International Animal Rescue
United KingdomAnimals/Wildlife
We work with other likeminded organisations and government departments to develop sound legislation to protect animals from cruelty and neglect. IAR specialises in providing comprehensive sterilisation and vaccination programmes for stray dogs and cats to control populations and prevent the spread of disease. In all that we do, we aim to produce practical solutions that benefit both animals and people. International Animal Rescue is a charitable company, limited by guarantee, company registered number 06035040, England and Wales.
International Association for Human Values
SwitzerlandHumanitarian Aid
The Association partners with governments, educational institutions, other NGOs, corporations, businesses and individuals, to develop and promote programs of personal development to encourage the practice of human values in everyday life. IAHV along with its sister organization, Art of Living Foundation has one of the largest volunteer based networks in the world. It has reached over 20 million people in over 140 countries from all walks of life with a wide range of social, economic, cultural and educational activities. The organization works in special consultative status with the Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations, participating in a variety of committees and activities, related to health and conflict resolution.
International Bridges to Justice IBJ
SwitzerlandHuman Rights
International Bridges to Justice is an independent, non-profit and non-governmental organization founded in 2000 that strives to protect due process and achieve fair trials for the accused throughout the world. In countries where governmental commitment to human rights principles has, as of yet, failed to meet its practical goal, IBJ fills the gap between human rights legislation and domestic implementation. Currently operating in China, Vietnam and Cambodia, IBJ has just recently launched projects in Rwanda, Zimbabwe and Burundi. In response to urgent requests, we are also expanding initiatives to reach other parts of the world. We envision a world without torture or unjust legal proceedings, and we work every day to achieve this end. Specifically, IBJ works to guarantee all citizens the right to competent legal representation, the right to be protected from cruel and unusual punishment, and the right to a fair trial.
International Business for Children
NetherlandsChildren/Education
International Business for Children is an non-profit organisation, headed up by an enthusiastic team with a vision: to create business units that will generate a monthly income to financially support projects in Third World countries that are involved in taking care of the direct needs of children, in the form of food, clothing, education, medical attention and play. We are, therefore, looking for financial support from businesses and private individuals, which will enable us to set up our first business unit in the Netherlands. This business unit will be a indoor play centre called "Oog voor Afrika" - Eye on Africa. The profit generated by this business unit will be invested in South Africa to financially support projects that are taking care of the direct needs of children.
International Campaign for Tibet
United StatesHuman Rights
For two decades, we have called the world's attention to the injustices and brutality being suffered by the people of Tibet. We've shone a spotlight on China's repressive authority and intervened on behalf of political prisoners. We monitor and report on human rights, environmental and socio economic conditions in Tibet, while promoting self-determination for the Tibetan people through negotiations between the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama. ICT also advocates for Tibetans imprisoned for their political or religious beliefs and it ecures humanitarian and development assistance for Tibetans.
International Campaign to Ban Landmines
United StatesHuman Rights
Landmines kill and maim several thousand people every year – farmers cultivating their land, children playing, women fetching water – families struggling to survive. The International Campaign to Ban Landmines fights to keep civilians safe from these inhumane weapons that still pose a risk, decades after conflicts have ended. Thanks to the ICBL’s actions throughout the world, the number of new landmine victims has dropped dramatically and the use of landmines is increasingly rare. But there is still work to do to clear the land that is contaminated by these silent killers and to take care of landmine survivors. We will keep fighting until everyone is safe from landmines. Will you join us?
International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC)
SwitzerlandEthnic/Religion
The International Catholic Migration Commission serves and protects the needs of uprooted people, refugees, internally displaced persons and migrants, with operations in 30 countries of the world, including Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan and Turkey. ICMC advocates for durable solutions and rights-based policies directly and through a worldwide network of member organizations. ICMC's expertise and core programming consists of refugee resettlement, return and reintegration, local integration, work with extremely vulnerable individuals, counter-trafficking and rescue, NGO capacity-building, technical cooperation and government institution-building, emergency response and advocacy.
International Center for Research on Women
United StatesResearch/Dev
Founded in 1976, ICRW has earned a reputation as the leading international institution on gender and development. ICRW tackles the complexities of the world's most pressing problems – poverty, hunger and disease – by demonstrating that a focus on women and gender is necessary for lasting social and economic change. Our work begins with research that uncovers the realities of women's lives and brings into sharper focus the issues and constraints they face.
International Center of Photography
United StatesArts/Culture
Located in the heart of New York City, the International Center of Photography (ICP) is a world-class museum and school dedicated to exploring the possibilities of the photographic medium through dynamic exhibitions and educational programs. ICP presents a wide range of historical and contemporary photographs in its acclaimed exhibitions, and houses a collection of more than 100,000 original prints that span the history of photography. The School at ICP offers full-time master's and certificate programs, as well as part-time and adult coursework, and its Community Programs Office, which organizes award-winning youth education initiatives, collaborates with local schools, community centers, and other cultural institutions to promote the communicative power of photography.
International Centre for Eyecare Education
AustraliaDisability
At least 670 million people, mostly in the developing world, are blind or vision impaired simply because they don’t have access to a basic eye examination and a pair of glasses. This unnecessary disability has a major impact on people’s lives. The link between poverty and avoidable blindness is indisputable. Uncorrected vision impairment causes profound economic disadvantages to individuals, their families and societies. Since 1998, when ICEE was founded in Australia, we have been developing and implementing sustainable solutions for improved eye care access. We collaborate with governments, communities and international non-government organisations to develop long term solutions by investing in local eye care education, professional education, appropriate service delivery systems and research to ensure sustainable eye care in underserved communities.
International Child Care
United StatesChildren/Education
International Child Care is a Christian health development organization. Operating in Haiti since 1967 and in the Dominican Republic since 1988, ICC is working to change the conditions of poverty that impact health and well-being. Our vision is health and wholeness for children and families in empowered communities.
International Child Welfare Service
DenmarkChildren/Education
ICWS Verdens Børn (International Child Welfare Service) is an independent Danish organization, run by volunteers, which was established in 1974. We support destitute children in institutions in Bangladesh, Bulgaria, India, Sri Lanka and Uganda. ICWS Verdens Børn is able to create a better start of life for some of the World's poorest children.
International Childcare Trust
United KingdomChildren/Education
International Childcare Trust (ICT) was founded in 1982 by David Lamont, who had worked as a teacher at the grassroots level in the UK, Asia and Africa. In all of our programmes, we work to protect children's rights within a community development context, so children, their families and their communities are always involved in the decisions that shape our supported programmes. By supporting us you are helping us to provide vital services to help some of the world’s poorest children have a chance to build a future. Through such services as primary health care, income generation schemes, rehabilitation centres, training and many other aspects of support.
International Children's Fund
United StatesChildren/Education
The International Children’s Fund is a distinctively effective children’s charity focused on work across the African continent. Practical, direct grassroots action is the main focus of ICF. We channel the Christian concern of Americans into street level impact in African villages, where logistics often frustrate traditional relief efforts. The secret ingredient is a trustworthy network of local, native missionary partners, who personally shepherd your gifts of food, clothing, medicine, equipment and funds to the places children need them most. Ultimately, ICF is a way to be certain that your spirit of giving is felt directly in the hearts of the African children who are its desired result.
International Children's Heart Foundation
United StatesChildren/Education
Our goal is to make the need for ICHF obsolete. We work toward this goal through our mission trips where we operate and educate local health care professionals, and provide needed equipment and medications. As a 501(c)3 charitable organization, the ICHF enlists your support to provide hope and life for children throughout the developing world. Let our passion become yours! After organizing its work and conducting 78 surgeries in Memphis, TN, the ICHF turned its focus to developing countries where children with congenital heart defects have no options. These countries span all continents. ICHF has conducted medical mission trips since the beginning of their work in 1993. Our trips have increased over the years so that now there are at least two ICHF Medical Teams every month repairing children’s hearts somewhere in the world.
International Commitee on Seafarers' Welfare
United KingdomHuman Rights
An international umbrella organisation dedicated to the practical implementation of the International Labour Organisation instruments on Seafarers Welfare Convention 163 & Recommendation 173. The ICSW is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered under United Kingdom Law. The ICSW is a 'Not For Profit' organisation governed by its Memorandum of Association, Articles of Association and Rules. The ICSW is a voluntary organisation established for the purpose of bringing together appropriate interests in the field of seafarers' welfare and thus provides a forum for information exchange as well as for the coordination of projects on the care of seafarers.
International Council on Human Rights Policy
SwitzerlandResearch/Dev
We conduct independent applied research, taking an international, consultative and multidisciplinary approach. The International Council was conceived in 1994, by Philip Alston, Thomas Hammarberg and Margo Picken. They suggested that a space should be created to discuss human rights policy dilemmas and difficult implementation problems that arise. This proposal was subsequently discussed with a large number of human rights thinkers and organisations around the world, on the basis of two meetings, in Arden House (New York) in October 1993 and at the Research Centre for International Law (Cambridge) in July 1994.
International Crisis Group
BelgiumHuman Rights
The International Crisis Group is now generally recognised as the world’s leading independent, non-partisan, source of analysis and advice to governments, and intergovernmental bodies like the United Nations, European Union and World Bank, on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict. Our work has been applauded by, among others, former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan; successive U.S. Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and Madeleine Albright. Crisis Group has regularly received endorsement from influential media, such as Quentin Peel of the Financial Times and The Economist.
International Cultural Youth Exchange ICYE
SwitzerlandArts/Culture
ICYE organizes intercultural voluntary exchange programmes for six or twelve months all over the world. In addition, ICYE offers short term exchange programmes for one to three months in Costa Rica, Togo or China as well as a professional programme for teachers and nurses. Sharing their everyday life with people having a different cultural background, the exchangees get a distinguished insight into their host culture. They get to know another country with its social, cultural, religious, linguistic, emotional and economic aspects. This experience gives them the possibility to question profoundly their own person as well as their own culture.
International Disaster Emergency Service
United StatesHumanitarian Aid
Among independent Christian Churches and Churches of Christ, the work of IDES is unique -- the one source our churches and missionaries consistently turn to for help. Wells are dug to give the missionary opportunity to teach about the Living Water. Food is given to open hearts to the Bread of Life. Lives are changed as blankets and medicines are given in the name of Jesus. Houses are built to provide shelter for families, and they experience the warmth of being part of the family of God. God's love is demonstrated not just with words, but with deeds and in truth.