The South Caucasus Network of Human Rights Defender s’ links 30 watch-dog human rights NGOs in the South Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) and provides assistance to those human rights defenders who face challenges in their work. There is one organization in each country, with Georgian side coordinating activities and Armenian and Azeri partners facilitating the project implementation. Following organizations are assigned for the countries: Armenia - Armenian Helsinki Association; Azerbaijan - Institute for Reporters Freedom and Safety; Georgia - Human Rights Centre. Norwegian partner – Human Rights House Foundation – is assisting with the facilitation of the implementation of the project together with the coordinating organizations.
80% of the project is funded by the European Commission. The rest is contributions from the coordinating organization and network members.
The network members benefit from being a member in many ways, including the following:

** The network members receive extensive trainings from the leading experts on the topics like personal and work related security, networking skills, universal and regional mechanisms for the protection of human rights, monitoring and documentation of the human rights violation, etc.
** The network members meet every six month to discuss human rights situation and situation with respect of human rights defenders in each country. They have chance to identify and prioritize human rights related problems, generate concrete ideas and engage in a new cross border initiatives. Periodic meetings give a chance to the network members to stay updated with respect of human rights situation in the region. 
** The members are engaged in various public awareness activities that are carried out during the project implementation. Public awareness campaign gives opportunity to the network members to publicize their services and attract attention of target groups as well as general public.
** Being a network member means to be well informed, updated and relevant in action.
** Network members as well as other human rights defenders can benefit from various services that are envisaged for the assistance of the persecuted human rights defenders. This includes assisting with sheltering of persecuted human rights defenders, providing them with legal psychological and medical assistance
The network is for non-governmental organizations, registered in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Individuals are not eligible for membership.

What are the criteria for being the network member? - The partner organizations are human rights organizations involved in a range of activities covering civil and political rights.
What is expected from network members? - Organizations by accepting network membership agreed to regularly share and distribute information through the national coordinator of the project.

Contact Persons:
Armenia: Mikael Danielyan  This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Azerbaijan: Emin Huseynov This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
Georgia: Simon Papuashvili   This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it