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Organization Overview |
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Report From the Director
Board & Staff
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PDHRE Board of Directors, Advisory Board, Endorsers, Staff
& Regional Offices Board of Directors Shulamith Koenig Peter Leuprecht Kamal Hossain Betty Reardon Daniel Solomon Stephen Marks Upendra Baxi Wolfgang Benedek Fantu Cheru Susana Chiarotti Ivanka Corti Virginia B. Dandan Richard Goldstone Iva Kaufman Miloon Kothari Catherine Lalumiere Walter Lichem Minar Pimple Adama Sanassekou Danilo Turk
Kathleen Modrowski Rebeca Rios Kohn Madeleine Spiegler Elsa Stamatopoulou
P. N. Bhagwati
Fatma Alloo Theo Van Boven Thomas Bergenthal Elis Boulding
Richard Claude Adama Dieng F. Robert Drinan Asbjorn Eide Richard Falk Marvin Frankel Cheri Honkala Paul Martin Abraham Magendzo Veronica Matus Vitit Muntarbhorn Sonia Picado Loretta Ross Cancada Trindade Ann Walker Achi Yotm
Shulamith Koenig, Founder and Executive Director PDHRE Regional
Offices
PDHRE- Latin America.
This Regional Office is in collaboration with: INSGENAR (INSTITUTO DE GENERO, DERECHO Y
DESARROLLO) The Institute of Gender, Law and
Development in Rosario Argentina, promotes women's rights through law and
policy reform and works to bring about the domestic application of
international human rights norms for the achievements of women’s rights.
The institute conducts on-going seminars and training on cultural, civil,
economic, political and social human rights from a gender perspective, and
promotes advocacy and action on these issues as related to women’s
lives. Contact Person:
Ms Susana Chiarotti PDHRE- South YUVA (YOUTH
Founder of PDHRE, Executive Director, President Emeritus
New York
President
Dean Faculty of Law, McGill University, Canada; formerly Director of human
rights and Deputy to SG, Council of Europe. Rapporteur on Cambodia.
Vice President
Lawyer, Former Foreign Minister of Bangladesh. Rapporteur on Pakistan
Vice President
Founding Member. Prof. of Peace & HR Education, Teachers College,
Columbia University.
Treasurer
Founding Member. Lawyer- Labor law expert and donor. USA.
Secretary
Prof. of HR Int'l. Law and UN Studies, Columbia Univ. Formerly HR Division
UNESCO.
Philosopher of Law and Writer. Prof. of Law, Warwick University, Formerly
Vice Chancellor Delhi University - India
Professor, Director ETC, European Training Center for Human Rights and
Democracy, Graz , Austria, affiliates of PDHRE Europe
Professor of African and Development Studies. American University,
Washington DC; Rapporteur on Structural Adjustments and Debt.
President of CLADEM, a Latin American 17 country women's network-
Argentina
Former Chair of CEDAW and currently member of CEDAW - Italy
Chairperson, United Nations Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural
Rights, Philippines.
Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa.
A founding member of PDHRE, Media Consultant- New York
Habitat International Coalition, Chair of the Committee on eviction &
housing, Geneva, Delhi
Member of the European Parliament, former Secretary General of the Council
of Europe, France.
Director, UN Office of the Foreign Ministry of Austria, Former Ambassador
of Austria to Canada, Formerly of UNDP
Founder / Director of YUVA, Youth Unity for Voluntary Action, Mumbai,
India. Director PDHRE South Asia.
Former Minister of Basic Education, Republic of Mali, President PDHRE/
Africa.
UN Assistant Secretary General for Political affairs. Former Ambassador of
Slovenia to the UN. Law Prof.
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Professor, Social Anthropologist, Long Island University, NY
Director human rights, Division of Governance, UNDP. Formerly Legal
advisor UNICEF, Uruguay
Writer, Researcher, Educator: Social History and Women's Studies. French
Director, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN Office, New
York, Greece
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Willy Brandt
Jimmy Carter
Rosalynn Carter
Adolfo Perez-Esquivel
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Tanzania Media Women's Association (TAMWA)
Professor of Law, Netherlands, and former Director of UN Centre for Human
Rights
George Washington University, USA
Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, USA
Director, ICJ, Switzerland
Georgetown University Law Center, USA
Director, Norwegian Institute for Human Rights, Norway
Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton University, USA
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, USA
Executive Director Kensington Welfare Rights Uniion, KWRU
Director, Human Rights Center, Columbia University, USA
Director of PIE in Chile
Member, Human Rights Commission, Chile
Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Law, Thailand
Ambassador to the U.S., Costa Rica
Executive Director, Center for Human Rights Education, Atlanta, USA
Director of Inter-American Institute, Costa Rica
International Women Tribune Center, USA
Adler Institute, Israel
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Louise Nylin, Program Assistant
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Rosario, Argentina
Tel/Fax: +54 341 4370 874
Email: insgenar@tau.org.ar
YUVA, based in Mumbai and Nagpur, India, is dedicated to educating and empowering street children and developing advocacy and policy on the issue of child labour. Over the years it has worked with more then 40,00 children, training youth to develop self-help educational programs, support groups, and hotlines on issues of heath and child labour. It also conducts training for marginalized groups such as the Dalit people in slum areas, focusing on systemic change towards poverty alleviation with a special focus on women’s issues in these communities.
Contact Person:
Mr. Minar Pimple
YUVA, Mumbai, India
Tel: +91.22.414 3498/ 4155250, fax: +91-22-413 5314
Email: yuva@vsnl.com
PDHRE-Africa. This Regional Office, was newly established in Bamako, Mali,
on June 22, 2000, for the purpose of promoting Human Rights Education, in particular through the creation of the Institut Africain d' Apprentissage de l' Education aux Droits Humains /African Learning Institute for Human Rights Education (INAFAEDH/ALIHRE)Leadership of the team includes several
members who participated actively in the creation of the national
initiative. Its goal is the promotion of HRE using the "PDHRE
approach", and taking into account Malian and African realities and
positive values, in particular the values of solidarity, sharing and
consensus.
Mr. Adama Samassekou, former Minister of Basic Education, is the President
of PDHRE/DPEDH-Mali and assumes the responsibility of establishing the
National Institute for the INAFAEDH/ALIHRE.
The leadership of the organization includes several of the original
participants in the creation of the national initiative. Mr. Adama
Samassekou, until recently Minister of Basic Education, has been named
director of PDHRE Mali and will be responsible for establishing ALIHRE.
Contact Person:
PDHRE Mali/ Africa
BP E 214, Bamako, Mali
Tel/Fax: (223) 23 16 63
Mobile: (223) 77 48 70
Email: samass_pdhre@hotmail.com
PDHRE- Europe. In partnership with ETC European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy
Contact
Person: Prof.
Wolfgang Benedeck
Schubertstrasse 29,
A-8010 Graz, Austria.
tel.: 0043 316 380 3419, fax: 0043 316 380 9455
e-mail: gerd.oberleitner@kfunigraz.ac.at
PDHRE- South East Asia and Pacific is now in formation. The creation of the PDHRE office has been undertaken by Member of the PDHRE Board and Chairperson of the ESCR Committee.
Contact Person:
Virginia
B. Dandan
15 A Bautista, U.P. Campus
University of Philippines
Diliman, Quezon City 1101
Philippines
Tel: (632) 434-6981 (work) Tel: (632) 926-1110 (home)
Fax: (632) 434-7981
Email: vbdsline@vasia.com
For more information, please contact PDHRE:
The People's Movement for Human Rights Education (PDHRE) / NY Office
Shulamith Koenig / Executive Director
526 West 111th Street, New York, NY 10025, USA
tel: +1 212.749-3156; fax: +1 212.666-6325
e-mail: pdhre@igc.apc.org