Advocacy Organizations

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A photo of young girl from Budapest, on display at Depo, an arts and debate center in Turkey.

Argentina

Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (Grandmothers of the May Plaza)

Archivo de la Memoria de la Provincia de Córdoba (Archive for the Memory of the Province of Cordoba)

Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos (Permanent Assembly for Human Rights)

Asociación de ex-Detenidos Desaparecidos (Association for Ex-Detained Disappeared)

Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo (Association of Mothers of the May Plaza)

Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (Center for Legal and Social Studies)

Familiares de Desaparecidos y Detenidos por Razones Politicas (Relatives of thoseDisappeared and Detained for Political Reasons)

Hijos por la Identidad y la Justicia contra el Olvido y el Silencio  (Children for Identity and Justice against Forgetting and Silence)

Instituto Espacio Para La Memoria (Space Institute for Memory)

Liga Argentina por los Derechos del Hombre (Argentine League for the Rights of Man)

Madres de Plaza de Mayo Linea Fundadora (Mothers of the May Plaza Founders)

Memoria Abierta (Open Memory)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Grupa Spomenik (Monument Group)

Canada

Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada

Cambodia

Kdei Karuna Organization (KdK)

Croatia

B.a.B.e (Budi Aktivna, Budi Emnacipiran; Be Active, Be Free)

Cyprus

Truth Now

Germany

World Future Council 

India

Memory Studies Research Network

Indonesia

KOMNASHAM (National Commission of Human Rights) (No existing website, for more information see SEA NHRI Forum)

Institute for Research and Advocacy for Society

 Santri Society for People’s Advocacy

Kosovo

Youth Initiative for Human Rights 

Lebanon

ACT for the Disappeared 

UMAM Research and Documentation: Lebanese Association for Cultural and Artistic Exchange

Nepal

National Indigenous Women’s Federation

The Netherlands

Network of Concerned Historians

Philippines

Bantayog ng mga Bayani

Task Force Detainees of the Philippines

Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines

Romania

Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania

Sighet Memorial

Russia

Memorial International Historical-Enlightenment, Human Rights and Humanitarian Society

The Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Center: ‘Peace, Progress, Human Rights

Rwanda

Rwanda Institute for Conflict Transformation and Peace Building

Serbia

Humanitarian Law Center

Center for History, Democracy, and Reconciliation

Spain

Association for the Recuperation of Historical Memory (Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica)

Foro por la Memoria (Forum for Memory)

Todos Los Nombres (All the Names)

Amical de Mauthausen Organization

Sweden

Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation

Turkey

Hafiza Merkezi

Tunisia:

Will and Citizenship Organization (Organisation Volonté et Citoyenneté) 

Uganda

International Refugee Rights Initiative

United States

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 

Center for Political Ecology

Mississippi Truth Project

Seyfo Center

The William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation