X International Human Rights Colloquium participants / 2008

Mission

Conectas Human Rights is an international non-governamental, not-for-profit organization, founded in Sao Paulo/Brazil in October 2001.

Its mission is to promote the realization of human rights and consolidation of the Rule of Law, especially in the Global South - Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Conectas was accorded consultative status with the ECOSOC-UN in 2006, and observer status with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in 2009.

PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS

Conectas develops its activities through two programs - Global South and Justice - that interact together and encompass national, regional and international activities. The individual projects of each program aim to strengthen human rights defenders and academics in the Global South and to foster interaction between them, through collaborative networks. In Brazil, Conectas promotes strategic and public interest litigation.
 

• Background

Conectas Human Rights believes in working collaboratively and maintains a number of partnerships with other national, regional and international organizations. It currently participates in the following networks:

Brazilian Human Rights and Foreign Policy Committee
Brazilian Network for the Integration of Peoples (REBRIP)/Working Group on Intellectual Property (GTPI)
Brazilian Public Security Forum
Criminal Justice Network
DHESCA Brazil Platform
Forum of National Human Rights Organizations (FENDH)
International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) 
JUSDH: Justice and Human Rights Forum 
Latin American Coalition of NGOs
Plataform for a New  Civil Society Organizations Framework
UN Human Rights Council Network (HRC Net) 
The organization is also member of the Civil Society Watch (CIVICUS) board.