# List of human rights organisations

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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 non-governmental organizations

* Amazon Watch
* Amnesty International
* Anti-Slavery International
* Article 19
* Avocats Sans Frontières
* Breakthrough
* CARE
* Cara (the Council for At-Risk Academics)
* Carter Center
* CCJO René Cassin
* Center for Economic and Social Rights
* Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law
* Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)
* Civil Rights Defenders
* Coalition for the International Criminal Court
* Committee to Protect Journalists
* Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
* CryptoRights Foundation
* Cultural Survival
* Disabled Peoples' International
* Doctors without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)
* 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
* Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
* Global Rights
* Gypsy International Recognition and Compensation Action
* Habitat International Coalition
* Helsinki Committee for Human Rights
* Helsinki Watch
* Hindu American Foundation
* Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation
* Humanists International
* Human Rights First
* Human Rights Foundation
* Human Rights Internet
* Human Rights Watch
* Human Rights Without Frontiers International
* HURIDOCS
* IFEX
* Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission
* 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 Committee of the Red Cross (private, sovereign organisation)
* International Crisis Group
* International Disability Alliance
* International Federation for Human Rights
* International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
* International Foundation for Human Rights and Tolerance
* International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (federation of 15 other human rights organizations not included in this list; now bankrupt due to fraud)
* 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 Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
* International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
* International Rescue Committee
* International Service for Human Rights
* International Society for Human Rights
* International Tibet Network
* International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
* Islamic Human Rights Commission
* JUSTICE
* MindFreedom 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 Human Rights
* Save the Children
* Scholars at Risk
* Scholar Rescue Fund
* Shia Rights Watch
* Society for Threatened Peoples
* Stop Killer Robots
* Survival International
* Tahirih Justice Center
* The Advocacy Project
* The RINJ Foundation
* The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention
* Tostan
* Transparency International
* UN Watch
* UNITED for Intercultural Action
* Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
* World Council of Churches
* World Organization Against Torture
* WITNESS
* Womankind Worldwide
* World Future Council
* World Organization Against Torture
* Youth for Human Rights International

## 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 of Europe (Europe) (is actually a intergovernmental organization financed by its 46 member states, not a NGO)
* Council on Hemispheric Affairs (Americas)
* Ecumenical Center for Human Rights (Americas)
* EuroMed Rights (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 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.

### Argentina

* HIJOS
* Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
* Movimiento Judío por los Derechos Humanos

### Armenia

* Europe in Law Association
* Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly–Vanadzor
* Helsinki Committee of Armenia
* Open Society Foundations–Armenia
* PanEuropa Armenia
* Pink Armenia
* Right Side NGO
* Union of Informed Citizens

### Australia

* Castan Centre for Human Rights Law
* Human Rights Law Centre

### 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

### Belgium

* Association belge des familles des disparus
* Liga voor Mensenrechten
* Ligue des droits de l'homme

### Bosnia and Herzegovina

* Association for Social Research and Communications (UDIK)

### Burma (Myanmar)

* Burma Campaign UK
* Canadian Friends of Burma
* Free Burma Rangers
* Human Rights Defenders and Promoters
* Karen Human Rights Group
* 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

### Chile

* Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared (AFDD; 1974)
* Committee of Cooperation for Peace in Chile (1973–1975)
* National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation (1990–1991); better known as the Rettig Commission
* Vicariate of Solidarity (1976–1990)

### 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

    Further information: Human rights in Tibet
   * Free Tibet
   * International Campaign for Tibet
   * Political Prisoners Movement of Tibet
   * Students for a Free Tibet
   * Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy

### Colombia

* CREDHOS, Regional Corporation for the Defence of Human Rights (Spanish: Corporación Regional para la Defensa de los Derechos Humanos). NGO founded in 1987 in response to the humanitarian crisis in the Magdalena Medio region.

### Egypt

* Arabic Network for Human Rights Information
* Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights
* Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights
* Egyptian Organization for Human Rights
* Hisham Mubarak Law Center
* National Council for Human Rights
* Shayfeencom

### Eritrea

* Human Rights Concern Eritrea

### Ethiopia

* Ethiopian Human Rights Council
* KMG Ethiopia

### France

* GISTI
* Human Rights League (Ligue des droits de l'homme)
* MRAP (French NGO)
* SOS Racisme

### Guatemala

* ADIVIMA
* HIJOS

### Iceland

* Icelandic Human Rights Centre

### India

* Confederation of Human Rights Organizations
* Forum for Fact-finding Documentation and Advocacy
* Honour for Women National Campaign
* Human Rights Documentation Centre
* Kashmir Human Rights Commission
* Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti
* National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights
* Vigil India Movement

### Iran

* NUFDI
* ADFI
* Defenders of Human Rights Center
* Iran Human Rights Documentation Center

### Israel

* Adalah (legal center)
* Association for Civil Rights in Israel
* B'Tselem
* Jerusalem Institute of Justice
* Machsom Watch
* Rabbis for Human Rights
* Physicians for Human Rights–Israel
* Yesh Din

### Italy

* Emergency

### Kenya

* Cemiride
* Awareness Against Human Trafficking (HAART)
* Kenya Human Rights Commission

### Lebanon

* Association Najdeh

### Malawi

* Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation

### Malaysia

* Bersih
* Lawyers for Liberty
* Malaysians Against Death Penalty & Torture
* National Human Rights Society
* Sisters in Islam
* Suara Rakyat Malaysia
* Women's Aid Organisation

### Mali

* Association Malienne des Droits de l'Homme

### Mauritania

* Association Mauritanienne des Droits de l'Homme
* https://liberals-mauritania.org

### 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

### Nepal

* Amnesty Nepal
* INSEC
* THRD Alliance

### Niger

* Timidria

### Nigeria

* Devatop Centre for Africa Development
* National Association of Seadogs
* Youths For Human Rights Protection And Transparency Initiative
* Hope Behind Bars Africa

### North Korea

* Chosun Journal
* Liberty in North Korea

### Pakistan

* Asian Human Rights Development Organization

### Palestine

* Al Haq (West Bank)
* Al Qaws (Queer)
* Aswat (feminist)
* Al Mezan Center for Human Rights (Gaza Strip)
* B'Tselem (Israeli organisation focused on Palestine)

### Peru

* Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos

### Philippines

* Amnesty International Philippines
* Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances
* Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines
* Free Legal Assistance Group
* International Peace Observers Network
* Karapatan
* Nonviolent Peaceforce
* Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates
* Philippine Human Rights Information Center
* Philippines–Canada Task Force on Human Rights
* Task Force Detainees of the Philippines

### 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

* ALQST
* Association for the Protection and Defense of Women's Rights in Saudi Arabia
* Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia
* European Saudi Organisation for Human Rights
* Human Rights First Society
* Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association
* Society for Development and Change

### South Korea

* Database Center for North Korean Human Rights

### Sri Lanka

* Home for Human Rights
* NESOHR
* University Teachers for Human Rights

### Sweden

* Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

### Syria

* al-Marsad

### Taiwan

* Taiwan Association for Human Rights

### Thailand

* Amnesty International Thailand
* Anjaree
* EMPOWER

### Tunisia

* Tunisia Monitoring Group

### Uganda

* Resolve Uganda

### Ukraine

* Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group
* Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union

### United Kingdom

* Liberty
* Peter Tatchell Foundation
* Northern Ireland:
** Committee on the Administration of Justice

### 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 Initiative of North Texas
* Humanitarian Law Project
* International Justice Mission
* Jewish Voice for Peace
* Justice For All
* Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
* National Youth Rights Association
* Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice
* Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
* 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)

### 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
* 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