List of human rights organisations
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.
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International Non-governmental organizations
- Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor
- Amazon Watch
- Amnesty International
- Anti-Slavery International
- Article 19
- Avocats Sans Frontières
- Breakthrough (human rights)
- CARE
- 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)
- Civil Rights Defenders
- Coalition for the International Criminal Court
- HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTION COUNCIL OF INDIA
- Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
- CryptoRights Foundation
- Cultural Survival
- Disabled Peoples' International
- Enough Project
- Equality Now
- Every Human Has Rights
- Forum 18
- Fourth Estate (association)
- Free the Slaves
- Freedom from Torture
- Freedom House
- Friends of Peoples Close to Nature
- Front Line Defenders
- Society for Threatened Peoples
- GIRCA
- Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
- 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 First
- Human Rights Foundation
- Human Rights Internet
- Human Rights Watch
- Human Rights Without Frontiers
- HURIDOCS
- International Human Rights Association (IHRA)
- 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 Disability Alliance
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- 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 organizations not included in this list; now bankrupt due to fraud)
- International Humanist and Ethical Union
- International Human Rights Defence Committee. IHRDC-CIPDH
- International Institute of Human Rights
- International League for Human Rights
- International Movement ATD Fourth World
- 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
- Mind Freedom International
- Minority Rights Group International
- National Labor Committee in Support of Human and Worker Rights
- Network for Education and Academic Rights
- No Peace Without Justice
- 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 RINJ Foundation
- The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention
- The Youth Cafe
- Tostan
- Transparency International
- UN Watch
- UNITED for Intercultural Action
- Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
- World Council of Churches
- World Organization Against Torture
- Witness (human rights group)
- Womankind Worldwide
- World Future Council
- World Organization Against Torture
- Youth for Human Rights International
- National Association of Seadogs
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 Forum for Human Rights and Development (Asia)
- 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 Human Rights Society (Europe)
- 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)
- Regional Council on Human Rights in Asia (Southeast Asia)
- Unimondo (southeastern Europe)
- Washington Office on Latin America (Latin America)
- The Youth Cafe (Africa)
Non-governmental organisations with a national focus
For governmental national human rights organisations see national human rights institution.
Chile
- Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared (AFDD; 1974)[1]
- Chilean Human Rights Commission (1978)[1]
- Commission for the Rights of the People (CODEPU; 1980)[1]
- Committee of Cooperation for Peace in Chile (1973–1975)[1]
- Committee for the Defense of Human Rights (Chile) (CODEH; 1970)[2]
- Committee for the Defense of Human and Workers' Rights (CODEHS; 1978)
- Commission for Historical Truth and a New Treaty with Indigenous Peoples
- Families of the Executed for Political Reasons (1974)[1]
- Foundation for the Protection of Children Damaged by the States of Emergency (PIDEE; 1979)
- Foundation for Social Assistance of the Christian Churches (FASIC; 1975)[1]
- National Commission Against Torture[1]
- National Institute of Human Rights (Chile) (INDH; 2005)
- National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation (1990–1991); better known as the Rettig Commission
- Sebastian Acevedo Movement Against Torture (MCTSA; 1983–1990)[1]
- Vicariate of Solidarity (1976–1990)[1]
France
- GISTI
- Human Rights League (Ligue des droits de l'homme)
- MRAP (French NGO)
- SOS Racisme
Israel
Palestinian territories
Mexico
Pakistan
- Asian Human Rights Development Organization
- Pakistan International Human Rights Organization
Philippines
- Amnesty International Philippines
- Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances (AFAD)
- Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines
- Free Legal Assistance Group (FLAG)
- International Peace Observers Network (IPON)
- Karapatan
- Nonviolent Peaceforce
- Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates (PAHRA)
- Philippine Human Rights Information Center (PhilRights)
- Philippines-Canada Task Force on Human Rights
- Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP)
Poland
- Movement for Defense of Human and Civic Rights (20th century)
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 First
- 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
- Physicians for Human Rights
- 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)
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
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
See also
References
- Ensalaco, Mark (2000). Chile Under Pinochet: Recovering the Truth. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 59–60. ISBN 0-8122-3520-7. OCLC 460219602. Retrieved 21 September 2018.
- Cleary, Edward L. (1997). "4 Contemporary Democracy and the Efflorescence of Human Rights Organizing". The Struggle for Human Rights in Latin America. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-275-95980-7. OCLC 875522486. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
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