Organization Name | Organization Name (Local Language) | Country | Factors | Organization Description |
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Social Initiative for Democracy | El Salvador |
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 3: Open Government
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Works to foster citizen participation (esp. Through its Youth Movement), tackle corruption through its Citizen Transparency Observatory and work towards political reform for democracy. |
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Social Management and Cooperation (GESOC) | GESOC - Gestion Social y Cooperacion | Mexico |
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
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Working to become the leading institution on providing quality information and influencing policy decisions of public value to citizens. |
Social Ombudsman - Lawyer's College | Defensoria Social - Colegio de Abogados | Peru |
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice
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The Social Ombudsman is a collective of volunteer lawyers proposing free legal services in civil and criminal defense. |
Social Policy Research Centre | Australia |
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
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It is a multidisciplinary research group working on issues such as inequality, environmental change, and indigenous policy. They aim to both provide information on current policies and encourage policy reform. |
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Social Studies and Research Association | Asociación de Investigación y Estudios Sociales - ASIES | Guatemala |
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
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ASIES is a private research institute that contributes to strengthening the rule of law and the development of Guatemala through research and advocacy. Their areas of work include legal analysis, economic and human development, education, labor studies, as well as the execution of projects related to public administration, public health, and municipal governance, to name a few. |
Social Watch Philippines | Philippines |
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
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Since it was set-up in 1997, SWP has the objectives of increasing people's awareness and participation in promoting social development concerns with government. It has annually put forward a strategy of advocacy, awareness-building, monitoring, organizational development and networking. |
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Society for Community Organization - SoCO | ???????? | Hong Kong S.A.R., China |
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice
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SoCO believes that everyone is entitled to equal rights and opportunities for participation and the fair distribution of social resources. Their Civil Rights Education Center organizes civil rights education workshops, provides cross-border legal advice, and educates people on how to safeguard their basic civil rights through legal channels. |
Society for Democratic Initiatives | Sierra Leone |
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
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It works to advance democracy, governance, human rights, and the rule of law in Sierra Leone. They specialize in the promotion of legal reforms and governance accountability. |
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Society for Human Rights and Prisoners' Aid (SHARP) | Pakistan |
Factor 7: Civil Justice
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It has been working with Afghan refugees, non-Afghan asylum seekers, and IDPs to register them and providing them legal aid. It also works to promote human rights through education, seminars, lectures, symposium, training, workshops, mass media and print media. |
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Society for Labour & Development (SLD) | India |
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
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SLD is a Delhi-based labour rights organization, that believes in equitable development through social and economic well-being of labour, migrants, and women workers; and through cultural renewal among disenfranchised people. |
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Society for Protecting the Rights of the Child (SPRC) | ????? ????? ?? ???? ?????? | Iran |
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
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Publicize and promote the principles of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child through programme development and local monitoring strategies. |
Society for the Study of Women's Health | The Gambia |
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
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It seeks to promote the health and social well-being of Gambian women, through applied research and evidence-based advocacy. Their areas of intervention are gender and health, maternal health and nutrition, and policy engagement and advocacy on women's health issues, among others. |
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Society of Indian Law Firms | International |
Factor 7: Civil Justice
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The society is a collective of all the various law firms in India that aims to build up the capacities of legal practictioners in the country and region to match those in developed countries and establish a true rule of law network in Asia. |
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Socio Economic Rights Institute | South Africa |
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
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Works to advance the socio economic rights of people and functions as an umbrella for associations and a guarantor of freedom of assembly and expression. |
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Solidarity Action | Acción Solidaria | Venezuela |
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
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Solidarity Action contributes to the reduction of the social impact of HIV/AIDS in Venezuela by offering comprehensive responses in the areas of prevention, care, and public advocacy. It protects the human rights of people with HIV/AIDS, their partners, and families. |
Solidarity Commission with Political Prisoners Foundation | Fundación Comité de Solidaridad con los Presos Políticos - CSPP | Colombia |
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 8: Criminal Justice
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It contributes to the debate on the justice system and demands the implementation of a democratic criminal policy with social justice. It demands that guarantees of the rights to search for truth, justice, and reparation are respected. They focus on fair treatment, fair and impartial trials, and other rights for persons deprived of freedom or those prosecuted for political offenses. |
Solidarity Committee for Ethiopian Political Prisoners - SOCEPP | Ethiopia |
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 8: Criminal Justice
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It publicizes the situation of political prisoners in the country to solicit support from international public opinion in calling for the respect of human rights and the due process of law in Ethiopia. |
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Solidarity Network with Migrants Japan | ???????????????? | Japan |
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
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Founded in 1997, the Network is comprised of organizations working on migrant's rights issues in Japan. Their activities include policy reform advocacy, information sharing, workshops, and research. |
Solón Foundation | Fundación Solón | Bolivia |
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
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Founded in 1994 by the artist Walter Solón Romero, it fosters a creative and critical approach to confront injustices and build alternatives for a new world. Areas of work include Systemic Alternatives, Mother Earth, and Rights. |
Sonke Gender Justice | South Africa |
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice
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Promotes gender justice and works to reduce domestic and sexual abuse and to protect and promote access to health and rights for people with HIV/AIDS. |
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Sor Juana's Closet | El Closet de Sor Juana | Mexico |
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
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Civil Association working to promote the rights of lesbian women in Mexico through coordination efforts of different organizations and the promotion of those rights at the national level. |
Sou da Paz Institute | Instituto Sou da Paz | Brazil |
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 8: Criminal Justice
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Works to reduce violence and improve security and the criminal justice system through community dialogue, projects with youth and police and mobilisation around certain issues to drive and change public policy. |
South African Business Coalition on Health and AIDS (SABCOHA) | South Africa |
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
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Coalition of businesses working to organize a response to HIV/AIDS and public health issues inside and outside the workplace. |
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South African Human Rights Commission | South Africa |
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
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Monitors compliance with international treaties on environmental, housing, children, migrant and minority rights, along with providing legal assistance on these issues, along with working towards the abolishment of torture. |
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South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment (SAWTEE) | Nepal |
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
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South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment (SAWTEE) registered in Nepal was launched in 1994 as a loose regional network of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from five South Asian countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. |