Educate Yourself about HIV/AIDS and Human Trafficking
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Droits Humains Sans Frontières - Human Rights Without Frontiers
http://www.dhsfront.populus.ch/History
Executives from the Universities of Kinshasa, Mbuji Mayi and Lubumashi; local communities; women; lawyers and magistrates and other social operators created Human Rights Without Frontiers in 1999.
Mission
Objectives include the defense and promotion of human rights, democracy and good governance, peace and peaceful conflict resolution, education, social development and health education. Its mission is the advocacy of democracy, the rule of law, social justice and human rights.
Vision
A DRC that respects and protects the human rights of its citizens and the protection of democratic values and good governance
- Contact Information:
- Avenue Bypass, N0 64/78, Galerie TBB, Loc.11, Camp Riche, cfr: Alliance Franco Congolaise de Lemba, C/Lemba
- Kinshasa, Kinshasa
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Active In: Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Forms of Abolition:
- Awareness, Aftercare, Empowerment
- Forms of Slavery:
- Forced Labor
- Tel: +243 (0) 1 516-9318
- Email: dhsfront@yahoo.fr
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