Reprieve is an organization of courageous and committed human rights defenders. Founded by British human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, it provides free legal and investigative support to some of the world’s most vulnerable people: those facing execution, and those victimized by states’ abusive counter-terror policies – rendition, torture, extrajudicial imprisonment and extrajudicial killing. Reprieve’s lawyers and investigators are supported by a community of people from all around the world, connected by a belief in human rights and justice. Together, they fight for the victims of extreme human rights abuses with a combination of public pressure and legal action.

Advocacy, Campaigns, Lobbying

Fighting state-sponsored human rights abuses

Australia, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States

Founded: 1999
Location (HQ): United Kingdom
Scope: Global
Focus area: Toture

Yes

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The Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that is actively working on protection and promotion of human rights in Bahrain. Despite an order by the authorities in November 2004 to close, the BCHR is still functioning after gaining a wide local and international support for its struggle to promote human rights in Bahrain. The organization’s mission is encourage and support individuals and groups to be proactive in the protection of their own and others’ rights and to struggle to promote democracy and human rights in accordance with international norms. To document and report on human rights violations in Bahrain. To use this documentation for advocacy to influence international policies according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For more than eleven years, the BCHR has carried out many projects, including advocacy, training, workshops, seminars, media campaigns and reporting to UN mechanisms and international NGOs. The BCHR has also participated in many regional an international conferences and workshops.

Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

Defending and promoting human rights in Bahrain

Bahrain, Denmark

Founded: 2002
Location (HQ): Bahrain
Scope: National
Focus area: All human rights

No

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Sarajevo Open Centre (SOC) is an independent feminist civil society organization that strives to empower lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and intersex (LGBTI) people and women through community empowerment and activist movement building. SOC also promotes the human rights of LGBTI people and women publicly and advocates on national, European and international level for improved legislation and policies in Bosnia and Herzegovina. By working on European integration issues, SOC is improving human rights in general and encouraging further the development of civil society.

Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

Sarajevo Open Centre advocates the full respect of human rights and social inclusion of LGBTI people and women.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Founded: 2007
Location (HQ): Bosnia and Herzegovina
Scope: National
Focus area: LGBT

No

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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide. It defends the right of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal. The CPJ is made up of about 40 experts around the world. When press freedom violations occur, CPJ mobilizes a network of correspondents who report and take action on behalf of those targeted. The CPJ reports on violations in repressive countries, conflict zones, and established democracies alike. A board of prominent journalists from around the world helps guide CPJ’s activities.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism

Defending Journalists Worldwide

United States

Founded: 1981
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: Expression

Yes

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The Advocates for Human Rights envisions a world in which every person lives with dignity, freedom, justice, equality, and peace. It is a non-profit, volunteer-based organization that investigates and exposes human rights violations such as violence against women; represents immigrants and refugees in the community who are victims of human rights abuses; trains and assists groups that protect human rights; and uses research, education, and advocacy to engage the public, policy makers, and children in the mission of implementing international human rights standards to promote civil society and reinforce the rule of law.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns

Working locally and globally to fight injustice, restore peace, save lives, and build the human rights movement.

United States

Founded: 1983
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: All human rights

No

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Minority Rights Group International (MRG) is an international human rights organization that promotes the rights of minorities and promote cooperation between communities. MRG campaigns worldwide with around 130 partners in over 60 countries to ensure that disadvantaged minorities and indigenous peoples, often the poorest of the poor, can make their voices heard. Through training and education, legal cases, publications and the media and cultural programmes the MRG supports minority and indigenous people as they strive to maintain their rights – to the land they live on, the languages they speak, to equal opportunities in education and employment, and to full participation in public life.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns

Securing human rights for religious, ethnic and linguistic minorities and indigenous peoples around the world.

Hungary, Uganda, United Kingdom

Founded: 1968
Location (HQ): United Kingdom
Scope: Global
Focus area: Minorities

No

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Peace Brigades International (PBI) is an international non-governmental human rights organization that has promotes non-violence and protects Human Rights Defenders since 1981. PBI works to protect Human Rights Defenders, ordinary people and groups who face death threats, intimidation, detention and harassment because of their peaceful work in defense of human rights. The organization provides protection, support and recognition to local human rights defenders who work in areas of repression and conflict and have requested support. PBI believes that lasting transformation of conflicts cannot come from outside, but must be based on the capacity and desires of local people. PBI avoids imposing, interfering or getting directly involved in the work of the people it accompanies. The organization’s work is effective because it takes an integrated approach, combining a presence alongside human rights defenders on the ground with an extensive network of international support. PBI has previously worked in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Sri Lanka, North America, Haiti, Nepal and the Balkans and currently maintains projects in Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico and Nepal.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns

Making Space for Peace

Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Founded: 1981
Location (HQ): Belgium
Scope: Global
Focus area: Defenders

No

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No Peace Without Justice is an international human rights organization founded by Emma Bonino and born of a 1993 campaign of the Transnational Radical Party that works for the protection and promotion of human rights, democracy, the rule of law and international justice, and undertakes its work within three main thematic programs: International Criminal Justice; Female Genital Mutilation; Middle East and North Africa Democracy, including specific work on Iraq, LGBTI Rights.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Lobbying

Campaigning fThe Protection and Promotion of Human Rights, Democracy, the Rule of Law and International Justice

Belgium, Italy

Founded: 1993
Location (HQ): Belgium
Scope: Global
Focus area: Democracy, LGBT, Women

No

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Breakthrough is a global human rights organization working to make violence and discrimination against women and girls unacceptable by transforming gender norms and cultures that enable it. Our cutting-edge multimedia campaigns, community mobilization, agenda setting, and leadership training equip men and women worldwide to challenge the status quo and take bold action for the dignity, equality, and justice of all.

Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism

Human rights start with you

India, United States

Founded: 2001
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: Women

No

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The Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR) is an international human rights organization that works to promote social justice through human rights. In a world where poverty and inequality deprive entire communities of dignity, justice and sometimes life, the CESR seeks to uphold the universal human rights of every human being to education, health, food, water, housing, work, and other economic, social and cultural rights essential to human dignity. Extreme poverty and rising inequality should not simply be considered an inevitable tragedy. Rather, they are often the result of conscious policy choices by governments and other powerful actors (such as corporations or international financial institutions) that undermine people’s access to the full range of human rights. CESR, therefore, seeks to hold governments and other actors accountable to their obligations to respect, protect and fulfill economic and social rights, as well as civil and political rights.

Research, Advocacy

Social justice through human rights

United States

Founded: 1993
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: All human rights

No

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Article 19 works for a world where all people everywhere can freely express themselves and actively engage in public life without fear of discrimination. It does this by working on two interlocking freedoms which set the foundation for all our work: The Freedom to Speak concerns everyone’s right to express and disseminate opinions, ideas and information through any means, as well as to disagree with, and question power-holders. The Freedom to Know concerns the right to demand and receive information by power-holders for transparency, good governance and sustainable development. When either of these freedoms comes under threat, either by the failure of power-holders to adequately protect them, Article 19 speaks with one voice, through courts of law, through global and regional organizations, and through civil society wherever it is present.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

Defending Freedom of Expression and Information

Angola, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Gambia, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Myanmar, Poland, Russia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Founded: 1987
Location (HQ): United Kingdom
Scope: Global
Focus area: Expression, Privacy

No

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The Danish Refugee Council is international non-governmental organization. It works with humanitarian, development and peacebuilding activities to ensure a dignified life and respec of rights of refugees, the displaced, and displacement-affected people and communities in more than 30 countries. The organization focuses on assistance on the entire displacement process: from the moment a crisis first emerges and displaces people internally in their home countries or across borders, to these people’s life in camps, to their arrival in a foreign country, and ultimately to the process of rebuilding a normal life, either through voluntary return, local integration or resettlement.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Activism

We are here.

Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Colombia, Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kosovo, Kenya, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Mali, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Serbia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Switzerland, Syria, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Ukraine, Vietnam, Yemen

Founded: 1956
Location (HQ): Denmark
Scope: Global
Focus area: Refugees

No

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Equality Now was founded with the mission of using legal advocacy to protect and promote the human rights of women and girls. For more than 25 years, Equality Now has been using the law to create a just world for women and girls. By directing global public and media attention on individual cases of abuse—while also advocating with policymakers and using international human rights law, the organization puts significant international pressure on governments to enforce and enact good laws, as well as change attitudes. Equality Now has international strength and reach. It partners with organizations in nearly every country in the world to ensure that individual cases become international concerns, and that progress made globally is enacted locally.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

Using the law to protect and promote the rights of women and girls around the world since 1992.

Kenya, United Kingdom, United States

Founded: 1992
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: Women

No

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The Simon Wiesenthal Center is a global Jewish human rights organization that confronts anti-Semitism, hate and terrorism, promotes human rights and dignity, stands with Israel, defends the safety of Jews worldwide, and teaches the lessons of the Holocaust for future generations. With a constituency of over 400.000 households in the United States, it is accredited as an non-governmental organization at international organizations including the United Nations, UNESCO, OSCE, Organization of American States (OAS), the Latin American Parliament (PARLATINO) and the Council of Europe.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

Leadership with a global reach

Argentina, Canada, France, Israel

Founded: 1977
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: Minorities

Yes

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Avocats Sans Frontieres is an international non-governmental organization specializing in defending human rights and access to justice. From Kinshasa to Tunis, from Jakarta to Bujumbura, Avocats Sans Frontieres inform people about their rights, help civil society and lawyers to provide them with better assistance, and promote legislative reforms designed to increase respect for human rights. The organization develops projects to promote and assist people with access to the legal system, the endorsement of human rights, and the rule of law in post-conflict and/or developing countries.

Advocacy, Education

International NGO specialised in defending human rights and supporting justice.

Belgium, Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Tunisia, Uganda

Founded: 1992
Location (HQ): Belgium
Scope: Global
Focus area: All human rights

No

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Cultural Survival is a non-profit organization that advocates for Indigenous Peoples’ rights and supports Indigenous communities’ self-determination, cultures and political resilience. The organization envisions a future that respects and honors Indigenous Peoples’ inherent rights and dynamic cultures, deeply and richly interwoven in lands, languages, spiritual traditions, and artistic expression, rooted in self-determination and self-governance.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

Advancing Indigenous People’s Rights & Cultures Worldwide

United States

Founded: 1972
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: Minorities

No

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Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative is an independent, non-partisan, international non-governmental organisation, working for the practical realisation of human rights across the Commonwealth. The organization’s present programme of work focuses on police reforms, prison reforms and promoting access to information. It also overviews the human rights situation in all 53 countries of the Commonwealth, looking especially at the situation of human rights defenders, compliance with international treaty obligations and monitoring performance of Commonwealth members of the new United Nations Human Rights Council. Activities include making periodic submissions to appropriate international fora, clause-by clause analysis of draft bills, bringing out research reports, networking and doing capacity building trainings for governments and civil sociey.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

Working for the practical realization of human rights in the countries of the Commonwealth.

Ghana, India, United Kingdom

Founded: 1987
Location (HQ): India
Scope: Global
Focus area: All human rights

Yes

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The International Service for Human Rights is an independent, non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting and protecting human rights. It achieves this by supporting human rights defenders, strengthening human rights systems, and leading and participating in coalitions for human rights change. It works to support human rights defenders at the international and regional levels because it understands that their work is essential to protect human rights and the rule of law on the ground. The organization works to strengthen international and regional human rights systems because of their potential to ensure accountability for human rights violations and contribute to concrete human rights change. The International Service for Human Rights builds, leads and supports networks and coalitions because its experience demonstrates that organizations which work in strategic partnerships are the most effective in achieving positive and sustainable change.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

Non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting and protecting human rights.

Switzerland, United States

Founded: 1984
Location (HQ): Switzerland
Scope: Global
Focus area: Defenders

No

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Plan International is a development human rights and humanitarian organization that advances children’s rights and equality for girls. It strives for a just world, working together with children, young people, our supporters and partners. The organization works with children, young people and communities to tackle the root causes of discrimination against girls, exclusion and vulnerability. It supports children’s rights from birth until they reach adulthood. Its work enables children to prepare for and respond to crises and adversity. Plan International drives changes in practice and policy at local, national and global levels using our reach, experience and knowledge.

Advocacy, Education, Campaigns

Advancing children’s rights and equality for girls in over 75 countries.

Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, South Korea, Laos, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tanzania, Timor Leste, Thailand, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Founded: 1937
Location (HQ): United Kingdom
Scope: Global
Focus area: Children

Yes

Children’s Human Rights – An Interdisciplinary Introduction

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The European Roma Rights Centre is an international non-governmental organization working to combat anti-Romani racism and human rights abuse of Roma through strategic litigation, research and policy development, advocacy and human rights education. Since its establishment, the organization has endeavored to provide Roma with the tools necessary to combat discrimination and achieve equal access to justice, education, housing, health care and public services.

Research, Advocacy, Campaigns

Challenging Discrimination, Promoting Equality

Belgium, Hungary

Founded: 1996
Location (HQ): Hungary
Scope: Global
Focus area: Discrimination, Environment, Health, Land rights, Minorities, Poverty

Yes

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Defence for Children International (DCI) is a leading child-rights focused, and membership-based grassroots Movement placing all members on equal footing. Created during the International Year of the Child (1979), DCI coordinated the NGO input for the drafting of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) – the most widely- ratified human rights treaty in history. DCI has a consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), UNICEF, UNESCO, ILO, and the Council of Europe. DCI’s mandate is to ensure the effective implementation of the human rights codified in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), by means developing children rights advocacy campaigns in the United Nations , effective co-ordination between different levels (national, regional and international) and its active membership within key networks. DCI believes in a holistic approach to the rights of the child, including empowerment of children as actors for justice and advocates of their own human rights.

Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

Advocates for Rights, Actors for Justice

Belgium, Switzerland

Founded: 1979
Location (HQ): Switzerland
Scope: Global
Focus area: Child Labor, Children, Discrimination, Education

Yes

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The Human Rights Campaign serve as America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer equality. By inspiring and engaging individuals and communities, the organization strives to end discrimination against LGBTQ people and realize a world that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all. The Human Rights Campaign envisions a world where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people are ensured equality and embraced as full members of society at home, at work and in every community. The organization focuses on protecting and expanding rights for LGBT individuals, most notably advocating for marriage equality, anti-discrimination and hate crimes legislation, and HIV/AIDS advocacy.

Advocacy, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

Advocating for LGBTQ Equality

United States

Founded: 1980
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: National
Focus area: Discrimination, HIV/AIDS, LGBT, Minorities

Yes

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Reporters Without Borders is one of the world’s leading non-governmental organization in the defense and promotion of freedom of information. The organization has distinguished itself in China, by its protests during the 2008 Beijing Olympics, in Africa, by creating the only independent radio station broadcasting to Eritreans in 2009, in Haiti, by creating a media support center after the January 2010 earthquake, and more recently in Syria by providing training to journalists and bloggers. Every day, Reporters Without Borders issues press releases and reports in French, English, Spanish, Arabic, and Farsi (and often in other languages such as Chinese, Portuguese and Russian) about the state of freedom of information throughout the world and how it is being violated. Its statements in the international media increase public awareness and influence leaders as regards both individual cases and general issues.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

We fight for #PressFreedom all over the world.

Austria, Belgium, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Libya, Sweden, Tunisia, United States

Founded: 1985
Location (HQ): France
Scope: Global
Focus area: Expression

Yes

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Survival International is a human rights organisation that campaigns for the rights of indigenous tribal peoples and un-contacted peoples.The organisation’s campaigns generally focus on tribal peoples’ desires to keep their ancestral lands. Survival International calls these peoples “some of the most vulnerable on earth”, and aims to eradicate what it calls “misconceptions” used to justify violations of human rights. It also aims to publicize the perceived risks that tribes face from the actions of corporations and governments. Survival International states that it aims to help foster tribal people’s self-determination.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

For Tribal Peoples

France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States

Founded: 1969
Location (HQ): United Kingdom
Scope: Global
Focus area: Minorities

No

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Human Rights First is a non-profit, nonpartisan international human rights organization that challenges America to live up to its ideals. The organization believes that American leadership is essential in the struggle for human rights so it pressures the U.S. government and private companies to respect human rights and the rule of law. When they don’t, the Human Rights First steps in to demand reform, accountability and justice. Whether protecting refugees, combating torture, or defending persecuted minorities, the organization focuses on not on making a point, but on making a difference. For over 30 years, the organization has built bipartisan coalitions and teamed up with front line activists and lawyers to tackle issues that demand American leadership. Around the world, the Human Rights First works where it can best harness American influence to secure core freedoms.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

American Ideals, Universal Values

United States

Founded: 1978
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: All human rights

No

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Freedom House is an independent watchdog organization that supports the expansion of freedom around the world. Freedom House supports democratic change, monitors freedom, and advocates for democracy and human rights. Since its founding, the Freedom House has been a vigorous proponent of democratic values and a steadfast opponent of dictatorships of the far left and the far right. Freedom House has opposed tyranny around the world, including dictatorships in Latin America, apartheid in South Africa, Soviet domination of Central and Eastern Europe, and religiously-based totalitarian regimes such as those governing Sudan, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Freedom House has promoted the growth of freedom by encouraging U.S. policymakers, international institutions, and the governments of established democracies to adopt policies that advance human rights and democracy around the world. At the same time, Freedom House provides support to individuals working in the world’s young democracies to overcome debilitating legacies of tyranny, dictatorship and political repression, as well as to activists working in repressive societies to bring about greater freedom and openness.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

Championing Democracy and Protecting Human Rights Around the World

South Africa, United States

Founded: 1941
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: All human rights

No

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The Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID) is a global, feminist, membership, movement-support organization. For over 35 years, AWID has been a part of an incredible ecosystem of feminist movements working to achieve gender justice and women’s human rights worldwide. The organization monitors, documents and makes visible how anti-rights actors are operating and colluding in multilateral spaces and support feminist, women’s rights and gender justice movements and allies to counter their influence and impact. The AWID works on extractivism, tax justice and corporate accountability while knowledge on corporate power and influence, advocating for corporate accountability and equitable distribution of wealth amplifying feminist proposals for just economies. The organization develops accessible, action-oriented analysis on the state of resourcing for feminist movements. It aims to influence funders’ policies and practices, deepen and sustain funding for feminist social change, and support movements’ needs and strategies.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

AWID is an international, feminist, membership organisation committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women’s human rights.

Canada, Mexico

Founded: 1982
Location (HQ): Canada
Scope: Global
Focus area: Women

Yes

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The Open Society Foundations works to build vibrant and tolerant societies whose governments are accountable and open to the participation of all people. It works on strengthening the rule of law, respect for human rights, minorities, and a diversity of opinions, democratically elected governments, and a civil society that helps keep government power in check. The organization helps to shape public policies that assure greater fairness in political, legal, and economic systems and safeguard fundamental rights.The Open Society Foundations implements initiatives to advance justice, education, public health, and independent media.It builds alliances across borders and continents on issues such as corruption and freedom of information. While working in every part of the world, the Open Society Foundations places a high priority on protecting and improving the lives of people in marginalized communities.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens.

Afghanistan, Angola, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Congo, Georgia, Germany, Guinea, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Moldova, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nigeria, Pakistan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States

Founded: 1979
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: All human rights

Yes

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Human Rights House Foundation (HRHF) is an international human rights organisation. It protects, empowers and supports human rights defenders and their organisations through Human Rights Houses, which are collaborative projects of non-governmental organisations working in partnership to promote and advance human rights at home and abroad. Within a Human Rights House, human rights defenders and their organisations remain independent and address the rights and issues that matter to them and the society they live in, while they benefit from cooperation, shared resources, solidarity, expertise, visibility, and strength in advocacy. The Houses and the Human Rights House concept are core to everything HRHF does: from advocacy and awareness raising, to capacity building and protection. Advocating with Houses and partner organisations, the HRFH works to ensure defenders have the freedoms needed to carry out human rights work. The HRHF promotes the fundamental freedoms of assembly, association, and expression, and the right to be a human rights defender.

Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

We protect, empower and support human rights defenders and their organisations, and unite them in an international network of Human Rights Houses.

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Croatia, Georgia, Norway, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Founded: 1989
Location (HQ): Norway
Scope: Global
Focus area: All human rights

No

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Amazon Watch is a nonprofit organization founded to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. It works with indigenous and environmental organizations in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability and the preservation of the Amazon’s ecological systems. Amazon Watch envisions a world that honors and values cultural and biological diversity and the critical contribution of tropical rainforests to our planet’s life support system while believing that indigenous self-determination is a critical component of any successful conservation strategy for the Amazon. The organization strives for a world in which governments, corporations and civil society respect the collective rights of indigenous peoples to free, prior and informed consent over any activity affecting their territories and resources.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

Protecting the rainforest and our climate by supporting indigenous peoples.

United States

Founded: 1996
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: Environment, Minorities

No

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The International Center for Transitional Justice assists societies confronting massive human rights abuses to promote accountability, pursue truth, provide reparations, and build trustworthy institutions. Committed to the vindication of victims’ rights and the promotion of gender justice, the organization provides expert technical advice, policy analysis, and comparative research on transitional justice approaches, including criminal prosecutions, reparations initiatives, truth seeking and memory, and institutional reform.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

Justice, Truth, Dignity

Belgium, Colombia, Congo, Côte d‘Ivoire, Kenya, Lebanon, Nepal, Netherlands, Tunisia, Uganda, United States

Founded: 2001
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: Toture

No

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Freedom from Torture is a British non-profit organization which provides therapeutic care for survivors of torture who seek protection in the United Kingdom. Since it was established in 1985, over 57.000 survivors of torture have been referred to the organisation for help and it is one of the world’s largest torture treatment centres. Freedom from Torture provides medical and psychological documentation of torture, a range of rehabilitation therapies, including psychotherapy, individual and family counselling, physiotherapy and complementary group work as well as practical advice and support. It trains health, legal and policy professionals throughout the United Kingdom to work with the complex needs and rights of torture survivors. A key area of Freedom from Torture’s work is to advocate for torture survivors and to ensure states responsible for torture are held accountable. It works to guarantee the human rights of survivors nationally and internationally.

Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

A world free from torture.

United Kingdom

Founded: 1985
Location (HQ): United Kingdom
Scope: Regional
Focus area: Toture

No

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As the preeminent international service organization of the United States, the Peace Corps sends Americans with a passion for service abroad to work with communities and create lasting change. Volunteers develop sustainable solutions to address challenges in education, health, economic development, agriculture, environment and youth development. Through their Peace Corps experience, Volunteers gain a unique cultural understanding and a life-long commitment to service that positions them to succeed in today’s global economy. Since President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps in 1961, more than 225.000 Americans of all ages have served in 140 countries worldwide.

Education, Campaigns, Activism

Make the Most of Your World

Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Comoros, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda

Founded: 1961
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: Education, Environment, Health

No

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Driven by the vision that everyone needs a decent place to live, Habitat for Humanity began in 1976 as a grassroots effort on a community farm in southern Georgia, the United States. Since then, the organization has grown to become a leading global nonprofit working in nearly 1.400 communities throughout the United States and in more than 70 countries. Families and individuals in need of a hand up partner with Habitat for Humanity to build or improve a place they can call home. Habitat homeowners help build their own homes alongside volunteers and pay an affordable mortgage. Through financial support, volunteering or adding a voice to support affordable housing, everyone can help families achieve the strength, stability and self-reliance they need to build better lives for themselves.

Education, Campaigns, Activism

Through shelter, we empower.

Antarctica, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Côte d‘Ivoire, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Germany, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, South Korea, Lebanon, Lesotho, Macedonia, Malawi, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam, Zambia

Founded: 1976
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: All human rights, Land rights, Poverty

No

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Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organization for children. It works in around 120 countries. The organization’s vision is to live in a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. In 2018, Save the Children’s programmes and campaigns reached more than 55 million children directly around the world, through its work and work of its partners. The organization works to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. Save the Children believes in several core values: accountability, ambition, collaboration, creativity and integrity.

Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

Our vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation.

Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Canada, Cape Verde, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d‘Ivoire, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kosovo, Kenya, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Lithuania, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Founded: 1919
Location (HQ): United Kingdom
Scope: Global
Focus area: Children

Yes

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Front Line Defenders works to protect Human Rights Defenders around the world who are people working non-violently, for any or all of the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The organization provides security and protection grants to organizations working for human rights as well as to individual human rights defenders at risk. These grants are given for the specific purpose of strengthening the security and protection of the human rights defenders, allowing them to continue their important work. They can include funding to improve digital security, communication security, legal fees for human rights defenders who are being judicially harassed, medical fees for those who have been attacked or who have suffered a medical condition as a result of their peaceful human rights activities, family assistance for imprisoned human rights defenders. The organization also funds emergency security grants and can help with temporary relocation. Training in security including digital security, publicizing the cases of human rights defenders at risk and campaigning and lobbying at the international level for human rights defenders protection is also part of the organization’s work.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

Security, protection and advocacy for human rights defenders at risk.

Belgium, Ireland

Founded: 2001
Location (HQ): Ireland
Scope: Global
Focus area: Defenders

Yes

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Protection International is an innternational NGO based which aims at contributing to the improvement of the protection of human rights defenders throughout the world, through developing their capacity to manage their own security as they struggle against impunity and develop their activities if favour of a sustainable peace and justice in their respective countries or regions. The organization seeks to contribute to a situation where human rights defenders are recognized as legitimate actors for social change and to an environment where they can effectively exercise their rights to defend universally recognised human rights.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns

Defending Human Rights Defenders

Belgium, Colombia, Congo, Guatemala, Indonesia, Kenya, Thailand

Founded: 2007
Location (HQ): Belgium
Scope: Global
Focus area: Defenders

No

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The Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law was established at American University Washington College of Law to provide scholarship and support for domestic and international human rights-based legal initiatives. For over twenty years, the Center has prepared students, practitioners and activists to advocate for human rights at home and abroad. It provides expert training, hosts conferences and workshops, and publishes key research and resources for legal professionals and students alike. The Center’s projects tackle the full scope of human rights and humanitarian legal issues, from torture to the rights of the disabled. All Center programming promotes the value of service, thereby grounding the Center as a core resource to the NGO community and a bridge between academia and civil society.

Research, Education, Campaigns

Promoting human rights through teaching, scholarship, and service.

United States

Founded: 1990
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: All human rights

No

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Human Rights Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, with a focus on closed societies. The organization is guided by the principles that all human beings are entitled to freedom of self-determination, freedom from tyranny, the rights to speak freely, to associate with those of like mind, and to leave and enter their countries. Individuals in a free society must be accorded equal treatment and due process under law, and must have the opportunity to participate in the governments of their countries. The organization’s conviction is that all human beings have the right to be free from arbitrary detainment or exile and from interference and coercion in matters of conscience.

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We are all human rights.

United States

Founded: 2005
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: Anti-Slavery, Defenders, Democracy, Discrimination, Education, Expression, Forced Labor, Forced Marriage, Health, Land rights, Minorities, Privacy, Toture

Yes

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The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) is an international human rights NGO federating 184 organisations from 112 countries. The organization is active in defending all civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights as set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For FIDH, transforming societies relies on the work of local actors. Therefore, FIDH’s activities aim to reinforce their capacities and their influence. The organization acts at national, regional and international levels in support of its member and partner organisations to address human rights abuses and consolidate democratic processes. Its work is directed at States and those in power, such as armed opposition groups and multinational corporations. Its primary beneficiaries are national human rights organisations who are members of FIDH, and through them, the victims of human rights violations. FIDH also cooperates with other local partner organisations and actors of change.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

Keep Your Eyes Open

Belgium, Côte d‘Ivoire, France, Guinea, Mali, Netherlands, South Africa, Switzerland, Tunisia, United States

Founded: 1922
Location (HQ): France
Scope: Global
Focus area: All human rights

No

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The European Centre for Minority Issues is an organization conducts practice and policy-oriented research, provides information and documentation, and offers advisory services concerning national minority-majority relations in Europe. It serves European governments and regional intergovernmental organizations. The Centre cooperates with the academic community, the media and the general public through the timely provision of information and analysis. It is a non-partisan and interdisciplinary institution that was established in 1996 by the governments of Denmark, Germany, and Schleswig-Holstein. The organization is governed by a board composed of nine members: three from Denmark, three from Germany, one representative from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, one from the Council of Europe and one from the European Union.

Research

Because Minorities Matter.

Georgia, Germany, Kosovo, Ukraine

Founded: 1996
Location (HQ): Germany
Scope: Global
Focus area: Minorities

No

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UN Watch is a non-governmental organization in Switzerland that promotes the protection of universal human rights and monitors the United Nations according to its founding Chharter. The vision of the UN Watch is a strong and just United Nations. The organization campaigns for diplomatic action that upholds the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Charter. Through its programs, partnerships, and participation at the UN Human Rights Council, the UN Watch advances the United Nations’ mandate of promoting human rights and international peace. The UN Watch participates actively at the UN as an accredited NGO in Special Consultative Status to the UN Economic and Social Council and as an Associate NGO to the UN Department of Public Information.

Lobbying

Monitoring the United Nations, promoting human rights.

Switzerland

Founded: 1993
Location (HQ): Switzerland
Scope: Global
Focus area: All human rights

No

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TRIAL International is a non-governmental organization fighting impunity for international crimes and supporting victims in their quest for justice. The organization takes an innovative approach to the law, paving the way to justice for survivors of unspeakable sufferings. It provides legal assistance, litigates cases, develops local capacity and pushes the human rights agenda forward. The organization believes in a world where impunity for international crimes is no longer tolerated. Only when victims are heard and perpetrators held accountable can the rule of law prevail.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

Fighting impunity for international crimes and supporting victims in their quest for justice.

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Congo, Switzerland

Founded: 2002
Location (HQ): Switzerland
Scope: Global
Focus area: All human rights

Yes

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Oxfam is a global development organization that mobilizes the power of people against poverty. It is an international confederation of 19 organizations working together with partners and local communities in more than 90 countries.One person in three in the world lives in poverty. Oxfam is determined to change that world by mobilizing the power of people against poverty. Oxfam works around the globe to find practical, innovative ways for people to lift themselves out of poverty and thrive. Oxfam saves lives and helps rebuild livelihoods when crisis strikes. The organization conducts campaigns so that the voices of the poor influence the local and global decisions that affect them.
Oxfam works with partner organizations and alongside vulnerable women and men to end the injustices that cause poverty.

Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism

The power of people against poverty.

Belgium, Ethiopia, Russia, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Founded: 1942
Location (HQ): United Kingdom
Scope: Global
Focus area: Poverty

No

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World Vision is the largest child-focused private charity in the world. It employs around 40,000 staff members working in nearly 100 countries. The organization impacts the lives of over 200 million vulnerable children by tackling the root causes of poverty. Through World Vision every 60 seconds a family gets water, a hungry child is fed, a family receives the tools to overcome poverty. World Vision is a Christian humanitarian, development and advocacy organization devoted to improving the lives of children, families and their communities around the world and creating lasting impact that will live on in generations to come. It serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.

Advocacy, Education, Campaigns

For children. For change. For life.

Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Burundi, Cambodia, Canada, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kosovo, Kenya, North Korea, South Korea, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Mongolia, Mozambique, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Pakistan, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Swaziland, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Timor Leste, Thailand, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Zambia

Founded: 1950
Location (HQ): United Kingdom
Scope: Global
Focus area: Children, Education, Food, Health, Poverty, Refugees, Water

No

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Global Rights is a human rights organization working in partnership with local activists in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to build the grass roots movements that promote and protect the rights of marginalized populations. Through teaching and training individual organizations and coalitions, the organization strengthens partners to document and expose human rights abuses, conduct community outreach and mobilization, advocate for legal and policy reform, and provide legal and paralegal services.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Lobbying

Partners for Justice

Burundi, Nigeria, United States

Founded: 1978
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: All human rights

No

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The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and help people to survive, recover, and gain control of their future. Founded at the request of Albert Einstein, the organization offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees and displaced people forced to flee from war or disaster. The organization restores safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

We respond to the world’s worst humanitarian crises & help people to survive, recover, and gain control of their future.

Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Dominica, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Germany, Greece, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Malaysia, Mali, Myanmar, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United States, Venezuela, Virgin Islands, U.S., Yemen, Zimbabwe

Founded: 1933
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: Women, Children, Refugees, Health, Water, Poverty

No

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CARE International is one of the world’s largest aid agencies, fighting poverty and injustice in over 80 countries around the world, and helping 65 million people each year to find routes out of poverty. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives in the aftermath. The organization works with private sector companies to co-create opportunities for poor and marginalized people to have better access to goods, services and livelihoods. Its programs tackle the deep-seated root causes of poverty, not just the consequences.

Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

We work around the globe to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice.

Afghanistan, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chad, Congo, Croatia, Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Japan, Jordan, Kosovo, Kenya, Laos, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Rwanda, Serbia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Founded: 1945
Location (HQ): Switzerland
Scope: Global
Focus area: Discrimination, Environment, Food, Poverty, Women

No

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Anti-Slavery International is committed to eliminating all forms of slavery and slavery like practices. It is the world’s oldest international human rights organization and it bases its work on the United Nations treaties against slavery. It works closely with partner organizations from around the world. The organization influences decision-makers and inspires change on a global level, particularly on bonded labor (also known as debt bondage), descent based slavery, forced labor, forced marriage, the worst forms of child labor, the exploitation of migrant workers in conditions amounting to slavery (particularly migrant domestic workers), and human trafficking. The organization has consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council and observer status at the International Labor Organization.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Lobbying

Everyone has a right to live in freedom.

India, Lebanon, Mauritania, Nepal, Niger, Senegal, Tanzania, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom, Uzbekistan

Founded: 1983
Location (HQ): United Kingdom
Scope: Global
Focus area:

No

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Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) uses medicine and science to document and call attention to mass atrocities and severe human rights violations. PHR was founded on the idea that physicians, scientists, and other health professionals possess unique skills that lend significant credibility to the investigation and documentation of human rights abuses. PHR’s specialized expertise is used to advocate for persecuted health workers, prevent torture, document mass atrocities, and hold those who violate human rights accountable. PHR’s work focuses on the physical and psychological effects of torture and sexual violence, the forensic documentation of attacks on civilians, the unnecessary and excessive use of force during civil unrest, and the protection of medical institutions and health professionals working on the frontline of human rights crises.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

Through evidence, change is possible.

Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei, Cambodia, Chad, China, Colombia, Congo, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Georgia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iraq, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kenya, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Mexico, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, Palestine, Panama, Russia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Yemen, Zimbabwe

Founded: 1986
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: Toture

No

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The WFP is the largest humanitarian branch of the UN promoting food security and addressing world hunger. The WFP provides food assistance to around 91.4 million people in 83 countries every year. Its mission is to deliver food assistance in situations of emergency as well as to work with communities in order to improve nutrition and build resilience. It strives to end the cycle of hunger and poverty. The WFP mainly works in conflict affected areas where people are more likely to have less access to food.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism

Saving lives in emergencies and changing lives for millions through sustainable development.

Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Colombia, Congo, Cuba, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Kenya, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Founded: 1961
Location (HQ): Italy
Scope: Global
Focus area: Food

Yes

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Women for Women International supports the most marginalized women in countries affected by conflict and war. The organization’s programs enable women to earn and save money, improve health and well-being, influence decisions in their home and community, and connect to networks for support. By utilizing skills, knowledge, and resources, women are able to create sustainable change for themselves, their family, and community. Along with helping more than 478.000 women in the past 20 years to rebuild their own lives and those of their families and communities after war, Women for Women International uses its voice to call global attention to the unique role that women play in advancing peace throughout society.

Advocacy, Education, Campaigns

One woman can change anything, many women can change everything.

Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, United States

Founded: 1993
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: Women

No

How to Build a UN Career in Women’s Rights

International Women’s Health and Human Rights

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Human Rights Without Frontiers International is a non-profit organization based out of Brussels, Belgium, that promotes human rights around the world and advocates democracy, the rule of law and social justice. The organization is one of the most active NGOs promoting human rights at the European Parliament and in other EU institutions. The organization is also very active at the UN in Geneva and the OSCE in Warsaw and Vienna. It promotes norm implementation by pressuring target actors to adopt new policies and by monitoring compliance with international standards.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Lobbying

Democracy, Rule of Law and Human Rights

Belgium, China, Nepal

Founded: 1989
Location (HQ): Belgium
Scope: Global
Focus area: All human rights

No

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Refugees International is an independent humanitarian organization that advocates for better support for displaced people, including refugees, internally displaced people and stateless people. It does not accept any United Nations or government funding. The organization publishes longer reports, as well as approximately twenty five field reports throughout the year on displacement issues, as well as comments on international aid issues around the world.

Advocacy

Advocating for lifesaving assistance and protection for displaced people and promotes solutions to displacement crises.

United States

Founded: 1979
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: Refugees

No

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The Norwegian Refugee Council is an independent humanitarian organization helping people forced to flee. The organization works in crises in 32 countries, where it helps save lives and rebuild futures. This includes refugees and internally displaced persons who are forced to flee their homes as a result of conflict, human rights violations and acute violence, as well as climate change and natural disasters.

Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism

Rights respected and people protected

Belgium, Germany, Jordan, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Founded: 1946
Location (HQ): Norway
Scope: Global
Focus area: Environment, Food, Health, Refugees, Water

No

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The International Committee of the Red Cross operates worldwide, helping people affected by conflict and armed violence and promoting the laws that protect victims of war. An independent and neutral organization, its mandate stems essentially from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It is based in Geneva, Switzerland, and employs around 16,000 people in more than 80 countries. The organization is funded mainly by voluntary donations from governments and from National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

With Humanity Towards Peace

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Founded: 1863
Location (HQ): Switzerland
Scope: Global
Focus area: Toture, Education, Disability, Women, Children, Environment, Refugees, Food, Health, Water, Minorities, Poverty

No

Career Opportunities at the International Committee of the Red Cross

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Human Rights Watch investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world. It employs around 450 people of 70-plus nationalities who are country experts, lawyers, journalists, and others who work to protect the most at risk, from vulnerable minorities and civilians in wartime, to refugees and children in need. The organization advocates towards governments, armed groups and businesses, pushing them to change or enforce their laws, policies and practices. To ensure independence, Human Rights Watch refuses government funding and corporate ties. It partners with organizations large and small across the globe to protect embattled activists and to help hold abusers to account and bring justice to victims.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

Defending Human Rights Worldwide

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, France, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sweden, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Founded: 1978
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: All human rights

No

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Civil Rights Defenders is an independent expert organization founded in 1982 in Sweden, with the mission to defend people’s civil and political rights and empower human rights defenders at risk worldwide. CRD has a presence on four continents and is active in some of the world’s most repressive regions. By working in collaboration with 200 local partners and focusing on innovation, the goal is to achieve long-term sustainable change.

Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

An Expert Human Rights Organization

Albania, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Colombia, Cuba, Ethiopia, Kosovo, Kenya, Macedonia, Montenegro, Myanmar, Russia, Serbia, Montenegro, South Sudan, Sweden, Uganda, Ukraine

Founded: 1982
Location (HQ): Sweden
Scope: Global
Focus area:

No

How To Become a Human Rights Activist

Human Rights Defenders

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The IDLO is an intergovernmental organization focusing on development and rule of law. They work to empower people and communities in the areas of human and civil rights, and they work with governments to build capacity to ensure and protect these rights. Their primary areas of work include rule of law, women and girls, economic opportunity, peace and democracy, public health, access to justice, and sustainability. IDLO prides itself in being the only intergovernmental organization exclusively devoted to promoting rule of law. They are connected to the Hague and the United Nations, working to contribute to conversations about human rights and development.

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Creating a culture of justice

Afghanistan, Honduras, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Mali, Mongolia, Myanmar, Netherlands, Somalia, South Sudan, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Ukraine, United States

Founded: 1983
Location (HQ): Italy
Scope: Global
Focus area: All human rights

Yes

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UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), a part of the UN, works solely with refugees and issues related to forced migration. In addition to gathering data and statistics on forced migration, UNHCR also provides emergency assistance such as shelter, household items, healthcare, food, clean water, and more. They also facilitate the processes of placing refugees in third countries or returning them to their homes when it is safe. In these situations, they help provide transportation, assistance, and income-generating projects. UNHCR also develops campaigns and raises awareness about refugees and the challenges they face.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns

The UN Refugee Agency

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, South Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Founded: 1950
Location (HQ): Switzerland
Scope: Global
Focus area: Refugees

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7 Refugee studies masters around the world
Building Culture and Community through Theater in Refugee Camps
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5 free online courses on refugee rights, protection and migration

 

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UN Women, an entity of the UN, focuses on issues related to gender equality and the empowerment of women. They work with governments, community organizations, and more to design laws, policies, programs, and services to effectively implement standards that promote gender equality and benefit women and girls. In addition to focusing on the Sustainable Development Goals as they related to gender, UN Women has five main priority areas: increasing women’s leadership, ending violence against women, engaging women in peace and security processes, enhancing women’s economic empowerment, and making gender equality a central part of national development planning and budgeting.

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Step it up for gender equality

Afghanistan, Albania, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Fiji, Georgia, Guatemala, Haiti, India, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United States, Vietnam, Zimbabwe

Founded: 2010
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: Women

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Book Review | Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

How to Build a UN Career in Women’s Rights

 

Beyond the Ballot: Women’s Rights and Suffrage from 1866 to Today

Women in Leadership: Inspiring Positive Change

International Women’s Health and Human Rights

Understanding Violence Against Women: Myths and Realities

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International Organization for Migration (IOM), a recent addition to the UN, focuses on issues of migration, including internally displaced people, human trafficking, nomadic groups, refugees, labor migration, and more. They work to meet the growing challenges of migration, advance understanding of migration issues, encourage social and economic development through migration, and uphold human dignity and wellbeing of migrants. They are the primary reference point for organizations dealing with migrant groups and focus on issues of security, human rights, research, support, integration, and more to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all groups of migrants.

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The UN Migration Agency

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway

Founded: 1951
Location (HQ): Switzerland
Scope: Global
Focus area: Refugees

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5 European Master Programs in Migration
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Keyword: Migration

5 free online courses on refugee rights, protection and migration
International migrations: a global issue
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UNICEF, part of the United Nations, exists specifically to promote the rights and wellbeing of children around the world. They focus on issues of poverty, violence, disease, discrimination and more. In particular, they work with vulnerable groups of children, including those with disabilities, those affected by rapid urbanization, those living in fragile contexts, and those affected by environmental degradation. They are active in over 190 countries, working to increase protection, peace, and security for all children.

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For every child

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, South Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Rwanda, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia and Montenegro, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Founded: 1946
Location (HQ): United States
Scope: Global
Focus area: Children

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UNICEF launches free online course on Social Change
Internship Report: UNICEF Canada
Human Rights Issues: Children’s Human Rights

 

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5 free online courses on Child Protection and Children’s Rights

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Amnesty International is a global non-governmental organization focused on human rights. The organization claims to have over 7 million members and supporters around the world.

Research, Advocacy, Education, Campaigns, Activism, Lobbying

A world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments

Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Benin, Bermuda, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Senegal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela

Founded: 1961
Location (HQ): United Kingdom
Scope: Global
Focus area: All human rights

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Human Rights Defenders
Human Rights: The Rights of Refugees

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