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International Institute for Humanitarian and Environmental Law
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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
Economic and Social
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Human Rights
Geographic scope:
International
Country of activity:
Nigeria
Mission statement:
ISHERL is an international non-governmental, educational, research and advocacy organization of a global status, which pursues the purposes of the United Nations, and undertakes multi-sector and specialist team activities, including review and formulation of strategic assistance,representative,analytical and advisory services and cross-support to other sectors in the design,monitoring,campaign and implementation of high-level programmes relating to environment, human rights, environmental law,education,humanitarian law, conflict resolution, sustainable development, and development across themes. It increasingly identifies, analyzes and proposes practical solutions to a broad range of legal, technical, operational and multi-dimensional issues affecting humanity, governance, policy, and its functions related projects. This includes, initiating and contributing in high-level discussions on policy reform and developmental programmes as well as consultancy services in such areas. The functions of ISHERL are very diverse and represent a spectrum of approaches from the level of creative visions, reform advocacy and creative problem-solving through training and education programmes down to legal development and actual implementation of programmes. Appropriately, the institute can be regarded as a ¿corporate conglomerate¿. This global institution focuses on strengthening of international and national training and evaluation programmes and to design, document, disseminate and promote positive incentives and models for development that can be adopted and replicated throughout developed and least-developed countries, as well as United Nations systems. Its activism and programmes are guided by all relevant Human Rights instruments, relevant instruments of Environmental Law, the Declaration on the Right to Development, the innovative mechanism of Sustainable Development and the fundamental principles of Humanitarian Law; and dedicated to the protection of environment, human and peoples rights, and the promotion of humanitarian law, environmental law, conflict resolution, sustainable development, intellectual development, cultural understanding, management and policy dialogue assimilation; through research, crusade, advocacy, monitoring, education, publication, reporting, workshop, consultancy and other lawful means or projects.
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