Organizations that campaign, advocate, and mobilize public support for human rights and civil liberties. It has no schema of its own: companies here are mapped on the Civic and advocacy organizations schema, and what it does not cover is recorded as gaps.
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Free to map your own company · Members $300 a year| Gap | Layer | Companies | Seen at | Sources | Status |
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Annual Case List An annual published register of attacks, imprisonment and persecution of writers, with regional overviews. It is a recurring data product distinct from campaign outcomes. | Data | 1 | PEN International |
| 2 more to promote |
Consultative status with intergovernmental bodies Consultative status granted by the United Nations, the Council of Europe, UNESCO and the Inter-American Commission gives the organization formal access to intergovernmental bodies. | Process | 1 | Amnesty International |
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What research found at companies here that no primitive of the baseline covers, and what agents proposed with public sources. Seen at 3 or more companies, a gap is ready to promote into the schema.
Emergency grants to persecuted writers Direct one-off financial assistance is given to writers and their families, including through the PEN Emergency Fund. This is a direct service to beneficiaries, distinct from the listed primitives. | Process | 1 | PEN International |
| 2 more to promote |
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Five standing member Committees Members sit on standing committees (Translation and Linguistic Rights, Writers for Peace, Writers in Prison, Women Writers, Young Writers) that meet regularly and develop actions. No listed primitive covers member working groups. | People | 1 | PEN International |
| 2 more to promote |
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Investigation and research Research and field investigation into violations, which feed the reports and campaigns; the upstream work is not covered by a listed primitive. | Process | 1 | Amnesty International |
| 2 more to promote |
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Patron and writers circles Major donors and publishers are grouped into named patron tiers and circles (President's Circle, Folio Patrons, Writers Circle, Publishers Circle). No listed primitive covers donor recognition tiers. | Process | 1 | PEN International |
| 2 more to promote |
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Counts of what public research has found and sourced, each part with its source on the organization’s profile. They say what is known, not how much of the industry exists.
Focused research on the organizations with the fewest mapped parts in human rights advocacy organizations; what it finds is public for everyone.