International (worldwide) non-governmental organizations
- Amazon Watch big
- Amnesty International
- Anti-Slavery International
- Article 19
- Avocats Sans Frontières
- Breakthrough (human rights)
- Carter Center
- CCJO René Cassin
- Center for Economic and Social Rights
- Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian law
- Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)
- Committee to Protect Journalists
- CryptoRights Foundation
- Cultural Survival
- CCLP Worldwide
- Disabled Peoples' International
- Equality Now
- Every Human Has Rights
- Food First Information and Action Network
- Forum 18
- Free the Slaves
- Freedom House
- Freedom Now
- Friends of Peoples Close to Nature
- Society for Threatened Peoples
- GIRCA
- Habitat International Coalition
- Helsinki Committee for Human Rights
- Helsinki Watch
- Hindu American Foundation
- Hindu Human Rights
- Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation
- Human Life International
- Human Rights Internet
- Human Rights Defence
- Human Rights First
- Human Rights Foundation
- Human Rights Internet
- Human Rights Report
- Human Rights Watch
- Human Rights Without Frontiers
- Institute for War and Peace Reporting
- Institute on Religion and Public Policy
- 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 Research
- International Coalition against Enforced Disappearances
- International Committee Against Stoning
- International Commission of Jurists
- International Committee of the Red Cross (private, sovereign organisation)
- International Federation for Human Rights
- International Federation of Health and Human Rights (IFHHRO)
- International Federation for Human Rights Leagues
- International Foundation for Human Rights and Tolerance
- International Freedom of Expression Exchange
- International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission
- International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (federation of 15 other human rights organisations, not included in this list, now bankrupt due to fraud)
- International Human Rights Association (IHRA)
- International Human Rights Group (IHRG)
- International Human Rights Organization(IHRO)
- International Humanist and Ethical Union
- International Institute of Human Rights
- International League for Human Rights
- International Partnership for Human Rights (IPHR)
- International Property Rights Index
- International Progress Organization
- International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
- International Tibet Support Network
- International Service for Human Rights
- International Society for Human Rights
- International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs
- Islamic Human Rights Commission
- JUSTICE
- Medical Foundation for Care of Victims of Torture
- MindFreedom International
- National Labor Committee in Support of Human and Worker Rights
- Network for Education and Academic Rights
- No Peace Without Justice
- No Sweat
- Norwegian Refugee Council
- Peace Brigades International
- People & Planet
- Physicians for Human Rights
- Point of Peace Foundation
- Protection International
- Release International
- Reporters Without Borders
- Reprieve
- Scholars at Risk
- Scholar Rescue Fund
- Social Accountability International
- Society for Threatened Peoples
- Survival International
- Tahirih Justice Center
- The Advocacy Project
- The Sentinel Project for Genocide Prevention
- UN Watch
- UNITED for Intercultural Action
- World Council of Churches
- World Organisation Against Torture
- Witness (human rights group)
- Womankind Worldwide
- Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace
- World Future Council
- World Organisation Against Torture
- Youth for Human Rights International
- Women in Action - international informal group who acts together for women all over the world. For their rights, knowledge, security, well being, leisure time, motherhood, love.
International Peace Commission-IPC (Global Humanitarian Organization/Devoted of Peace & Prosperity)
International (regional) non-governmental organizations
- Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (Arab world)
- Arab Commission for Human Rights (Arab world)
- Ararat Heritage (Europe)
- Asian Human Rights Commission (Asia)
- Asian Centre for Human Rights (Asia)
- Asian Legal Resource Centre (Asia)
- Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (Commonwealth nations)
- Council on Hemispheric Affairs (Americas)
- Crossroads[clarification needed]
- Derechos Human Rights (Latin America)
- Ecumenical Center for Human Rights (Americas)
- Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (Euro-Mediterranean region)
- European Roma Rights Centre (Europe)
- Federal Union of European Nationalities (Europe)
- Helsinki Citizens Assembly (Europe)
- Human Rights Foundation (Americas)
- Incomindios Switzerland (Americas)
- Journalists for Human Rights (Africa)
- Kurdish Human Rights Project (Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Iran & elsewhere)
- Memorial (Ex-USSR)
- Washington Office on Latin America (Latin America)
Non-governmental organisations with a national focus
For governmental national human rights organisations see national human rights institutions.
- Burma Campaign UK
- Canadian Friends of Burma
- Free Burma Rangers
- Freedom Campaign
- Human Rights Defenders and Promoters
- U.S. Campaign for Burma
- Women's League of Burma
- Civil Human Rights Front (Hong Kong)
- Empowerment and Rights Institute
- Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor (Hong Kong)
- Human Rights in China
- Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy
- International Federation for Justice in China
- Tibet:
Democratic Republic of the Congo
- GISTI
- Human Rights League (Ligue des droits de l'homme)
- MRAP (French NGO)
- SOS Racisme
- Human Rights Protection Group
- Manab Adhikar Sangram Samiti (MASS)
- Confederation of Human Rights Organizations
- Forum for Fact-finding Documentation and Advocacy
- Human Rights Documentation Centre
- International Human Rights Association (IHRA)
- National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights
- Vigil India Movement
- Kashmir Human Rights Commission
- Israel:
- Palestinian territories:
- 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
- Center for Constitutional Rights
- Citizens Justice Association
- Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
- Empowering Spirits Foundation
- Human Rights Campaign
- Human Rights Commission of Salt Lake City
- Human Rights First
- Humanitarian Law Project
- Jewish Voice for Peace
- Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
- National Youth Rights Association
- Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
- Society for Human Rights (Disbanded)
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- US Human Rights Network
- Workplace Fairness
United Nations Bodies
- Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- United Nations Security Council
- Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights
- United Nations Human Rights Council
- United Nations Commission on Human Rights (disbanded)
- International Criminal Court
- OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
- UNESCO
- United Nations Parliamentary Assembly
Human rights treaty bodies
- Human Rights Committee
- Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
- Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- Committee Against Torture
- Committee on the Rights of the Child
Other multilateral organisations
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- African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
- African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Arab Organization for Human Rights
- Commissioner for Human Rights
- Committee for the Prevention of Torture
- Commonwealth of Nations
- European Court of Human Rights
- OAS Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression
- Subcommittee on Human Rights
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
- Inter-American Court of Human Rights
