Anyone seeking to change unjust global power relations needs allies. ECCHR places great emphasis on cooperation and exchange with other civil society actors dedicated to human rights and social justice. Building and strengthening these networks is vitally important when it comes to challenging powerful opponents like governments, military apparatuses or transnational corporations. A special role is played here by the Bertha Justice Network, which includes ECCHR and 14 other organizations from all over the world as well as the long-term cooperation with ECCHR’s Critical Legal Training alumn*.
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Networks & Exchange
Projects (7)
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Berlin – Conversations – Human rights
Human rights in times of crises: Resistance and concrete utopias
Looking back at our 2021 event series: Human rights are a concrete utopia worth defending, but what does this entail during times of profound, global transition? Can we use today’s unprecedented, multiple crises as an opportunity? And what alliances and strategies do we need to effectively include decolonial, feminist and environmental perspectives?
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Institute – (Post)Colonial Crimes – Human remains/ancestors
Return of human remains: Descendants demand justice
In colonial times, Germans robbed people in the colonies of their land, their cultural artefacts and their lives. And they stole their family members – in the form of bones and other body parts. They brought them to Europe for racist research purposes. Even today tens of thousands of so-called Ancestors/Human Remains are stored or displayed in German museum archives, universities and private collections.
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Institute – (Post)Colonial Crimes – Namibia
Colonial repercussions: Germany and Namibia
In the early 20th century, today’s Namibia was a German colony. The Namibian population was massively and systematically discriminated against. Oppression, violence and land grabbing were widespread. ECCHR is working to address colonial crimes in Namibia and Germany’s colonial past.
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Institute – Networks & Exchange – INCLO Workshop
Dialogue with organizations from the Global North and Global South
Networks and partnerships excel when expertise and practical experience are shared. With this in mind, ECCHR regularly hosts workshops and exchanges on transnational human rights litigation.
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Institute – Networks & Exchange – Bertha Justice Network
Bertha Justice Network
ECCHR is part of the Bertha Justice Network which is comprised of 17 organizations from all continents, Bertha Justice Partners, as well as Bertha Justice Fellows and alumn*.
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Institute – Networks & Exchange – ECCHR alumn*
ECCHR CONNECT
Since ECCHR’s in 2008 nearly 400 young human rights lawyers from more than 40 countries have participated in our Critical Legal Training. Together they constitute our alumni group, and their numbers are now into the hundreds.
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Institute – Training & Co-learning – Bertha Global Exchange
Bertha Global Exchange
ECCHR has been able to invite colleagues from international partner organizations to come to Berlin for a set period of time as part of an intensive exchange of experiences and know-how. Bertha Global Exchange Fellows are actively involved in ECCHR's day-to-day work and contribute to issues and cases that their sending organizations are also working on.
