:''The list is incomplete; please add known articles or create missing ones'' The following is a list of articles on the human rights organisations of the world. It does not include political parties, or academic institutions. The list includes both secular and religious organizations.

International non-governmental organizations

Amazon Watch Amazon Watch is a nonprofit organization founded in 1996, and based in Oakland, California, it works to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. It partners with indigenous and environmental organ ...

Amnesty International Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and sup ...

Anti-Slavery International Anti-Slavery International, founded as the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society in 1839, is an international non-governmental organisation, registered charity and advocacy group, based in the United Kingdom. It is the world's oldest interna ...

* Article 19 *

Avocats Sans Frontières Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF), also known as Advocaten Zonder Grenzen or Lawyers without Borders, is an international NGO, active in the human rights and development sector. Created in 1992 by a group of Belgian lawyers, ASF’s main objective i ...

* Breakthrough * CARE *

Carter Center The Carter Center is a nongovernmental, not-for-profit organization founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. He and his wife Rosalynn Carter partnered with Emory University just after his defeat in the 1980 United States presidenti ...

* CCJO René Cassin *

Center for Economic and Social Rights The Center for Economic and Social RightsCESR is an international human rights NGO that aims to transform the dominant global economic system into one based on human rights standards that provides dignity for all people and protects the planet. ...

Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law The Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law (AUWCL) was founded in 1990 as a way to coordinate all the human rights and humanitarian law activities at AUWCL. The Center’s objective is “to wor ...

Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) was a Geneva-based international non-governmental organisation founded in 1994 by Scott Leckie as a foundation in the Netherlands (Stichting COHRE). Offices At its height in 2008, COHRE maintain ...

(COHRE) *

Civil Rights Defenders Civil Rights Defenders (Formerly the Swedish Helsinki Committee) is an international non-governmental organisation based in Stockholm, Sweden that does human rights work with a focus on civil and political rights. They primarily work to support ...

Coalition for the International Criminal Court The Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) is an international network of NGOs, with a membership of over 2,500 organizations worldwide advocating for a fair, effective and independent International Criminal Court (ICC). Coalition NG ...

Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) is an independent, non-partisan and nonprofit international non-governmental organisation which works towards the practical realisation of human rights in the countries of the Commonwealth. CH ...

* CryptoRights Foundation *

Cultural Survival Cultural Survival (founded 1972) is a nonprofit group based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, which is dedicated to defending the human rights of indigenous peoples. History Cultural Survival was founded by anthropologist David Maybur ...

* Disabled Peoples' International *

Enough Project The Enough Project is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization that was founded in 2007. Its stated mission is to end genocide and crimes against humanity. The Enough Project conducts research in several conflict areas in Africa includi ...

Equality Now Equality Now is a non-governmental organization founded in 1992 to advocate for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women and girls. Through a combination of regional partnerships, community mobilization and legal advocacy the or ...

Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (commonly known as Euro-Med Monitor and sometimes as Euro-Med HRM) is an independent, nonprofit organization for the protection of human rights. Its main objective is to raise awareness about human rights ...

Every Human Has Rights The Elders is an international non-governmental organisation of public figures noted as senior statesmen, peace activists and human rights advocates, who were brought together by Nelson Mandela in 2007. They describe themselves as "independen ...

Forum 18 Forum 18 is a Norwegian human rights organization that promotes religious freedom. The organization's name is based on Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Forum 18 summarizes the article as: *The right to believe, to worship a ...

* Fourth Estate *

Free the Slaves Free the Slaves is an international non-governmental organization and lobby group, established to campaign against the modern practice of slavery around the world. It was formed as the sister organization of Anti-Slavery International but has si ...

Freedom from Torture Freedom from Torture (previously known as The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture) is a British registered charity which provides therapeutic care for survivors of torture who seek protection in the UK. Since it was established ...

Freedom House Freedom House is a non-profit, majority U.S. government funded organization in Washington, D.C., that conducts research and advocacy on democracy, political freedom, and human rights. Freedom House was founded in October 1941, and Wendell Wil ...

* Friends of Peoples Close to Nature * Front Line Defenders * Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect * Global Rights *

Gypsy International Recognition and Compensation Action The Gypsy International Recognition and Compensation Action is a human rights organization seeking justice on behalf of the Romani people (Gypsies) for the crimes of the Porajmos. In 2002, it filed suit against IBM for IBM's involvement with Nazi ...

Habitat International Coalition Habitat International Coalition (HIC) is an independent, nonprofit alliance with hundreds of organizations and individuals, which has been working in housing and human settlements for more than 30 years. The Coalition comprises social movement ...

Helsinki Committee for Human Rights The Helsinki Committees for Human Rights exist in many European countries (the OSCE region) as volunteer, non-profit organizations devoted to human rights and presumably named after the Helsinki Accords. Formerly organized into the International ...

Helsinki Watch Helsinki Watch was a private American non-governmental organization established by Robert L. Bernstein in 1978, designed to monitor the former Soviet Union's compliance with the 1975 Helsinki Accords. Expanding in size and scope, Helsinki Watch b ...

Hindu American Foundation The Hindu American Foundation ( ) is an American Hindu advocacy group founded in 2003. The organisation has its roots in the Hindu nationalist organisation Vishwa Hindu Parishad America and its student wing Hindu Students Council. Scholars ar ...

Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation The Hirschfeld-Eddy Foundation (Hirschfeld-Eddy-Stiftung) was founded in Berlin in June 2007. It is a foundation focused on human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. Name origin The Foundation's name remembers two per ...

* Humanists International *

Human Life International Human Life International (HLI) is a Roman Catholic, U.S.-based anti-abortion organization. It is one of the largest anti-abortion organizations in the United States. It describes itself as "the largest international pro-life organization in the w ...

Human Rights First Human Rights First (formerly known as the Lawyers Committee for International Human Rights) is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3), international human rights organization based in New York City and Washington, D.C. In 2004, Human Rights First started its " ...

Human Rights Foundation The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is a non-profit organization that focuses on promoting and protecting human rights globally, with an emphasis on closed societies. HRF organizes the Oslo Freedom Forum. The Human Rights Foundation was founded in ...

Human Rights Internet Human Rights Internet (HRI) is a non-governmental organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, supporting the exchange of information within the worldwide human rights community. It was co-founded by the political scientist Laurie S. Wiseber ...

Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization, headquartered in New York City, that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. The group pressures governments, policy makers, companies, and individual human r ...

HURIDOCS HURIDOCS (Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems) is a non-governmental organization that supports human rights groups to mobilise information for justice and accountability. Established in 1982, HURIDOCS develops strategies and tools ...

* IFEX * Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission
International Human Rights Administration (IHRA)International Human Rights Association (IHRA)
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Institute for War and Peace Reporting The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) is an independent nonprofit organization that claims to train and provide publishing opportunities for professional and citizen journalists. History IWPR was founded in 1991 under the name Yugofax. ...

Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense The Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (Spanish: ''Asociacion Interamericana para la Defensa del Ambiente'') (AIDA) is a non-profit international environmental law organization founded in 1996 by a collaboration of five environ ...

International Alliance of Women The International Alliance of Women (IAW; french: Alliance Internationale des Femmes, AIF) is an international non-governmental organization that works to promote women's rights and gender equality. It was historically the main international org ...

International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists (IJL) strives to advance human rights everywhere, including the prevention of war crimes, the punishment of war criminals, the prohibition of weapons of mass destruction, and internat ...

International Center for Transitional Justice The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) was founded in 2001 as a non-profit organization dedicated to pursuing accountability for mass atrocity and human rights abuse through transitional justice mechanisms. ICTJ officially ope ...

International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development The International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (Rights & Democracy), was created to be a non-partisan, independent Canadian institution. It was established by an act of the Canadian parliament in 1988 to "encourage and suppor ...

International Centre for Human Rights Research {{Unreferenced, date=May 2015 The International Centre for Human Rights Research or CIIDH (Spanish: "Centro Internacional para Investigaciones en Derechos Humanos") is a Guatemalan non-governmental organization. The organization was founded in 1 ...

International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances The International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances (ICAED) gathers organizations of families of disappeared and human rights NGOs working in a nonviolent manner against the practice of enforced disappearances at the local, national and int ...

* International Commission of Jurists *

International Committee of the Red Cross The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC; french: Comité international de la Croix-Rouge) is a humanitarian organization which is based in Geneva, Switzerland, and it is also a three-time Nobel Prize Laureate. State parties (signato ...

(private, sovereign organisation) *

International Crisis Group The International Crisis Group (ICG; also known as the Crisis Group) is a transnational non-profit, non-governmental organisation founded in 1995. It is a think tank, used by policymakers and academics, performing research and analysis on global ...

International Disability Alliance The International Disability Alliance (IDA), created in 1999, is an umbrella organization focused on improving awareness and rights for individuals with disabilities around the globe. The IDA works with Non Governmental Organizations (NGO's), sup ...

International Federation for Human Rights The International Federation for Human Rights (french: Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l'homme; FIDH) is a non-governmental federation for human rights organizations. Founded in 1922, FIDH is the third oldest international h ...

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is a worldwide humanitarian aid organization that reaches 160 million people each year through its 192-member National Societies. It acts before, during and after disas ...

International Foundation for Human Rights and Tolerance The International Foundation for Human Rights and Tolerance is a Scientology front group, the stated aim of which is to "provide easy-to-understand human rights education to adults and children so that they are able to grasp what fundamental huma ...

International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) was a self-governing group of non-governmental organizations that acted to protect human rights throughout Europe, North America and Central Asia. A specific primary goal was to monitor ...

(federation of 15 other human rights organizations not included in this list; now bankrupt due to fraud) *

International Institute of Human Rights The International Institute of Human Rights (French: ''Institut international des droits de l'homme,'' IIDH) is an association under French local law based in Strasbourg, France. It includes approximately 300 members (individual and collective) wor ...

International League for Human Rights The International League for Human Rights (ILHR) is a human rights organization with headquarters in New York City. Claiming to be the oldest human rights organization in the United States, the ILHR defines its mission as "defending human right ...

* International Movement ATD Fourth World *

International Partnership for Human Rights International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR) is an international non-governmental human rights organization with its seat in Brussels, Belgium. It was established in the spring of 2008. It is a non-profit organization (NGO, registered with th ...

(IPHR) *

International Property Rights Index Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) is a politically conservative U.S. advocacy group whose stated goal is "a system in which taxes are simpler, flatter, more visible, and lower than they are today." According to ATR, "The government's power to contr ...

* International Progress Organization *

International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million volunteers, members and staff worldwide. It was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, an ...

International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims The International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) is an independent, international health professional organization that promotes and supports the rehabilitation of torture victims and works for the prevention of torture worldwid ...

International Rescue Committee The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development nongovernmental organization. Founded in 1933 as the International Relief Association, at the request of Albert Einstein, and changing its name in 19 ...

International Service for Human Rights The International Service for Human Rights (ISHR) is an independent, non-profit organization with offices in Geneva and New York which promotes and protects human rights by supporting human rights defenders, strengthening human rights standards ...

International Society for Human Rights The International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) is an international non-governmental, non-profit human rights organization with Participative Status with the Council of Europe and is a member of the Liaison Committee of the Non-Governmental Or ...

International Tibet Network The International Tibet Network, established in 2000, is a global coalition of Tibet-related non-governmental organisations campaigning to end the China's occupation and human rights violations in Tibet, and restore rights to the Tibetan people. ...

International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) is an independent and non-profit international human rights-based membership organization, whose central charter is to endorse and promote the collective rights of the world's indigenous ...

Islamic Human Rights Commission The Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) is a non-profit organisation based in London. Its stated mission is to "work with different organisations from Muslim and non-Muslim backgrounds, to campaign for justice for all peoples regardless of ...

JUSTICE Justice, in its broadest sense, is the principle that people receive that which they deserve, with the interpretation of what then constitutes "deserving" being impacted upon by numerous fields, with many differing viewpoints and perspective ...

MindFreedom International MindFreedom International is an international coalition of over one hundred grassroots groups and thousands of individual members from fourteen nations. Based in the United States, it was founded in 1990 to advocate against Involuntary treatment, ...

Minority Rights Group International Minority Rights Group International (MRG) is an international human rights organisation founded with the objective of working to secure rights for ethnic, national, religious, linguistic minorities and indigenous peoples around the world. Thei ...

National Labor Committee in Support of Human and Worker Rights The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, formerly known as the National Labor Committee (until 2011), is a non-profit organization, non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) that investigates human and labor rights abuses committed ...

Network for Education and Academic Rights Network For Education and Academic Rights (NEAR) is a membership-based, non-governmental organisation which works to promote and protect academic freedom and Academic Bill of Rights, academic rights. NEAR facilitates international collaboration be ...

No Peace Without Justice No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ) or Non C'è Pace Senza Giustizia (NPSG) is an Italian non-profit organization, founded in 1993 by Emma Bonino, an Italian politician, former Member of the European Parliament and current Member of the Italian Sena ...

Norwegian Refugee Council The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC, no, Flyktninghjelpen) is a humanitarian, non-governmental organisation that protects the rights of people affected by displacement. This includes refugees and internally displaced persons who are forced to flee ...

Peace Brigades International Peace Brigades International (PBI) is a non-governmental organization founded in 1981 which "protects human rights and promotes non-violent transformation of conflicts". It primarily does this by sending international volunteers to areas of confli ...

People & Planet People & Planet is a network of student campaign groups in the UK. It is "the largest student campaigning organisation in the country campaigning to alleviate world poverty, defend human rights and protect the environment." Organisation Pe ...

Physicians for Human Rights Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) is a US-based not-for-profit human rights NGO that uses medicine and science to document and advocate against mass atrocities and severe human rights violations around the world. PHR headquarters are in New ...

* Point of Peace Foundation *

Protection International Protection International (PI) is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to the protection of human rights defenders (HRDs). Its stated mission is to enhance the security and the protection of "threatened civil society actors with non-v ...

Refugees International Refugees International (RI) is an independent humanitarian organization that advocates for better support for displaced people (including refugees and internally displaced people) and stateless people. It does not accept any United Nations or gove ...

Release International Release International is an international Christian ministry, based in the UK, which seeks to support Christians around the world who are persecuted for their faith. The ministry is active in more than 25 countries, working through local Christian ...

Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders (RWB; french: Reporters sans frontières; RSF) is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization with the stated aim of safeguarding the right to freedom of information. It describes its advocacy as found ...

* Reprieve * Redress Trust *

Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (formerly the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, or RFK Center) is an American 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) nonprofit human rights advocacy organization. It was named after U.S. Senate, Uni ...

Scholars at Risk Scholars at Risk (SAR) is a U.S.-based international network of academic institutions organized to support and defend the principles of academic freedom and to defend the human rights of scholars around the world. Network membership includes over 5 ...

* Scholar Rescue Fund *

Shia Rights Watch Shia Rights Watch (SRW) is an organization that works to defend justice and rights for Shia Muslims around the world. It is the first of its kind, a non-governmental, not for profit, organization that bases research and advocacy from case studies a ...

Society for Threatened Peoples The Society for Threatened Peoples International STPI (german: Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker-International, GfbV-International) is an international NGO and human rights organization with its headquarters in Göttingen, Germany. Its aim is ...

Survival International Survival International is a human rights organisation formed in 1969, a London based charity that campaigns for the rights of indigenous and/or tribal peoples and uncontacted peoples. The organisation's campaigns generally focus on tribal peopl ...

Tahirih Justice Center The Tahirih Justice Center, or Tahirih, is a national charitable non-governmental organization headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, United States that aims to protect immigrant women and girls fleeing gender-based violence and persecution. ...

The Advocacy Project The Advocacy Project (AP) is a non-profit organization that seeks to strengthen community-based human rights advocacy groups. The project was established in June 1998 to report to human rights advocates from the Rome conference that established t ...

The RINJ Foundation The RINJ Foundation (RINJ) is a Canadian incorporated global not-for-profit health care-related non-governmental organization women's group listed with the United Nations as an NGO Boycotts RINJ encourages its members and the public at large to ...

* The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention *

Tostan Tostan (meaning "breakthrough" in Wolof) is a US-registered 501(c)(3) international non-governmental organization headquartered in Dakar, Senegal. The organization's mission is "to empower communities to develop and achieve their vision for the ...

Transparency International Transparency International e.V. (TI) is a German registered association founded in 1993 by former employees of the World Bank. Based in Berlin, its nonprofit and non-governmental purpose is to take action to combat global corruption with civil ...

UN Watch UN Watch is a Geneva-based non-governmental organization whose stated mission is "to monitor the performance of the United Nations by the yardstick of United Nations Charter, its own Charter". It is an accredited NGO in Special Consultative Statu ...

UNITED for Intercultural Action UNITED for Intercultural Action is a European network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and refugees, in which over 560 organisations from 48 European countries cooperate. UNITED was founded in 1992 (officially reg ...

Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, or simply UNPO is an international organization established to facilitate the voices of unrepresented and marginalised nations and peoples worldwide. It was formed on 11 February 1991 in The Ha ...

World Council of Churches The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism. Its full members today include the Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, most juri ...

World Organization Against Torture The World Organisation Against Torture (''Organisation Mondiale Contre la Torture''; OMCT) is the world's largest coalition of non-governmental organisations fighting against arbitrary detention, torture, summary and extrajudicial executions, ...

WITNESS In law, a witness is someone who has knowledge about a matter, whether they have sensed it or are testifying on another witnesses' behalf. In law a witness is someone who, either voluntarily or under compulsion, provides testimonial evidence, e ...

Womankind Worldwide Womankind Worldwide is a UK-based, feminist global women's rights organisation that works in solidarity with women's movements around the world to bring about lasting change in women's lives. Founded in 1989, Womankind partners with women's movemen ...

World Future Council The World Future Council (WFC) is a German non-profit foundation with its headquarters in Hamburg. It works to pass on a healthy and sustainable planet with just and peaceful societies to future generations. FuturePolicy.org The website f ...

Youth for Human Rights International Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) is an American non-profit organization. Founded and largely staffed and financed by Scientologists, its stated mission is "To teach youth around the globe about human rights, thus helping them to become ...

Regional non-governmental organizations

* African Movement of Working Children and Youth (Africa) * AIRE Centre (Europe) *

Arabic Network for Human Rights Information The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) was a non-governmental organization devoted to promoting freedom of expression across the Middle East and North Africa. It was founded in the year 2004. Based in Cairo, Egypt, the organization ...

(Arab world) * Arab Commission for Human Rights (Arab world) *

Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) reviously known as Forum-Asiais a membership-based regional human rights organisation with 85 member organisations in 23 countries across Asia. It is committed to the promotion and pro ...

(Asia) *

Asian Human Rights Commission The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is an independent, non-governmental body that promotes human rights in Asia and mobilizes Asian and international public opinion to obtain relief and redress for the victims of human rights violations. I ...

(Asia) *

Asian Centre for Human Rights The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) is a NGO (non-governmental organization) dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms in Asia. It is headquartered in New Delhi, India. The organization seeks to provid ...

(Asia) *

(Commonwealth nations) *

Council on Hemispheric Affairs The Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) is a Washington, D.C.-based non-governmental organization (NGO) founded in 1975. The organization can draw on a large number of interns of graduate and undergraduate students, who gain experience in differ ...

(Americas) *

Ecumenical Center for Human Rights The Ecumenical Center for Human Rights (Centre Oecumenique des Droits de L'Homme) is a human rights organisation founded in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 1979 to monitor the situation in Haiti under the dictatorship of Jean-Claude Duvalier. T ...

(Americas) *

EuroMed Rights EuroMed Rights, formerly the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN, French: Réseau euro-mediterranéen des droits de l'Homme) is a network of 80 human rights organisations, institutions and individuals based in 30 countries in Europe a ...

(Euro-Mediterranean region) * European Human Rights Society (Europe) *

European Roma Rights Centre The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) is a Roma-led, international public interest law organisation engaging in a range of activities aimed at combating anti-Romani racism and human rights abuse of Romani people. The approach of the ERRC involves ...

(Europe) *

Federal Union of European Nationalities The Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) established in 1949 in conjunction with the formation of the Council of Europe. As of 2019, there were 103 member organizations representing ...

(Europe) *

Helsinki Citizens Assembly The Helsinki Citizens' Assembly (hCa) is an organization of citizens dedicated to peace, democracy and human rights in Europe. It is a non-governmental organization, working on the notions of fundamental rights and freedoms, peace, democracy and p ...

(Europe) *

Human Rights Trust of Southern Africa The Human Rights Trust of Southern Africa, better known as SAHRIT, is a human rights groups established in October 2006 to promote human rights in Southern Africa. It has its headquarters in Harare Harare (; formerly Salisbury ) is the cap ...

(Southern Africa) *

Incomindios Switzerland Incomindios (International Committee for the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas) is a human rights organization that focuses on the rights of the native populations of North, South, and Central America. It is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland ...

(Americas) *

International Association of Independent Journalists Inc. The International Association of Independent Journalists Inc. (IAIJ) is a registered not-for-profit journalist association with offices in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and London, England. The association is international and caters to amateur (citiz ...

(Canada, England & elsewhere) *

Journalists for Human Rights Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) is Canada's largest international media development organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. JHR was founded in 2002 by Benjamin Peterson and Alexandra Sicotte-Levesque in 2002.Davis, Nicholas,Africa go ...

(Africa) *

Kurdish Human Rights Project The Kurdish Human Rights Project is the only non-partisan human rights organisation consistently working in the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria and elsewhere. It is a registered charity, founded and based in London in 1992, and its s ...

(Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran & elsewhere) *

Memorial A memorial is an object or place which serves as a focus for the memory or the commemoration of something, usually an influential, deceased person or a historical, tragic event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects or works of a ...

(Ex-

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

) * Regional Council on Human Rights in Asia (Southeast Asia) * Unimondo (southeastern Europe) *

Washington Office on Latin America The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) is a United States non-governmental organization (NGO) whose stated goal is to promote human rights, democracy, and social and economic justice in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Washington Offi ...

(Latin America) * The Youth Cafe (Africa)

Non-governmental organisations with a national focus

For governmental national human rights organisations see

national human rights institution A national human rights institution (NHRI) is an independent state-based institution with the responsibility to broadly protect and promote human rights in a given country. The growth of such bodies has been encouraged by the Office of the United ...

Argentina

HIJOS HIJOS is an acronym for Hijos por la Identidad y la Justicia contra el Olvido y el Silencio (English: ''Sons and Daughters for Identity and Justice Against forgetfulness and Silence''). It is the name of two organizations founded by children of peo ...

Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo is an Argentine human rights association formed in response to the National Reorganization Process, the military dictatorship by Jorge Rafael Videla, with the goal of finding the '' desaparecidos'', initially, a ...

Movimiento Judío por los Derechos Humanos The Movimiento Judío por los Derechos Humanos (literally Jewish Movement for Human Rights, abbreviated MJDH) was a human rights organization in Argentina. It was founded by Marshall Meyer and Herman Schiller on August 19, 1983. The MJDH was one ...

Armenia

Open Society Foundations–Armenia Open Society Foundations–Armenia (OSFA) ( hy, Բաց հասարակության հիմնադրամներ – Հայաստան, translit=Bats' hasarakut'yan himnadramner – Hayastan) is the Armenian branch of Open Society Foundations (OSF). Ope ...

Australia

* Australian Council for Human Rights Education * Castan Centre for Human Rights Law * Human Rights Law Centre

Bahrain

*Bahrain Centre for Human Rights *Bahrain Human Rights Society *Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society *Bahrain Youth Society for Human Rights *We Have A Right

Belgium

*Association belge des familles des disparus *Liga voor Mensenrechten *Human Rights League (French-speaking Belgium), Ligue des droits de l'homme

Bosnia and Herzegovina

*Association for Social Research and Communications (UDIK)

Burma (Myanmar)

*Burma Campaign UK *Canadian Friends of Burma *Free Burma Rangers *Human Rights Defenders and Promoters *Karen Human Rights Group *U.S. Campaign for Burma *Women's League of Burma

Bulgaria

*Bulgarian Helsinki Committee

Cambodia

*Cambodian Center for Human Rights * Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO), The Cambodian League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO) *ADHOC

Canada

*Child Welfare League of Canada

Chad

*Chadian Association for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights

Chile

* Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared (AFDD; 1974) * (1978) * (CODEPU; 1980) * Committee of Cooperation for Peace in Chile (1973–1975) * (CODEH; 1970) * Families of the Executed for Political Reasons (1974) * (FASIC; 1975) * National Commission Against Torture * National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation (1990–1991); better known as the Rettig Commission * (MCTSA; 1983–1990) * Vicariate of Solidarity (1976–1990)

China

*Civil Human Rights Front (Hong Kong) *Empowerment and Rights Institute *Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor (Hong Kong) *Human Rights in China (organization), Human Rights in China *Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy

Tibet

: :* Free Tibet :* International Campaign for Tibet :* Political Prisoners Movement of Tibet :* Students for a Free Tibet :* Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy

Egypt

*Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights *Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights *Egyptian Organization for Human Rights *Hisham Mubarak Law Center *National Council for Human Rights *Shayfeencom

Eritrea

*Human Rights Concern Eritrea

Ethiopia

*Ethiopian Human Rights Council *KMG Ethiopia

France

*GISTI *Human Rights League (France), Human Rights League (Ligue des droits de l'homme) *MRAP (French NGO) *SOS Racisme

Guatemala

*ADIVIMA *

Iceland

*Icelandic Human Rights Centre

India

*Ihra.org.in, International Human Rights Administration *Confederation of Human Rights Organizations *Confederation of Human Rights Organizations, Forum for Fact-finding Documentation and Advocacy *Honour for Women National Campaign *Human Rights Documentation Centre *Kashmir Human Rights Commission *Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti *National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights *Vigil India Movement

Iran

*Defenders of Human Rights Center *Iran Human Rights Documentation Center

Israel

:* Adalah (legal center) :* Association for Civil Rights in Israel :* B'Tselem :* Jerusalem Institute of Justice :* Machsom Watch :* Rabbis for Human Rights :* Physicians for Human Rights–Israel :* Yesh Din

Palestinian territories

:* Al-Haq :* Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (Gaza Strip)

Italy

*Emergency (organization), Emergency

Kenya

*Cemiride *Awareness Against Human Trafficking (HAART) *Kenya Human Rights Commission

Lebanon

*Association Najdeh

Malawi

*Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation

Malaysia

*Bersih *Lawyers for Liberty *Malaysians Against Death Penalty & Torture *National Human Rights Society *Sisters in Islam *Suara Rakyat Malaysia *Women's Aid Organisation

Mali

*Association Malienne des Droits de l'Homme

Mauritania

*Association Mauritanienne des Droits de l'Homme

Mexico

Morocco

*Association Marocaine des Droits Humaine *Conseil Consultatif des Droits de l'Homme *Sahrawi Association of Victims of Grave Human Rights Violations Committed by the Moroccan State

Nepal

*Amnesty Nepal *INSEC *THRD Alliance

Niger

*Timidria

Nigeria

*Devatop Centre for Africa Development *Devatop Centre for Africa Development, National Association of Seadogs *Youths For Human Rights Protection And Transparency Initiative

North Korea

*Chosun Journal *Liberty in North Korea

Pakistan

*Asian Human Rights Development Organization

Philippines

*Amnesty International Philippines *Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances *Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines *Free Legal Assistance Group *International Peace Observers Network *Karapatan *Nonviolent Peaceforce *Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates *Philippine Human Rights Information Center *Philippines–Canada Task Force on Human Rights *Task Force Detainees of the Philippines

Poland

*Movement for Defense of Human and Civic Rights (20th century)

Russia

*Glasnost Defense Foundation *Moscow Research Center for Human Rights *SOVA Center *Chechnya: **Chechnya Advocacy Network

Saudi Arabia

*ALQST *Association for the Protection and Defense of Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia *Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia *European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights *Human Rights First Society *Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association *Society for Development and Change

South Korea

*Database Center for North Korean Human Rights

Sri Lanka

*Home for Human Rights *NESOHR *University Teachers for Human Rights

Sweden

*Stepchildren of Society *Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

Syria

*al-Marsad

Taiwan

* Taiwan Association for Human Rights

Thailand

* Amnesty International Thailand * Anjaree * EMPOWER

Tunisia

*Tunisia Monitoring Group

Uganda

*Resolve Uganda

Ukraine

*Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group *Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union

United Kingdom

*Liberty (pressure group), Liberty *Peter Tatchell Foundation *Northern Ireland: ** Committee on the Administration of Justice

United States

*ACLU *Alliance for Human Research Protection *Avaaz *Center for Constitutional Rights *Center for Victims of Torture *Ella Baker Center for Human Rights *Empowering Spirits Foundation *Hands Up United *Human Rights Campaign *Human Rights Commission of Salt Lake City *Human Rights Initiative of North Texas *Humanitarian Law Project *International Justice Mission *Jewish Voice for Peace *Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute *National Youth Rights Association *Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice *Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law *Society for Human Rights (Disbanded) *Southern Poverty Law Center *US Human Rights Network *Workplace Fairness

Venezuela

*PROVEA (1988) Spanish acronym for the Venezuelan Education-Action Program on Human Rights *Venezuelan Observatory of Social Conflict (2010)

Zimbabwe

*Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights

United Nations Bodies

*Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights *United Nations Security Council *Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights *United Nations Human Rights Council *United Nations Commission on Human Rights (disbanded) *International Criminal Court *OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media *UNESCO *United Nations Parliamentary Assembly

Human rights treaty bodies

*Human Rights Committee *Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination *Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women *United Nations Convention against Torture#Committee against Torture, Committee Against Torture *Committee on the Rights of the Child

Other multilateral organisations

* African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights * African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights * American Convention on Human Rights * Arab Organization for Human Rights * Commissioner for Human Rights * Committee for the Prevention of Torture * Commonwealth of Nations * European Court of Human Rights * OAS Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression * Subcommittee on Human Rights * Inter-American Commission on Human Rights * Inter-American Court of Human Rights

References

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International non-governmental organizations

Regional non-governmental organizations

Non-governmental organisations with a national focus

Argentina

Armenia

Australia

Bahrain

Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Burma (Myanmar)

Bulgaria

Cambodia

Canada

Chad

Chile

China

Tibet

Egypt

Eritrea

Ethiopia

France

Guatemala

Iceland

India

Iran

Israel

Israel

Palestinian territories

Italy

Kenya

Lebanon

Malawi

Malaysia

Mali

Mauritania

Mexico

Morocco

Nepal

Niger

Nigeria

North Korea

Pakistan

Philippines

Poland

Russia

Saudi Arabia

South Korea

Sri Lanka

Sweden

Syria

Taiwan

Thailand

Tunisia

Uganda

Ukraine

United Kingdom

United States

Venezuela

Zimbabwe

United Nations Bodies

Human rights treaty bodies

Other multilateral organisations

See also

References