|
Advocates for Religious Rights and Freedoms
|
ARRF is a consociation of ministers of the International Community of Christ that seeks to preserve, protect and defend freedom of religion and to protect the right of individuals to religious expression.
|
|
Anti-Defamation League
|
The mission of the ADL is to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment for all citizens alike.
|
|
Focus: HOPE
|
Non-profit civil and human rights organization based in Detroit that unites a multicultural community in common efforts to overcome injustice and build racial harmony.
|
|
Youth Coalition
|
An international coalition of young people committed to promoting adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive rights at the national, regional and international levels.
|
|
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
|
The CHRI is a non-partisan, independent, international non-governmental organization, mandated to ensure the practical realisation of human rights within the Commonwealth.
|
|
Penal Reform International (PRI)
|
Information about PRI's activities worldwide, and its ethos.
|
|
Jubilee Action
|
UK human rights charity supporting aid and awareness programmes for children and families at risk in places such as Burma, Brazil, the Philippines, Thailand, India and Liberia.
|
|
Rights International
|
US-based group, representing victims of human rights violations in international tribunals where governments violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other treaties.
|
|
Forefront
|
This membership network of nearly 60 leading grassroots human rights activists works in 30 different countries to develop effective ways to support and strengthen the work of grassroots human rights defenders by providing them with technical assistance, technology, networking and advocacy.
|
|
Magnacartaplus
|
Promotes civil liberties and provides a watch on any attempts by governments to reduce or interfere with such freedoms.
|
|
Migrants' Rights International (MRI)
|
Information and documents relating to the MRI organization, and its campaign to ratify the 1990 convention for migrants' human rights.
|
|
Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International
|
International human and civil rights organization advocating justice for all, for women and children's rights and against all forms of abuse and discrimination.
|
|
Witness
|
Uses video and other technology to fight for human rights. Group works in partnership with activists around the world to document abuses and bring evidence before courts, governments, the media, and the world.
|
|
Rights & Democracy
|
Canadian institution with an international mandate to promote human rights in four specific fields: women's rights, indigenous peoples' rights, democratic development, globalization. Works in Africa, Latin America and Asia. In English, French and Spanish languages.
|
|
International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
|
The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights is a self-governing group of non-governmental, not-for-profit organizations that act to protect human rights throughout Europe, North America, and the Central Asian republics formed from the territories of the former Soviet Union.
|
|
International Child Development Initiatives (ICDI)
|
Early childhood care, risk, child labour, education, abuse, nonformal education, international development, policy development, programme development, action research, NGO management.
|
|
The Social Justice Committee
|
From Montreal, this organization fights poverty and human rights abuses. Education and advocacy for human rights protection in Central America and Mexico, and for economic justice in the Third World.
|
|
Office of The Americas
|
Los Angeles-based organization documenting current events and political activism in North America and Latin America, including human rights, and United States foreign policy.
|
|
Derechos Human Rights
|
Internet based international human rights organization, working for the promotion and respect of human rights world-wide.
|
|
Physicians For Human Rights
|
Mobilizes health professions and the public to protect the human rights of all people. A founder of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, PHR shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize.
|
|
Digital Freedom Network
|
Promotes human rights world-wide, developing new methods of activism with internet technology.
|
|
Center for Democracy and Human Rights
|
CDRH presses for improvements in the human rights environment. Site includes daily news updates.
|
|
Freedom House
|
Dedicated to promoting free institutions worldwide. Publishes surveys detailing state of civil liberties, political rights, economic freedom, religious freedom, and press freedom around the world.
|
|
Universal Rights Network
|
Created to promote the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
|
|
Scholars at Risk Network
|
Aids scholars outside the United States whose work is threatened by mass or individual displacement, discrimination, censorship, harassment, intimidation, or violence.
|
|
François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
|
Academic center devoted to health and human rights, based at the Harvard School of Public Health. Programs focus on international health and human rights, humanitarian crises and human rights, and development and human rights.
|
|
The Advocacy Project
|
Supporting community campaigners with information and information technology in their work for social justice, human rights, and peace.
|
|
FreeEmigration.com
|
Highlights regimes with prohibitive emigration policies; promotes the principle of self-ownership central to human rights, and aims to contribute to the abolition of state enslavement.
|
|
MacArthur Justice Center
|
Non-profit public interest law firm affiliated with the University of Chicago Law School concentrating on cases that raise constitutional or significant issues about criminal justice.
|
|
World Commission For Peace and Human Rights Council
|
Addresses human rights generally, also landmines, and biological/chemical weapons.
|
|
Electronic Resource Centre for Human Rights Education and Training
|
An on-line repository of human rights education and training materials, on-line forums, databases and links to other organisations and resources.
|
|
Freedom in the World
|
Ranks all independent countries according their political freedoms and civil rights. Includes links to non-independent territories.
|
|
No Peace Without Justice
|
An international committee seeking an effective system of international justice. Goals include the development and reform of existing international institutions, to ensure that human rights are enforced, and to campaign for the establishment of an International Criminal Court.
|
|
The Thomas Paine Project
|
Promotes and supports range of issues important to the preservation of individual freedom; and attempts to identify and challenge individuals and organizations who would subvert the U.S. Bill of Rights for personal, private or political gain.
|
|
Coalition for the Defense of Human Rights
|
Represents minority religious and ethnic communities from around the world in opposition to radical Islamic intolerance and violence.
|
|
The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
|
This foundation seeks to combat indifference, intolerance and injustice. Established by Elie and Marion Wiesel after he was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace.
|
|
The Magnus Hirschfeld Centre for Human Rights
|
Non-governmental, non-profit, voluntary organization engaged in the promotion of human rights and civil liberties under international law.
|
|
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
|
Researches policies and actions of governments, international organizations, and independent actors that affect human rights globally.
|
|
Andrei Sakharov Archives and Human Rights Center
|
Papers, photos, audio and video material are kept at this archives hosted by Brandeis University. Information about Sakharov and links to articles and websites.
|
|
Campaign for UC Divestment from Israel
|
University of California divestment petition website. Goal is to pressure Israel to respect the human rights of the Palestinian people.
|
|
International League of Human Rights
|
Campaigns on international human rights issues. The site presents recent human rights news, and contains on-line copies of several reports.
|
|
The Dui Hua Foundation
|
A non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the protection of universally recognized human rights in China and in the United States.
|
|
World Goodwill
|
Working for Right Human Relations and world peace under the auspiciousness of Goodwill.
|
|
RESULTS
|
A nonprofit, grassroots citizens' lobby that identifies sustainable solutions to the problems of hunger and poverty as a human rights issue, in the United States and around the world and working to generate the resources necessary to make those solutions succeed.
|
|
Human Rights Brief
|
A legal resource for the international human rights community from the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Washington College of Law.
|
|
Hate-Crime Network
|
A resource for hate crime survivors, and those wanting to help fight hate crimes worldwide.
|
|
Center for Economic and Social Rights
|
An organization that protests economic injustice in the United States and around the world. Information on events and programs, fact sheets and other resources, and how to get involved.
|
|
International Justice Mission
|
Legal intervention and advocacy on behalf of victims of injustice internationally.
|
|
Jubilee Campaign USA
|
Advocates on behalf of persecuted Christians throughout the world. Supervises international and regional human rights projects.
|
|
Saving Women's Lives
|
Family Care International aims to raise awareness of human rights issues pertaining to reproductive health, safe motherhood, poverty and economic development, violence against women, women's social status and education.
|
|
Global Human Rights Defence
|
Promotes human rights throughout the world.
|
|
Human Security Bulletin
|
Promotes human security research and policy by presenting key research findings and resources on issues such as global security, human rights, the United Nations, and conflicts.
|
|
Rights and Humanity
|
Aims to prevent and relieve human suffering by the promotion and realisation of human rights and responsibilities. Based in Suffolk, UK.
|
|
WMD (Web Monitoring & Documentation)
|
A human rights defenders' initiatives to monitor and provide online documentation on the deliberations of the UN Commission on Human Rights.
|
|
Nuremberg Human Rights Center
|
Supports human rights worldwide. Site contains contact information and news from the institute's various areas of activity.
|
|
Human Rights First.
|
Works to protect and promote fundamental human rights. Its work is impartial, holding all governments accountable to the standards affirmed in the International Bill of Human Rights. Formerly called Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.
|
|
International Federation of Human Rights Leagues - FIDH
|
Organization promoting international solidarity for the implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international instruments of human rights protection.
|
|
International Society for Human Rights (ISHR)
|
A non-governmental, non-profit organisation provides details of education projects, international campaigns and other activities.
|
|
World Commission For Peace and Human Rights Council
|
Pakistan based Human Rights Organization with an international focus. Addresses human rights generally, and also landmines, and biological/chemical weapons.
|
|
RESULTS
|
Nonprofit, grassroots citizens's lobby working to create the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty, and committed to having individual citizens have a breakthrough in realizing their own personal and political power.
|
|
No Peace Without Justice
|
Campaign of the Transnational Radical Party for the establishment of the ICC and support of the ad hoc international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
|
|
Anti - Defamation League - ADL
|
Mission is to stop the defamation of the Jewish people, and secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike.
|
|
Anti-Defamation League
|
Monitoring hate groups. Also offering software that blocks children from accessing online hate web sites.
|
|
Hate Crime Documentation Network
|
National non-profit service for victims of hate crimes.
|
|
Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
|
Aims to stop the defamation of the Jewish people, and secure justice and fair treatment to all peoples.
|
|
Penal Reform International
|
Information about hundreds of thousands of people being held in prisons worldwide, many who are innocent.
|
|
International Justice Mission
|
IJM helps people suffering injustice and oppression who cannot rely on local authorities for relief. The agency documents and monitors conditions of abuse and oppression, educates the church and public about the abuses, and mobilizes intervention on behalf of the victims.
|
|
Focus: HOPE
|
A non-profit civil and human rights organization that unites a multicultural community in common efforts to overcome injustice and build racial harmony.
|
|
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
|
Researches policies and actions of governments, international organizations, and independent actors that affect human rights globally.
|
|
The Human Rights Brief
|
A publication reporting on and analyzing international humanitarian law and current human rights issues.
|
|
Andrei Sakharov Archives and Human Rights Center
|
Records regarding Andrei Sakharov, Elena Bonner, Vasilii Grossman, and human rights, held at Brandeis University.
|
