Raising Awareness of Contemporary Genocidal Atrocities
"Auschwitz teaches us that we cannot remain indifferent,
that we cannot look the other way when atrocities take
place, that we must always be ready to speak out against
evil no matter where it takes place — and no matter who the
victims are."
– Miles Lerman, Chairperson, United States
Holocaust Memorial Council (1995)
Conflict situations that have resulted in genocide, crimes
against humanity, and war crimes are marked by the drowning
out of victims' voices during resolution and post-conflict
restructuring. It is the goal of Survivors' Rights
International, Inc. (SRI) to ensure that the needs of
victims of grave atrocities are effectively met. SRI further
aims to secure the full acknowledgement of victims' voices
during the commission of such atrocities, conflict
resolution and restructuring processes. SRI strives to fill
the gap between policy and victims' interests through
educating the public on the issues and instances of
contemporary acts of genocide, crimes against humanity, and
war crimes.
Additionally, SRI actively promotes the immediate exposure
of grave atrocities so as to raise the public consciousness
in effort to expedite public demand for conflict resolution
and the halting of ongoing atrocities. SRI supports the
continued development of greater justice and accountability
of perpetrators of genocide, crimes against humanity, and
war crimes, aims to educate the public on the need and
importance of such accountability to survivors during
resolution and in post-conflict societies, and the effective
protection of witnesses to such crimes.
SRI is a member of the International Campaign to End Genocide (ICEG). Please
visit ICEG's website (hosted on Genocide Watch's website by Greg Stanton, ICEG's
Director) to view our mission statement and list of member organizations at
http://www.genocidewatch.org/internationalcampaign.htm.
International Campaign to End Genocide Member Organizations
The Aegis Trust –
Genocide Prevention Initiative
(Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom)
CALDH – centro de acción
legal para los derechos humanos
(Guatemala City, Guatemala)
Committee for an Effective
International Criminal Law
(Konstanz, Germany)
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship – Global Missions
(Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
Genocide Studies Program –
Yale University
(New Haven, Connecticut, USA)
Genocide Watch
(Washington, D.C., USA; Capetown, South Africa)
INDICT
(Baghdad, Iraq)
INFORCE
(Bournemouth, UK)
The Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide
(Jerusalem, Israel)
International Alert
(London, United Kingdom)
The International Crisis Group
(Brussels, Belgium; New York, Washington, DC, USA; London, United Kingdom; Moscow, Russia)
The Leo Kuper Foundation
(London, United Kingdom)
Minority Rights Group International
(London, United Kingdom)
Never Again
(London, United Kingdom; Kigali, Rwanda; Canada; U.S.A.)
Physicians for Human Rights (UK)
(Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom)
The Plowshares Institute
(Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.A., Capetown, South Africa)
Prevent Genocide International
(Arlington, VA, USA)
Prévention Génocides
(Brussels, Belgium)
The Remembering Rwanda Trust
(Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Survival International
(London, UK; Milan, Italy; Madrid, Spain; Paris, France)
Survivors' Rights International
(Annapolis, Maryland, USA)
TRIAL
(Geneva, Switzerland)
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