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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
  • Campaign to Stop Killer Robots
  • 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 Center
  • 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
  • Justice For All
  • 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
  • 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

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

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

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

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

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

Mexico

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

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

South Korea

Sri Lanka

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

Sweden

Syria

  • al-Marsad

Taiwan

  • Taiwan Association for Human Rights

Thailand

  • Amnesty International Thailand
  • Anjaree
  • EMPOWER

Tunisia

  • Tunisia Monitoring Group

Uganda

  • Resolve Uganda

Ukraine

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
  • Workplace Fairness

Venezuela

Zimbabwe

  • Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights

United Nations Bodies

Human rights treaty bodies

Other multilateral organisations

See also

  • List of human rights awards
  • List of civil rights leaders
  • List of indigenous rights organizations
  • List of LGBT rights organizations
  • List of women's organizations
  • List of women's conferences

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