Supporting organisations Groups working on civil liberties across Europe have been invited to support the ECLN and contribute material to ecln.org. The groups will be listed here as they sign-up. A small number of groups from outside Europe have been invited to support the network as observers. The groups confirmed as supporters so far are: Access Info Europe (Working on freedom of information issues and campaigns across Europe, based in Madirid) Access to Information Programme (Sofia, launched in 1996 by journalists, lawyers and academics working on human rights issues) Action on Rights for Children (ARCH) (UK) American Civil Liberties Union [Observer] (United States) Asociación Pro Derechos Humanos de Andalucía (Andalucian Human Rights Association, Spain) Associacao contra a Exclusao pelo desenvolvimiento (AECD) (Observatory on prisons and civil rights, Portugal) Association européenne pour la défense des droits de l'homme (AEDH) (European Association for the protection of Human Rights (EAHR), Brussels) Associazione di Studi Giuridici sull'Immigrazione (Association of immigration law studies, Italy) Associazione per la Libertà nella Comunicazione Elettronica Interattiva (ALCEI) (Electronic frontiers, Italy) Autistici/Inventati (privacy and civil liberties organisation, Italy) Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation (Launched in 1963, the Foundation was established to carry forward Russell's work for peace, human rights and social justice) Bürgerrechte & Polizei/CILIP (covers civil liberties and policing and is based at the Free University of Berlin, founded in 1975) Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) (UK group campaigning against laws based on a pretext of counter-terrorism) Equipo Nizkor (international human rights organisation) Esculca (observatory on civil rights and liberties based in Galicia, Spain) European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights (EALDH) (a democratic confederation of diverse national associations of democratic lawyers) European Race Audit (part of the Institute of Race Relations, based in London, founded in 1956) Federation of Green Youth and Students (Finland) Greek Helsinki Monitor (founded in 1993, works on human and minority rights in Greece andthe Balkans) Hellenic League for Human Rights (founded in 1953, Greece) Humanistische Union (founded in 1961, Germany's oldest civil liberties organisation) Hungarian Civil Liberties Union (The HCLU is a law reform and legal defense organization created in 1994) International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group [Observer] (Ottawa, Canada) Journalists Committee (Malta) (Comprised of working journalists, editors, freelance writers, and opinion makers who share the democratic ideals of the free press) Komitee für Grundrechte und Demokratie (Committee for fundamental rights and democracy, Germany) Komitee gegen Schnueffelstaat (works on democracy and civil liberties, based in Bern, Switzerland) MeltingPot Project (immigration news, campaigns and research, Italy) Mugak (covering immigration, racism and xenophobia, based in the Basque country in Spain) Newham Monitoring Project (Community based organisation in East London that has been fighting racial harassment and civil injustice for 25 years) Opus Gay (lesbian and gay rights organisation, Lisbon, Portugal) Papillon (cultural organisation and news service run for and by prisoners, Italy) Pat Finucane Centre (for human rights and social change in the North of Ireland) Privacy International (PI is a human rights group formed in 1990 as a watchdog on surveillance and privacy invasions by governments and corporations) Radio Nizkor (human rights radio, Spain) Republikanischer Abwältinnen- Und Anwälteverein (RAV) (Republican Lawyers Association, Germany) Statewatch (based in London, founded in 1990) Supporto Legale (legal advice and monitoring of the trials arising from the G8 demonstrations in 2001, Genova, Italy) Taller de Criptografía de Arturo Quirantes Sierra (Cyber-rights, secure communications, cryptography workshop and campaigns, based in Spain) UNITED for Intercultural Action European Network against Nationalism, Racism, Fascism and in support of Migrants and Refugees UKwatch (Based on the model of Z Net (the highly successful US-based activist resource), the site aims to provide the same breadth of information and sense of community, while also being dedicated to achieving social change) VD AMOK (an anti-militarist and conscientious objectors organization that works closely together with the peace movement) If you would like to support the ECLN - by either becoming a supporting organisation (groups) or supporting the ECLN's call for civil liberties and democratic standards in Europe - see join us.