Our work is based on responses to locally and regionally voiced concerns.  We work in partnership with survivors of human rights violations and their defenders, and aims to link our local and regional programmes with international advocacy initiatives. 

Where possible, we encourage strategic networking and issue-based alliances.  Joint activities frequently include the sharing of information and advice in litigation, the provision of training, human rights monitoring through trial observations and fact-finding missions, and preparation of joint reports which are circulated among national and international policy makers.

In 2009 KHRP worked in partnership with:

Armenia:
Armenian Bar Association
Forum Law Centre

Azerbaijan:
Azerbaijan National Committee of the Helsinki Citizen’s Association (HCA)
Center for Civic Initiatives

Iraq:
Civil Development Organisation (CDO)
Harikar
Kurdish Youth Empowerment Organisation
Union of Kurdistan Writers, Dohuk
University of Kurdistan, Hewler
Halwest Group

Turkey:
Ankara, Batman, Diyarbakir, Şirnak and Van Bar Associations
Çağdaş Gazeteciler Derneği (Contemporary Journalists Association)
SELİS Kadın Danışmanlık Merkezi (Women’s Consultation Centre)
Contemporary Lawyers Association
Diyar Göç-Der (Association for Internally Displaced People)
İnsan Hakları Derneği (Human Rights Association, İHD)
Toplum ve Hukuk Araştırmaları Vakfı (The Foundation for Society and Legal Studies, TOHAV)
Van Kadın Derneği (Van Women’s Association, VAKAD)

Non-regional partners:
Advocates for International Development (A4ID)
Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC)
Centre for Civic Initiatives (CCI)
The Corner House
EU-Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC)
Platform
Rafto Foundation for Human Rights and Centre for Applied Human Rights, York University

Work with organisations in an unofficial capacity:
Hasankeyfi Yaşatma Girişimi (The Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive)
Human Rights Centre in Azerbaijan
Initiative for Freedom of Expression, Turkey
Human Rights Watch
Kurdish Women’s Project
Kurdish Pen
Liberation
insan Hakları ve Mazlumlar İçin Dayanışma Derneği (Organisation of Human Rights and Solidarity for the Oppressed People in Turkey, Mazlum-Der), Ankara
Women’s Rights Organisation Against Discrimination (AKDER), Turkey