OUR ACTION

Over the past few decades armed violence has affected millions of people around the world. Serious abuses against populations such as torture, forced displacement, extra-judiciary killings, arbitrary detention are regularly reported.

While many actors rightly focus on denouncing these violations, protecting and assisting victims or helping them to pursue legal recourse, fewer actors try to prevent abuses from happening.

Our focus areas

Fight for Humanity believes that a strong respect for human rights is a condition to build sustainable peace and has prioritized several human rights areas that it estimates essential to support peace efforts, namely:

Cultural heritage is deeply connected with identity and can foster reconciliation by stressing communalities and creating bridges between communities and groups

Gender equality from the bottom up, in addition to being a goal in itself, is the best way to fight sexual violence and promote women’s participation at all levels.

Children under 18 are particularly vulnerable to armed conflict/violence. They are the future of a population and armed conflict can adversely affect their life trajectory

Environmental preservation during armed conflict helps safeguard biodiversity, mitigates climate change effects, and supports post-conflict recovery and rebuilding efforts, ultimately contributing to peace and stability

Our tools

Improving respect for the basic rights that guarantee human dignity, is an essential part of our work, which we strive to achieve through:

Dialogue: Discussing with armed and political actors their existing frames and practices and the incentives to improve respect for human rights.

Advocacy: Mobilize the international community to promote the respectfor fundamental human rights by armed and political actors.

Training: Train NGOs, local civil society and armed and political movements on human rights, the international legal framework and their obligations.

Awareness Raising: Promote the respect of human rights through media and campaigns (TV, radio, social media) locally.

Research: Practical-oriented research to help further consolidate or question the available information on armed and political actors and human rights.

Our impact

Fight for Humanity aims at producing positive impact with its work and will only intervene after an assessment and when we think a positive influence is possible. Yet, our understanding of impact in advocacy work (and especially targeting actors in complex situations and with strongly defined value frames that may be in counter or at least not fully aligned with the values we want to promote) is that only contribution not attribution can be evidenced. We see ourselves as one actor in a highly complex context, where all actors need to interact responsively in order to assure positive outcomes and do-no harm.