FACE Human Rights

FACE Human Rights —Forum to Advocate, Communicate and Engage Human Rights—is a multilingual Internet portal designed to support human rights advocates and to address the information, information coordination, networking and collective action problems that hinder the human rights community locally and globally.

Conceived to be easily translated into the world’s many languages, FACE Human Rights provides anyone with Internet access, almost no matter what language they speak, an interactive human rights forum through which they can inform, educate and engage themselves. It harnesses the power of the Internet to overcome geography and politics to create a virtual, global safe space. On FACE Human Rights people can recount their personal experiences, share information about conditions in their countries, developing crises and programs by NGOs, educate each other about their rights under international law, and engage each other as global citizens by sharing ideas about how to improve the quality of life for people everywhere.

FACE Human Rights is also a powerful, decentralized network and searchable, online database of grassroots democracy and human rights organizations. Intended to serve the tens of thousands of small, local organizations that operate in their own languages and locales, FACE Human Rights provides powerful networking, conferencing, and private messaging tools on its platform. Organizers can use from any Internet café without having to have a website of their own or to run the security risks that operating closer to home might pose. It also makes these organizations fully visible on the Internet, permitting them to search for partners, form coalitions and act in concert.

FACE Human Rights is about active engagement, but not partisan advocacy; it does not endorse specific causes or organizations, or as an entity take positions. It is an instrument of transparency and accountability. FACE Human Rights serves as a source of the information and skills necessary for individuals to function as engaged citizens, as a forum in which well-documented positions can be tested against one another, and as a powerful tool for global networking.

Download the FACE Human Rights information sheet.

Download the FACE Human Rights grassroots organization survey. Select A Language: Albanian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, English, Estonian, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

Look for FACE Human Rights soon at: www.facehumanrights.org!