Some agencies may fulfil various functions in different countries to avoid duplication of services with other agencies operating within the same country.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Amnesty International
International Secretariat
1 Easton St.
London WC1X 8DJ
Tel:171-413-5500
Fax: 171-956-1157
E-mail: amnestyis@amnesty.org
Amnesty International aims to secure throughout the world the provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and other internationally recognised human rights instruments.

African Human Rights Resource Centre (AHRRC)
A joint project of the Makerere Human Rights and Peace Centre and the University of Minnesota Human Rights Centre, this website offers a collection of international human rights instruments with authoritative citations.
Website: www.umn.edu/humanrts/africa/index.html

African Rights
11 Marshalsea Road
London , SE1 IEP , UK
Telephone: 44-171-717-1224
Fax: 44-171-717-1240
Website: http://www.peacelink.it/afrights/homepage.html
African Rights is an organisation dedicated to working on issues of grave human rights abuses, conflict, famine and civil reconstruction in Africa. Founded on the principle that any solution to Africa's problems . . . must be sought primarily among Africans, the organisation was set up primarily because its founders had become acutely aware of the limitations upon existing human rights, humanitarian and conflict resolution approaches to Africa's most pressing problems. The African Rights website includes basic information about the organisation; outlines of its programs in Rwanda, Somalia and Sudan; and a list of publications that can be ordered from the African Rights office.

The Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Ave NW
Washington DC 20036
USA
Telephone: (202) 797-6000
Facsimile: (202) 797-6004
Email: brookinfo@brook.edu
In its research, the Brookings Institution functions as an independent analyst and critic, committed to publishing its findings for the information of the public. In its conferences and activities, it serves as a bridge between scholarship and public policy, bringing new knowledge to the attention of decision-makers and affording scholars a better insight into public policy issues.

Human Rights Watch
350 Fifth Avenue,
34th Floor New York, NY
10118-3299 USA
Tel: (212) 290-4700,
Fax: (212) 736-1300
Email: hrwnyc@hrw.org
Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world, to preventing discrimination, to upholding political freedom, to protecting people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bringing offenders to justice. HRW investigates and exposes human rights violations and holds abusers accountable.

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)
100 Boylston Street, Suite 702
Boston, MA 2116
USA
Telephone: (617) 695-0041
Fax: (617) 695-0307
Email: lenr@phrusa.org
PHR is a network of professionals who have utilised their skills to prevent medical violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. PHR maintains a gopher site which offers medical action alerts, landmines reports, war crime investigations, project information, training information, chemical weapons, membership information, refugees, and publications.

Save the Children 17 Grove Lane
London SE5 8RD
Tel: (171) 703-5400
Fax: (171) 703-2278
Website: http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/scuk/jsp/index.jsp?flash=false
To assist disadvantaged and vulnerable children worldwide; has a commitment to the rights of children, as now enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

UN AGENCIES

Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO)
Computer Division
Network Branch (AFCN), FAO
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
Rome, 100, Italy
Telephone: -56333
Fax: -56741
Email: Webmaster@fao.org
Website: www.fao.org
Since its inception in 1945, FAO has worked to alleviate poverty and hunger by promoting agricultural development, improved nutrition and the pursuit of food security. Sustainability is the byword in FAO activities in water development, plant and animal production, forestry, fisheries, economic and social policy, investment, nutrition, food standards, and commodities and trade. The FAO site features information on FAO, statistical databases, partnership programs, technical programs, regional offices, employment opportunities, publications and, an events calendar.

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
UNICEF House
3 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017
Tel: 212-326-7000
Fax: 212-887-7465
Website: www.unicef.org
UNICEF's mandate is to address the long-term needs of children and mothers in developing countries everywhere.

United Nations Civilian Police (UNCIVPOL)
Civilian Police Unit
United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations
New York, New York
Telephone: (212) 963-1934>
UNCIVPOL monitors the local police to ensure that they carry out their tasks without discrimination against any nationality and with full respect for the human rights of all residents in the mission area. It provides appropriate assistance to the UNHCR, ICRC, and other UN recognised humanitarian agencies, in support of their work to facilitate the return, in conditions of safety and security, of civilians, who have been displaced by the conflict. It also closely monitors the work of the local police force to help ensure non-discrimination and protection of human rights.

United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (UNDPKO)
United Nations
Department of Peacekeeping Operations
Room S-2270A
New York, NY 10017
Fax: (212) 963-0664
Website: www.un.org/Depts/dpko
United Nations peacekeepers are dispatched by the Security Council to help implement peace agreements, monitor cease-fires, patrol demilitarised zones, create buffer zones between opposing forces, and put fighting on hold while negotiators seek peaceful solutions to disputes. But ultimately, the success of peacekeeping depends on the consent and cooperation of the opposing parties. For each peacekeeping mission, Member States voluntarily provide troops and equipment, for which they are compensated from a special peacekeeping budget.

United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
304 East 45th St., 15th floor
New York, NY 10017
Tel: 212-906-6400
Fax: 212-906-6705
E-mail: unifem@undp.org
UNIFEM promotes women's empowerment and gender equality. It works to ensure the participation of women in all levels of development planning and practice, and acts as a catalyst within the UN system, supporting efforts that link the needs and concerns of women to all critical issues on the national, regional, and global agendas.

United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
Palais Des Nations
Geneva 10 , CH-1211
Switzerland
Fax: (41-22) 979-90-01
Email: webmaster@undp.org
Website: http://www.undp.org/
UNDP's mission is to help countries build national capacity to achieve sustainable, human development, giving top priority to eliminating poverty and building equity. UNDP is headquartered in New York, representing both developing and developed countries. The UNDP site offers information on UNDP, focus areas (poverty, environment, gender, governance), the UN system, news, publications, statistics, employment opportunities, and comments.

United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (UNDAW)
2 UN Plaza, DC2-12th Floor
New York, NY, 10017
Fax: (1-212) 963-3463
Email: daw@un.org
Website: www.un.org/womenwatch/daw
The United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) advocates the improvement of the status of women in the world and the achievement of their equality with men. It aims to ensure the participation of women as equal partners with men in all aspects of human endeavour.

United Nations High Commission for Human Rights (UNHCHR)
8-14 Avenue de la Paix
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Telephone Number (41-22) 917-9000
Fax Number (41-22) 917-9016
Through the United Nations Technical Cooperation Programme in the field of human rights, states may receive, at their request, technical assistance in the promotion and protection of human rights. Technical cooperation projects are undertaken in specific countries, as well as at the regional and international levels. Such projects might include training courses for, inter alia, members of the armed forces, police forces or the legal profession, as well as advisory services for the incorporation of international human rights norms and standards into national legislation.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
C.P. 2500
1211 Geneva 2
Switzerland
Tel: +44-22-739-8111
Email: webmaster@unhcr.ch
UNHCR is the international body responsible for monitoring compliance with UN treaties dealing with refugees and asylum and reporting on conditions dealing with these issues around the world.

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
220 East 42nd Street
New York, NY, 10017, USA
Telephone: 1-212-297-5020
Fax: 1-212-557-6416
Website: www.unfpa.org
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is the largest internationally funded source of population assistance to developing countries. UNFPA assists developing countries to improve reproductive health and family planning services on the basis of individual choice, and to formulate population policies in support of efforts towards sustainable development.

World Food Programme (WFP)
Via Cesare Giulio Viola
68, Parco dei Medici, Rome 148
Italy
Telephone: 39-6-6513-1
Fax: 39-6-6590-632 / 637
Email: Webadministrator@wfp.org
Website: http://www.wfp.org/
The World Food Programme is the front-line United Nations organisation fighting to eradicate world hunger. WFP's staff work in food aid emergency and development operations that benefit 50 million people in 93 countries. The WFP site includes: an overview of WFP's purpose and an outline of its thematic focuses (Gender, Development, School Feeding, Food for Work); statements and press releases; resources and appeals, including field reports on specific country situations; reports from field operations; country reports on disaster mitigation through Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (VAM); statistics on food aid; and an online job board.

World Health Organisation (WHO)
Health Communications and Public Relations
Geneva-27 , CH-1211 , Switzerland
Telephone: +41 22 791 2111
Fax: +41 22 791 0746
Email: info@who.ch
Website: http://www.who.int/en/
The main objective of WHO is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. WHO has a wide range of functions including: to promote technical cooperation; to coordinate international health work; to assist Governments in strengthening health services; to promote cooperation with other specialised agencies; and to foster harmony of human relations. The WHO website offers fact sheets in alphabetical order, to name a few: ageing, blindness, children's rights, women's rights, and yellow fever, press releases from 1994 to 1997, and the World Health Report, which can be ordered in English and French versions. It includes addresses of regional offices and information about the cities where WHO offices are located, as well as links to UN and Partner sites.

DONOR AGENCIES

Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
200 Prom. du Portage
Hull, Quebec
K1A 0G7
Tel: (819) 994-5195
Fax: (819) 994-3669
Website: www.acdi-cida.gc.ca
The Canadian International Development Agency is a main player in delivering Canada's official development assistance program. The cornerstone of CIDA is to support sustainable development in order to reduce poverty and to contribute to a more secure, equitable and prosperous world. CIDA's objective is to work with developing countries and countries in transition to develop the tools to eventually meet their own needs. To do this, they concentrate their efforts on the areas of basic human needs, women in development, infrastructure services, human rights, democracy and good government, private-sector development, and the environment. CIDA also provides Canadian government funding for reconstruction (health and energy) and capacity building in democratic development and economic reform.

Department For International Development (DFID) - United Kingdom
94 Victoria Street
London
SW1E 5JL
United Kingdom
Tel: (44) 0171 917 7000
Fax: (44) 0171 917 0019
Email: enquiry@dfid.gov.uk
Website: www.dfid.gov.uk
The Department for International Development (DFID) is the British government department responsible for promoting development and the reduction of poverty. DFID aims to work in partnership with other governments committed to these targets, and with business and the private sector, civil society and the research community, supporting progress to reduce world poverty. It also works with multilateral institutions, including the World Bank, UN agencies and the European Commission.

Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
OSCE SECRETARIAT
Kaerntnerring 5-7, 4th Floor
1010 Vienna
Austria
tel: +43-1 514 36 0
fax: +43-1 514 36 96
telex: 112 966
E-Mail: pm@osce.org
The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is a security organisation whose 55 participating States span the geographical area from Vancouver to Vladivostok. In its region it is the primary instrument for early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management, and post-conflict rehabilitation.

Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
105 25 Stockholm
Tel: +46-8-698 50 00
Fax: +46-8-20 88 64
Email: info@sida.se
Website: www.sida.gov.se
Development co-operation mobilises Swedish society and contributes to an internationalisation of the country. SIDA's task is to create conditions conducive to change and to socially, economically and environmentally sustainable development. The partner countries are responsible for their own development. SIDA contributes resources and develops skills and competence.

NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOs)

CARE Canada
Box 9000
Ottawa, ON
K1G 4X6
Tel: 613-228-5600
Fax: 613-226-5777
Email: Info@care.ca
CARE's goal is to help families find long-term solutions to poverty. They also help communities prepare for and recover from emergencies. Programs aim to build self-sufficiency by helping families meet three basic needs: income, education, and health and population services. Efforts are targeted at the household level, often combining different types of interventions for a holistic approach that addresses the root causes of poverty.

Catholic Relief Services
209 West Fayette Street
Baltimore, MD 21201-3443
USA
Tel: 410.625.2220
Fax 410.685.1635
Website: webmaster@catholicrelief.org
Catholic Relief Services gives assistance based on need. CRS responds to human need and promotes right relationships among all people by ensuring that men and women have the opportunity, capacity, voice and support they need to participate on an equal basis, to realise their full potential, and to reduce the disparities and imbalances of power including those which exist between men and women. Gender responsive programming addresses the gender roles, relations, needs and interests of women and men, girls and boys to meet their immediate needs and achieve equal rights, opportunities and outcomes. Projects include a gender analysis which identifies the roles, responsibilities, interests and needs of women and men both in participation and control. The participation of women and men is facilitated in all project stages.

Medecins Sans Frontieres - MSF (Doctors Without Borders)
International Office
Rue de la Tournelle
1040 Brussels
Tel: (2) 280-18-81
Fax: (2) 280-01-73
MSF provides medical care to populations in times of crisis in any part of the world.

OXFAM Canada
300 - 294 Albert St.
Ottawa, ON
K1P 6E6
Tel: 613-237-5236
Fax: 613-237-0524
Website: www.oxfam.org.uk
OXFAM Canada's mission is to relieve poverty, distress and suffering in any part of the world. It works with poor people regardless of race or religion in their struggle against hunger, disease, and exploitation.

World Vision, Inc.
34834 Weyerhaeuser Way South
Federal Way, WA 98001
USA
Tel: (253) 815-1000
Website: www.worldvision.org
World Vision is a large Christian NGO that facilitates the transformation of entire communities with water programs, health care education, agricultural and economic development, and strategic Christian leadership activities supported by monthly contributions from donors. It works to identify and address the underlying structural barriers to equal access, participation and control.

ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS

Feinstein International Famine Centre - Tufts University
132 Curtis Street
Medford, MA 02155
USA
Tel: 617-627-3223
Website: www.famine.tufts.edu The Centre was established to improve emergency, relief, and refugee efforts in times of famine, war and complex emergencies. The Centre works primarily in Africa to prevent and mitigate famine, resolve local conflicts and develop emergency responses that contribute to durable survival strategies for people coping with crisis. Key to the Centre's work is building strong partnerships with international, national and indigenous private, governmental, and non-governmental organisations, and providing training in capacity building and relief work.

Women in Conflict Zones Project (WICZ) - York University, Toronto Canada
Centre for Feminist Research
228 York Lanes, York University
4700 Keele St.
Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3
Tel: (416) 736-5915, ext. 40201
Fax: (416) 736-5416
Email: wiczcfr@yorku.ca
Women in Conflict Zones Project involves participants working within universities as well as in national and international NGOs/INGOs/IGOs. Its debate around the situation of women in ethnic-national conflict zones in general, and women's empowerment in particular, aims to explore and reveal sites of feminist thought and practice in all of these locations.

OTHERS

Children's Aid Direct
(Formerly Feed the Children)
12 Portman Road
Reading, Berks
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 1189 584-000
Fax: 588-988
Email: 100523.3025@compuserve.com
Children's Aid Direct offers psychosocial programmes and seminars for teachers in primary schools in cooperation with local partners. It also offers small programmes to encourage the reintegration of returnee children.

Children in Crisis
4 Calico House Plantation Wharf
York Road
London SW11 3BB
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 171 978-5001
Fax: 978-5003
Email: cic@easynet.co.uk
Children in Crisis is committed to the reconstruction of water systems, flood protection, pump station buildings and their equipment, and to funding children's medical treatment.

Civil Military Cooperation Centres
Rohmer Strasse
Heidelberg, Germany
Tel: +49 314 374 5111
Civil Military Cooperation centres provide a link between the military and humanitarian organisations operating in-theatre through civic action projects, and consultations in agriculture, engineering, medicine and economics. It is a liaison for military assistance and cooperation.

Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) - Canada
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
125 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0G2
Tel: 1-800-267-8376 or (613) 944-4000
Fax: (613) 996-9709
Email: enqserv@dfait-maeci.gc.ca
Website: www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca
The mandate of DFAIT is to conduct all diplomatic and consular relations on behalf of Canada; conduct all official communication between the Government of Canada and the government of any other country and between the Government of Canada and any international organisation; conduct and manage international negotiations as they relate to Canada; coordinate Canada's economic relations; foster the expansion of Canada's international trade; coordinate the direction given by the Government of Canada to the heads of Canada's diplomatic and consular missions and to manage these missions; administer the Foreign Service of Canada; and foster the development of international law and its application in Canada's external relations.

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
19 avenue de la Paix
1202 Geneva
Switzerland
Tel: 41 22734 6001
Fax: 41 22 730 2082
Website: www.icrc.org
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organisation whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance. It directs and coordinates the international relief activities conducted by the Movement in situations of conflict. It also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles.