The Icelandic Human Rights Centre was established in 1994 by nine different organizations and actors working in Icelandic human rights field. Centres mission is to promote and raise awareness about human rights in Iceland and abroad, and spread its knowledge to the public.

Action and work

The Centre provides human rights education and arranges seminars and conferences about human rights. On the other hand, it's monitoring the human rights situation in Iceland and provides information to the international actors about this matter. The Icelandic Human Rights Centre also provides legal research on human rights issues and holds the only human rights -specialized library in Iceland. The centre is currently involving in two projects (the situation on March 9, 2014), European-wide Action Week against Racism, which is going to take place on March 21 and the Human Rights Education Project, which Icelandic Human Rights Centre has taken part since August 2004.

Partnerships

There are currently fourteen partners of Icelandic Human Rights Centre:

Amnesty International Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and sup ...

Iceland, Barnheill - Save the Children Iceland,

Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland ( is, Hin evangelíska lúterska kirkja), also called the National Church ( is, Þjóðkirkjan), is the officially established Christian church in Iceland. The church professes the Lutheran faith an ...

, Hjálparstarf kirkjunnar, Church Aid, The

Centre for Gender Equality The Centre for Gender Equality ( no, Likestillingssenteret, formally ''Kompetansesenter for likestilling'') was a Norwegian government agency that existed from 1997 to 2006 to promote gender equality Gender equality, also known as sexual eq ...

, The Icelandic Women's Rights Association, National Association of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities,

Icelandic Red Cross Rauði krossinn has its headquarters in Reykjavík Reykjavík ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Iceland. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói bay. Its latitude is 64°08' N, making it the world's n ...

, Reykjavík University, Association '78 – national LGBT organisation, Siðmennt – Association of Ethical Humanists of Iceland,

University of Akureyri The University of Akureyri ( is, Háskólinn á Akureyri , regionally also ) was founded in 1987 in the town of Akureyri in the northeastern part of Iceland. It is today a school of health sciences, humanities and social science, and a school of b ...

, UNIFEM – Icelandic National Committee and The Organization of the Disabled in Iceland. The current chairman is Kitty Anderson.

International

The Icelandic Human Rights Centre has four sister-organizations, which are Danish Center for Human Rights, the Norwegian Institute for Human Rights, the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in

Lund, Sweden Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, across the Øresund, Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipali ...

and the

Abo Akademi University The ABO blood group system is used to denote the presence of one, both, or neither of the A and B antigens on erythrocytes. For human blood transfusions, it is the most important of the 43 different blood type (or group) classification system ...

Institute for Human Rights in Finland. It is also a member of Association of Human Rights Institutes (AHRI) and UNITED -network.

References

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External links

Official website
Human rights organizations based in Iceland