Directory of Advocacy Organizations Resources

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This category is for sites about organizations that promote human rights.

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• Advocates for Religious Rights and Freedoms

  http://www.arrf.org/
  ARRF is a consociation of ministers of the International Community of Christ that seeks to preserve, protect and defend freedom of religion and to protect the right of individuals to religious expression.

• Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International

  http://www.ansarburney.org/
  International human and civil rights organization advocating justice for all, for women and children's rights and against all forms of abuse and discrimination.

• Anti-Defamation League

  http://www.adl.org/
  The mission of the ADL is to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment for all citizens alike.

• Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

  http://carrcenter.hks.harvard.edu/
  Researches policies and actions of governments, international organizations, and independent actors that affect human rights globally.

• Center for Economic and Social Rights

  http://www.cesr.org/
  An organization that protests economic injustice in the United States and around the world. Information on events and programs, fact sheets and other resources, and how to get involved.

• Center for International Policy

  http://www.ciponline.org/
  Founded in 1975 by former diplomats and peace activists to promote a U.S. foreign policy based on international cooperation, demilitarization, and respect for basic human rights.

• Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative

  http://www.humanrightsinitiative.org/
  The CHRI is a non-partisan, independent, international non-governmental organization, mandated to ensure the practical realisation of human rights within the Commonwealth.

• Derechos Human Rights

  http://www.derechos.org/
  Internet based international human rights organization, working for the promotion and respect of human rights world-wide.

• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

  http://www.eff.org/
  Based in San Francisco, EFF is a donor-supported membership organization working to protect fundamental rights regardless of technology; to educate the press, policymakers and the general public about civil liberties issues related to technology; and to act as a defender of those liberties.

• Focus: HOPE

  http://www.focushope.edu/
  Non-profit civil and human rights organization based in Detroit that unites a multicultural community in common efforts to overcome injustice and build racial harmony.

• Freedom House

  http://www.freedomhouse.org/
  Dedicated to promoting free institutions worldwide. Publishes surveys detailing state of civil liberties, political rights, economic freedom, religious freedom, and press freedom around the world.

• Freedom in the World

  http://www.mherrera.org/
  Ranks all independent countries according their political freedoms and civil rights. Includes links to non-independent territories.

• Friends of Cuban Libraries

  http://www.friendsofcubanlibraries.org/
  Supports intellectual freedom in Cuba.

• Global Human Rights Defence

  http://www.ghrd.org/
  Promotes human rights throughout the world.

• Human Rights Brief

  http://hrbrief.org/
  A legal resource for the international human rights community from the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Washington College of Law.

• Human Rights First

  http://www.humanrightsfirst.org/
  Works to promote and protect fundamental international human rights. Includes newsletter, media alerts, lawyer-to-lawyer appeals, reports on refugee policy and asylum cases.

• Human Rights Watch

  http://www.hrw.org/
  Organization dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world, standing with victims and activists to bring offenders to justice, to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom and to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime. Investigates and exposes human rights violations and hold abusers accountable. In English with versions in six other languages.

• International Child Development Initiatives (ICDI)

  http://www.icdi.nl/
  Early childhood care, risk, child labour, education, abuse, nonformal education, international development, policy development, programme development, action research, NGO management.

• International Federation for Human Rights - FIDH

  http://www.fidh.org/
  Non-governmental organization representing a network of 155 human rights organisations throughout the world. Source of daily news concerning international law and international issues.

• International Justice Mission

  http://www.ijm.org/
  Legal intervention and advocacy on behalf of victims of injustice internationally.

• International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT)

  http://www.irct.org/
  An independent, international health professional organization, founded upon the medical response to torture. Promotes and supports the rehabilitation of torture victims and works for the prevention of torture worldwide.

• Jubilee Campaign USA

  http://www.jubileecampaign.org/
  Advocates on behalf of persecuted Christians throughout the world. Supervises international and regional human rights projects.

• Magnacartaplus

  http://magnacartaplus.org/
  Promotes civil liberties and provides a watch on any attempts by governments to reduce or interfere with such freedoms.

• Migrants' Rights International (MRI)

  http://www.migrantwatch.org/
  Information and documents relating to the MRI organization, and its campaign to ratify the 1990 convention for migrants' human rights.

• MRG - Minority Rights Group International

  http://www.minorityrights.org/
  Works to secure the rights of ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities and indigenous peoples worldwide, and to promote cooperation and understanding between communities.

• No Peace Without Justice

  http://www.npwj.org/
  An international committee seeking an effective system of international justice. Goals include the development and reform of existing international institutions, to ensure that human rights are enforced, and to campaign for the establishment of an International Criminal Court.

• Nuremberg Human Rights Center

  http://menschenrechte.org/
  Supports human rights worldwide. Site contains contact information and news from the institute's various areas of activity.

• Office of The Americas

  http://officeoftheamericas.org/
  Los Angeles-based organization documenting current events and political activism in North America and Latin America, including human rights, and United States foreign policy.

• Persecution.org

  http://www.persecution.org/
  A human rights organization promoting religious freedom and assisting international Christians who are victims of persecution and discrimination.

• Physicians For Human Rights

  http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/
  Mobilizes health professions and the public to protect the human rights of all people. A founder of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, PHR shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize.

• Reporters without Borders

  http://www.rsf.org/
  An organization which fights for press freedom and denounces the violations of the human rights all over the world. Multilingual site.

• RESULTS

  http://www.results.org/
  A nonprofit, grassroots citizens' lobby that identifies sustainable solutions to the problems of hunger and poverty as a human rights issue, in the United States and around the world and working to generate the resources necessary to make those solutions succeed.

• Scholars at Risk Network

  https://www.scholarsatrisk.org/
  Aids scholars outside the United States whose work is threatened by mass or individual displacement, discrimination, censorship, harassment, intimidation, or violence.

• The Advocacy Project

  http://www.advocacynet.org/
  Supporting community campaigners with information and information technology in their work for social justice, human rights, and peace.

• The Dui Hua Foundation

  http://www.duihua.org/
  A non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the protection of universally recognized human rights in China and in the United States.

• The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity

  http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org/
  This foundation seeks to combat indifference, intolerance and injustice. Established by Elie and Marion Wiesel after he was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize for Peace.

• The International Commission of Jurists

  http://www.icj.org/
  Organisation dedicated to the primacy, coherence and implementation of human rights. Site features database of trial observations, country reports and interventions. Also includes links to national NGOs and an online resources.

• Universal Rights Network

  http://www.universalrights.net/
  Created to promote the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• Witness

  http://www.witness.org/
  Uses video and other technology to fight for human rights. Group works in partnership with activists around the world to document abuses and bring evidence before courts, governments, the media, and the world.

• World Organisation Against Torture

  http://www.omct.org/
  International coalition of NGOs fighting against torture, summary executions, forced disappearances and all other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Site features press releases, urgent appeals and the International Observatory of the Protection of Human Right Defenders.

• Youth Coalition

  http://www.youthcoalition.org/
  An international coalition of young people committed to promoting adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive rights at the national, regional and international levels.

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