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 organisations of the world. It does not include political parties, or academic institutions. The list includes both secular and religious organisations.

International (worldwide) non-governmental organisations

• Amnesty International
• Anti-Slavery International
• Avocats Sans Frontières
• Beacon EqualityWatch
• BeaconWatch Internation
• Breakthrough (human rights)
• Carter Center
• CCJO René Cassin
• Center for Economic and Social Rights
• Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)
• Committee to Protect Journalists
• CryptoRights Foundation
• Disabled Peoples' International
• ECOTERRA Intl.
• Equality Now
• Every Human Has Rights
• Five Minutes to Midnight
• Food First Information and Action Network
• Forum 18
• Free the Slaves
• Freedom House
• Freedom Now
• Friends of Peoples Close to Nature
• GIRCA
• Habitat International Coalition
• Helsinki Committee for Human Rights
• Helsinki Watch
• Hindu American Foundation
• Hindu Human Rights
• Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation
• Human Rights Internet
• Mubashir Bhutta Human Rights
• Human Rights Defence
• Human Rights First
• Human Rights Foundation
• Human Rights Internet
• Human Rights Watch
• Human Rights Without Frontiers
• Indian Institute of Human Rights
• Institute for War and Peace Reporting
• Institute on Religion and Public Policy
• 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 of Human Rights
• International Federation of Human Rights Leagues
• International Foundation for Human Rights and Tolerance
• International Freedom of Expression Exchange
• International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
• 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 Association (IHRA)
• International Humanist and Ethical Union
• International Institute of Human Rights
• International League for Human Rights
• International Property Rights Index
• International Progress Organization
• International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
• 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
• No Sweat
• Norwegian Refugee Council
• Olof Palme International Centre
• Peace Brigades International
• People & Planet
• Physicians for Human Rights
• Point of Peace Foundation
• Release International
• Reporters Without Borders
• Reprieve
• Scholars At Risk
• Social Accountability International
• Society for Threatened Peoples
• Survival International
• Tahirih Justice Center
• The Advocacy Project
• The Strasbourgh Conference
• UN Watch
• UNITED for Intercultural Action
• Winston George Foundation and Governance Advisory (Global)
• 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 organisations

• Asian Human Rights Commission (Asia)
• Asian Centre for Human Rights (Asia)
• Asian Legal Resource Centre (Asia)
• Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (Commonwealth nations)
• Council on Hemispheric Affairs (Americas)

Crossroads

• 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)
• Incomindios Switzerland (Americas)
• Journalists for Human Rights (Africa)
• Kurdish Human Rights Project (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran & elsewhere)
• Memorial (Ex-USSR)
• 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 Watch Society
• 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

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
• International Federation for Justice in China
• Tibet:
  • Free Tibet Campaign
  • International Campaign for Tibet
  • Political Prisoners Movement of Tibet
  • Students for a Free Tibet
  • Tibetan Youth Congress

Democratic Republic of Congo

• RAID (NGO)

Egypt

• Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights

France

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

Guatemala

• HIJOS
• NISGUA

India

• MASS
• Confederation of Human Rights Organizations
• Forum for Fact-finding Documentation and Advocacy
• Human Rights Documentation Centre
• International Human Rights Association (IHRA)
• National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights
• Vigil India Movement
• Kashmir Human Rights Commission

Iran

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

Iraq

• Iraqi Committee For Personal Privacy and Freedom
• Iraqi Scientific Humanitarian Committee

Israel

• Rabbis for Human Rights
• Machsom Watch
• Palestinian territories:
  • Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (Gaza Strip)
  • Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights
  • Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights
  • Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights

Kenya

• Cemiride

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 de l'Homme
• 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

Pakistan

• Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
• Society for Human Rights and Prisoners Aid
• Divinity Objects of Vast Evolution (DOVE)

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

• National Society for Human Rights

Sri Lanka

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

Sweden

• Stepchildren of the state

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
• Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
• Human Rights Campaign
• Human Rights Commission of Salt Lake City
• Human Rights First
• Humanitarian Law Project
• Jewish Voice for Peace
• Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
• National Youth Rights Association
• Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• The Society for Human Rights (Disbanded)
• 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 Economic, Cultural and Social 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
• The Committee on Migrant Workers

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
• Commonwealth of Nations
• European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
• 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