Strategic Partners
Rights and Humanity’s strength lies in our world-wide network of informal partnerships with UN agencies, governments, universities, the private sector, NGOs and community-based organisations enabling us to have global impact speedily. For any given issue, we choose the partners that hold the most influence on global policy in that sector and that lead the implementation of our human rights approach.
Often the key partners have been United Nations (UN) specialised agencies and programmes such as the World Health Organisation (WHO), the UN Development Programme (UNDP) or the UN Conference on Trade in Development (UNCTAD), the EU, Commonwealth Secretariat or governmental departments such as the UK Department for International Development.
We have built partnerships with a wide range of organisations and individuals with whom we will be cooperating in implementation of our Strategic Work Plan 2008/2012.
These include:
- The Jordanian Hashemite Fund for Development and its local partners throughout Jordan
- South African Human Rights Commission
- The Foundation for Human Rights Initiative, Uganda and its local partners
- WaterAid and its local partners
- Freshwater Action Network
- Tomorrow’s Company – a business-led think-tank promoting corporate ethics and responsibilities
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- Essex University, Human Rights Centre
- Kids Company, a UK-based NGO working with disadvantaged children
- Institute of Global Ethics and its Impetus project
- IBEX, a Geneva-based development organisation
- Oxford Leadership Academy
- The Independent Newspaper
- The ‘Be the Change’ initiative
- Central School of Speech and Drama, London
- Other governmental and civil society organisations in Europe, Africa and Middle East