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Instituto para la Investigación y el Desarrollo Económico y Social de Huancavelica
The INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUANCAVELICA INIDES was born to support the poorest population of the country, on September 10, 1992. For more than 25 years, this NGO has accumulated great experience and important achievements in favor of the target population,...
Vow Foundation
Vow is formed by 11 individuals, mostly students, with the objective : betterment of human minds. Believing that depression and anxiety are the worst situation in a person's life, they work to encourage positivity, happiness and to prevent suicide. One of their major work is to fight against cancer...
Divine Mercy Tooro Empowering Youth and Orphans
This organization aims to be an empowered caring and self supporting community that responds to the needs of most vulnerable youth, orphans and children in Uganda. Its mission is to improve the quality of life of the most vulnerable youth, orphans and children through increased access to health,...
Quaker United Nations Office
QUNO staff work with people in the UN, multilateral organisations, government delegations, and non-governmental organisations, to achieve changes in international standards and practice. Quakers are known for speaking out against injustice and war - issues that are incompatible with our vision of a...
Global Equity Brokers
Global Equity Brokers is a New Zealand based organisation that understands the needs of Western business people and tailors opportunities to suit clients. In collaboration with other international agencies, Global Equity Brokers identifies opportunities to match individuals with specific...
International Trade Council (ITC)
The International Trade Council (ITC) is a unique global organisation in which members identify and share best practices to achieve improvements in every aspect of socially and economically responsibility domestic and international trade. The ITC provides an essential conduit for advocacy and...
Care Help Cameroun
Care-Help Cameroun is an NGO that aims to improve the health of communities in the country and to contribute to a greater awareness of health issues. The organisation also aims to facilitate access to quality health care for the poor.
Living Fountain Care Point
Living Fountain Care Point is a small project of a 15-member Self Help Group of volunteers working towards alleviating the problems of abandoned and vulnerable children within the community of Mombasa and its environs. The Group is running a Children’s Home and providing care to abandoned children...
Community Rehabilitation Advocates For Transformation (C.R.A.F.T.)
Community Rehabilitation Advocates for Transformation (C.R.A.F.T.) is a registered Non Governmental Organization in Ghana with registration # 37-317. OUR MISSION To create an enabling environment through achievable and sustainable initiatives aimed at promoting positive change for the inclusion...
LexisNexis
On 13 June 2012, LexisNexis introduced the Human Trafficking Awareness Index (HTA Index) which uses the respected Nexis service to track and analyze the volume of news articles related to human trafficking. It is hoped that the service will provide a valuable tool for campaigners looking to raise...
Social Platform
The European Social NGOs decided to build upon these contacts in order to develop a more permanent framework for co-operation. The main aim was to allow the NGO sector to establish a broader and on-going dialogue with the European institutions on questions of social policy, which would complement...
Pro Bono in Action
"Pro Bono in Action" is a video made by the Taproot Foundations Pro Bono Action Tank (PBAT)
Child Soldiers International
Child Soldiers International, formerly The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers (CSUCS), is a UK-based non-governmental organization that was formed to prevent the recruitment and exploitation of children in warfare and to ensure their reintegration into larger society by means of research,...
Lex Mundi Legal Services allows social entrepreneurs to use their top-class legal expertise pro bono
David Roll, a lawyer based in Washington DC, is Managing Director of Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation, a network of 160 law firms (with 20,000 lawyers) offering pro bono legal services to social entrepreneurs all over the world.
11 Indian law firms ponder ‘long overdue’ pro bono start with new UK tech NGO
Eleven law firms, including six of India’s largest, Ashoka and the UK’s former attorney general Lord Peter Goldsmith QC have discussed how to develop a pro bono culture in Indian law firms as i-Probono, a UK not-for-profit and online portal seeking to connect lawyers to social sector projects, will...
Line-up of top UK law firms pitch in with pro bono help for riot-hit businesses
Linklaters, Eversheds and DLA Piper are among a raft of top 20 UK law firms to have offered pro bono legal support to victims of the London riots.
Motivating, Inspiring, Supporting and Serving Sexually Exploited Youth (MISSSEY)
MISSSEY is a community-based organization in Alameda County, CA, founded in 2007 to respond to the heartbreaking epidemic of sexual exploitation. It provides comprehensive services in a safe environment to support and serve sexually exploited youth. It also works to provide information to the...
Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking (FCAHT)
The Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking (FCAHT) is an entity within The Immigrant Rights Advocacy Center, Inc. (IRAC). The organization was created in 2004 by Anna Rodriguez, who has extensive experience in how to identify victims, provide advocacy, and understand how to pursue justice for...
Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST)
Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST) is a Los Angeles-based anti-human trafficking organization which helps rehabilitate survivors of human trafficking, raises awareness, and affects legislation and public policy surrounding human trafficking through legal, social, and advocacy...
Freshfields law firm provides pro bono services and personnel to social service NGOs in London
The Freshfields access to justice programme is most active in London, where they support legal advice centres, including the drop-in centre at Tower Hamlets; many of their partners have volunteered there. These volunteers have also represented clients from the Free Representation Unit appearing...