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Citizens of the World Program – Intervention in the Secondary School of Castelo da Maia

18 June 2010 00:00

Partnership ADDHU – Ajuda de Mãe

18 June 2010 00:00

Welcome to the ADDHU family Hilda!

07 June 2010 11:00

ADDHU Team in Kenya March - April 2010

23 May 2010 00:00

Children of the ADDHU/CYCA Centre visit the Nakuru National Park

10 December 2009 03:15

Christmas party at the ADDHU/CYCA Centre for Orphans in Nairobi, Kenya

10 December 2009 03:13

About us

ADDHU - Association for the Defense of Human Rights - is an International NGO, accredited by the Portuguese Institute for Development, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who sprung from the will to fight for the liberation of Burma and Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. After having visited this country in 1997, its founder and president, the writer and university teacher Laura Vasconcellos, was firmly determined upon her return home to fulfill the demands she received during her visit to “be our voice outside”. She wrote a book based on her personal experience, published in 2005 by Guimarães Editores, “Do Outro lado do Mundo – Cartas da Birmânia”.

From the publication of this book onwards, she has developed her activity on behalf of Human Rights in Burma: she collected signatures for a letter addressed to Burma’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, on a first stage, and later to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, M. Kofi Annan; she was interviewed for the Portuguese television stations RTPN and TVI, where she was able to talk about the social and political situation of that country and the urgent need of action to be taken on behalf of the people of Burma; she was also interviewed for the newspaper Jornal de Letras. In July 2006, she was invited by the organizers of the Second Forum on Human Rights in Nantes, France to participate in this forum; but working in close contact with the people on the streets, passing on information and creating a sense of responsibility and awareness regarding the situation of the people of Burma and the Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi have been the central actions of the founder of and president of ADDHU, who hopes to further develop these activities in other countries of Asia and the rest of the world.

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ADDHU’s mission is to conceive, implement, execute and support projects and programs of information, education, awareness and development, made to promote the liberties and the protection of the citizen’s rights, in the full respect for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

In order to achieve its main goals, ADDHU will develop the following activities:

1. Support and promotion of development, education and culture.

2. Programs of social integration.

3. Emergency Relief, namely medical help and food security.

4. Humanitarian Assistance and Support, namely child and juvenile protection, defending and promoting their rights.

5. Implementation of Cooperation for Development Projects and Programs, to ensure Professional Education and Employment.

6. Protection of the right to dignity and respect in situations of serious violations of these rights by public, governmental or private organs.

7. Raising awareness among the civil society, participating in the development of a universal civic conscience, backing up other associations, national and international, with the similar goals.

8. Divulgation of the reality in developing countries, and awareness of the civil society to the need of a most committed relationship with these countries.

9. Information and call to actions that have as main goal the resolution of humanitarian problems and human rights violations, as well as the divulgation of the existing means of solving these situations.

10. Information and education of young people, awaking them to the social actions for development, peace and importance of non-violence strategies as an alternative to armed conflict.

ADDHU has been recognized and is registered by the IPAD (Portuguese Institute for Development), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as an NGO for Development and Public Utility Institution, according to the articles 8th and 12th, Law 66/98, 14th October. ADDHU is also a member of the Portuguese NGO Platform.

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Vision

Every human being, without regard to race, color, gender, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status, must enjoy all the rights and freedoms set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Mission

Provide assistance to those who, implicitly or explicitly, ask for ADDHU´s help, depending on the available means and resources, both at national and international levels.

Values

° Transparency: We provide reports on our activities and funds to our members, partners, donors, and the general population.

° Rigor: Our commitment is towards all those who benefit from our actions, as well as those who support us.

° Responsibility: Our projects are financially responsible and socially fair.

° Justice: We guarantee the protection of human rights to our beneficiaries.

° Political and Religious Independence: We act with or without the sympathy and support of political or religious institutions.

° Respect for Human Dignity and Human Rights: Our actions know no discriminatory barriers; we help everybody in an equal manner.

Our Commitment

To ensure that the funds we receive are applied appropriately to our projects and activities, in accordance with the values of Responsibility, Transparency and Efficiency.

To plan our field interventions and actions not in a purely assistencialist perspective but in a perspective of EMPOWERMENT of the local populations and communities, allowing an efficient and sustainable development of these populations.

Laura Vasconcellos Equipa ADDHU