Academic Resources: organizations: health & human rights organizations
American Friends Service Committee
The American Friends Service Committee carries out service, development,
social justice, and peace programs throughout the world. Founded by Quakers
in 1917 to provide conscientious objectors with an opportunity to aid civilian
war victims, AFSC's work attracts the support and partnership of people
of many races, religions, and cultures.
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is dedicated to freeing prisoners of conscience,
gaining fair trials for political prisoners, ending torture, political killings
and "disappearances," and abolishing the death penalty throughout
the world.
The Atlanta Alliance
for Health and Human Rights
The goal of AAHHR is to improve health through the application of human
rights principles and enhance the enjoyment of human rights through the
promotion of health.
Center for Economic and Social
Rights
CESR was established in 1993 to promote social justice through human
rights. In a world where poverty and inequality deprive entire communities
of dignity and even life itself, CESR promotes the universal right of every
human being to housing, education, health and a healthy environment, food,
work, and social security.
Center for Victims of Torture
CVT exists to heal the wounds of government-sponsored torture on individuals,
their families, and communities and to stop its practice.
Doctors for Global Health
Doctors for Global Health (DGH) is a private, not-for-profit organization
promoting health, education, art and other human rights throughout the world.
Doctors Without
Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
MSF delivers emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics,
and natural and man-made disasters, and to others who lack health care due
to social or geographical isolation.
Family Health International
Formed in 1971, Family Health International (FHI) is among the largest
and most established nonprofit organizations active in international public
health with a mission to improve lives worldwide through research, education,
and services in family health.
Food First
The Institute for Food and Development Policy better known as Food First--is
a member-supported, nonprofit 'peoples' think tank and education-for-action
center. Our 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.
The Francois-Xavier
Bagnoud Center of Health and Human Rights, Harvard University
The FXB Center for Health and Human Rights is the first academic center
to focus exclusively on health and human rights. The Center combines the
academic strengths of research and teaching with a strong commitment to
service and policy development.
Global Exchange
(International partnerships for peace and economic equity)
Global Exchange is an international human rights organization dedicated
to promoting environmental, political and social justice. Since our founding
in 1988, we have increased the US public's global awareness while building
partnerships worldwide.
Global Health
Corps
The University of Northern Iowa established the Global Health Corps
in 1996 as a field-based training program to enhance the professional preparation
of post-secondary students in the area of cross-cultural community health.
Global Health Council
The Global Health Council is the world's largest membership alliance
dedicated to saving lives by improving health throughout the world. Our
diverse membership is comprised of health-care professionals and organizations
that include NGOs, foundations, corporations, government agencies and academic
institutions that work to ensure global health for all.
Global Lawyers and Physicians
Our mission is to work at the local, national, and international levels
through collaboration and partnerships with individuals, NGOs, IGOs, and
governments on issues such as the global implementation of the health-related
provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Covenants
on Civil and Political Rights and Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights,
with a focus on health and human rights, patient rights, and human experimentation.
Global Rights
Global Rights is a human rights advocacy group that partners with local activists to challenge injustice and amplify new voices within the global discourse. With offices in countries around the world, we help local activists create just societies through proven strategies for effecting change.
Grassroots International
Grassroots International promotes global justice through partnerships
with social change organizations. We work to advance political, economic
and social rights and support development alternatives through grantmaking,
education and advocacy.
Health and
Human Rights Info
Health and Human Rights Info aims at making practical information and materials
on health and human rights more easily accessible to health workers. The
focus is on the psychological aspects of health and human rights. This website
contains a database with links to selected materials.
Health Wrights
We believe that health for all people is only possible in a global society
where the guiding principles are sharing, mutual assistance, and respect
for cultural and individual differences.
Hesperian Foundation
The Hesperian Foundation is a non-profit publisher of books and newsletters
for community-based health care. Our first book, Where There Is No Doctor,
is considered to be one of the most accessible and widely used community
health books in the world.
Human Rights Internet
Founded in 1976, HRI is a leader in the exchange of information within
the worldwide human rights community. Launched in the United States, HRI
has its headquarters in Ottawa, Canada. From Ottawa, HRI communicates by
phone, fax, mail and the Internet with more than 5,000 organizations and
individuals around the world working for the advancement of human rights.
Human
Rights Matrix -- organized by country/document/right
The Human Rights Matrix lists the international human rights documents that
are important to reproductive and maternal health, family planning, and
HIV/AIDS. The Matrix permits you to access information about a POLICY country's
human rights obligations.
Human Rights Watch
We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold
political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and
to bring offenders to justice. We investigate and expose human rights violations
and hold abusers accountable. We challenge governments and those who hold
power to end abusive practices and respect international human rights law.
We enlist the public and the international community to support the cause
of human rights for all.
International Medical Corps
(IMC)
IMC is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. By
offering training and health care to local populations and medical assistance
to people at highest risk, and with the flexibility to respond rapidly to
emergency situations, IMC rehabilitates devastated health care systems and
helps bring them back to self-reliance.
International Society for
Equity in Healthcare
The purpose for which ISEqH is formed is to promote equity in health
and health services internationally through education, research, publication,
communication and charitable support.
International Society for
Health and Human Rights
Our aim is to gather knowledge about the effects of human rights violations
on health, exchange experiences and information about treatment methods,
medical and psychological care and contribute to the development of psychosocial
interventions both on individual and community level.
International
Student Association for Health and Human Rights
ISAHHR is an association of student organizations interested in health
and human rights dedicated to promoting involvement in local, national,
and international health and human rights issues. In conjunction with faculties,
staffs, and related organizations and institutions, the association seeks
to act on issues of social justice and to create awareness through education
and praxis.
International Women's Health
Coalition
IWHC works to generate health and population policies, programs, and
funding that promote and protect the rights and health of girls and women
worldwide, particularly in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and countries in
postsocialist transition.
Latin America Working Group
The Latin America Working Group (LAWG) is a coalition of over sixty religious,
human rights, policy, grassroots and development organizations. Since 1983,
the coalition has been striving for U.S. policies that promote peace, justice
and sustainable development in the region.
Madre (Health of women
and children in Latin America)
MADRE is an international women’s human rights organization that works
in partnership with women’s community-based groups in conflict areas
worldwide. Our programs address issues of sustainable development, community
improvement and women’s health; violence and war; discrimination and
racism; self-determination and collective rights; women’s leadership
development; and human rights education.
Medical Advocates for
Social Justice
The mission of Medical Advocates for Social Justice is to advocate for and
facilitate access to timely and appropriate healthcare for all who have
or are at risk of life-threatening endemic and epidemic infectious disease
and who are disenfranchised from such access because of poverty and/or discrimination.
Oxfam International
Oxfam America is dedicated to finding long-term solutions to poverty,
hunger, and social injustice around the world. We work to eliminate the
root causes of social and economic inequities by challenging the structural
barriers that foster conflict and human suffering and limit people from
gaining the skills, resources, and power to become self-sufficient.
Partners In Health
We run innovative programs combating AIDS and women's health problems in
rural Haiti, groundbreaking tuberculosis treatment projects in the prisons
of Siberia, and the shantytowns of urban Peru, training programs for community
health workers in Chiapas, Mexico, community-based mental health outreach
in highland Guatemala, and a novel violence-prevention curriculum in inner-city
Boston, USA.
Physicians for Human Rights
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) promotes health by protecting human rights.
We believe that human rights are essential preconditions for the health
and well-being of all people. Using medical and scientific methods, we investigate
and expose violations of human rights worldwide and we work to stop them.
Physicians for Social Responsibility
(PSR)
Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) is a leading public policy
organization with 24,000 members representing the medical and public health
professions and concerned citizens, working together for nuclear disarmament,
a healthful environment, and an end to the epidemic of gun violence.
UN High Commissioner for Human
Rights (UNOG)
The concern of the United Nations with the promotion and protection
of human rights and fundamental freedoms stems directly from the realization
by the international community that "recognition of the inherent dignity
and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family
is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world", and
from the resultant pledge of States Members of the United Nations "to
achieve, in cooperation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal
respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms".
U.S. Committee
for Refugees (USCR)
USCR defends the rights of all uprooted people regardless of their nationality,
race, religion, ideology, or social group.
UNAIDS:
HIV/AIDS and human rights
A selection of information related to HIV/AIDS and human rights, stigma
and discrimination has been collected here. For a complete listing of related
documents, go to Human
rights, ethics and law.
Women's International League
for Peace and Freedom
WILPF believes that to achieve freedom and justice in our own country and
peaceful relations with other countries we must build a non-exploitative
society.