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Human Rights and International Justice:
Challenges and Opportunities at an
Inflection Point
Related Resources & Links,
September 2011
By Jonathan Fanton and Zachary Katznelson
For the full report visit:
http://www.atlanticphilanthropies.org/learning/case-study-
human-rights-and-international-justice-challenges-and-
opportunities-inflection-p

I.       INTRODUCTION
The International Human Rights Donors Group (IHRFG) http://www.ihrfg.org/ Foundation Center
http://foundationcenter.org/ International Criminal Court http://www.icc-cpi.int/Menus/ICC/Home

II.      TRENDS AMONG DONORS
Human Rights Council http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/African Commission on Human and
Peoples' Rights http://www.achpr.org/ The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice http://www.ecowas.int/ ASEAN
Human Rights Commission - http://www.asean.org/22769.htm

MAJOR FOUNDATIONS
Open Society Institute http://www.soros.org/ Oak Foundation http://www.oakfnd.org/ Humanity United
http://www.humanityunited.org/ Wellspring Advisors http://www.wellspringadvisors.com/
Ford Foundation http://www.fordfoundation.org/ MacArthur Foundation
http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.3599935/k.1648/John_D__Catherine_T_MacArthur_Foundation.
htm The Sigrid Rausing Trust http://www.sigrid-rausing-trust.org/ The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF)
http://www.rbf.org/ The Hewlett Foundation http://www.hewlett.org/ Gates Foundation
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Pages/home.aspx Carnegie Corporation http://carnegie.org/

EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT FUNDING
Hivos http://www.hivos.nl/english Oxfam Novib http://www.oxfamnovib.nl/en-home.html?language=engels
Swedish International Development Corporation Agency http://www.sida.se/English/

PUBLIC CHARITIES
American Jewish World Service http://ajws.org/ Mama Cash http://www.mamacash.org/

NEW FOUNDATIONS
Humanity United http://www.humanityunited.org/ Zennström Philanthropies http://www.zennstrom.org/
Unbound Philanthropy http://www.unboundphilanthropy.org/
Novo Nordisk http://www.novonordisk.com/

SMALL FOUNDATIONS
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust http://www.jrct.org.uk/ The Bridgeway Foundation
http://www.bridgewayfoundation.org/index.php
ONLINE FUNDRAISING
Greenpeace http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/ 350.org http://www.350.org/ Avaaz http://www.avaaz.org/en/
Universal Giving http://www.universalgiving.org/

DONORS OUTSIDE TARGET REGIONS
Brazil Foundation http://www.brazilfoundation.org/english/index.php
Arab Human Rights Fund http://www.ahrfund.org/ King Baudouin Foundation http://www.kbfus.org/

INDIVIDUAL DONORS
Institute for Philanthropy http://www.instituteforphilanthropy.org/ The Philanthropy Workshop West
http://www.tpwwest.org/ Women Moving Millions http://www.womenmovingmillions.net/

OVERARCHING DONOR OBSERVATIONS
Global Fund for Human Rights http://www.globalhumanrights.org/ Arab Human Rights Fund
http://www.ahrfund.org/ Brazil Foundation http://www.brazilfoundation.org/english/index.php
TrustAfrica http://www.trustafrica.org/

III.    THOUGHTS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF CIVIL SOCIETY – FUTURE NGO LANDSCAPE
Kenya Human Rights Commission http://www.khrc.or.ke/ Conectas in Brazil http://www.conectas.org/en Institute
for Democracy in Africa http://www.idasa.org/

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DONOR ACTION
FOCUSING ON LONG-TERM STABILITY OF NGOs West Africa Civil Society Institute http://www.wacsi.org/
Diplomacy Training Program http://www.dtp.unsw.edu.au/ Amnesty International http://www.amnestyusa.org/
International Federation for Human Rights http://www.fidh.org/-english- Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/

FRAMING THE DEFINITION OF HUMAN RIGHTS Nordic Fund for Human Rights
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/PROJECTS/0,,contentMDK:22312165~pagePK:41367~piPK:51533~th
eSitePK:40941,00.html

BUILDING REGIONAL AND THEMATIC NGO NETWORKS Altus Network on Security Sector Reform
http://www.ssrnetwork.net/ Global Consortium on Security Transformation
http://www.securitytransformation.org/ Skoll Foundation http://www.skollfoundation.org/ Center for
Constitutional Rights http://ccrjustice.org/ South Africa Shack Dwellers Movement http://www.abahlali.org/
Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates http://www.philippinehumanrights.org/

LINKING NGOs IN ADJACENT FIELDS
Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/ Conservation International
http://www.conservation.org/Pages/default.aspx MADRE http://www.madre.org/CARE http://www.care.org/

TRAINING NGOs IN DATA COLLECTION AND MANAGEMENT Ushahidi http://www.ushahidi.com/ Benetech
http://www.benetech.org/ UN Human Rights Council http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/

UNDERTAKING FIELD-WIDE TECHNOLOGY AUDIT Witness http://www.witness.org/ MobileActive.org
http://www.mobileactive.org/ Front Line http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/
Ford Foundation http://www.fordfoundation.org/ Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/

CHALLENGING GOVERNMENT CONSTRAINTS ON NGOs AND BUILDING ADEQUATE LEGAL NETWORKS NGO
Regulation Network http://www.ngoregnet.org/ International Center for Non-Profit Law http://www.icnl.org/
IV.      PIVOTAL PLACES
The International Human Rights Donors Group (IHRFG) http://www.ihrfg.org/ Foundation Center
http://foundationcenter.org/

TRADITIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LEADERS
Open Society Institute http://www.soros.org/ Oak Foundation http://www.oakfnd.org/ Wellspring Advisors
http://www.wellspringadvisors.com/ The Sigrid Rausing Trust http://www.sigrid-rausing-trust.org/ The Joseph
Rowntree Charitable Trust http://www.jrct.org.uk/ Zennström Philanthropies http://www.zennstrom.org/ Ariadne
Network of Funders http://ariadne-network.eu/ Council of Europe http://www.coe.int/lportal/web/coe-portal
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe http://www.osce.org/ European Court of Justice
http://europa.eu/about-eu/institutions-bodies/court-justice/index_en.htm Amnesty International
http://www.amnestyusa.org/ Oxfam http://www.oxfam.org/en Crisis Action http://crisisaction.org/en/ Human
Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/

RISING REGIONAL POWERS
Conectas in Brazil http://www.conectas.org/en Institute for Democracy in Africa http://www.idasa.org/ Centre for
Policy Research in India http://www.cprindia.org/ Centre for Civil Society in India
http://ccsindia.org/ccsindia/index.asp Carnegie Endowment http://carnegieendowment.org/

SUB-REGIONAL LEADERS
The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice http://www.ecowas.int/

MAJOR COUNTRIES NEEDING MORE ATTENTION
RUSSIA
World Trade Organization http://www.wto.org/ Moscow Helsinki Group http://www.mhg.ru/english Agora
Association http://rightsinrussia.blogspot.com/2011/03/agora-association-of-human-rights.html
Nizhny Novgorod Committee Against Torture http://www.pytkam.net/web/index.php?newlang=en
INDEM Foundation http://www.indem.ru/en/index.shtml Sova Center for Information and Analysis
http://www.sova-center.ru/en/ Center for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights http://www.eu-
russia-csf.org/?id=50 Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/ Carnegie Endowment
http://carnegieendowment.org/

CHINA
Human Rights in China http://www.hrichina.org/ MacArthur Foundation
http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.3599935/k.1648/John_D__Catherine_T_MacArthur_Foundation.
htm

ASIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST
ASEAN Human Rights Commission http://www.asean.org/22769.htm Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights
Institutions http://www.asiapacificforum.net/ Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/ FIDH
http://www.fidh.org/-english- Association of Democratic Women http://www.socialwatch.org/node/773 Open
Society Institute http://www.soros.org/ Ford Foundation http://www.fordfoundation.org/ Rockefeller Brothers
Fund http://www.rbf.org/ Arab Human Rights Fund http://www.ahrfund.org/ Alkarama for Human Rights
http://en.alkarama.org/ Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association
http://www.acpra.net/news.php?action=list&cat_id=12
Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights http://eipr.org/en African Human Rights Commission http://www.achpr.org/
Bridging the Gulf http://www.bridgingthegulf.org/
V.       POTENTIAL AREAS FOR INVESTMENT

PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS
Oak Foundation http://www.oakfnd.org/ Ford Foundation http://www.fordfoundation.org/ The Sigrid Rausing
Trust http://www.sigrid-rausing-trust.org/ Wellspring Advisors http://www.wellspringadvisors.com/
Open Society Institute http://www.soros.org/ Hivos http://www.hivos.nl/english Front Line
http://www.frontlinedefenders.org/

SECURITY FORCES REFORM AND MONITORING Altus Global Alliance http://www.altus.org/#

ELECTIONS
Independent National Electoral Coalition in Nigeria http://www.inecnigeria.org/ Humanity United
http://www.humanityunited.org/

INTERNET FREEDOM
Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ OpenNet Initiative
http://opennet.net/

DATA COLLECTION
Benetech http://www.benetech.org/

STRENGTHENING LOCAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS
International Bar Association http://www.ibanet.org/ Council on Foreign Relations http://www.cfr.org/

HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION AND BROADENING THE POLITICAL BASE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ACLU
http://www.aclu.org/ Liberty in the U.K. http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/index.php
CELS in Argentina - http://www.cels.org.ar/home/?info=&ids=&lang=en&ss Legal Resources Corporation in South
Africa http://www.lrc.org.za/ Kenya Human Rights Commission http://www.khrc.or.ke/

SCHOLARS AND STUDENTS AT RISK
Scholars at Risk Network http://scholarsatrisk.nyu.edu/
MIGRANTS, STATELESS PEOPLE, AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE Unbound Philanthropy
http://www.unboundphilanthropy.org/ Wellspring Advisors http://www.wellspringadvisors.com/
Carnegie Endowment http://carnegieendowment.org/ Institute for Democracy in Africa http://www.idasa.org/
Physicians for Human Rights http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/

LINK BETWEEN HUMAN RIGHTS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT UN's Millennium Development Goals
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/

BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre http://www.business-humanrights.org/ Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org/

A LOCAL APPROACH TO PREVENTION
International Center for Conciliation http://centerforconciliation.org/

VI.      INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
International Criminal Court http://www.icc-cpi.int/Menus/ICC

PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR POSITIVE COMPLEMENTARITY European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)
http://www.echr.coe.int/echr/homepage_EN
STRENGTHENING REGIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COURTS AND COMMISSIONS European Court of Human Rights
(ECHR) http://www.echr.coe.int/echr/homepage_EN
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights http://www.cidh.oas.org/DefaultE.htm
African Human Rights Commission http://www.achpr.org/ African Court on Human and People's Rights
http://www.aict-ctia.org/courts_conti/achpr/achpr_home.html
The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice http://www.ecowas.int/ ASEAN Human Rights Commission
http://www.asean.org/22769.htm Project on International Courts and Tribunals http://www.pict-pcti.org/
Institute for Human Rights and Development in Gambia http://www.ihrda.org/

STRENGTHENING THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT International Criminal Court http://www.icc-
cpi.int/Menus/ICC

ADDRESSING ATROCITIES OUTSIDE THE JURISDICTION OF THE ICC U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Pages/WelcomePage.aspx

SUPPORTING TRUTH COMMISSIONS
International Center for Transitional Justice http://ictj.org/ Center for Humanitarian Law in Serbia http://www.hlc-
rdc.org/stranice/14.en.html

ENFORCING THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect
http://www.responsibilitytoprotect.org/ Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect http://globalr2p.org/
Security Council Report
http://www.securitycouncilreport.org/site/c.glKWLeMTIsG/b.1071693/k.22F/Security_Council_ReportBRMonthly_
Forecast_August_2011.htm

VII.     RESEARCH QUESTIONS
BUILDING THINK TANKS IN INFLUENTIAL COUNTRIES Center for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights
http://www.eu-russia-csf.org/?id=50
Center for Democratic Development in Ghana http://www.cddghana.org/ Kosovo Institute for Policy Research and
Development http://www.kipred.net/web/eng.php Hewlett Foundation http://www.hewlett.org/ Carnegie
Endowment http://carnegieendowment.org/ Rockefeller Brothers Fund http://www.rbf.org/
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