Amnesty International
A worldwide voluntary movement defending human rights. This organization raises awareness, organizes public events and advocates for victims of injustice. Amnesty International stands up for political prisoners and other unjustly persecuted people, fights against torture, the death penalty and violence against women. It also defends the rights of LGBTIQ+ people.
🌐 www.amnesty.cz
Sdružení pro integraci a migraci/Association for Integration and Migration (SIMI)
SIMI has been defending the rights and interests of refugees and migrants since 1992. It offers social, labor, and legal counselling to refugees and migrants living in the Czech Republic. SIMI helps in the areas of housing, health care, education, paperwork, work permits, Czech language, free internet, and training in practical skills. In addition, SIMI also works with the public and specializes in support to victims of gender-based violence and labor exploitation.
🌐 www.migrace.com
InBaze
InBaze provides legal, social, and psychological counselling and individual assistance through community activities, Czech language courses or leisure time activities for children and youth. In addition to targeted assistance to migrants and refugees, it creates an open and safe space for people of different cultures to get to know each other. InBaze can also help with interpretation and translation and accompany you for the meetings with the state administration officers or when seeking the medical care.
🌐 www.inbaze.cz
Fórum pro lidská práva/Forum for Human Rights
It focuses on international human rights litigation and advocacy, including in the areas of asylum, immigration, and detention.
🌐 www.forumhr.eu
La Strada
La Strada helps all who have become or may become victims of the crime of human trafficking and exploitation. La Strada offers them specific options on how to deal with an unfavourable situation and how to protect themselves and their families. La Strada works in solving the issue of human trafficking and gender-motivated violence through providing field social services and counselling, intervention, and safe accommodation. It also operates an emergency help line.
🌐 www.strada.cz
Organizace pro pomoc uprchlíkům/Organization for Aid to Refugees (OPU)
OPU provides social, psychological, and legal counselling to asylum-seekers. It operates field programs and a halfway house for young people and helps unaccompanied minors as well as stateless persons. OPU also coordinates UNHCR volunteer programme iVolunteer matching refugees with local volunteers. OPU has offices in Prague, Brno, Pilsen, Hradec Kralove and Ostrava.
🌐 www.opu.cz
