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Violence and the threat of violence prevents ordinary people from exercising their full range of human rights. In many countries around the world, there is widespread impunity for torture, arbitrary executions, and other grave violations. Human rights and international humanitarian law violations are frequently committed or facilitated by state officials using specialist law enforcement and security weapons, equipment, and techniques. At the same time, key stakeholders lack sufficient information about these tools and their impact on people's rights. Without more information, oversight will continue to be insufficient, accountability unobtainable, and the trade in these weapons and equipment will remain largely unregulated. In response, the Omega Research Foundation investigates and exposes the global manufacture, trade, procurement, testing, and use of law enforcement and security weapons, equipment, and techniques, as well as related human rights and international humanitarian law violations. We provide expert analysis and policy proposals to strengthen national, regional, and international controls and share our specialist knowledge with key stakeholders, including through training, briefings, capacity building, and technical assistance. Omega's work empowers a wide range of actors with the knowledge needed to provide effective oversight and advocate for change. We work with international and regional institutions, state institutions and political figures, NGOs and human rights monitors, journalists, judges and other legal professionals, private entities, unions, and law enforcement agencies. In doing so, Omega helps to ensure that controls related to the manufacture, trade, procurement, testing, and use of weapons, equipment, and techniques are human rights-compliant; that these controls are effectively implemented and monitored; and that those who perpetrate violations are held to account. Omega's work contributes to four of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals - SDGs 3 (Good Health and Well-Being), 5 (Gender Equality), 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions), and 17 (Partnerships for the Goals).

We work responsibly and effectively to harness the power of innovation and technology to save lives, alleviate suffering and empower communities to live the kind of life they value.

1.- To support each community in the effort to create and develop its community museum, to strengthen our awareness of our past, its impact on the present, and the possibilities for building a future based on the values of our ancestors. 2.- To unify our communities, sharing our concerns and supporting each other by developing networks at a state, national and international level. 3.- To strengthen community action in education, training, and the recreation of collective memory and practices, through projects that benefit all participating communities.

Laboratorio de Conservacion Colombia foundation leads and supports biodiversity conservation actions using and generating high quality scientific information, working together with communities, companies and the public sector with the goal of preserving the country's biological heritage and promoting its sustainable development.

Restaurando las familias Foundation is a non-profit institution that works with other actors (public or private) to contribute to the integral development of children, youth and the family in general, based on the promotion, recognition and defense of their rights. In this way, it is sought that they can achieve an optimal bio-psychosocial spiritual development, which allows them to improve their quality of life.

The purposes of THE FOUNDATION are of charity, common interest or public service and improvement of the quality of life, common welfare or social interest for educational, technological, cultural, recreational and social service to all those people and their families, who have built Colombia, among these, master builders, officers, construction workers, electricians, plumbers, carpenters and all those who are involved in the construction of infrastructure works to a greater or lesser extent.

Fundacion Corazonistas is the tool of the Institute of Brothers of the Sacred Heart in the Province of Spain for the promotion and participation of lay Corazonistas through social commitment. In 2021, Fundacion Corazonistas is the reference space for lay Corazonistas in educational works in Spain to get socially involved in building a more just world. Thus, it contributes to the development of committed personal and community vocations in Spain and to the development of projects of heart solidarity with impoverished people and peoples throughout the world.

To create social transformation through offering high-quality educational programs in the areas of bilingualism, culture and the arts to underserved communities in Cali Colombia that will empower children and youth to thrive, becoming competitive and bridging the gap of inequality.

The Universidad del Norte Foundation, in accordance with the principles, values and objectives that have guided it since its creation, has as its mission the integral formation of the person in the field of higher education, and the contribution, through its institutional presence in the community, the harmonious development of society and the country, especially the Colombian Caribbean Region. The Foundation carries out this university work both in the undergraduate modality and in advanced training, its work being characterized by a broad social and humanistic content, and by the emphasis on scientific and investigative foundation to respond to the requirements of the progress of science and the social needs of the region and the country. The Institution seeks to train its students as thinking, analytical people with solid ethical principles, who conceive innovative ideas so that they participate in an active, entrepreneurial, responsible, honest, critical and pragmatic way in the process of social, economic and political development. and culture of the community. The University tends because the training it provides is carried out with suitable, qualified teachers with a deep academic vocation. To support them in this task, it is determined to have the most appropriate and advanced teaching, research and extension methods in contemporary higher education. In this sense, science, technology, humanities and the arts will continue to be the distinctive institutional axes for student training. Present in the life of the community through the exercise of its academic functions (teaching, research, extension and services to the external sector), the Universidad del Norte ensures that its directors, professors, students and alumni remain in permanent study, analysis and research of the concrete problems of the community in which they find themselves. Our institution is committed from its origins, in the present and into the future, with all dimensions of social, economic, political, environmental and cultural development, with social responsibility, staying in its proper place of insertion in society, which is the academic.

We stive to provide comprehensive care in a residential setting for children and adolescents between ages 10 and 18 who are experiencing conditions of vulnerability and have been placed under State protection to acheive the restoration of their rights. Our compassionate, multidisciplinary team approaches our educational, psychological, extracurricular, and social services with a personalized and experiential pedagogy that integrates both values and life skills, with the goal of fostering a responsible and autonomous relationship with both family and society at large.

The Antonio Restrepo Barco Foundation, known as Barco Foundation (Fundacion Barco) is a non-governmental organization with more than 50 years of experience to promote the social development. The Foundation has focused its action on making children and adolescents fall in love with their learning processes; the mission of the Foundation is aimed at promoting the development of sustainable, adaptable and measurable educational models to improve learning in girls, boys, adolescents and youth, through alliances, advocacy in public policy and knowledge management, favoring Colombian rurality. This taking into account that a quality education and relevant to individual and territorial characteristics helps to reduce economic and social inequalities, favoring the construction of peace. The Foundation has had a presence in more than 25 departments of the country, the majority with high impact of the armed conflict and vulnerable communities with actions around school permanence and quality education. These actions have been developed by own resources and in partnership with the Colombian public sector, the business sector, academia, other social organizations, and international cooperation.

Fostering and developing sustainable projects and initiatives for the conservation of biodiversity and natural resources in Mexico and Latin America.