WANEP-CI runs six main programmes:

1. WANEP’s WARN programme provides accompaniment for the West African ECOWARN Early Warning conflict prevention programme, that monitors, collects and analyses indicators of conflict on a continuous basis to try and anticipate and mitigate problems before they escalate into direct conflict. Regular situation and incident reports are produced to inform policy makers on options for response as well as WANEP’s response strategies.
2. WANEP-CI’s Women in Peacebuilding Network (WIPNET) runs programmes for mobilising women and reinforcing their capacities through educational programmes, forums, conferences and training workshops that work on capacity building for victims of violence as well as women’s involvement in the electoral process. This programme seeks to increase the number of trained women practitioners in peacebuilding as trainers, researchers, mediators and advocates, as well as promoting mainstreaming of gender perspectives into peacebuilding and conflict prevention frameworks at community and national levels.
3. The Justice Lens programme executed a mission to demonstrate that conflicts are related to the violation of human rights by running a series of capacity building activities to contextualise the early warning indicators of the WARN program. The program ran an evaluation of the Ivorian conflict with a delegation of civil society workers, as well as radio and television programs that invited leaders of civil society to talk about peacebuilding in coordination with the local RTI station.
4. The Program of Democracy, Good Governance and Elections began in 2008 by establishing an observatory of the Ouagadougou political agreement and producing monthly reports and statements in major newspapers and on the internet, as well as providing deployment of at least 150 observers during the Presidential election.
5. The Peace Education and the Rights of Children programme began in 2003 to help strengthen the non-violent actions in children and young people, encouraging them in their ability to resolve their own differences without adult intervention. Peace clubs were set up in several secondary and primary schools as a result.
6. The Capacity Building programme began in 2003 to help build the capacity of civil society in Ivory Coast.

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• The Institute for Dignity and Human Rights (IDDH): Research centre and private university with studies in areas of peace, ethics, human rights and governance.
• The Documentation Centre (CEDOC): A library of resources on issues of peace, human rights, democracy and good governance.
• Social Action in Urban Areas (ASMU): Free professional apprenticeships for disadvantaged young people.
• Editions of CERAP (EDICERAP): Publishes and encourages intellectual papers, editions, books, etc. by Ivorian authors targeted for youth dropout or illiterate underprivileged families.

The Centre runs highly popular public conferences on Fridays on topics of tolerance, peace, human rights, good governance, democracy and such, given by experts on the subjects. CERAP also runs surveys and opinion polls that focus on the values and lifestyles of Ivoirians.

In 2007, CERAP launched youth programs in 41 “peace villages” around the country, training 179 teachers and supervisors in citizenship and conflict management. These teachers then created clubs within their schools and communities, a newspaper and an annual camp that spreads ideas of good citizenship and conflict management. The children in these programmes ran their own electoral commissions to elect a village head and ministers, teaching them the importance of good democracy. The project was so successful that it was replicated in Chad and Burkina Faso and is being proposed to the Ivorian Ministry of Education to be included as part of the national education curriculum.

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The CrCF is guided by the principles of cross-cultural and human rights understanding, empowerment and inclusiveness. It has coordinated numerous activities in partnership with its working partners to promote and protect the rights of marginalised groups throughout Thailand. It also provides legal and other aid to victims of abuse, such as those affected by violence in the southern border provinces.

Among its many strategic aims, the CrCF is committed to:

Strategic litigation and legal aid: through which it monitors the justice process and its accessibility for marginalised people; provides direct legal aid to victims of human rights violations with strategic litigation; files strategic cases related to torture, disappearance, arbitrary detention, land issues, community rights, labour rights, right to assembly, right to life and other human rights violations by the state under special laws.

Capacity building: to inform and educate communities of the target population on their rights and empower them to act upon and defend human rights standards; to create networks of human rights defenders and lawyers and encourage debate among human rights practitioners.

Research and advocacy: to raise awareness about cultural, economic and political issues and promote the rule of law and human rights; to raise public and political awareness through anti-torture campaigns; to conduct research and organise public seminars on the implementation of special security laws.

The CrCF’s key project aimed at ending violent conflict in the southernmost border provinces is being carried out in cooperation with Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and the Muslim Attorney Centre. The CrCF is implementing a programme that seeks to provide free legal aid and tangible assistance for vulnerable groups in Thailand’s southern border provinces. The initiative aims to be a significant step towards enhanced practice of justice and future reconciliation in the south. The project is funded by the European Union under the ‘Programme: Non State Actors in Development’.

Key activities include:

• Free legal services and strategic litigation for indigent victims of human rights abuses;
• Case meetings for lawyers and human rights law experts;
• Capacity building training for lawyers and paralegals;
• A law student program;
• Public seminars targeting local authorities, security forces, decision-makers and judicial officers;
• Research and case studies on the need for free public defender services;
• Promotion of the role of prosecutors and judges in solving the conflict situation; and
• Formulating policy options to authorities.

The project expects to achieve the following results:

• Enhanced capacities of local organisations practicing law to provide legal aid assistance and free services to vulnerable groups of society;
• Strengthened capacities of community initiatives in order to enhance the compliance of local authorities and security forces with national law and international human rights standards; and
• Improved knowledge and policy development capacities of local authorities and decision makers to trigger a process of a sustainable judicial reform.

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INSPAD organises events to promote dialogue on issues relating to peace and conflict. In this regard, INSPAD organised a Kashmir Peace Seminar in Rawalpindi (May 2002). To initiate and encourage inter-faith harmony in Pakistan, in 2007 INSPAD organised an International Conference on ‘Peaceful Religious Coexistence towards Global Peace’.

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Since 2007, Pax christi Aachen (Germany) with an office in Derventa, in cooperation with ForumZFD (civil peace service) and as part of its Western Balkans program, have implemented the ‘Development of structures for cooperation and dialogue’ project. The project aims to mitigate social and ethnic segregation in Derventa region, as well as to contribute to the creation of structures of civil society that serves the promotion of peace through cooperation, dialogue and reconciliation. The following areas are at the centre of their objectives:

1. Strengthening civil society through:
   1. Research resources and needs in order to activate the community
   2. Support for the upcoming initiatives and empowerment
   3. Networking
2. Dealing with the past through:
   1. Creating the conditions for open dialogue, exchange experiences, opinions, ideas
   2. Studying the past to create a better future
   3. Support the education and creation of self-help groups for war veterans
   4. Promotion of the concept KUVI (konstruktivna upotreba veteranska iskustva): Dialogues between youth and war veterans
   5. Collecting and publication of the brochure ‘Naša životna priča’ (My life story)
3. Education through:
   1. The development of own skills and improve knowledge on the subject
   2. Communications
   3. Conflict resolution
   4. Strengthening of personal identity
   5. Capacity building, teamwork and interculturality
   6. International youth-encounters
4. Interreligious dialogue through:
   1. Strengthening of peacekeeping resources contained in all religious beliefs
   2. Public roundtables with all religious representatives of Derventa and Doboj
   3. Visits of the Houses of God with young students of Derventa
   4. Publication and promotion of the brochure ‘Dani otvorenih vrata vjerskih zajednica u Derventi.’

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The organisation’s projects are based around mobilisation, awareness-building, research, advocacy and training. YAD has organised multiple activities to promote peace and basic human rights, with a particular focus on democratic and governance issues.

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Human Rights Activist (with Blue Jacket) Monitoring the Peoples' Movement announced by Seven Party Alliance in Kathmandu in April 2006

INSEC’s vision is a society where:

• people, government, law enforcing and other concerned agencies are aware of the issues and
  incidences of Human Rights violations and act accordingly;
• people, their representatives, the government, law enforcing agencies and other stakeholders are educated,
  sensitized and trained and take actions to protect and promote Human Rights in the country  as per international treaties and conventions;
• peacebuilding and democratic consolidation play an effective role; and
• the institutional competence of CBO’s and other like-minded organisations enables them to work together on human rights, peacebuilding, and policy advocacy.

Human Rights Activist and Internally Displaced Persons during rehabilitation in the interaction program at their origin on May 2005at Jumla District

Immediately after its inception, INSEC implemented programs targeting the cart pushers in the Kalimati area of Kathmandu valley. Fundamentally, those programs sought to protect their economic rights through awareness of basic human rights, advocacy and campaigning for the provision of fair wages.

Participating in a Child Competition on the Occasion of International Children Day on 20 November 2004 under the Peace Building Campaign in Bardiya

Following the restoration of democracy in 1990, the organisations work placed a greater focus on the promotion of democratic ideas. The implementation of INSEC’s programmes include campaigning, creating awareness, and conducting educational programmes in order to enable people to assert their civil and political rights, documenting of the human rights situation of Nepal and disseminating their findings in national and international arenas. Similarly, educating, monitoring, lobbying, advocating, research and giving training on issues related to human rights have been other regular undertakings of INSEC for more than 15 years.

Committed to social welfare, INSEC focuses on working with disadvantaged and marginalised sections of society. Targeted groups include agricultural workers, underprivileged women and socially discriminated people such as Dalits and children.

INSEC Chairperson Subodh Raj Pyakurel (with Cap) lighting the candle for Peace in Kathmandu jointly with other Human Rights Activist

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Programmes

• Inclusion of minority rights for sustainable peace in Nepal: using the constitutional revision to establish and promote inclusive democracy, by aiming to improve the implementation of minority rights.
• Ensuring inclusion of minority rights in the new Nepali constitution: analysis of Nepal’s minorities’ status, and publishing of analytical papers and newsletters; formation of seven regional networks of minorities, organising awareness raising activities, putting pressure on policy makers and building consensus among minority groups.
• Communities for peace and reintegration: Analysis of needs and trends among communities, mobilised celebration of International Peace Day, signature campaign, founding of 10 community action groups and provision of small grants.
• Promoting voices of voice-less for conflict-resolution and empowerment: raising the voices of  the under-represented people with a focus on the conflict victims of Dhanusha district through radio dialogue.
• Advocacy campaign on UNSCR 1325 in Terai: educating local women and stakeholders on UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on the role of women in peacebuilding, drafting of action plans, raising awareness through the media and building capacity.
• Action for peace and reconciliation of conflict victims: addressing the issues of those killed or disappeared during the armed conflict, reconciliation and reintegration.
• Peace education and conflict resolution through socio-economic reintegration of conflict victims: technical support to the local administration to address the issues of IDPs right to return, identifying and facilitating return of displaced groups and setting up informal community based monitoring system
• Facilitating identification of Madheshi issues and national-level dialogue: district level workshops and mobilising the Madheshi society to participate in the political transition
• Communities for peace program: minimise the spread of conflict by strengthening community resilience to conflict, developing the capacity of community members on conflict resolution, mediation, negotiation and peace building, social mobilisation and offering psychological support

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The organisation regularly engages internationally recognised legal mechanisms, and works closely with Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Asian Federation against Involuntary Disappearance, the International Commission of Jurists and the Asian Human Rights Commission. AF was very active in ensuring the establishment of the Office of The High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Nepal in 2005.

AF holds regular consultations with principal actors in the criminal justice system to discuss and try to resolve the inherent contradictions and conflicts of interest confronted by all concerned.  Moreover, they provide regular trainings to sensitise judges, doctors and police personnel either as preventive measures or for the purpose of effective documentation of the cases. AF seeks every possible legal avenue to help victims of human rights violations in strong recognition of the prime agency of the victims and relatives of the disappearances; the recognition of their rights and needs is put as a prime focus in its work. AF assists them in many different ways in their quest of justice and for self-empowerment.

Programmes/Initiatives

AF’s primary initiatives cover the following areas:

• Reviewing the existing legal framework in Nepal and making consistent efforts to harmonize national laws with international human rights standards
• Lobbying for the establishment of functional mechanisms to ensure conflict victims’ access to justice
• Lobbying for reform of the criminal justice system
• Promotion of juvenile justice system
• Fighting impunity firmly entrenched in Nepal’s political culture via intensive lobbying, advocacy and campaigning nationally and internationally
• Reducing practice of torture by monitoring places of detention, systematic documentation and promoting system of accountability

Key Achievements

• global recognition (inter alia by Human Rights Watch) of its work on accountability promotion and fight against impunity; AF is a key partner of the UN in Nepal as well as international NGOs
• By constantly sending cases and communications to different special procedures of the UN, AF managed to bring Nepal’s human rights agenda an international forum.
• database  of human rights violations
• support to conflict victims to get organised and take concerted measures to get justice for the injustices they have suffered
• publication of a survey report jointly with ICTJ on the basis of interviews with 811 victims
• impunity report “Waiting for Justice: Unpunished Crimes from Nepal’s Armed Conflict” in collaboration with Human Rights Watch
• AF was the first organisation to bring the first case to the UN human Rights Committee, using the treaty obligation of Nepal

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