List of human rights organisations

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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 Non-governmental organizations

• Amazon Watch
• Amnesty International
• Anti-Slavery International
• Article 19
• Avocats Sans Frontières
• Breakthrough (human rights)
• Carter Center
• CCJO René Cassin
• Center for Economic and Social Rights
• Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian law
• Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)
• Coalition for the International Criminal Court
• Committee to Protect Journalists
• Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
• CryptoRights Foundation
• Cultural Survival
• Disabled Peoples' International
• Enough Project
• Equality Now
• Every Human Has Rights
• Forum 18
• Free the Slaves
• Freedom from Torture
• Freedom House
• Friends of Peoples Close to Nature
• Society for Threatened Peoples
• GIRCA
• Global Rights
• Habitat International Coalition
• Helsinki Committee for Human Rights
• Helsinki Watch
• Hindu American Foundation
• Hindu Human Rights
• Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation
• Human Life International
• Human Rights Internet
• Human Rights Defence
• Human Rights First
• Human Rights Foundation
• Human Rights Internet
• Human Rights Watch
• Human Rights Without Frontiers
• Institute for War and Peace Reporting
• Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense
• International Alliance of Women
• International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists
• International Center for Transitional Justice
• International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development
• International Centre for Human Rights Research
• International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances
• International Commission of Jurists
• International Committee of the Red Cross (private, sovereign organisation)
• International Crisis Group
• International Federation for Human Rights
• International Foundation for Human Rights and Tolerance
• International Freedom of Expression Exchange
• International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (federation of 15 other human rights organisations not included in this list; now bankrupt due to fraud)
• International Humanist and Ethical Union
• International Institute of Human Rights
• International League for Human Rights
• International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR)
• International Property Rights Index
• International Progress Organization
• International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
• International Rescue Committee
• International Tibet Support Network
• International Service for Human Rights
• International Society for Human Rights
• International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
• Islamic Human Rights Commission
• JUSTICE
• MindFreedom International
• National Labor Committee in Support of Human and Worker Rights
• Network for Education and Academic Rights
• No Peace Without Justice
• No Sweat
• Norwegian Refugee Council
• Peace Brigades International
• People & Planet
• Physicians for Human Rights
• Point of Peace Foundation
• Protection International
• Refugees International
• Release International
• Reporters Without Borders
• Reprieve
• Redress Trust
• Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights
• Scholars at Risk
• Scholar Rescue Fund
• Shia Rights Watch
• Society for Threatened Peoples
• Survival International
• Tahirih Justice Center
• The Advocacy Project
• The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention
• UN Watch
• UNITED for Intercultural Action
• Universal Tolerance Organization
• World Council of Churches
• World Organisation Against Torture
• Witness (human rights group)
• Womankind Worldwide
• Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace
• World Future Council
• World Organisation Against Torture
• Youth for Human Rights International

Regional non-governmental organizations

• African Movement of Working Children and Youth (Africa)
• AIRE Centre (Europe)
• Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (Arab world)
• Arab Commission for Human Rights (Arab world)
• Asian Human Rights Commission (Asia)
• Asian Centre for Human Rights (Asia)
• Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (Commonwealth nations)
• Council on Hemispheric Affairs (Americas)
• Ecumenical Center for Human Rights (Americas)
• Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (Euro-Mediterranean region)
• European Roma Rights Centre (Europe)
• Federal Union of European Nationalities (Europe)
• Helsinki Citizens Assembly (Europe)
• Human Rights Foundation (Americas)
• Human Rights Trust of Southern Africa (Southern Africa)
• Incomindios Switzerland (Americas)
• International Association of Independent Journalists Inc. (Canada, England & elsewhere)
• Journalists for Human Rights (Africa)
• Kurdish Human Rights Project (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran & elsewhere)
• Memorial (Ex-USSR)
• Unimondo (southeastern Europe)
• Washington Office on Latin America (Latin America)

Non-governmental organisations with a national focus

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

Argentina

• HIJOS
• Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

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

Bangladesh

• Odhikar

Belgium

• Liga voor Mensenrechten
• Ligue des droits de l'homme

Burma (Myanmar)

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

Bulgaria

• Bulgarian Helsinki Committee

Cambodia

• Cambodian Center for Human Rights
• 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

China

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

  Tibet

• Free Tibet Campaign
• International Campaign for Tibet
• Political Prisoners Movement of Tibet
• Students for a Free Tibet

Egypt

• Arabic Network for Human Rights Information
• Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR)
• Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights
• Egyptian Organization for Human Rights
• Hisham Mubarak Law Center
• National Council for Human Rights

France

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

Guatemala

• ADIVIMA
• HIJOS
• NISGUA

India

• Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti (===MASS===)
• Confederation of Human Rights Organizations
• Forum for Fact-finding Documentation and Advocacy
• Human Rights Documentation Centre
• National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights
• Vigil India Movement
• Kashmir Human Rights Commission

Iran

• Defenders of Human Rights Center
• Iran Human Rights Documentation Center

Israel/Palestine

  Israel

• Rabbis for Human Rights
• Machsom Watch
• Association for Civil Rights in Israel
• B'Tselem
• Physicians for Human Rights-Israel
• Jerusalem Institute of Justice

  Palestinian territories

• Al-Haq
• Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (Gaza Strip)
• Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
• Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights
• Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights

Kenya

• Cemiride
• Awareness Against Human Trafficking (HAART)

Lebanon

• Association Najdeh

Malawi

• Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation

Malaysia

• Suara Rakyat Malaysia
• National Human Rights Society

Mali

• Association Malienne des Droits de l'Homme

Mauritania

• Association Mauritanienne des Droits de l'Homme

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

Niger

• Timidria

North Korea

• Liberty in North Korea
• Chosun Journal

Pakistan

• Human Rights Organization of Pakistan
• Asian Human Rights Development Organization

Philippines

• Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines
• Philippines-Canada Task Force on Human Rights

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

• Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia
• National Society for Human Rights

Sri Lanka

• Home for Human Rights
• NESOHR
• University Teachers for Human Rights

Sudan

• Sudan Organisation Against Torture

Sweden

• Stepchildren of Society

Syria

• al-Marsad

Tunisia

• Tunisia Monitoring Group

Uganda

• Uganda Conflict Action Network

Ukraine

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

United Kingdom

• Liberty (pressure group)
• Northern Ireland:
  • Committee on the Administration of Justice

United States

• ACLU
• Center for Constitutional Rights
• Citizens Justice Association
• Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
• Empowering Spirits Foundation
• Hands Up United
• Human Rights Campaign
• Human Rights Commission of Salt Lake City
• Human Rights First
• Human Rights Initiative of North Texas
• Humanitarian Law Project
• Jewish Voice for Peace
• Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
• National Youth Rights Association
• Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
• Society for Human Rights (Disbanded)
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• US Human Rights Network
• Workplace Fairness

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
• 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
• 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

See also

• List of civil rights leaders
• List of indigenous rights organizations
• List of LGBT rights organizations
• List of women's organizations

References

International human rights organisations and institutions Types Human rights group Human rights commission Human rights institutions Truth and reconciliation commission International institutions Committee on the Rights of the Child Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities International Criminal Court Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights UN Human Rights Committee UN Human Rights Council UN Security Council Regional bodies African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights African Court of Justice European Court of Human Rights European Committee for the Prevention of Torture Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Inter-American Court of Human Rights Multi-lateral bodies European Union Council of Europe Organisation of American States (OAS) UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) International Labour Organization (ILO) World Health Organization (WHO) UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) UN Population Fund (UNFPA) UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) UN Development Programme (UNDP) Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) Major NGOs Amnesty International FIDH Human Rights Watch International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Emergency NGO Human Rights First