Amazon Watch

Amazon Watch works with indigenous and environmental organizations in the Amazon Basin to defend the environment and advance indigenous peoples' rights in the face of large-scale industrial development-oil & gas pipelines, power lines, roads, and other mega-projects.

American Service Committee Latin American Program

Amnesty International

Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards.

Center for International Policy

The Center for International Policy offers a comprehensive source of information and analysis about Colombia's conflict, peaceful efforts to end it, and the United States' increasing military involvement.

Chicagoans for a Peaceful Colombia (773) 454-0820

Christian Peacemakers Team (773) 277-0253

Colombia Human Rights Network

The Colombia Human Rights Network formed in October 1990 as a way of pooling the efforts of several volunteer organizations working for peace and justice in Colombia in several cities in the United States. (English and español)

Colombia Support Network

The Colombia Support Network is a large, grassroots activist-oriented group in the U.S. focusing on Colombian human rights.

Colombia Week

Concern America (714) 953-8575

Drug Policy Alliance

Drug Policy Alliance is the nation's leading organization working to end the war on drugs and promote new drug policies based on science, compassion, health and human rights. The Alliance, headquartered in New York City, maintains offices in California, Washington DC, New Mexico, and New Jersey.

Fellowship of Reconciliation, Task Force on Latin America and the Caribbean

The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), a national, interfaith, pacifist organization, founded the Task Force on Latin America and the Caribbean(TFLAC) in 1983. TFLAC's goals are 1) to strengthen communication and collaboration between North and Latin American nonviolent movements; 2) to help FOR members become actively engaged in Latin American and Caribbean issues; 3) to promote demilitarization and justice in U.S. policy toward the region through public education, collaboration with other North American groups, and advocacy.

Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch researchers conduct fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses in all regions of the world. Human Rights Watch then publishes those findings in dozens of books and reports every year, generating extensive coverage in local and international media. This publicity helps to embarrass abusive governments in the eyes of their citizens and the world. En Español

Institute for Policy Studies Drug Policy Project

The IPS Drug Policy Project seeks to promote holistic alternatives that address race and poverty as an integral element of drug policy. Internationally, the project examines the social impact of exporting the US drug war overseas. From military "counternarcotics" aid for repressive regimes, to the environmental devastation caused by eradication and fumigation policies, the project highlights the consequences of such programs on the poor and disenfranchised.

Latin America Working Group

The Latin America Working Group (LAWG) is a coalition of over sixty religious, human rights, policy, grassroots and development organizations. Since 1983, the coalition has been striving for U.S. policies that promote peace, justice and sustainable development in the region.

Peace Brigades International (202) 544-3876

Office of the Americas

The Office of the Americas is a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering the cause of justice and peace in the hemisphere through broad based educational programs. Founded in 1983 in Los Angeles, OOA is a recognized source for documentation and analysis of current events in North America, Mexico, Central America, and South America, including the War on Drugs, human rights, and United States foreign policy. The Office is often called upon to present expert testimony in litigation before the Federal Immigration Court.

Peace Brigades International

Peace Brigades International provides an international presence in four regions of Colombia to accompany and protect human rights defenders. This is an amazing way to learn first-hand about the situation in Colombia, while increasing the safety of Colombian activists.

Project Underground exists as a vehicle for the environmental, human rights and indigenous rights movements to carry out focused campaigns against abusive extractive resource activity.

Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action. (See their extensive information on the plight of the U'wa people.)

SOA Watch

SOA Watch is an independent organization that seeks to close the US Army School of the Americas, under whatever name it is called, through vigils and fasts, demonstrations and nonviolent protest, as well as media and legislative work.

US Labor Education in the Americas Project

US/LEAP (formerly the U.S./Guatemala Labor Education Project) is an independent non-profit organization that supports economic justice and basic rights for workers in Central America, Colombia, Ecuador, and Mexico. US/LEAP focuses especially on the struggles of those workers who are employed directly or indirectly by U.S. companies such as Starbucks (coffee), Chiquita (bananas), and Phillips-Van Heusen (clothing).

US Office on Colombia

The U.S. Office on Colombia is an independent non-profit organization, not affiliated with any political party, that seeks to educate U.S. policymakers, the media and the U.S. public about the impact of U.S. policy on Colombia.

Washington Office on Latin America

Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) promotes human rights, democracy, and social and economic justice in Latin America and the Caribbean. WOLA facilitates dialogue between governmental and non-governmental actors, monitors the impact of policies and programs of governments and international organizations, and promotes alternatives through reporting, education, training, and advocacy.

Witness for Peace

Witness for Peace (WFP) is a politically independent, grassroots organization. We are people committed to nonviolence and led by faith and conscience. Our mission is to support peace, justice,and sustainable economies in the Americas by changing US policies and corporate practices that contribute to poverty and oppression in Latin America and the Caribbean. We stand with people who seek justice.