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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights - Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights was created in 1968 to carry on Senator Kennedy’s legacy and forge ahead with his unfinished work―all in pursuit of the dream of a more just and peaceful world. It is committed to to ensuring freedom of civic activism, holding leaders accountable, and speaking truth to power in partnership with frontline advocates across the globe. Working alongside grassroots partners in the US and around the world, its teams of lawyers confront systemic problems through litigation and advocacy aimed at structural change.

Comprehensive Lesson Plan written by the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Center - with focus on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

Council of Indigenous and Popular Organizations of Honduras - COPINH is a social and political organization that aims to support the indigenous and popular movements of Honduras. Based in the southwest of the country, the group serves as a facilitating body for recognition of the political, social, cultural, and economic rights of Honduran indigenous communities

Alianza Territorial Mapuche - The Alianza Territorial Mapuche aims at taking further the strategies of land occupation and of resistance and denunciation to the repression of the Chilean state and of environmental destruction by Chilean and foreign companies.

CESTA / Friends of the Earth El Salvador - Today, CESTA has some 3100 members in 27 local groups. They regularly publish books and brochures (in Spanish) on specialised environmental issues such as agroecology, climate change, biodiversity, solid waste, among others. CESTA’s core national campaigns are: Zero Waste, No Bicycle No Planet, Healthy Diverse and Local Food, Asserting Rights Guaranteeing Life, Forests and Biodiversity, Climate Change, and Resisting Corporate Power.

Frontline Defenders - Front Line Defenders (FLD) is an international human rights organisation founded in Dublin in 2001, with the specific aim of protecting human rights defenders at risk (HRDs). FLD works to improve the security and protection of human rights defenders and organisations around the world at risk for their peaceful and legitimate human rights work.

Reimagining Rights in the Americas Project - Founded by the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law, Reimagining Rights in the Americas is a project collaborating with grassroots organizations, leaders, scholars and social movements in the Americas to amplify their reform efforts and incorporate their perspective as part of an emerging, reimagined human rights framework.

Economic Commission for Latin American and the Caribbean - Headquartered in Santiago, Chile, ECLAC / CEPAL is one of the five regional commissions of the United Nations. It was founded with the purpose of contributing to the economic development of Latin America, coordinating actions directed towards this end, and reinforcing economic ties among countries and with other nations of the world. The promotion of the region's social development was later included among its primary objectives.

Green Latinos - Is a U.S.-based national non-profit of Latino leaders confronting national and local environmental issues in the Latino community.

School of the Americas Watch - Founded in1990 to denounce the 1989 School of the Americas (SOA) graduate-led massacre at the University of Central America (UCA) in El Salvador, SOA Watch is a nonviolent grassroots movement working to close the SOA / WHINSEC, end oppressive U.S. foreign policy, and expose, educate about and work to end US militarization, interventionist US policies and other forms of state violence in the Americas.