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Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellowship Program Summary UPPER MIDWEST HUMAN RIGHTS FELLOWSHIP India - 13 PROGRAM SUMMARY MAP Turkey - 9 Thailand - 7 82 P Kenya - 21 21 C Tanzania - 15 Guatemala - 9 Rwanda - 12 Costa Rica - 7 Nicaragua - 6 102 P 22 C 31 P 7 C Switzerland - 40 United States - 280 Ireland - 20 Mexico - 20 Netherlands - 10 Canada - 2 116 P 302 P 29 C 3 C Peru - 9 Colombia - 7 Ecuador - 7 31 P 7 C P - Placement C - Country Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellowship Program Summary 1989 - 2019 (30 Years) 657 Human Rights Fellows 665 Placements (over 350 organizations in 89 countries) Year F P Africa 22 Asia 21 Europe 29 1989 9 9 Kenya 21 India 13 Switzerland 40 1990 8 8 Tanzania 15 Turkey 9 Ireland 20 1991 14 14 Rwanda 12 Thailand 7 Netherlands 10 1992 15 15 South Africa 8 Cambodia 7 United Kingdom 7 1993 * 13 14 Ghana 8 Israel 6 Czech Republic 3 1994 15 15 Uganda 7 Nepal 6 Germany 3 1995 * 16 17 Sierra Leone 5 Philippines 6 Italy 3 1996 18 18 Liberia 3 Bangladesh 5 Greece 2 1997 * 19 20 Nigeria 3 China 4 Romania 2 1998 14 14 Zimbawe 3 Australia * 3 Ukraine 2 1999 13 13 Egypt 2 Sri Lanka 3 Bulgaria 2 2000 21 21 Morocco 2 South Korea 3 France 2 2001 21 21 Senegal 2 Taiwan 2 Macedonia 2 2002 22 22 Malawi 2 Bhutan 1 Belgium 2 2003 27 27 Somaliland 2 Indonesia 1 Bosnia 2 2004 * 28 29 Burkina Faso 1 Japan 1 Albania 1 2005 * 25 26 Burundi 1 Kazakhstan 1 Austria 1 2006 27 27 Cameroon 1 Mongolia 1 Croatia 1 2007 29 29 Guinea 1 Pakistan 1 Denmark 1 2008 28 28 Nambia 1 Tajikistan 1 Estonia 1 2009 40 40 Zambia 1 Laos 1 Finland 1 2010 * 32 33 DRC 1 Placements 82 Kosovo 1 2011 26 26 Placements 102 Norway 1 2012 34 34 Poland 1 2013 24 24 North America 3 Slovakia 1 2014 * 24 25 United States 280 >>> United States 27 Spain 1 2015 24 24 Mexico 20 Minnesota 162 Hungary 1 2016 * 19 20 Canada 2 Washington D.C 29 Bolivia 1 2017 19 19 Placements 302 New York 21 Turkey 1 2018 16 16 California 12 Placements 116 2019 17 17 Illinois 6 30 Years 657 665 The Caribbean 1 Massachusetts 3 Central America 7 * 1 Fellow had 2 different placements Dominican Republic 1 Florida 2 Guatemala 9 Placements 1 Alabama 2 Costa Rica 7 Colorado 2 Nicaragua 6 Fellow - Country P C Rhode Island 2 Haiti 4 Africa 102 22 Nevada 2 El Salvador 3 Asia and the Pacific 82 21 Wisconsin 2 Honduras 1 Europe 116 27 New Jersey 1 Trinidad and Tobago 1 North America 302 3 Georgia 1 Placements 31 Central America 31 7 South Dakota 1 South America 31 9 Alaska 1 South America 9 665 92 Mississippi 1 Peru 9 Kansas 1 Colombia 7 Missouri 1 Ecuador 7 South Carolina 1 Brazil 3 Connecticut 1 Argentina 1 Placements 280 Chile 1 Paraguay 1 Uruguay 1 Venezuela 1 Placements 31 Human Rights Fellowship Program Organizations (1989-2019) Center for the Study of Violence at the University of Sao Paulo Center for Victims of Torture A SEED EUROPE - Action for Solidarity Equality Environment and Center of Legal and Social Studies Diversity Center of Research and Popular Education ACLU (LGBT & AIDS Project)/U.S. Center of Training in Ecology and Health for Peasants ACLU Foundation of Southern California Center on Wrongful Convictions ACLU of Minnesota Central American Resource Center Adam Institute for Democracy and Peace Centre for Applied Legal Studies ADHA/Senegal Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) Alaska Public Defender Agency/Alaska Centro Arte para la Paz Alliance for Children's Rights/U.S. Centro de Derechos Human Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Centro de Derechos Laborales at the Resource Center of the American Civil Liberties Union of the Nation’s Capital Americas American Friends Service Committee Criminal Justice Program Centro de los Amigos para la Paz American Kurdish Information Network (AKIN) Centro Una Brisa de Esperanza American Nicaraguan Foundation Chemchemi Ya Ukweli American Public Media - Women and Girls Initiative Chiapas Media Project American Refugee Committee Child Survival Project/Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights American Refugee Committee, International Childhope Asia Americas Watch Children Law Center Amnesty International-Philippines Children’s Defense Fund Amnesty International-USA Children’s Home Society Andean Commission of Jurists Children's Human Rights Alliance Anti-Slavery International Chinese Association for Human Rights Arakan Oil Watch Christian Peacemaker Teams Arusha Lutheran Medical Centre Cimas del Ecuador Asia Catalyst Citizens’ Alliance for North Korea Human Rights (NKHR) Asociacion Paz y Esperanza City of Moorhead Association for Nature and Sustainable Development (ANDES) Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice Association for Non-Violence Cloudforest Initiatives Association for the Defense of the Azerbaijani Political Prisoner in Člověk v Tisní - People in Need Iran (ADAPP) Colombian Section of the Andean Commission of Jurists Association of Women for Action and Research AWARE Colorado State Public Defender Balaod Mindanaw Comision Ecumenica de Derechos Humanos Balkan Association of the Producers and Traders of Ecological Comision Episcopal de Accion Social Products Comision Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz (CIJP) Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies Comision Mexicana de Defensa y Promocion de los Derechos Battered Women's Legal Advocacy Project Humanos Bay Area Legal Aid Comite Nacional pro-Defensa de Flora and Fauna (CODEF) Black Sash Commission of Solidarity and Defense of Human Rights Bohemia Corps Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice Borderlinks Committee of Churches for Emergency Help Bridges Across Borders/Thailand Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) Burkinabé Movement of Human Rights Commonwealth Medical Association California Appellate Project Community Aid Network Uganda Cambodian Center for Human Rights Comunidade de Resgate Afro Casa Cusco Corrymeela Community Casa de Proyecto Libertad Cultural Diversity Resources Catholic Legal Services of Miami Danish Center for Human Rights Center for Constitutional Rights DC Volunteer Lawyers Project Center for Democratic Participation and Development Decide Studies Corporation/Ecuador (CENZONTLE) Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DADD) Center for Global Education Field Office (CGE) Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-CAM) Center for Human Rights Legal Action Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights Center for Human Rights Tepeyac El Centro de la Nina Trabajadora Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) El Centro de Orientación del Migrante Center for Justice and Accountability El Colegio Center for Justice and International Law El Movimiento Desarraigados Organizado para el Desarrollo Integral Center for Legal Action del Norte del Quiche Center for Minority Rights Development Emiliano Zapata Elementary School Center for Promotion and Support of Agricultural Enterprise Empowerment Society International/Liberia Center for Public Interest Law End Child Prostitution, Abuse and Trafficking- ECPAT Center for Public Interest Law/Ghana Environmental Defender’s Office of New South Wales Center for Reproductive Rights Global Legal Program Environmental Health Coalition Environmental Justice Advocates of Minnesota Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA) Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Office of General Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Counsel) International Campaign for Tibet Esther Benjamins Trust International Center for Transitional Justice Ezeobi and Company International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) Families of Victims of Involuntary Disappearance International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) Farmers' Legal Action Group International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) FIDA-Kenya International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (Office of Finnish League for Human Rights Chambers) Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project International Federation for Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus/Belgium Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center International Human Rights Clinic Food and Agriculture Organization International Indian Treaty Council Foreclosure Relief Law Project International Institute of Boston FORUM-Asia International Institute of Minnesota Friends Committee on National Legislation International Justice Foundation (Prison Project) Friends of Ngong Road International Labour Organization (ILO) Fundación Cimas del Ecuador International Labour Organization's Freedom of Association Branch Gamaliel Foundation International Labour Organization's Multinational Enterprises Gardens for Health Program (MULTI) Gender Justice International Leadership Institute Generation for Change and Growth International Legal Resources Genocide Intervention Network International Organization for Migration Global Overseas Adoptees/South Korea International Organization for Migrations - Mission to Tajikistan Grameen Bank International Organization on Migration/U.S. Resettlement Support Great River Interfaith Partner/Minnesota Center Greater Boston Legal Services - Immigration Unit International Service for Human Rights Green Empowerment/Asofenix International Women’s Rights Action Watch (IWRAW) Haitian Center for Human Rights Iran Human Rights Documentation Center Hands Across the World Iranian American Council Helsinki Citizens Assembly Irish Council for Civil Liberties Helsinki Committee for Human Rights for the Republic of Macedonia Islamic Law and Human Rights Program Hennepin County Domestic Abuse Service Center John Perkins Foundation for Reconciliation High Range Plantation Workers Development Society JUST Equity Hogar de Cristo Justice Resource Institute,
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