Secrétariat International Permanent, Droits de l'Homme et gouvernements Locaux Nantes Pays de la Loire, France

ADEN is an international cooperation project designed by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The goals of the ADEN project are to increase democratic access to the Internet, to supply training in use of new technologies, and to encourage an african production of content. It is about an answer to "how to reduce the digital divide in Africa ?", by the installation of a complete device for the creation of public access points to the Internet in digitally wedged zones.
http://www.africaden.net/spip.php?rubrique1

Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights to be respected and protected for everyone.
http://www.amnesty.org

A French-speaking website dedicated to defending and promoting Human Rights and fundamental freedoms
http://www.AIDH.org

The APT is the international non-governmental organisation, based in Geneva, behind the ground-breaking Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture (OPCAT).
http://www.apt.ch

The Committee Against Torture (CAT) monitors implementation of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment (1984)

Fondé en 1994 par Dominique Torrès, journaliste, le Comité Contre l'Esclavage Moderne (CCEM) a pour objectif premier de lutter contre toutes formes de servitude, d'assister, et de libérer s'il y a lieu, les victimes de l'esclavage.
http://www.esclavagemoderne.org

The Human Rights Committee (CCPR) monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966) and its optional protocols

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. CEDAW Committee consists of 23 experts on women’s rights from around the world.
http://www2.OHCHR.org/english/bodies/CEDAW/index.htm

Monitors implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965)
http://www2.OHCHR.org/french/law/index.htm

The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) monitors implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966)

International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families - 18 de 1990   

The Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL) supervises the implementation of the January 6, 1978 Act, as amended by the August 6, 2004 Act relating to “information technology, files and liberties” called “loi informatique et libertés”. CNIL’s general mission consists in ensuring that the development of information technology remains at the service of citizens and does not breach human identity, human rights, privacy or personal or public liberties.
http://www.cnil.fr/english/the-cnil/

The Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) monitors implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) and its optional protocols (2000)

Le C.R.H.I.A. est une équipe de doctorants (EA 1163), dont les travaux sont spécialisés sur les relations internationales, les problèmes de défense et le monde atlantique. La plupart de ses doctorants sont issus du DEA "Relations internationales et Histoire du Monde atlantique", délivré en co-habilitation par les Universités de Nantes et de la Rochelle.
http://palissy.humana.univ-nantes.fr/labos/CRHIA/Crweb.htm#CRHIA

Université de Nantes
http://www.cil.univ-nantes.fr/92465964/0/fiche___pagelibre

The Committee on the Right of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) monitors implementation of the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006).

A Swiss non-profit organization whose principal objective is to support Indigenous Peoples as they defend their rights, particularly within the framework of international institutions.
http://www.DOCIP.org

The European Network Against Racism (ENAR) is an EU-wide network of more than 600 organisations working to combat racism in all the EU member states and acts as the voice of the anti-racist movement in Europe.
http://www.ENAR-eu.org

Opened on 1 March 2007, the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) is a body of the European Union (EU) based in Vienna.
The Agency provides the relevant institutions and authorities of the Community and its Member States when implementing Community law with assistance and expertise relating to fundamental rights in order to support them when they take measures or formulate courses of action within their respective spheres of competence to fully respect fundamental rights.
http://fra.europa.eu/fraWebsite/home/home_en.htm

The European Women’s Lobby (EWL) is "the largest umbrella organisations of women’s associations in the European Union (EU). The EWL Secretariat is based in Brussels, but EWL has member organisations in all 27 Member States of the EU and in 3 candidate countries."
http://www.womenlobby.org

The aim of the Federation shall be to campaign for the abolition of torture ; it intends to oppose the use of torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment or treatment, including capital punishment, throughout the world, by using all forms of appropriate action. The International Federation of ACAT (FIACAT) brings together ACAT national associations. http://www.FIACAT.org

FIAN is an international human rights organization that has advocated for the realization of the right to food for more than 20 years. FIAN consists of national sections and individual members in over 50 countries around the world. FIAN is a not-for-profit organization without any religious or political affiliation and has consultative status to the United Nations.
http://www.FIAN.org

FIAN is an international human rights organization that has advocated for the realization of the right to food for more than 20 years. FIAN consists of national sections and individual members in over 50 countries around the world. FIAN is a not-for-profit organization without any religious or political affiliation and has consultative status to the United Nations. http://www.FIAN.org

FIDH’ s mandate is to contribute to the respect of all the rights defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. FIDH aims at obtaining effective improvements in the protection of victims, the prevention of Human Rights violations and the sanction of their perpetrators. Its priorities are set by the triennial World Congress and the International Board (22 members), with the support of the International Secretariat (30 staff members).
http://www.FIDH.org

The International Federation of Journalists is the world's largest organisation of journalists. First established in 1926, it was relaunched in 1946 and again, in its present form, in 1952. Today the Federation represents around 600.000 members in more than 100 countries.
http://www.ifj.org/en/

Human Rights Watch is an international non governemental organization dedicated to defending and protecting human rights.
http://www.HRW.org

16 Dec 1966
http://www2.OHCHR.org/french/law/index.htm

Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, aiming at the abolition of the death penalty
15 Dec 1989

The Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 10 dec 2008

The International Center for Transitional Justice works to redress and prevent the most severe violations of human rights by confronting legacies of mass abuse.
http://www.ICTJ.org

The Human Rights Institute of Catalonia (IDHC) was created more than twenty years ago by a group of people committed to fighting for the progress of freedom and democracy in the world. Their aim was to join both individual and collective forces, coming from both public and private institutions, in order to expand the political, social and cultural rights of everyone.
http://www.IDHC.org/eng

The Institute for Advanced Studies provides an inspirational setting for intellectual innovation. The main purpose of the Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies is to create a new type of relationship between Western scholars and those from the rest of the world. http://www.IEA-nantes.fr

IFEX is a dynamic network that monitors, promotes and defends freedom of expression worldwide. IFEX was born in 1992 in Montréal, Canada when leading free expression organisations came together to create a mechanism that would improve cooperation and allow for the rapid exchange of information on free expression issues. IFEX has over 80 member organisations operating in more than 50 countries, the majority in the developing world and countries in transition.
http://www.IFEX.org

The International Institute of Human Rights is an association under French local law having its seat in Strasbourg, composed of approximately 300 members (individual and collective) worldwide, universities, researchers and practitioners of human rights.
http://www.IIDH.org

The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association is a world-wide network of national and local groups dedicated to achieving equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people everywhere.
http://www.ILGA.org

Established in 1951, IOM is the leading inter-governmental organization in the field of migration and works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners.
http://www.IOM.int/

No Peace Without Justice is an international non-profit organisation that works for the protection and promotion of human rights, democracy, the rule of law and international justice through three main programs.
http://www.NPWJ.org

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) represents the world's commitment to universal ideals of human dignity. As the principal United Nations office mandated to promote and protect human rights for all, OHCHR leads global human rights efforts speaks out objectively in the face of human rights violations worldwide.
http://www.OHCHR.org/FR/Pages/WelcomePage.aspx

Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
18 dec 2002

25 may 2000
http://www2.OHCHR.org/french/law/index.htm

Optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
25 may 2000

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities - 12 dec 2006

La RADDHO est une organisation non gouvernementale internationale ayant le statut consultatif spécial auprès du Conseil Economique et Social (ECOSOC) des Nations unies, membre observateur de la Commission Africaine des Droits de l'Homme et des Peuples (CADHP) de l'Union Africaine.
http://www.RADDHO.africa-web.org

Forum of Local Authorities for Social Inclusion and Participative Democracy
http://redfal.org/

The international permanent Secretariat Human Rights and Local Governments, an association of French law (Act of 1901), created in 2007, is a permanent structure based in Nantes (France). This permanent working structure was instituted as an association, backed up by the Nantes Metropoles (Urban Community), the Western Loire Region, the Loire-Atlantique County Council and the City of Nantes.
The International permanent Secrétariat « Human Rights and local governments » has a double mission : Organize the Forum 2008 and maintain exchanges with the differents international actors of Human Rights through a Web exchange plateform.
http://www.SPIDH.org/en/home/index.html

The Stop Violence Against Women website (STOPVAW) is a forum for information, advocacy and change. The Women's Human Rights Program at The Advocates for Human Rights developed this website with support from the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), the Network Women's Program of the Open Society Institute (OSI), the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library and UrbanPlanet LLC.http://www.STOPVAW.org

United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) represents and defends the interests of local governments on the world stage, regardless of the size of the communities they serve. Headquartered in Barcelona, the organisation’s stated mission is: "To be the united voice and world advocate of democratic local self-government, promoting its values, objectives and interests, through cooperation between local governments, and within the wider international community."
http://www.cities-localgovernments.org

L’Union Interafricaine des Droits de l’Homme (UIDH) est philanthropique, apolitique, sans but lucratif et non confessionnelle. Elle constitue une garantie collective, sur le plan africain, des droits et libertés.
http://www.iuhr.org/spip.php

The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 after the Second World War by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights. http://www.UN.org

UNESCO - the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded on 16 November 1945. Education, Social and Natural Science, Culture and Communication are the means to a far more ambitious goal : to build peace in the minds of men.
http://portal.UNESCO.org

UNDP is the UN's global development network, an organization advocating for change and connecting countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. We are on the ground in 166 countries, working with them on their own solutions to global and national development challenges. As they develop local capacity, they draw on the people of UNDP and our wide range of partners.
http://www.UNPD.org