SERPAJ Uruguay

What SERPAJ Uruguay does

SERPAJ Uruguay (legal name: Servicio Paz y Justicia) is a Montevideo-based non-governmental organization founded in 1981 during Uruguay's civic-military dictatorship and dedicated to human rights education, promotion, and defense. The organization operates as part of the continental SERPAJ-América Latina (SERPAJ-AL) network, which holds consultative status before the United Nations ECOSOC and UNESCO and is presided over by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel. Headquartered at Joaquín Requena 1642, Montevideo, SERPAJ Uruguay serves Uruguayan citizens, civil society organizations, government institutions, and academic bodies, with a small team of approximately 7 staff.

The organization's core offerings are institutional and advocacy-oriented rather than technological. They include (1) annual human rights reports titled 'Derechos Humanos en el Uruguay' published continuously since 2004, with the 2023 edition presented at Teatro Solís; (2) a web-based Police Violence Reporting Form designed to register and systematize situations of police violence under confidentiality and anonymity; (3) the BESTIARIO podcast series exploring societal fears through a human rights lens; (4) monitoring visits to adolescent detention centers (CIAM, CMC, MD1, Pre-Egreso) under the OMCT project to prevent torture and inhuman treatment; and (5) alternative reports submitted to UN Human Rights Committee and Committee Against Torture in coalition with other civil society organizations. Work is organized across five thematic areas: deprivation of liberty, security and human rights, recent history (dictatorship-era documentation), human rights education, and mental health rights.

SERPAJ Uruguay does not generate revenue through commercial product or service sales. Its operations are funded by grants and contributions from a broad base of international organizations, foreign government cooperation funds, political foundations, and civil society organizations — including the European Union delegation, UNDP Uruguay, Diakonia (Sweden), Pan para el Mundo (Germany), Friedrich Ebert Foundation, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Muste Memorial Institute, Tides Foundation, the UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture, and the British, Canadian, and Swiss embassy cooperation funds. The organization publishes a transparency page listing these supporters. Revenue figures are not publicly disclosed.

Name

SERPAJ Uruguay

Legal name

Servicio Paz y Justicia (SERPAJ Uruguay)

Website

https://serpaj.org.uy

Company type

Private

Founded year

1981

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

SERPAJ Uruguay (Servicio Paz y Justicia) is a Montevideo-based human rights NGO founded in 1981 that publishes annual human rights reports, operates an anonymous police violence reporting form, runs the BESTIARIO podcast, and submits advocacy reports to UN treaty bodies, funded by international grants.

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Headquarters

HQ city

Montevideo

HQ country

Uruguay

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

SERPAJ Uruguay is a privately funded non-governmental organization that monitors the human rights situation in Uruguay, publishes annual human rights reports, operates a public police-violence reporting form, produces awareness content such as the BESTIARIO podcast, and submits alternative reports to United Nations human rights treaty bodies. It also delivers human rights education, training, and public commemorations such as Día de los Derechos Humanos.

Product overview

SERPAJ Uruguay (Servicio Paz y Justicia) is a human rights NGO founded in 1981, not a technology company. Its primary offerings consist of human rights monitoring services, annual publications documenting the state of human rights in Uruguay, a police violence reporting form, a podcast series called BESTIARIO, and advocacy work before UN committees through alternative reports. The organization focuses on five core areas: deprivation of liberty (prison system monitoring), security and human rights, recent history (dictatorship period documentation), human rights education, and mental health.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Annual Human Rights Reports (Informes sobre Derechos Humanos)

Quantifiable outcome

• Annual human rights reports covering multiple thematic areas (2011-2023)
• +1 more outcomes

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Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• SERPAJ-AL (SERPAJ América Latina)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1981SERPAJ-Uruguay is integrated into the continental SERPAJ-Latin America network. The regional network holds consultative status before the UN ECOSOC and UNESCO. The network is presided over by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.
• UNESCOcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe SERPAJ-AL network has consultive status with UNESCO, the UN agency for Education, Science and Culture.
• ECOSOC (Economic and Social Council of the United Nations)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe SERPAJ-AL network holds consultive status before ECOSOC.
• Organización Mundial Contra la Tortura (OMCT)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerInternational organization implementing monitoring projects on adolescent detention centers with SERPAJ as local partner.
• Coalition with civil society organizationscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoalition work with Ovejas Negras, MYSU, Memoria en Libertad, CaInfo, Madres y Familiares de desaparecidos during UN Human Rights Committee reviews.
• Frente AntimanicomialcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoalition partner for mental health reform monitoring and advocacy.

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Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Market position

Competitive moat4 records

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