List of human rights organisations

See also: List of human rights articles by country and National human rights institutions

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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 organizations

• Amazon Watch
• Amnesty International
• Anti-Slavery International
• Article 19
• ASSAR
• 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)
• Committee to Protect Journalists
• CryptoRights Foundation
• Cultural Survival
• Disabled Peoples' International
• Equality Now
• Every Human Has Rights
• Forum 18
• Free the Slaves
• Freedom House
• Freedom Now
• 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
• Institute on Religion and Public Policy
• 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 Research
• International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances
• International Commission of Jurists
• International Committee of the Red Cross (private, sovereign organisation)
• 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 Human Rights Administration (IHRA)

• International Human Rights Association (IHRA)
• 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 Tibet Support Network
• International Service for Human Rights
• International Society for Human Rights
• International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
• Islamic Human Rights Commission
• JUSTICE
• Medical Foundation for Care of Victims of Torture
• 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
• Release International
• Reporters Without Borders
• Reprieve
• Scholars at Risk
• Scholar Rescue Fund
• Society for Threatened Peoples
• Survival International
• Tahirih Justice Center
• The Advocacy Project
• The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention
• UN Watch
• UNITED for Intercultural Action
• 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

International (regional) non-governmental organizations

• 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)
• [[Advance Studies on Social & Administrative Reforms ASSAR]] (Asia)
• Asian Legal Resource Centre (Asia)
• Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (Commonwealth nations)
• Council on Hemispheric Affairs (Americas)
• Derechos Human Rights (Latin America)
• 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)

International Human Rights Administration(India)

• 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.

Afghanistan

• Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission

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

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

Cambodia

• Cambodian Center for Human Rights

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

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• RAID (NGO)

Egypt

• Egyptian Initiative for Personal 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

International Human Rights Administration(IHRA)

• International Human Rights Association (IHRA)
• National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights
• Vigil India Movement
• Kashmir Human Rights Commission
• united youth human rights International

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
• Palestinian territories:
  • Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (Gaza Strip)
  • Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights
  • Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights

Kenya

• Cemiride

Lebanon

• Association Najdeh

Malawi

• Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation

Malaysia

• HINDRAF
• 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

• Asian-American Network Against Abuse of Human Rights
• Human Rights Organization of Pakistan
• Society for Human Rights and Prisoners' Aid

Philippines

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

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

• Center for Constitutional Rights
• Citizens Justice Association
• Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
• Empowering Spirits Foundation
• 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

International Human Rights Administration

• 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

0 International Human Rights Administration

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

International Human Rights Administration

See also

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