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The following is a list of articles on the human rights organizations of the world. It does not include political parties, or academic institutions. The list includes both secular and religious organizations.

International organisations

Amazon Watch
Amazon Watch
Founded in 1996, Amazon Watch is a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California. It works to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin...
Amnesty International
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...
Anti-Slavery International
Anti-Slavery International
Anti-Slavery International is an international nongovernmental organization, charity and a lobby group, based in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1839, it is the world's oldest international human rights organization, and the only charity in the United Kingdom to work exclusively against slavery and...
Apply Human Rights
Article 19
ARTICLE 19
ARTICLE 19 is a London-based human rights organisation with a specific mandate and focus on the defence and promotion of freedom of expression and freedom of information worldwide...
Avocats Sans Frontières
Avocats Sans Frontières
Avocats Sans Frontières , also known as Advocaten Zonder Grenzen is an international non-governmental organization contributing to the creation of fair and equitable societies, in which the law and its institutions serve the most vulnerable groups and individuals...
Breakthrough (human rights)
Breakthrough (human rights)
Breakthrough is a global not-for-profit organization that uses pop culture to promote human rights. Breakthrough's stated mission is to "empower individuals and communities to stand for universal human rights by using multimedia tools that transform hearts and minds." They promote a message of...
Carter Center
Carter Center
The Carter Center is a nongovernmental, not-for-profit organization founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter. In partnership with Emory University, The Carter Center works to advance human rights and alleviate human suffering...
CCJO René Cassin
CCJO René Cassin
CCJO RenéCassin is an organisation of Jewish people committed to the promotion of universal human rights. The group aims to build on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, one of whose authors, René Cassin, was the president of the Consultative Council of Jewish Organisations...
Center for Economic and Social Rights
Center for Economic and Social Rights
The Center for Economic and Social Rights is an international human rights organization that functions primarily as a research and advocacy nonprofit in the area of economic and social rights....
Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian law
Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian law
The Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law was founded in 1990 as a way to coordinate all the human rights and humanitarian law activities at WCL...
Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions
Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions
The Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions is a Geneva-based international non-governmental human rights organisation founded in 1994 by Scott Leckie as a foundation in the Netherlands .-Offices:...

(COHRE)
Committee to Protect Journalists
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent nonprofit organisation based in New York City that promotes press freedom and defends the rights of journalists.-History:A group of U.S...
CryptoRights Foundation
CryptoRights Foundation
The CryptoRights Foundation, Inc. is a 501 non-profit organization based in San Francisco and established in 1998, notable for the development of HighFire and work on other encryption standards, such as PGP and IPsec...
Cultural Survival
Cultural Survival
Cultural Survival is a nonprofit group based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA which is dedicated to defending the human rights of indigenous peoples. Their stated mandate is to promote the rights, voices and visions, of indigenous people. For 37 years, Cultural Survival has partnered with...
CCLP Worldwide
Disabled Peoples' International
Disabled Peoples' International
Disabled Peoples' International, The organization's name is incorrectly spelled in its official form with the possessive of "peoples" instead of the possessive of "people"...
Equality Now
Equality Now
Equality Now is a non-governmental organization founded in 1992 whose stated purpose is to protect the human rights of women around the world. The group provides an international framework for spreading awareness of issues and providing support to local grassroots groups working to address issues...
Every Human Has Rights
Food First Information and Action Network
Forum 18
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...
Free the Slaves
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. Formed in 2001, it is the largest anti-slavery organization in the U.S. It is the sister-organization of Anti-Slavery International...
Freedom House
Freedom House
Freedom House is an international non-governmental organization based in Washington, D.C. that conducts research and advocacy on democracy, political freedom and human rights...
Freedom Now
Freedom Now
Freedom Now is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit, non-partisan organization that seeks to facilitate representation for arbitrarily detained individuals who have neither used nor advocated violence and whose detention violates fundamental principles of international law.Its approach is to use...
Friends of Peoples Close to Nature
Friends of Peoples Close to Nature
Friends of Peoples Close to Nature is a non-governmental human rights organization that works in the field of indigenous rights. The organization is dedicated to the survival of tribal peoples, in particular hunter-gatherers...
Society for Threatened Peoples
Society for Threatened Peoples
Society for Threatened Peoples is an international NGO and human rights organization based in Göttingen, Germany. It seeks to create awareness of and protect minority peoples around the world who are threatened by oppressive governments. The group states on its website that it "campaigns against...
GIRCA
GIRCA
The GIRCA is a human rights organization.In 2002, GIRCA filed suit against IBM for IBM's involvement with Nazi war crimes....
Habitat International Coalition
Habitat International Coalition
Habitat International Coalition 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 movements, community-based organizations, support groups and academics...
Helsinki Committee for Human Rights
Helsinki Committee for Human Rights
The Helsinki Committees for Human Rights exist in many European countries as volunteer, non-profit organizations devoted to human rights and presumably named after the Helsinki Accords...
Helsinki Watch
Helsinki Watch
Helsinki Watch was a private American NGO devoted to monitoring Helsinki implementation throughout the Soviet bloc. It was created in 1978 to monitor compliance to the Helsinki Final Act...
Hindu American Foundation
Hindu American Foundation
The Hindu American Foundation is an American Hindu human rights group advocating on behalf of the Hindu community in the United States. Dr...
Hindu Human Rights
Hindu Human Rights
The Hindu Human Rights , is an United Kingdom based organisation, stating as its aim "educating people about human rights of Hindus". This group maintains a website which actively displays news about persecution of Hindus or destruction of temples...
Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation
Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation
The Hirschfeld-Eddy Foundation was founded in Berlin in June 2007. It is a foundation focused on human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.-Name origin:...
Human Life International
Human Life International
Human Life International is an American-based Roman Catholic activist pro-life organization. Founded in 1981 by Father Paul Marx , HLI is located in Front Royal, Virginia. Human Life International describes itself as "the largest international pro-life organization in the world", noting that it has...
Human Rights Internet
Human Rights Internet
Human Rights Internet is a non-governmental organization based in Ottawa, Canada, that supports the exchange of information within the worldwide human rights community...
Human Rights Defence
Human Rights Defence
Human Rights Defence was initiated by Human Right Lawyer Luisa Teresa Salazar de Nordlander in 2005. HRD is a non-profit organisation focusing on Human Rights issues around the world, with particular focus on the American continent. Their slogan is "We shield humans from humans"...
Human Rights First
Human Rights First
Human Rights First is a nonprofit, nonpartisan human rights organization based in New York City and Washington, D.C....
Human Rights Foundation
Human Rights Foundation
The Human Rights Foundation is a non-profit organization whose stated mission "is to ensure that freedom is both preserved and promoted" in the Americas. The Human Rights Foundation was founded in 2005 by Thor Halvorssen...
Human Rights Internet
Human Rights Internet
Human Rights Internet is a non-governmental organization based in Ottawa, Canada, that supports the exchange of information within the worldwide human rights community...
Human Rights Report
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch is an international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. Its headquarters are in New York City and it has offices in Berlin, Beirut, Brussels, Chicago, Geneva, Johannesburg, London, Los Angeles, Moscow, Paris, San Francisco, Tokyo,...
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Human Rights Without Frontiers is a non-profit organization based out of Brussels, Belgium, that promotes human rights around the world. It has offices in Belgium, Nepal, and China.- History :...
Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB)
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
Institute for War & Peace Reporting is an international media development charity, established in 1991. It runs major programmes in Afghanistan, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Iran, Iraq, the Balkans, Congo DRC, Tunisia and Uganda...
Institute on Religion and Public Policy
Institute on Religion and Public Policy
The Institute on Religion and Public Policy is an international, inter-religious non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring freedom of religion as the foundation for security, stability, and democracy. President Joseph Grieboski founded the Institute in 1999...
Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense
International Alliance of Women
International Alliance of Women
The International Alliance of Women is a non-governmental, feminist organization, which embraces both women’s groups and individuals. The basic principle of the IAW is that the full and equal enjoyment of human rights is due to all women and girls....
International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists
International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists
The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists 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 international co-operation based on the rule of law and the fair...
International Center for Transitional Justice
International Center for Transitional Justice
The International Center for Transitional Justice was founded in 2001 as a non-profit organization dedicated to pursuing accountability for mass atrocity and human rights abuse through transitional justice mechanisms.-Mission statement:...
International Centre for Human Rights Research
International Centre for Human Rights Research
The International Centre for Human Rights Research or CIIDH is a Guatemalan non-governmental organisation....
International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances
International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances
The International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances 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 international level.The ICAED is promoting the early...
International Committee Against Stoning
International Commission of Jurists
International Commission of Jurists
The International Commission of Jurists is an international human rights non-governmental organization. The Commission itself is a standing group of 60 eminent jurists , including members of the senior judiciary in Australia, Canada, and South Africa and the former UN High Commissioner for Human...
International Committee of the Red Cross
International Committee of the Red Cross
The International Committee of the Red Cross is a private humanitarian institution based in Geneva, Switzerland. States parties to the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977 and 2005, have given the ICRC a mandate to protect the victims of international and...

(private, sovereign organisation)
International Federation for Human Rights
International Federation of Health and Human Rights (IFHHRO)
International Federation for Human Rights Leagues
International Foundation for Human Rights and Tolerance
International Foundation for Human Rights and Tolerance
The International Foundation for Human Rights and Tolerance is a human rights group affiliated with Scientology, 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 human rights are as aligned with...
International Freedom of Expression Exchange
International Freedom of Expression Exchange
The International Freedom of Expression eXchange , founded in 1992, is a global network of around 90 non-governmental organisations that promotes and defends the right to freedom of expression....
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission is a US-based international non-governmental organization that addresses human rights violations against lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, intersexuals, transgender people and people with HIV/AIDS...
International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights was a self-governing group of non-governmental, not-for-profit organizations that act to protect human rights throughout Europe, North America and Central Asia...

(federation of 15 other human rights organisations, not included in this list, now bankrupt due to fraud)
International Human Rights Association (IHRA)
International Human Rights Association (IHRA)
International Human Rights Association is a non-profit voluntary organization working in the cause of down trodden and suppressed people without regard to their background.- Vision & Mission :Beware Of David Raj...
International Human Rights Protection Association (IHRPA)
International Human Rights Group (IHRG)
International Human Rights Organization (IHRO)
International Humanist and Ethical Union
International Humanist and Ethical Union
The International Humanist and Ethical Union is an umbrella organisation embracing humanist, atheist, rationalist, secular, skeptic, freethought and Ethical Culture organisations worldwide. Founded in Amsterdam in 1952, the IHEU is a democratic union of more than 100 member organizations in 40...
International Institute of Human Rights
International Institute of Human Rights
The International Institute of Human Rights is an association under French local law based in Strasbourg, France...
International League for Human Rights
International League for Human Rights
The International League for Human Rights 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 rights advocates who risk their lives to promote the ideals of a...
International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR)
International Property Rights Index
International Property Rights Index
The International Property Rights Index is produced annually by Americans for Tax Reform's Property Rights Alliance. The index investigates and ranks the individual's rights and ability to own private property in countries worldwide.-Property rights index:...
International Progress Organization
International Progress Organization
The International Progress Organization is a Vienna-based think tank dealing with world affairs. As an international non-governmental organization it enjoys consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and is associated with the United Nations Department of...
International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
The International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims , is an independent, international health professional organisation that promotes and supports the rehabilitation of torture victims and works for the prevention of torture worldwide....
International Tibet Support Network
International Tibet Support Network
The International Tibet Network, established in 2000, is a global coalition of Tibet-related non-governmental organisations. Its purpose is to maximise the effectiveness of the worldwide Tibet movement...
International Service for Human Rights
International Service for Human Rights
The International Service for Human Rights is a Geneva- and New York-based human rights NGO that specializes in providing training, information and advice for defenders of human rights worldwide. Established in 1984, ISHR provides information on both international and regional human rights law...
International Society for Human Rights
International Society for Human Rights
The International Society for Human Rights 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 Organisations at the Council of Europe...
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs 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 peoples...
Islamic Human Rights Commission
Islamic Human Rights Commission
The Islamic Human Rights Commission is a non-profit organization. Its stated mission is to, "... work with different organizations from Muslim and non-Muslim backgrounds, to campaign for justice for all peoples regardless of their racial, confessional or political background.". The group is...
JUSTICE
JUSTICE
JUSTICE is a human rights and law reform organisation based in the United Kingdom. It is the British section of the International Commission of Jurists, the international human rights organisation of lawyers devoted to the legal protection of human rights worldwide...
Medical Foundation for Care of Victims of Torture
Medical Foundation for Care of Victims of Torture
Freedom from Torture is the working name of The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture., . The organisation changed its name in 2011. Freedom from Torture is a British registered charity which solely treats torture survivors...
MindFreedom International
MindFreedom International
MindFreedom International is an international coalition of over one hundred grassroots groups and thousands of individual members from fourteen nations. It was founded in 1990 to advocate against forced medication, medical restraints, and involuntary electroconvulsive therapy. Its stated mission is...
National Labor Committee in Support of Human and Worker Rights
National Labor Committee in Support of Human and Worker Rights
The National Labor Committee in Support of Human and Worker Rights, commonly known as the NLC, is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that investigates human and labor rights abuses committed by U.S. companies producing goods in the developing world...
Network for Education and Academic Rights
Network For Education and Academic Rights
Network For Education and Academic Rights is a membership-based, non-governmental organisation which works to promote and protect academic freedom and academic rights....
No Peace Without Justice
No Peace Without Justice
No Peace Without Justice or Non C'è Pace Senza Giustizia 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 Senate...
No Sweat
Norwegian Refugee Council
Norwegian Refugee Council
The Norwegian Refugee Council is an independent, humanitarian non-governmental organisation which provides assistance, protection and durable solutions to refugees, internally displaced persons, and returnees worldwide. NRC promotes and protects the rights of people who have been forced to flee...
Peace Brigades International
Peace Brigades International
Peace Brigades International is an NGO, founded in 1981, which "protects human rights and promotes nonviolent transformation of conflicts". It primarily does this by sending volunteers to accompany human rights defenders whose lives are at risk in areas of conflict and to provide training in...
People & Planet
People & Planet
People & Planet is a network of student campaign groups in the UK. It claims to be "the largest student campaigning organization in the country campaigning to alleviate world poverty, defend human rights and protect the environment."-Organization:...
Physicians for Human Rights
Physicians for Human Rights
Physicians for Human Rights was founded in 1986 by a small group of doctors who believed the unique scientific expertise and authority of health professionals could bring human rights violations to light and provide justice for victims...
Point of Peace Foundation
Point of Peace Foundation
Point of Peace Foundation is an independent human rights organization based in Stavanger, Norway. The organization is responsible for several events in 2008 as Stavanger is European Capital of Culture....
Protection International
Protection International
Protection International is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to the protection of human rights defenders . Its stated mission is to enhance the security and the protection of "threatened civil society actors with non-violent means, especially those who fight for their legitimate...
REDRESS Trust
Release International
Release International
Release International is an international organization for monitoring and reporting persecution of Christians around the world and helping the victims of that persecution...
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is a France-based international non-governmental organization that advocates freedom of the press. It was founded in 1985, by Robert Ménard, Rony Brauman and the journalist Jean-Claude Guillebaud. Jean-François Julliard has served as Secretary General since 2008...
Reprieve
Seafarers' Rights International
Scholars at Risk
Scholars At Risk
Scholars at Risk 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....
Scholar Rescue Fund
Scholar Rescue Fund
The Scholar Rescue Fund provides fellowships for established scholars whose lives and work are threatened in their home countries. These fellowships permit professors, researchers and other senior academics to find temporary refuge at host universities and colleges anywhere in the world, enabling...
Social Accountability International
Society for Threatened Peoples
Society for Threatened Peoples
Society for Threatened Peoples is an international NGO and human rights organization based in Göttingen, Germany. It seeks to create awareness of and protect minority peoples around the world who are threatened by oppressive governments. The group states on its website that it "campaigns against...
Survival International
Survival International
Survival International is a human rights organisation formed in 1969 that campaigns for the rights of indigenous tribal peoples and uncontacted peoples, seeking to help them to determine their own future. Their campaigns generally focus on tribal peoples' fight to keep their ancestral lands,...
Tahirih Justice Center
Tahirih Justice Center
The Tahirih Justice Center, known simply as Tahirih, is a United States-based non-governmental organization that provides pro bono direct legal services and social and medical service referrals to immigrant women and girls who are fleeing from gender-based violence and persecution...
The Advocacy Project
The Advocacy Project
The Advocacy Project is a nonprofit organization that seeks to strengthen community-based human rights advocacy groups. AP was established in June 1998 to report to human rights advocates from the Rome conference that established the International Criminal Court. AP continued on a...
The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention
UN Watch
UN Watch
UN Watch is a Geneva-based NGO whose stated mission is "to monitor the performance of the United Nations by the yardstick of its own Charter". It is an accredited NGO in Special Consultative Status to the UN Economic and Social Council and an Associate NGO to the UN Department of Public Information...
UNITED for Intercultural Action
UNITED for Intercultural Action
UNITED for Intercultural Action is the biggest European network against nationalism, racism, fascism and in support of migrants and refugees, in which over 560 organisations from 46 European countries cooperate...
World Council of Churches
World Council of Churches
The World Council of Churches is a worldwide fellowship of 349 global, regional and sub-regional, national and local churches seeking unity, a common witness and Christian service. It is a Christian ecumenical organization that is based in the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, Switzerland...
World Organisation Against Torture
World Organisation Against Torture
The World Organisation Against Torture is the world’s largest coalition of non-governmental organisations fighting against arbitrary detention, torture, summary and extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances and other forms of violence...
Witness (human rights group)
Witness (human rights group)
WITNESS is a human rights non-profit organization based out of Brooklyn, NY. Their mission statement is "WITNESS uses video to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations...
Womankind Worldwide
Womankind Worldwide
Womankind Worldwide is a women's rights and economic development organisation working with partner organisations to achieve lasting improvement in women's economic, social and political position worldwide.Projects=...
Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace
Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace
Women's Learning Partnership is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization that is dedicated to women's leadership and empowerment. In cooperation with 18 autonomous partner organizations in the Global South, particularly in Muslim-majority societies, WLP works to empower women to...
World Future Council
World Future Council
The World Future Council is an independent body formally founded in Hamburg, Germany on 10 May 2007. "Formed to speak on behalf of policy solutions that serve the interests of future generations", it includes members active in governmental bodies, civil society, business, science and the arts...
World Organisation Against Torture
World Organisation Against Torture
The World Organisation Against Torture is the world’s largest coalition of non-governmental organisations fighting against arbitrary detention, torture, summary and extrajudicial executions, forced disappearances and other forms of violence...
Youth for Human Rights International
Youth for Human Rights International
Youth for Human Rights International is a non-profit organization based at 1954 Hillhurst Ave. # 416 in Los Angeles, California. 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...
Women in Action - international informal group who acts together for women all over the world. For their rights, knowledge, security, well being, leisure time, motherhood, love.

International Peace Commission-IPC (Global Humanitarian Organization/Devoted of Peace & Prosperity)

International (regional) non-governmental organizations

Arabic Network for Human Rights Information
Arabic Network for Human Rights Information
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information is a Cairo, Egypt, based non-governmental organization devoted to promoting freedom of expression across the Middle East and North Africa. It collects publications, campaigns, reports, and statements from almost 140 Arabic human rights organizations...

(Arab world)
Arab Commission for Human Rights
Arab Commission for Human Rights
The Arab Commission for Human Rights is an Arab world non-governmental human rights organisation that was founded in 1998.-Founding:The Arab Commission for Human Rights is a human rights non-governmental organisation founded on 17 January 1998 by 15 human rights activists from around the Arab...

(Arab world)
Ararat Heritage (Europe)
Asian Human Rights Commission
Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission is an independent, non-governmental body, which seeks to promote greater awareness and realisation of human rights in the Asian region, and to mobilise Asian and international public opinion to obtain relief and redress for the victims of human rights violations...

(Asia)
Asian Centre for Human Rights
Asian Centre for Human Rights
The Asian Centre for Human Rights is a NGO dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms in the Asian region. It is headquartered in New Delhi, India...

(Asia)
Asian Legal Resource Centre
Asian Legal Resource Centre
The Asian Legal Resource Centre is an INGO having General Consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.- Background :Some prominent group of jurists and human rights activists in Asia founded ALRC in 1986....

(Asia)
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative is an international non-governmental organisation formed to support Human Rights and particularly to support the implementation of the Harare Declaration in the countries of the Commonwealth of Nations...

(Commonwealth nations)
Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Council on Hemispheric Affairs
The Council on Hemispheric Affairs is a Washington, D.C.-based non-governmental organization founded in 1975. In its own words, it was established to "promote the common interests of the [Western] hemisphere, raise the visibility of regional affairs and increase the importance of the...

(Americas)
Crossroads
Derechos Human Rights
Derechos Human Rights
Derechos Human Rights or Derechos humanos is an International human rights organization with their primary focus being on Latin America. It was founded in 1995 as the first internet-based human rights organization...

(Latin America)
Ecumenical Center for Human Rights
Ecumenical Center for Human Rights
The Ecumenical Center for Human Rights 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. The center became a leading critic of the abject living conditions of Haitian cane cutters in...

(Americas)
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network is a network of 64 human rights organisations, institutions and individuals based in 30 countries in Europe and the Mediterranean region...

(Euro-Mediterranean region)
European Roma Rights Centre
European Roma Rights Centre
The European Roma Rights Centre is an international public interest law organisation engaging in a range of activities aimed at combating anti-Romani racism and human rights abuse of Roma. The approach of the ERRC involves, in particular, strategic litigation, international advocacy, research and...

(Europe)
Federal Union of European Nationalities
Federal Union of European Nationalities
The Federal Union of European Nationalities is an international nongovernmental organization established in 1949 in conjunction with the formation of the Council of Europe. As of 2007, there were 84 member organizations representing ethnic, linguistic and national minorities within Europe...

(Europe)
Helsinki Citizens Assembly
Helsinki Citizens Assembly
The Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly 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 pluralism....

(Europe)
Human Rights Foundation
Human Rights Foundation
The Human Rights Foundation is a non-profit organization whose stated mission "is to ensure that freedom is both preserved and promoted" in the Americas. The Human Rights Foundation was founded in 2005 by Thor Halvorssen...

(Americas)
Incomindios Switzerland
Incomindios Switzerland
Incomindios Switzerland is a human rights organization that focuses on the rights of the native populations of North, South, and Central America....

(Americas)
International Association of Independent Journalists Inc.
International Association of Independent Journalists Inc.
International Association of Independent Journalists Inc. is a registered not-for-profit journalist association with offices in Toronto, Canada and London, England. The association is international and caters to amateur and professional journalists with advocacy and support services. The...

(Canada, England & elsewhere)
Journalists for Human Rights (Africa)
Kurdish Human Rights Project
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...

(Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran & elsewhere)
Memorial
Memorial (society)
Memorial is an international historical and civil rights society that operates in a number of post-Soviet states. It focuses on recording and publicising the Soviet Union's totalitarian past, but also monitors human rights in post-Soviet states....

(Ex-USSR)
Washington Office on Latin America
Washington Office on Latin America
The Washington Office on Latin America is an American non-governmental organization whose stated goal is to promote human rights, democracy and social and economic justice in Latin America and the Caribbean....

(Latin America)
Pacific Island Lawyers on Human Rights Network (Pacific Islands region)

Non-governmental organisations with a national focus

For governmental national human rights organisations see national human rights institutions.

Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission
Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission
The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission is an Afghan organisation dedicated to the preservation of human rights and the investigation of human rights abuses....

Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

HIJOS
HIJOS
HIJOS is an acronym for Hijos por la Identidad y la Justicia contra el Olvido y el Silencio . It is the name of organizations of the children of people who were "disappeared" in Argentina and in Guatemala. The Argentine organization was founded in 1995 in Córdoba and La Plata...
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

Bahrain
Bahrain
' , officially the Kingdom of Bahrain , is a small island state near the western shores of the Persian Gulf. It is ruled by the Al Khalifa royal family. The population in 2010 stood at 1,214,705, including 235,108 non-nationals. Formerly an emirate, Bahrain was declared a kingdom in 2002.Bahrain is...

Bahrain Centre for Human Rights
Bahrain Centre for Human Rights
The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights is a Bahraini non-profit non-governmental organisation which works to promote human rights in Bahrain, which was founded by a number of Bahraini activist in June 2002...
Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society
Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society
The Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society, is a Bahraini human rights organization established in November 2004 which claims to protect housemaids, and to fight for women’s rights....
We Have A Right
We Have A Right
We Have A Right is a political campaign launched to protect personal freedoms in Bahrain by the society of liberal intellectuals, Al Muntada, on 22 November 2005....

Burma (Myanmar)

Burma Campaign UK
Burma Campaign UK
Burma Campaign UK founded in 1991 is a London based Non Governmental Organisation that aims to achieve the 'restoration of human rights and democracy in Burma . BCUK campaigns on behalf of the Burmese pro-democracy movement and is the largest campaigning organisation for Burma in Europe...
Canadian Friends of Burma
Canadian Friends of Burma
Canadian Friends of Burma is a federally incorporated, national non-governmental organization founded in 1991.- Objectives :...
Free Burma Rangers
Free Burma Rangers
The Free Burma Rangers are a mainly Christian pro-active, pro-democracy humanitarian group who work throughout Burma but concentrate primarily on the heavily forested border region, delivering emergency medical assistance to sick and injured internally displaced people, or IDP's; a consequence of...
Freedom Campaign
Freedom Campaign
The Freedom Campaign is a joint venture of the Human Rights Action Center and US Campaign for Burma non-profit organizations. The Freedom Campaign is focused on the advocacy and empowerment of individuals whose lives are shining testaments to peace and human rights...
Human Rights Defenders and Promoters
Human Rights Defenders and Promoters
Human Rights Defenders and Promoters was formed in 2002 in Burma to raise awareness among the people of Burma about their human rights and help them conduct advocacy....
U.S. Campaign for Burma
U.S. Campaign for Burma
The United States Campaign for Burma is a U.S.-based membership organization dedicated to empowering grassroots activists around the world to bring about an end to the military dictatorship in Burma...
Women's League of Burma
Women's League of Burma
The Women's League of Burma is one of the many exiled, pro-democracy political movements in the region. With headquarters in Chang Mai, Thailand, the Women's League of Burma is an umbrella organization linking various women's ethnic minority organizations into a proactive organization fighting for...

Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

Child Welfare League of Canada
Child Welfare League of Canada
The Child Welfare League of Canada, or CWLC, is a membership based national organization dedicated to promoting the well-being and protection of vulnerable young people...

Chad
Chad
Chad , officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west...

Chadian Association for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights
Chadian Association for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights
The Association Tchadienne pour la Promotion et la Défense des Droits de l'Homme or Chadian Association for the Promotion and Defence of Human Rights is a human rights organization operating in Chad....

China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

Civil Human Rights Front
Civil Human Rights Front
Civil Human Rights Front or CHRF is an organization that focuses on the issues of Hong Kong politics and livelihood, affiliates almost all the pan-democratic camps in Hong Kong. Forty-eight NGOs and political groups have been involved in the organization as of January 2006...

(Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

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Empowerment and Rights Institute
Empowerment and Rights Institute
The Empowerment and Rights Institute is a Chinese non-governmental organization . The organization has worked with Human Rights issues in the People's Republic of China since 2003...
Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor
Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor
Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor is a local non-governmental organization which was established in April 1995. It aims at promoting better human rights protection in Hong Kong in the aspect of legislation and people's everyday life....

(Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

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Human Rights in China
Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy
Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy
The Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy is a human rights organization based in Hong Kong that provides information human rights abuses in mainland China for news outlets...
International Federation for Justice in China
Tibet:
- Free Tibet Campaign
  Free Tibet Campaign
  Free Tibet or Free Tibet Campaign is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, founded in 1987 and based in London, England. It stands for the rights of Tibetans to determine their own future and campaigns for "an end to the Chinese occupation of Tibet and for the fundamental human rights of...
- International Campaign for Tibet
  International Campaign for Tibet
  The International Campaign for Tibet is a private non-profit advocacy group working to promote democratic freedoms for Tibetans, ensure their human rights, and protect the Tibetan culture and environment. Founded in 1988, ICT is the world's largest Tibet-related NGO, with a total membership of...
- Political Prisoners Movement of Tibet
  Political Prisoners Movement of Tibet
  The GuChuSum Political Prisoners Movement of Tibet is an organization of Tibetan exiles. Established on September 27, 1991, by self-designated former political prisoners, the words "Gu Chu Sum" stand for the numbers 9, 10 and 3, which mark three months in modern Tibetan history—September 1987,...
- Students for a Free Tibet
  Students for a Free Tibet
  Students For a Free Tibet is a global grassroots network of students and activists working in solidarity with the Tibetan people for human rights and freedom. The group uses education, advocacy, and nonviolent direct action with the goal of achieving Tibetan independence...

Cyprus
Cyprus
Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

KISA (NGO)
KISA (NGO)
The Movement for Equality, Support, Anti-Racism , is a Cypriot Non-Governmental Organisation. It was founded in 1998 in response to changes in Cypriot society, which saw large waves of immigration from Eastern European and Third World countries....

(Movement for Equality, Support, Anti-Racism)

Democratic Republic of the Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a state located in Central Africa. It is the second largest country in Africa by area and the eleventh largest in the world...

RAID (NGO)
RAID (NGO)
RAID is an abbreviation of Rights & Accountability in Development. It is a Non-governmental organization, or NGO, based in Oxford, England. It was founded in 1997, with the aim of promoting "a rights-based approach to development".- Work :...

Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights
Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights is an independent Egyptian human rights organization, established in 2002.-Vision and Mandate:...

France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

GISTI
GISTI
GISTI is a French non-profit human rights organization created in 1972 to protect the legal and political rights of foreigners and immigrants and to advocate freedom of movement across borders....
Human Rights League
Human Rights League
Several organisations are named Human Rights League in English:* Registered with the International Federation of Human Rights, abbreviated from its name in French as FIDH, established in 1922 and having its headquarters in Paris...

(Ligue des droits de l'homme)
MRAP (French NGO)
SOS Racisme
SOS Racisme
SOS Racisme is a French anti-racist NGO, founded in 1984. Its Spanish counterpart, SOS Racismo, is based in Barcelona.-Activities:SOS Racisme's main goal is to fight racial discrimination. Often the plaintiff in discrimination trials, the organization also offers support to immigrants and racial...

Guatemala
Guatemala
Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast...

ADIVIMA
Adivima
ADIVIMA is a non-profit Human rights organization in Guatemala that works to find solutions to the social, economic, political, cultural, and educational problems that resulted from the Guatemalan Civil War...
HIJOS
HIJOS
HIJOS is an acronym for Hijos por la Identidad y la Justicia contra el Olvido y el Silencio . It is the name of organizations of the children of people who were "disappeared" in Argentina and in Guatemala. The Argentine organization was founded in 1995 in Córdoba and La Plata...
NISGUA
NISGUA
The Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala is a U.S.-based human rights NGO that was created in 1981 with the intention of fighting for human rights in Guatemala. With offices in Oakland, CA and in Guatemala City, NISGUA works to coordinate local grassroots campaigns on both sides in...

India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

Human Rights Protection Group
Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti
Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti
Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti , , is a regional non-profit human rights NGO in Assam. It was founded in 1991 by Parag Kumar Das along with a group of intellectuals and journalists of Assam...

(MASS)
Confederation of Human Rights Organizations
Confederation of Human Rights Organizations
Confederation of Human Rights Organizations is a human rights organisation based in Kerala, India which watches human rights and human rights violations in Kerala and also all over India....
Forum for Fact-finding Documentation and Advocacy
Human Rights Documentation Centre
Human Rights Documentation Centre
The Human Rights Documentation Centre based in Delhi, India is a non-governmental organization supporting human rights. It has a sister organisation, the South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre with which it publishes a journal Human Rights Features .-External links:* *...
International Human Rights Association (IHRA)
International Human Rights Association (IHRA)
International Human Rights Association is a non-profit voluntary organization working in the cause of down trodden and suppressed people without regard to their background.- Vision & Mission :Beware Of David Raj...
National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights
National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights
National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights is an Indian non-party based secular platform with offices in 14 states of the country. The objectives of NCDHR are the following: to hold the State accountable for all Human Rights violations committed against Dalits; to sensitize civil society by raising...
Vigil India Movement
Vigil India Movement
Vigil India Movement is a non-governmental organization based in Bangalore that aims to protect and promote human rights in India. Founded in 1977, it is one of the country's leading human rights organizations focusing on the rights of Dalits, tribals, children and women.It was founded by Rev. Dr....
Kashmir Human Rights Commission
Kashmir Human Rights Commission
The Kashmir Human Rights Commission is an organisation working for the protection of human rights in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. It extends its activities to both the Indian and Pakistan administered parts of the State....

Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

Defenders of Human Rights Center
Defenders of Human Rights Center
The Defenders of Human Rights Center is Iran's leading human rights organization.-Organization:...
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center is a registered non-profit organization based in New Haven, Connecticut. HRDC was founded in 2004 by a group of human rights scholars, activists, and historians to document the patterns of human rights abuse in Iran and to promote accountability, a...

Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

/Palestine
Palestinian territories
The Palestinian territories comprise the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Since the Palestinian Declaration of Independence in 1988, the region is today recognized by three-quarters of the world's countries as the State of Palestine or simply Palestine, although this status is not recognized by the...

Israel:
- Rabbis for Human Rights
  Rabbis for Human Rights
  Rabbis for Human Rights-Israel is an Israeli human rights organisation describing itself as "the rabbinic voice of conscience in Israel, giving voice to the Jewish tradition of human rights"....
- Machsom Watch
  Machsom Watch
  Machsom Watch, or Checkpoint Watch is a group of Israeli women who monitor checkpoints in the West Bank and the military courts, out of opposition to the Israeli occupation...
- Association for Civil Rights in Israel
  Association for Civil Rights in Israel
  The Association for Civil Rights in Israel was created as an independent non-partisan organization to protect human rights and civil rights in Israel and the territories under its control....
- B'Tselem
  B'Tselem
  B'Tselem is an Israeli non-governmental organization . It calls itself "The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories"...
- Physicians for Human Rights-Israel
  Physicians for Human Rights-Israel
  Physicians for Human Rights-Israel , known in Israel as PHR-I, is a non-governmental, non-profit, humanitarian organization based in Jaffa...
Palestinian territories:
- Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
  Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
  The Al Mezan Center for Human Rights is a nongovernmental organization based in the Jabalia Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. Al Mezan was chartered "to promote, protect and prevent violations of human rights in general and economic, social and cultural rights in particular, to provide...
  
  (Gaza Strip
  Gaza Strip
  thumb|Gaza city skylineThe Gaza Strip lies on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. The Strip borders Egypt on the southwest and Israel on the south, east and north. It is about long, and between 6 and 12 kilometres wide, with a total area of...
  
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- Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights
  Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights
  The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment was "dedicated to preserving human rights through legal advocacy." Also known as LAW , this legal society is an affiliate to the International Commission of Jurists , The World Organization Against Torture and the...
- Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights
  Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights
  Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights is a non-profit, student-based organization that advocates on a strong social justice platform to uphold the rights of the Palestinian people...

Kenya
Kenya
Kenya , officially known as the Republic of Kenya, is a country in East Africa that lies on the equator, with the Indian Ocean to its south-east...

Cemiride
Cemiride
CEMIRIDE is an acronym for Centre for Minority Rights Development, a Non-Governmental Organization in Kenya. CEMIRIDE is an advocacy body that works on issues minorities and indigenous people in Africa....

Lebanon
Lebanon
Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies. The term Lebanese Republic, a literal translation of the official Arabic and French names that is not used in today's world. Arabic is the most common language spoken among...

Association Najdeh
Association Najdeh
Association Najdeh is an NGO involved with development and educational projects in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. It operates more exactly in and around the refugee camps...

Malawi
Malawi
The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. The country is separated from Tanzania and Mozambique by Lake Malawi. Its size...

Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation
Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation
The Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation, or CHRR, is a human rights non-governmental organisation in Malawi. It was founded in February 1995 as a non-profit, apolitical, voluntary organization registered under the Trustees Incorporation Act of 1962...

Malaysia

HINDRAF
HINDRAF
HINDRAF or Hindu Rights Action Force ; Chinese:兴权 with its slogan of People's Power மக்கள் சக்தி ) began as a coalition of 30 Hindu non-governmental organizations committed to the preservation of Hindu community rights and heritage in a multiracial Malaysia...
National Human Rights Society
National Human Rights Society
The National Human Rights Society , better known locally as Hakam, is a human rights non-governmental organization that works on human rights issues in Malaysia. Hakam is considered to be one of the most vocal human rights NGOs in Malaysia....

Mali
Mali
Mali , officially the Republic of Mali , is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Its size is just over 1,240,000 km² with...

Association Malienne des Droits de l'Homme
Association Malienne des Droits de l'Homme
Association Malienne des Droits de l'Homme is a Malian non-profit human rights non-governmental organization founded in Bamako, Mali on December 11, 1988. As of 2006, its president is Moustapha Cisse....

Mauritania
Mauritania
Mauritania is a country in the Maghreb and West Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Western Sahara in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and by Senegal in the southwest...

Association Mauritanienne des Droits de l'Homme
Association Mauritanienne des Droits de l'Homme
Association Mauritanienne des Droits de l'Homme ' is aMauritanian non-profit human rights non-governmental organization founded in 1991 Mauritania. As of 2006, its president is Fatimata Mbaye....

Morocco
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...

Association Marocaine des Droits Humaine
Conseil Consultatif des Droits de l'Homme
Conseil Consultatif des Droits de l'Homme
Conseil Consultatif des Droits de l’Homme is a Moroccan governmental human rights body founded by late King Hassan II of Morocco by a royal decree in 1990....
Sahrawi Association of Victims of Grave Human Rights Violations Committed by the Moroccan State
Sahrawi Association of Victims of Grave Human Rights Violations Committed by the Moroccan State
Asociación Saharaui de Víctimas de Violaciones Graves de los Derechos Humanos Cometidas por el Estado Marroquí Asociación Saharaui de Víctimas de Violaciones Graves de los Derechos Humanos Cometidas por el Estado Marroquí Asociación Saharaui de Víctimas de Violaciones Graves de los Derechos Humanos...

Niger
Niger
Niger , officially named the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east...

Timidria
Timidria
Timidria is the name of an NGO for human rights in Niger, founded by Ilguilas Weila. Timidria is dedicated to the eradication of slavery in Niger.Timidria was formed in 1991 and the name means 'solidarity' in Tamajaq...

North Korea
North Korea
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , , is a country in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. Its capital and largest city is Pyongyang. The Korean Demilitarized Zone serves as the buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea...

Liberty in North Korea
Liberty in North Korea
Liberty in North Korea is a grassroots organization in North America working full-time on the North Korean human rights issue. LiNK is headquartered in Torrance, California, USA with affiliates and chapters all over the world.-Mission:...
Chosun Journal
Chosun Journal
The Chosun Journal is an independent, non-profit website that networks communities for human rights in North Korea. It was started in February 2001 and purports to be North Korea's first virtual holocaust museum set in real-time....

Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

Human Rights Organization of Pakistan
Human Rights Organization of Pakistan
The Human Rights Organization Of Pakistan Urdu: اداره حقوق انسانى پاكستان or HROOP, is an independent, non-profit organization , founded in 2009,made by Old Ravian's and Government approval number RP/4742/L/S/09/118.Which is not associated or affiliated with the any political party.Where the...

Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines
Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines
The Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines is a small but highly active human rights watchdog based in the United Kingdom...
Philippines-Canada Task Force on Human Rights
Philippines-Canada Task Force on Human Rights
The Philippines-Canada Task Force on Human Rights is a Canadian Human Rights group which expresses solidarity with the Filipino people.-History:...

Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

Glasnost Defense Foundation
Glasnost Defense Foundation
Glasnost Defense Foundation is a non-profit organization with the stated goals are the defense of journalists, journalism, and the freedom of expression in Russia...
Moscow Research Center for Human Rights
Moscow Research Center for Human Rights
The Moscow Research Center for Human Rights is "a union of independent non-governmental organizations whose work covers a wide range of human rights issues, provides central coordination for and development of the human rights movement in Russia."...
SOVA Center
SOVA Center
The SOVA Center for Information and Analysis is a human rights nongovernmental organization andthink tank that conducts sociological research on development of nationalism and racism in post-Soviet Russia.- History and Structure :...
Chechnya
Chechnya
The Chechen Republic , commonly referred to as Chechnya , also spelled Chechnia or Chechenia, sometimes referred to as Ichkeria , is a federal subject of Russia . It is located in the southeastern part of Europe in the Northern Caucasus mountains. The capital of the republic is the city of Grozny...

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- Chechnya Advocacy Network
  Chechnya Advocacy Network
  Chechnya Advocacy Network is a United States-based non-government organization that conducts research, awareness, and advocacy on Chechnya and the Chechen people. It is the largest Chechnya-specific organization in North America. Its headquarters is located in New York City, with branch offices in...

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , commonly known in British English as Saudi Arabia and in Arabic as as-Sa‘ūdiyyah , is the largest state in Western Asia by land area, constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and the second-largest in the Arab World...

National Society for Human Rights
National Society for Human Rights
The National Society for Human Rights is a Saudi Arabian human rights organisation closely associated with the Saudi government and established on 10 March 2004, two years after the Human Rights First Society applied unsuccessfully for a licence...

Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...

Home for Human Rights
Home for Human Rights
The Home for Human Rights is one of Sri Lanka's oldest human rights organizations. It was established in 1977, They have been working to defend the fundamental human rights of Sri Lankans in the courts and their communities...
NESOHR
NESOHR
The NorthEast Secretariat on Human Rights was established as part of the Norway facilitated peace process to improve human rights in North East of Sri Lanka on July 9, 2004, in Kilinochchi....
University Teachers for Human Rights
University Teachers for Human Rights
For the figure in Norse mythology, see UrðrThe University Teachers for Human Rights or UTHR was formed in 1988 at the University of Jaffna, Jaffna in Sri Lanka as part of the national organization University Teachers for Human Rights. Its public activities as a constituent part of university life...

Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

Stepchildren of Society
Stepchildren of Society
Stepchildren of Society is a Swedish NGO for adult persons who as children were taken into custody by society and placed in orphanages and foster homes...

Syria
Syria
Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

al-Marsad
Al-Marsad
Al-Marsad – The Arab Center for Human Rights in the Golan Heights is an independent human rights organization that operates in the Golan Heights...

Sudan
Sudan
Sudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...

Hiwaar Organisation For Human Rights

Tunisia
Tunisia
Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...

Tunisia Monitoring Group
Tunisia Monitoring Group
The Tunisia Monitoring Group is a coalition of 21 free expression organisations that belong to the International Freedom of Expression Exchange , a global network of non-governmental organisations that promotes and defends the right to freedom of expression and freedom of the press.The IFEX-TMG...

Uganda
Uganda
Uganda , officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. Uganda is also known as the "Pearl of Africa". It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by South Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by...

Uganda Conflict Action Network
Uganda Conflict Action Network
The Uganda Conflict Action Network was an advocacy organization seeking to raise awareness of the suffering caused by the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency of northern Uganda...

Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...

Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group
Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group
The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group is one of the oldest and most active Ukrainian human rights organizations. As a legal entity, it was established in 1992, but it has been working as a human rights protection group since 1988 under the Society "Memorial", a first official human rights...
Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union
Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union
All-Ukrainian Association of Public Organizations Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union was founded by 15 public human rights organizations on 1 April 2004...

United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

Liberty (pressure group)
Liberty (pressure group)
Liberty is a pressure group based in the United Kingdom. Its formal name is the National Council for Civil Liberties . Founded in 1934 by Ronald Kidd and Sylvia Crowther-Smith , the group campaigns to protect civil liberties and promote human rights...
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

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- Committee on the Administration of Justice
  Committee on the Administration of Justice
  CAJ is an independent human rights organisation with cross community membership in Northern Ireland and beyond. It was established in 1981 and lobbies and campaigns on a broad range of human rights issues...

United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

Center for Constitutional Rights
Center for Constitutional Rights
Al Odah v. United States:Al Odah is the latest in a series of habeas corpus petitions on behalf of people imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay detention center. The case challenges the Military Commissions system’s suitability as a habeas corpus substitute and the legality, in general, of detention at...
Citizens Justice Association
Citizens Justice Association
The Citizens Justice Association is a non-profit, legal reform, and pro-se training organization founded in September 2010, by Hull, Massachusetts lawyer David Grossack....
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is a non-profit strategy and action center based in Oakland, CA. The stated aim of the center is to work for justice, opportunity and peace in urban America....
Empowering Spirits Foundation
Empowering Spirits Foundation
The Empowering Spirits Foundation , Inc. is a national non-profit, non-partisan lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender civil rights organization in the United States...
Human Rights Campaign
Human Rights Campaign
The Human Rights Campaign is the United States' largest LGBT advocacy group and lobbying organization; according to the HRC, it has more than one million members and supporters...
Human Rights Commission of Salt Lake City
Human Rights Commission of Salt Lake City
The Human Rights Commission of Salt Lake City, Utah, is a commission that works with the city government on issues related to the human rights of its citizen.-Establishment:...
Human Rights First
Human Rights First
Human Rights First is a nonprofit, nonpartisan human rights organization based in New York City and Washington, D.C....
Humanitarian Law Project
Humanitarian Law Project
The Humanitarian Law Project is a U.S.-based non-profit organization organization, working to protect human rights and promote "the peaceful resolution of conflict by using established international human rights laws and humanitarian law."...
Jewish Voice for Peace
Jewish Voice for Peace
Jewish Voice for Peace is a United States Jewish organization which describes itself as "a diverse and democratic community of activists inspired by Jewish tradition to work together for peace, social justice, and human rights [to] support the aspirations of Israelis and Palestinians for security...
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
The Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute is a Berkeley, California-based non-profit corporation. MCLI was founded in 1965 .The Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute carries on a wide range of activities, including research, publication, advocacy, and education...
National Youth Rights Association
National Youth Rights Association
The National Youth Rights Association is the largest youth-led civil rights organization in the United States promoting youth rights, with approximately ten thousand members...
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law, often simply The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights or Lawyers' Committee, is a civil rights organization that was founded in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy.-Origins: 1963-1973:...
Society for Human Rights (Disbanded)
Southern Poverty Law Center
Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center is an American nonprofit civil rights organization noted for its legal victories against white supremacist groups; legal representation for victims of hate groups; monitoring of alleged hate groups, militias and extremist organizations; and educational programs that...
US Human Rights Network
US Human Rights Network
The US Human Rights Network is a national network composed of over 200 self-identified grassroots human rights organizations and over 700 individuals working to strengthen what they regard as the protection of human rights in the United States...
Workplace Fairness
Workplace Fairness
Workplace Fairness is a public education and advocacy organization, founded in 1994 as the National Employee Rights Institute.Workplace Fairness states its mission as follows: "Our goals are that workers and their advocates are educated about workplace rights and options for resolving workplace...

Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights
Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights is a not for profit human rights organization whose core objective is to foster a culture of human rights in Zimbabwe as well as encourage the growth and strengthening of human rights at all levels of Zimbabwean society through observance of the rule of...

United Nations Bodies

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is a United Nations agency that works to promote and protect the human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948...
United Nations Security Council
United Nations Security Council
The United Nations Security Council is one of the principal organs of the United Nations and is charged with the maintenance of international peace and security. Its powers, outlined in the United Nations Charter, include the establishment of peacekeeping operations, the establishment of...
Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
The Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights was a think tank of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights...
United Nations Human Rights Council
United Nations Human Rights Council
The United Nations Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the United Nations System. The UNHRC is the successor to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights , and is a subsidiary body of the United Nations General Assembly...
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
United Nations Commission on Human Rights
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights was a functional commission within the overall framework of the United Nations from 1946 until it was replaced by the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2006...

(disbanded)
International Criminal Court
International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court is a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression .It came into being on 1 July 2002—the date its founding treaty, the Rome Statute of the...
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media functions as a watchdog on media developments in all 56 participating States of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe...
UNESCO
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...
United Nations Parliamentary Assembly
United Nations Parliamentary Assembly
A United Nations Parliamentary Assembly is a proposed addition to the United Nations System that would allow for participation of member nations' legislators and, eventually, direct election of United Nations parliament members by citizens worldwide...

Human rights treaty bodies

Human Rights Committee
Human Rights Committee
The United Nations Human Rights Committee is a United Nations body of 18 experts that meets three times a year for four-week sessions to consider the five-yearly reports submitted by 162 UN member states on their compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,...
Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
Committee Against Torture
Committee on the Rights of the Child
Committee on the Rights of the Child
The Committee on the Rights of the Child is a body of independent experts that monitors and reports on implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child by governments that ratify the Convention...

Other multilateral organisations