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Defends workers' rights through demonstrations, convenings and programme development in conjunction with the government and other authorities.
It was founded in 1989 and provided emergency and humanitarian relief during the civil war. Their present initiatives include post war peace building projects, programs for HIV/AIDS prevention, food security, environmental protection, poverty eradication, and gender equality.
It promotes human rights, justice, and peace through the incorporation of social action to support prisoners, refugees, peasants, and indigenous communities during conflicts with mining companies, industrial, and hydroelectric projects.
Promotes a democratic vision of justice, through the defense of lawyers' rights and pushing for a more efficient justice system.
Works to provide capacity building programs to at risk populations and rehabiliation, along with justice and governance mechanisms in rural areas. It is one of the organisations leading the IRSOP program for restorative justice.
2019 World Justice Challenge Applicant - Project Title: Assisting penitentiary reform in Russia by creating legal clinics to serve prisoners and by
building a new model of human rights defence
A team of lawyers, journalists and economists who help prisoners whose rights have been violated, and investigate cases of abuse of authority by government officials and security forces such as police, agaInst abritrary arrest and detention.
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