PEACE, HARMONY, SECULARISM & HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS
(This list has been created in order to facilitate communication, and hopefully cooperation, among various organizations. Inclusion of any organization in this list does not necessarily mean endorsement by ACHA of all or any part of its work).
Asian Human Rights Commission,
<www.ahrchk.net/>, Email <ahrchk@ahrchk.org>
International Peace Bureau
(IPB), Email <mailbox@ipb.org>
AUSTRALIA
Friends For Peace in Sri
Lanka, Website <www.fpsl.org.au>
Joint Secretaries: T Sritharan,
Phone 02-62865575
Willie Senanayake, Phone
02-62427430.
BANGLADESH
Law Watch (A Centre for Human
Rights Studies), E-13, 2nd Floor, Pallabi Extension, Mirpur, Dhaka
Contact Person: A.H.Monjurul
Kabir, Email:<mkabir99@hotmail.com>
Sampreeti, 1/16 Humayun
Road, Mohammadpur, Block B, Dhaka 1207
CANADA
Centre d'études et
de recherche sur l'asie du sud (CERAS), 3720, avenue du Parc, #300, Montreal,
Qc, H2X 1J1, Phone 514-982-6606, Fax 514-982-6612, Website <www.alternatives-action.org/ceras/>,
Email <ceras@alternatives.ca>
Contact Person: Feroz Mehdi
International South Asia
Forum (INSAF), Montreal
Contact Persons: A. Shafaq,
Phone 617-577-5564, Email <aashafaq@igc.org>
CYPRUS
Centre for World Dialogue,
Email <worlddialoguesue@cytanet.com.cy>
FRANCE
South Asia Citizens Web,
Website <www.mnet.fr/aiindex>
Coordinator: Harsh Kapoor
Email <aiindex@mnet.fr>
South Asians Against Nukes,
Website <www.mnet.fr/aiindex/NoNukes.html>
Coordinator: Harsh Kapoor
Email <aiindex@mnet.fr>
INDIA
Abhigam Collective, Garage, 65, Brahman Mitra Mandal Society, Ellisbridge, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380 006, Email <abhigamc@wilnetonline.net>
Aman South Asia Social Studies
programme and Peace Exchange, Communications, P.O. Box 28253, Juhu Post
Office, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400049, Email <sabrang@bom2.vsnl.net.in>
Contact Person: Teesta Setalvad
Centre for Civil Society, B-12, Kailash Colony, New Delhi, Website <www.ccsindia.org>, Email:<ccs@ccsindia.org>
Centre for Historical Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Contact Person: Dr. K. N.
Panikkar, Email <knp@del3.vsnl.net.in>
Centre for Study of Society
& Secularism, 9-B Himalaya Apartment, 6th Road, Santa Cruz
East, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400 055, Phones 91-22-614-9668, 91-22-663-0085,
Fax 91-22-617-3624, Email <csss@bom2.vsnl.net.in>
Director: Dr. Ashgar Ali
Engineer
Christian Institute for the
Study of Religion & Society (CISRS), 21 YMCA Road, Byculla, Mumbai,
Maharashtra 400 008,. Phone 3080544.
Contact Person: Prashanth
K. Anthony, Email <proud@bol.net.in>
Commonwealth Human Rights
Initiative, F 1/12A, Hauz Khas Enclave, New Delhi 110 016
Director: Maja Daruwala
Communalism Combat, Sabrang
Communications, P.O. Box 28253, Juhu Post Office, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400049,
Email <sabrang@bom2.vsnl.net.in>
Contact Person: Teesta Setalvad
Confederation of Voluntary Associations (COVA), 20-4-10 Near New Bus Stand, Charminar, Hyderabad, AP. Phones 91-40-457-4527, 91-40-457-2984, Email <covahyd@hd1.net.in>
Ekta (Committee for Communal
Amity), B-64, I.I.T. Quarters, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400 076, Phones
91-22-578-3522, 91-22-577-5045, 91-22-576-8763
Contact Person: Dr. Ram
R. Punyani, Email <bmrrpia@cc.iitb.ernet.in>
Forum for Cultural Democracy
Contact Person: VIJAY PRATAP,
G.W.4, Ganga Hostel, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, Phone
NO: 6102752, 6102638 Email <mrpvp@del2.vsnl.net.in>
Foundation for Humanisation.
PO Box 26922, Santacruz west, Mumbai 400 054, (11. Yogniti, 18, S.V. Road,
Santacruz West, Mumbai 400054), Phone 91-22-610 6197, Fax 91-22-611 9513,
Website <www.humanscapeindia.org>,
Email <humanscape@bitsmart.com>
Contact Person: Jayesh Shah
The Henry Martyn Institute
of Islamic Studies (An International Center for Reconciliation and Interfaith
Relations), P.O. Box 153, Chirag Ali Lane, Hyderabad, AP 500 001, India,
Phone 91-40-201134, Fax 91-40-203954, Email <hmiis@hd1.vsnl.net.in>
Director: Dr. Andreas D'Souza
Human Rights Law Network,
4th Engineer's House, 84 Bombay Samachar Marg, Mumbai, Maharashtra
400 023, Phones 91-22-267-7385, 91-22-267-6680, Email <hrln@vsnl.com>
Contact Person: Colin Gonsalves
India Centre for Human Rights
and Law, 4th Floor, CVOD Jain School, 84 Samuel Street, Dongri,
Mumbai, Maharashtra 400 009, Phones 91-22-375 9657, 91-22-371 375 6690,
Fax 91-22-379 0699
Contact Person: Nikhil Anand
<nikhilanand@mail.com>
Indian Scientists Against Nuclear Weapons, Website <www.freespeech.org/isanw/>
Insaaf International, Kishori
Ram Hospital Building, Basant Vihar, Bhatinda, Punjab, India, Phone 91-164-215400,
Fax 91-164-214500, Website <www.geocities.com/insaafin>
Coordinator: Dr. Vineeta
Gupta, Email <vineetag@ch1.dot.net.in>
International Centre for
Peace Initiatives,C306 Montana, Lokhandwala Complex, Andheri West, Mumbai,
Maharashtra 400053, Email <icpi@bom5.vsnl.net.in>
Director: Sundeep Waslekar
Assistant Director: Ilmas
Futehally
Jan Natya Manch, J 147 RB
Enclave, Paschim Vihar, New Delhi, Phone 91-11-558-4822, Email <jananatyamanch@yahoo.com>
Convenor: Moloyashree Hashmi
KHOJ Secular Education Programme,
Communications, P.O. Box 28253, Juhu Post Office, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400049,
Email <sabrang@bom2.vsnl.net.in>
Contact Person: Teesta Setalvad
Lok Abhiyan, A-893 Indira
Nagar, Lucknow, U.P. 226 016, Phone 91-522-347365, Email <ashain@lwl.vsnl.net.in>
Lokayan, Email <lokayan@vsnl.com>
Chairperson: Prof. Imtiaz
Ahmad, 72 New Campus, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110 067, Phones
6107676/6167557 EXT. SSS (Work), 6195889 (Home), Email: <imtiazahmad@vsnl.com>
Convener: Rajendra Ravi,
77 Prem Nagar, Delhi 110007, Phones 3951378, 2940154 (work), 2945609 (Home)
The Malaviya Centre for Peace Research (MCPR), Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, U.P. 221005, Phone 91-542-307449, Fax 91-542-319962, Email <mcpr@banaras.ernet.in>
Movement in India for Nuclear
Disarmament (MIND), c/o Delhi Science Forum, Bi Local Shopping Center,
2nd Floor, J Block, Saket, New Delhi 110 017, Phones 91-11-686-2716
& 91-11-652-4323, Fax 91-11-686-2716, Website <www.angelfire.com/mi/MIND123/>
Email <ctddsf@vsnl.com>
Contact Person: Achin Vanaik
Other Media, K-14 Green Park Ext, New Delhi-110016, Phone 91-11-6867694; Fax 91-11-6198241
Pakistan-India People=s Forum
for Peace & Democracy (PIPFPD), K-14 Green Park Extension,
New Delhi 110 016, India,
Phone 616 830 & 619 6640, Pakistan-India People's Forum for
Peace & Democracy (PIPFPD),
K-14 First Floor, Green Park Extension, New Delhi,
Website <www.mnet.fr/aiindex/PIF/>
Chairperson: Admiral (Retd) L. Ramdas, Email
lramdas@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in>
Pakistan-India People's Forum for Peace & Democracy (PIPFPD), K-14 First Floor, Green Park Extension, New Delhi, 110 016, India, Phone 616 830 & 619 6640 Website <www.mnet.fr/aiindex/PIF/> Chairperson: Admiral (Retd) L. Ramdas, Email <lramdas@giasbm01.vsnl.net.in>
People's Organisation of
Wadala for Equality and Rights (POWER), Bharati Kamala Nagar, Behind CGS
Colony, Antophill, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400 037, Phones 91-22-4080730, 91-22-4028748.
Contact Person: Prashanth
K. Anthony, Email <proud@bol.net.in>
People's Responsible Organisation
of United Dharavi (PROUD), 90 Ft.Road, Subash Nagar, Dharavi, Mumbai, Maharashtra
400 017, Phone 91-22-4017876, Email <proud@bol.net.in>
Contact Person: Prashanth
K. Anthony
People's Union for Civil
Liberties
General Secretary (Punjab
Branch): Ved Parkash Gupta, Phone 91-164-253903
PRAVAH, 15/10 Kalkaji, New
Delhi 110 019, Phone 91-11-642-0776, Website <www.indev.nic.in/pravah>,
Email <pravah@ndf.vsnl.net.in>
CEO: Ashraf Patel, Email
<arjundel@del3.vsnl.net.in>
Sadbhav Mission
Contact Person: Prof. V.K.Tripathi,
Phones 6591351 & 6861977 (Work), 6581737 (Home), Email <vkt@netearth.iitd.ernet.in>
Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust
(SAHMAT), New Delhi, <www.sahmat.com>
Shabnam Hashmi, Email <shabhashmi@hotmail.com>
SAMVAD, A10 RUTVIJ, Opp.
AEC, Naranpura, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380 013, Email: <samvad@writemail.com>
Contact Person: Wilfred
D'Costa & Sonal Thaker.
South Asian Initiative for Human Rights <www.south-asian-initiative.org>
United Christian Forum for
Human Rights
National Convenor John Dayal,
Email <johndayal@vsnl.com>
NEPAL
Research Academica for Humanism
and Jai Prithvi (RAFHAJ), Nepal. P.O. Box 11201, Putalisadak, Kathmandu,
Phone 00977-1-245314, Fax 00977-1-271104, Email <humanism@wlink.com.np>
President: Min B. Singh
South Asia Forum for Human
Rights, GPO Box 12855, Kathmandu, Phones 977-1-541026 & 977-1-544191,
Fax 977-1-527852, Email <south@safhr.wlink.com.np>
& <South@safhr.org>
THE NETHERLANDS
European Platform for Conflict
Prevention and Transformation, PO Box 14069, 3508 SC Utrecht, the Netherlands,
Phone 31-30-253 7528, Fax 31-30-253 7529, Website <www.euconflict.org>
Programme Coordinator Africa
& Asia: Monique Mekenkamp, <m.mekenkamp@euconflict.org>
PAKISTAN
Action Committee Against
Arms Race (ACAAR), ST-1, Sector X, Sub-Sector V, Gulshan-e-Maymar, Karachi
75340, Phones 92-21-6350352 , 92-21-6350354, Email <b.m.kutty@cyber.net.pk>
President : Dr. A. Aziz,
Secretary : Ms. Rehana Iftikhar
Ansar Burney Welfare Trust
International, 6 Hassan Manzil, Arambagh Road, Karachi, Pakistan 92-21-262-3382,
Fax 92-21-262-3384, Email <humanrights@usa.net>
Chairman: Syed Ansar Ahmed
Burney, Advocate
Citizen's Peace Committee, Rawalpindi
Fazaldad Human Rights Institute, Email <fhri@isb.paknet.com.pk>
Freedom Center Pakistan, Flat No. 8, Second Floor, Cantonment Plaza, Peshawar Sadder, Phone 92-91-286740
Human Rights Commission of
Pakistan <www.hrcp.cjb.net/>
Chairperson Emeritus:<asma@hrcp.cjb.net>
-Asma Jehangir
Director: I.A. Rehman, Email
<iar@hrcp.cjb.net>
Joint Action Committee for People's Rights (JAC), 131 E/1, Gulberg-111, Lahore, Email <aghs@brain.net.pk>
Justice & Peace Commission,
Naqshband Colony, GPO Box175, Multan, Phone 92-61-220482, Fax 92-61-220580
Executive Secretary: Aftab
Alexander Mughal, Email <nidda@brain.net.pk>
Pakistani Doctors for Peace & Democracy (PDPD)
Pakistan-India People's Forum for Peace & Democracy (PIPFPD), 11 - Temple Road, Lahore
Phone 92-42-7357926, Fax
92-42-7223455, Website <http://brain.brain.net.pk/~pakindo/>, Email:<pakindo@brain.net.pk>
Chairperson : I.A. Rehman
Secretary General: Iftikhar-ul-Haq
Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER), 141-D (Annexe), Block 2, PECHS, Karachi-75400, Email <Ppc@cyber.net.pk>
Pakistan Peace Coalition
(PPC), 141-D (Annexe), Block 2, PECHS, Karachi-75400, Phones 92-021-4552170,
92-02- 4557009, Fax 92-021-4548115, Website <www.mnet.fr/aiindex/PPC>
President : M. B. Naqvi,
Email <m.b.naqvi@cyber.net.pk>
Contact Person: B.M. Kutty,
Email <b.m.kutty@cyber.net.pk>
Peace Revival Association
of Youth (PRAY), P.O. Box 20089, PECHS, Karachi 75400, Pakistan,
Phone 92.21.453 2390 Websites
http://praypeace.net, & http://jointpray@usa.net, Email
pray@inet.com.pk.
ContactPerson: Adeela Khalid khalidadeela@inet.com.pk
South Asians for Enlightenment
(SAFE), P.O. Box 6222, Lahore Cantt. Phone 92-42-666-0773, Fax 92-42-667-0998,
Email <safepak@wol.net.pk>
Founder: Ikram Rana
The Steward Human Rights
Focus on Pakistan, Website <www.thesteward.hypenet.com/rights/pakistan.html>,
Email <steward2@aol.com>
SOUTH AFRICA
World Conference on Religion
& Peace, Durban, Email <wcrpdbn@sn.apc.org>
SRI LANKA
People for Human Rights and
Racial Equality (PHRRE), Website <www.fortunecity.com/meltingpot/tenison/1204/>
SWEDEN
Pakistanis for Peace &
Alternative Development
Coordinator: Dr. Ishtiaq
Ahmed, Associate Professor (Reader), Department of Political Science, Stockholm
University, 10691 Stockholm, Email <Ishtiaq.Ahmed@statsvet.su.se>
THAILAND
Forum -Asia (Asian Forum
for Human Rights and Development), C/O Union for Civil Liberties, 109 Suthisarnichai
Rd, Samsennok, Huay Kwang, Bangkok, Bangkok 10320, Email <admin@forumasia.org>
U.K.
Aaj Kay Naam, London, Website
<www.aajkaynaam.org>,
Email <aajkaynaam@yahoo.com>
Contact Person: Arif Azad,
Phone 02078134508
International Humanist &
Ethical Union, 47 Theobald Road, London WC1X 8SP, Phone 44-20-7831 4817,
Fax 44-20-7404 8641, 0r 44-20-7430 1271, Email <humanism@iheu.org>
Contact Person: Babu Gogineni,
Email <babu@iheu.org>
U.S.A.
Alliance for a Secure Democratic
South Asia, c/o Program in Science, Technology & Society, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA, Telephone 617-576-2388
Contact Person: Abha Sur
<asur@MIT.edu>.
Association for Communal
Harmony in Asia (ACHA), 2412 NE 163rd Avenue, Portland, Oregon, 97230-5572,
U.S.A., Website <www.asiapeace.org>
President: Pritam K. Rohila,
Phone 503-393-6944, Fax 503-393-6944, email <pritamr@open.org>
Secretary-Treasurer: Dr.
Herbert Hoefer, Phone 503-493-6494, E-mail <hhoefer@cu-portland.edu>
Center for Global Nonviolence,
3653 Tantalus Drive, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822-5033 USA, Phone 808-536-7442
Fax 808-524-8501, Email <cgnv@hawaii.rr.com>
President: Glenn D. Paige,
Prof. Emeritus of Political Science, University of Hawaii
Coalition for an Egalitarian
& Pluralistic India, Los Angeles, CA.
Contact persons: Prof. I.
K. Shukla <ikshukla@hotmail.com>
Dr Syed A. Samee <ssamee@aol.com>
Communalism Watch and Governance
Monitor
Contact Person: Dr. S.P.
Udayakumar, Research Associate & Co-Director of Programs, Institute
on Race & Poverty, University of Minnesota, 415 Law School, 229-19th
Avenue S, Minneapolis, MN 55455, Phone 612-626-7831, Fax 612-624-8890,
Email <spkumar@tc.umn.edu>
Five College Program in Peace
and World Security Studies, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 01002, Phone
413-559-5367, Fax 413-559-5611
Assistant Director: Yogesh
Chandrani, Email <ychandrani@hampshire.edu>
The Coexistence Initiative,
477 Madison Avenue, Fourth Floor, New York, NY, 10022, USA,
Phone 212.303.9445, Fax
212.980.4027,
Website: <www.coexistence.net>,
Email: <info@coexistence.net>
Contact Person: Information
Coordinator, Angela Khaminwa <akhaminwa@coexistence.net>
The Hague Appeal for Peace,
777 UN Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA, Website <www.haguepeace.org>
Director: Gouri Sadwani
Human Rights Watch, Website <www.hrw.org>
Institute for Muli-Track
Diplomacy, 1819 H street NW, Suite 1200, Washington, D.C., 20006,
Phone 202-466-4605, Fax
202-466-4607, Website <www.imtd.org>,
Email <imtd@imtd.org>
Interfaith Association of
Central Ohio, 57 Jefferson Avenue, Columbus, OH 43215
Contact name: Dr. Tarunjit
S. Butalia, E-mail: <butalia.1@osu.edu>
Joan B. Kroc Institute for
International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana
46556, Website <www.nd.edu/~krocinst>
A Non Nuclear South Asia,
Website <members.tripod.com/~no_nukes_sa/>, Email <southasia_peace@yahoo.com>
Pakistan Human Rights Watch,
Chicago, IL, Email <hrusa@hotmail.com>
Chairman: Mutahir Kazmi
Secretary General: Hafeez
Siddiqi, Email <HSiddiqi@aol.com>
Rabta, Phone 202- 408-3630
Email <raabta@erols.com>
Contact Persons: Nuzaira
Azam and Dr. Zafar Iqbal
Secular India's National
Growth & Harmony (SINGH) Founation, c/o Ramakrishnan, 50 West 97th
St, 15-T, New York, NY 10025, Phone 212-866-1616, Fax 212-305-5834, Website
<www.singhfoundation.org>
Secretary-Treasurer: Dr.
Rajasekhar Ramakrishnan, Research Scientist, Columbia University, Email:
<ramakri@cudept.cis.columbia.edu>
South Asian Community Center
for Education and Research (SACCER) Trust, Website <www.saccer.org>
Contact Person: Dr. S.P.
Udayakumar, Research Associate & Co-Director of Programs, Institute
on Race & Poverty, University of Minnesota, 415 Law School, 229-19th
Avenue S, Minneapolis, MN 55455, Phone 612-626-7831, Fax 612-624-8890,
Email <spkumar@tc.umn.edu>
Truth India, Website <www.truthindia.com>
Contact Person: Dr. Jawaid
Quddus, Email <jq@truthindia.com>