Human Rights Organizations
Documenting abuses, taking cases to court and to UN bodies, and protecting defenders at risk. Read what each one covers and where its offices are.
United Kingdom
Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 10 million people committed to a future in which everyone enjoys the human rights set out in the...
United States
Human Rights Watch investigates and reports on human rights abuses around the world.
United States
The Open Society Foundations were founded by George Soros. They describe themselves as the world's largest private funder of independent groups working...
Australian Human Rights Commission
Australia
The Australian Human Rights Commission is a national statutory body that promotes and protects human rights in Australia.
Ireland
Front Line Defenders is an international human rights organisation, founded in Dublin in 2001 to protect human rights defenders at risk.
Sweden · Stockholm
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent human rights organisation.
Brazil · São Paulo
Conectas Direitos Humanos is a human rights organisation based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Australia
The Human Rights Law Centre is an independent, not-for-profit, non-government organisation based in Melbourne, Australia, active since 2006.
Malaysia
SUARAM is registered as Suara Inisiatif Sdn Bhd under Malaysia's Companies Act 1965.