Chameria Human Rights Association

The Chameria Human Rights Association is an Albanian-American advocacy organization based in Washington, DC. Known in Albanian as Shoqëria për të drejtat e Njeriut, Çamëria, it works on behalf of Cham Albanians — the community with roots in the Chameria region of northwestern Greece, in and around Thesprotia.

The association's stated mission centers on the right of return for Cham Albanians to their homes in Greece and on the recovery of properties that were confiscated or lost. It frames these claims under the Greek Constitution, European Union treaties, and international conventions to which Greece is a party, and it advocates more broadly for the legal and minority rights of the Cham community.

Alongside that human rights work, the group takes on a cultural role: preserving and promoting Cham history, language, and traditions for a community whose story is often left out of mainstream accounts of the Balkans. That combination — legal advocacy paired with cultural memory — puts it among the Albanian-American organizations focused on historical justice for a specific diaspora population.

From its Washington base, the association operates in the orbit of US policy and lobbying, carrying Cham claims into a city where Balkan questions are debated at embassies, on Capitol Hill, and within human rights circles.