Icelandic Human Rights Centre
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The Icelandic Human Rights Centre was established in 1994 by nine different organizations and actors working in Icelandic human rights field. Centres mission is to promote and raise awareness about human rights in Iceland and abroad, and spread its knowledge to the public.
Action and work
The Centre provides human rights education and arranges seminars and conferences about human rights. On the other hand, it's monitoring the human rights situation in Iceland and provides information to the international actors about this matter. The Icelandic Human Rights Centre also provides legal research on human rights issues and holds the only human rights -specialized library in Iceland.
The centre is currently involving in two projects (the situation on March 9, 2014), European-wide Action Week against Racism, which is going to take place on March 21[needs update] and the Human Rights Education Project, which Icelandic Human Rights Centre has taken part since August 2004.
Partnerships
There are currently fourteen partners of Icelandic Human Rights Centre:
International
The Icelandic Human Rights Centre has four sister-organizations, which are Danish Center for Human Rights, the Norwegian Institute for Human Rights, the
References
- ^ "Board and Partners". Icelandic Human Rights Centre. Retrieved 2018-11-23.