European Center for Human Rights (ECHR)

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The European Center for Human Rights (ECHR) is an independent, non-profit legal and educational networking dedicated to protecting civil and human. It was founded in 2015 by a small group of renowned human rights activists, in order to protect and enforce the rights guaranteed by the European/Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as other declarations of human rights and national constitution, by juridical means. ECHR engages in innovative strategic litigation, using European, international and national law to enforce human rights and to hold state and non-state actors accountable for egregious abuses.

Objectives
• Promoting Human Rights
• Monitoring Human Rights and
• Protection of Human Rights

Mission and Vision
We are dedicated to promoting all human rights for all people and campaigning to stop serious violations of those rights whenever and wherever they occur.

Four areas of operation
• ECHR works actively with advocacy on issues concerning European/World leadership development cooperation policy about Human Rights, debt, social movement support, and the role of civil society about Human Rights.
• ECHR development cooperation organization that runs development programmers with partner organization’s focusing on human rights.
• We arrange and quality assures world partnership organizations engaged in development cooperation in human rights issues. Projects concern development cooperation and information on global issues on human rights.
• We build capacity through seminars, experience exchanges and networking meetings on human rights in world.

What we do
Women´s Rights
• Promote and protect the human rights of women, through the full implementation of all human rights instruments, especially the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.
• Ensure equality and non-discrimination under the law and in practice. Actions to be taken
Missing peoples Kosovo
• Since 2016 ECHR has provided technical assistance to the Government of Kosovo and Serbia in locating, recovering and identifying persons missing from the Kosovo conflict.
• ECHR's work in Kosovo focuses on ensuring that transparency and human rights standards are fully applied when determining the fate and whereabouts of the missing.
• Since 2016, ECHR has also worked with the families of the missing, their associations and other civil society actors to encourage greater cooperation among them and with government authorities in order to address shared problems and to advocate more effectively. Initially this work concentrated on issues such as dealing with the past, prejudice, stereotypes, and individual guilt. Since 2018, ECHR has supported joint activities between Serb and Albanian associations of families of the missing. The associations have made joint demands for answers from relevant government authorities and have engaged in joint memorialization of the missing.
Refugee´s rights
• Providing opportunities to refugees to gain skills which will increase their chances of finding gainful employment and achieving self-reliance.
• Increased interaction between refugees and host communities.
ROMA
• Overall objectives: Promotion Human Rights and social inclusion in the labor market by: enabling the social economy, women and Roma groups, developing partnerships and encouraging involvement in community life of people excluded from social development in own countries.
Mental Health - Disabilities
• Mental Health on Human Rights Project: European Center for Human Rights documents abuses against children and adults with disabilities, trains activists, and collaborates with advocacy groups working to bring about sustainable reforms in their own countries.

Isuf Halimi is the Director of the European Center for Human Rights (ECHR).

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