enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights (UDHR). Front Line is the International
Foundation for the protection of human rights
defenders. We work to provide fast and effective
action to help protect human rights defenders at
risk so they can continue their work as key agents of
social change.
Official Link: www.frontlinedefenders.org
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