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The Advocacy Project seeks to help community-based advocates produce, disseminate and use information, and so become more effective advocates for human rights and social justice
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The Research Center on Environment, Democracy, and Human Rights (Centre de recherche sur l’Environnement, la Démocratie et les Droits de l’Homme/CREDDHO) advocates for peaceful co-existence, good governance, and human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Established in Goma, North Kivu, in 1998, CREDDHO documented, monitored, and reported on the human rights violations, which resulted from the civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). CREDDHO now works to hold the elected government officials accountable for their promises to end corruption and end human rights violations.
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Research Center on Environment, Democracy and Human Rights (CREDDHO)
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| Contact Person: Delly MAWAZO SESETE, Executive Director Tel: 243-811-714-128 E-mail CREDDHO |
Mission
Advocacy
Dissemination
Networking
| Mission |
The Research Center on Environment, Democracy, and Human Rights (Centre de recherche sur l’Environnement, la Démocratie et les Droits de l’Homme/CREDDHO) advocates for peaceful co-existence, good governance, and human rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Established in Goma, North Kivu, in 1998, CREDDHO documented, monitored, and reported on the human rights violations, which resulted from the civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). CREDDHO now works to hold the elected government officials accountable for their promises to end corruption and end human rights violations.
| Advocacy |
- Educates authorities and communities in the Katanga region about human rights
- Informs civil society activists on elected officials’ obligations to foster the rule of law and promote economic rights
- Develops activists’ skills in leading effective legislative campaigns
- Educates the rural Rutshuru population about new processes for budget preparation and implementation, and informs them about budget allocations for social programs
- Helps communities monitor the implementation of government programs at the village level
- Helps communities develop recommendations for elected authorities and organizes meetings with elected officials to presents the community’s recommendations
- Provides legal support to and works for the release of illegally detained prisoners
| Dissemination |
- Articles regarding threats made to local activists in the DRC, including CREDDHO’s leader
- Amnesty International’s press releaser denouncing these death threats
| Networking |
- Global Fund for Human Rights
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- Arche d'Alliance
- Association des Jeunes Femmes du Maniema
- Bureau pour le Volontariat au service de l’Enfance et de la Sante (BVES)
- Congolese Initiative for Justice and Peace (ICJP)
- Centre National d’Appui au Développement et la Participation Populaire (CENADEP)
- Femmes Juristes Pour les Droits de la Femme et de l’Enfant (FJDF)
- Hiran Women Action
- Refugee Law Project
- Research Center on Environment, Democracy and Human Rights (CREDDHO)
- CREDDHO Newswire
- Solidarité Féminine pour la Paix et le Développement Intégral
- Solidarité pour la Promotion Sociale et la Paix (SOPROP)
- Undugu Society of Kenya
- Women's Consortium of Nigeria
- World Peasants / Indigenous Organization
- Youth Against AIDS
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- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Middle East
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