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The International Human Rights Network Europe (RIDHE) is an international non-profit organization founded in 2008 in Geneva, Switzerland; in 2019 in Brussels, Belgium; and in 2021 in San José, Costa Rica, by human rights defenders (HRDs), civil society organizations (CSOs), universities, and public institutions from the European Union (EU) and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
The Network is composed of 41 member organizations, 21 from Latin America and the Caribbean and 20 from Europe, giving it a bi-regional, diverse, and strongly interconnected character.
Since its establishment, RIDHE has carried out sustained work based on a non-violent, participatory, community-oriented and human rights-based approach, making a significant contribution to the strengthening of civil society, the protection of human rights defenders, and international advocacy.
Its action is structured around three interrelated strategic pillars. The Agreement establishing RIDHE defines the following objectives:
1. Strengthening civil society organizations and human rights defenders
RIDHE supports civil society organizations, coalitions, and human rights defenders operating in contexts of high risk, authoritarianism, and criminalization. Through protection measures, resilience-building, capacity strengthening, and organizational sustainability actions, the Network contributes to enabling defenders to continue their work in a safer and more effective manner.
2. Promotion of the right to education as a tool for protection and social transformation
RIDHE promotes the right to inclusive and quality education, particularly for migrants, young people, and women in situations of forced displacement and social exclusion. Through its Education in Emergencies Programme, education is understood as a key tool for protection, empowerment, social cohesion, and the reduction of structural inequalities.
3. International advocacy before multilateral and regional bodies
RIDHE advances international advocacy actions before United Nations bodies and European Union institutions, with the aim of making serious human rights violations visible, influencing decision-making processes, and amplifying the voices of communities and individuals affected by political repression, forced displacement, and structural exclusion.
RIDHE is recognized by its membership and a wide range of partner institutions as a key and relevant actor in the advancement and defense of human rights.
We seek to contribute to the strengthening of high-level political dialogue and to multidimensional cooperation based on human rights, democracy, and social justice.
From an approach of social justice, gender and intersectionality, we promote transformative processes that they make visible and accompany historically excluded communities with an emphasis on women defenders, youth, people with disabilities, displaced persons and those in situations of forced mobility. Our work is nourished by participatory and innovative methodologies, specialized training and academic analysis, to give life to high-impact collaborative initiatives.
We build a more just, supportive and inclusive society in which diversity is accepted as a value and in which each person can develop their life project. We believe in each person's capacity for change and we are committed to the most vulnerable through closeness and support.
Commitment with human rights and human dignity; we strive to ensure that all people have the same opportunities and obligations to decide their future and achieve individual and collective well-being.
Diversity acting to ensure fair treatment, inclusion and access to opportunities for all people.
Gender Equality promote transformations regarding inequalities and inequities in the condition, construction of the roles and position of men and women in society.
Independencia of any political group, religious belief or economic interest. Transparency we are accountable to the institutions we work with and to society in general.
We are a protective and safety network that works to improve the lives of defenders
including their families, girls, boys and their communities.
Denounce violations of access to inclusive education, promoting access to all to all people.
We work to guarantee the right to inclusive, equitable and transformative education.
We accompany and defend people in situations of forced mobility in the phases of origin, transit and destination. We fight to eradicate the causes of these processes of forced mobility and to contribute to creating a culture of hospitality and reconciliation.
We promote equality between women and men through women's empowerment, the transformation of patriarchal culture, education and the modification of gender roles.
Committed to life as a whole in a context of socio-environmental crisis and unjust economic and social relations. We empower the most disadvantaged people and communities by promoting the common good, solidarity and care for nature.
We promote the development of an articulated global citizenship for socio-political action. We promote innovation and social transformation through empowerment.
We promote volunteering.
Strategic Areas (2024-2029)
Actions and methodologies to restore the right to inclusive education, creating formal and non-formal educational opportunities for people in situations of forced mobility.
With an inclusive approach, we accompany the most vulnerable people, such as boys, girls, young people, women, teachers and people with disabilities.
A set of actions aimed at strengthening the autonomy, dignity and well-being of people seeking international protection and refugees. Emergency funded care for social crises, psychosocial support and mental health aimed at the most vulnerable people in situations of forced mobility.
Promote the international protection of human rights from the international arena and local governments. Protection and defense of civil society organizations and rights defenders, through advocacy with United Nations (UN), the European Union (EU) and the Organization of American States (OAS).
Transparency is one of the values that guide us and that marks the work we do and how we do it.
For the RIDHE team in all the countries where we work, it is a cornerstone to show what we are and do, clearly communicating what is relevant to our activity and management.
The RIDHE is recognized as an international non-profit association (AISBL), according to the order of the Belgian Ministry of Justice of May 10, 2019. Register of organizations of the Belgian State under number 0730618747.
As an Association, it is regulated by the Statutes (rules that regulate the operation of the entity and that have been approved by a board of directors).
We promote quality as a tool at the service of social development.
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OUR TEAM
The RIDHE is a complex of Human Rights Defenders, social groups, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), journalists, academics and experts in rights, committed to working in networks and alliances.
Impact Networks:
Space to share good practices in the regional social sector. We exchange information, knowledge and learning about impactful social innovation, grassroots development and sustainable communities.
Impact Networks
Space to share good practices in the regional social sector. We exchange information, knowledge and learning about impactful social innovation, grassroots development and sustainable communities.
OSC networks:
Space for coordination that we carry out with other social organizations specializing in various subjects to, together, contribute to the strengthening and permanence of the social sector in the EU-LAC.
Advocacy Networks:
Collaborative working groups to build new routes for the demand of human rights, the defense of human rights before the United Nations and the European Union.
We promote inter-institutional alliances based on solidarity and the defense of human rights.
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