List of human rights organisations

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 for Human Rights Research and Advocacy (CENTHRA)

Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)

Coalition for the International Criminal Court

Committee of Concerned Scientists

Committee to Protect Journalists

Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative

CryptoRights Foundation

Cultural Survival

Disabled Peoples' International

Enough Project

Equality Now

Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor

Every Human Has Rights

Forum 18

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

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 Commission-IHRC http://www.ihrchq.org

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

Mind Freedom International

Minority Rights Group International

National Labor Committee in Support of Human and Worker Rights

International Organization of Human Rights IOHR (OIDO)

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 Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention

Tostan

Transparency International

UN Watch

UNITED for Intercultural Action

Universal Tolerance Organization

World Council of Churches

World Organization Against Torture

Witness (human rights group)

Womankind Worldwide

Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace

World Future Council

World Organization Against Torture

Youth for Human Rights International

Gulshan-e-John

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 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)

Media Foundation for West Africa (West Africa)

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

Human Rights Foundation Legal Aid Center and Foundation ( newasok)

World Wide Human Rights Foundation

HEDS

Humanrights & Environment Development Society

Belgium

Liga voor Mensenrechten

Ligue des droits de l'homme

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Association for Social Research and Communications (UDIK)

Burma (Myanmar)

Burma Campaign UK

Rohingya Federation of Arakan, Burma

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

Shayfeencom

Hisham Mubarak Law Center

National Council for Human Rights

Arab Media Freedom Monitor

France

GISTI

Human Rights League (Ligue des droits de l'homme)

MRAP (French NGO)

SOS Racisme

Guatemala

ADIVIMA

HIJOS

NISGUA

India

Honour for Women National Campaign

Middle Finger Protests

Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti

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

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)

Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor

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

Tenaganita

Amnesty International Malaysia

Lawyers for Liberty

Persatuan Kesedaran Komuniti Selangor (EMPOWER)

Sisters in Islam

Women's Aid Organisation

Malaysian Centre for Constitutionalism and Human Rights

Pusat KOMAS

Jaringan Orang Asal Semalaysia

Centre for Orang Asli Concerns (COAC)

North-South Initiative

All Women's Action Society (AWAM)

Protect and Save the Children (P.S. The Children)

Bersih

ALIRAN

UNHCR Malaysia

Centre for Human Rights Research and Advocacy (CENTHRA)

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

Nigeria

Devatop Centre for Africa Development

Riverine Communities Health & Development Organization (RIVCHO)

Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice (ANEEJ)

Youths For Human Rights Protection And Transparency Initiative

North Korea

Liberty in North Korea

Chosun Journal

Pakistan

Human Rights Organization of Pakistan

Asian Human Rights Development Organization

Gulshan-e-John

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)

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

Sri Lanka Human Rights Organization

Sudan

Sudan Organisation Against Torture

Sweden

Stepchildren of Society

Syria

al-Marsad

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

Tunisia

Tunisia Monitoring Group

Uganda

Uganda Conflict Action Network

Mubende Human Rights

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

Amnesty International

Avaaz

Center for Constitutional Rights

Center for Victims of Torture

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

International Justice Mission

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