Human Right Organizations
This section contains links to a variety of human rights organizations, grouped into three broad categories: Inter-Governmental (including UN and other global and regional bodies), Non-Governmental, and Academic Centers.
Inter-Governmental
United Nations/Global Organizations
- UN Home Page
- UN Office at Geneva (ONUG)
- UN International Law Commission
- International Court of Justice
- International Criminal Court
- International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- UN High Commisioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR)
- UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
- UN Children's Fund (UNICEF)
- International Labour Organization (ILO)
- ILO International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC)
- International Occupational Safety and Health Information Centre (ILO-CIS)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- UN Development Programme (UNDP)
- International Civilian Mission in Haiti
- Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
- UN Commission on the Status of Women
- UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women
- UN Crime and Justice Information Network (UNCJIN)
- UN Fourth World Conference on Women
- UN Mission for the Verification of Human Rights in Guatemala (MINUGUA)
- UN Peace Keeping Operations
Regional Organizations
- African Union (AU)
- African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
- Council of Europe (COE)
- European Court of Human Rights
- Organization of American States (OAS)
- Inter-American Court of Human Rights
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
- Organization for Security & Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
- High Commissioner on National Minorities
- Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
- Representative on Freedom of the Media
Non-Governmental
- AIDS Law Project South Africa
- Aboriginal Law and Legislation Online
- Action Canada for Population and Development
- Advocates International
- American Association for the Advancement of Science Human Rights Program
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
- Amnesty International (AI)
- Anti-Slavery International
- Arab Association for Human Rights
- Asian Human Rights Commission
- Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs
- Bosnian Institute
- Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
- Canadian Human Rights Reporter
- Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
- Carter Center
- Catholic Agency for Overseas Development
- Caux Round Table: Charting a New Course for Business
- Center for Economic and Social Rights
- Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors
- Child Workers in Asia
- Children Now
- Children's Defense Fund
- Children's House
- Child Rights Information Network
- China Labour Bulletin
- Committee to Protect Journalists
- Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
- CorpWatch
- Cultural Survival
- Danish Institute for Human Rights
- Derechos Human Rights
- Doctors Without Borders (USA)
- East Timor and Indonesia Action Network
- Ethnical Trading Initiative
- European Centre for Minority Issues
- European Human Rights Centre
- European Roma Rights Center
- Fair Labor Association
- Focus: HOPE
- Franciscans and Dominicans for Human Rights
- Free the Children
- Global Citizens Circle
- Global Exchange
- Global Lawyers and Physicians
- Global March Against Child Labor
- Global Rights
- Global Volunteers
- HealthWrights
- Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
- Human Rights Internet
- Human Rights Watch
- Human Rights in China
- Hunger Site
- Inter-American Institute of Human Rights
- InterAction: American Council for Voluntary International Action
- Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
- International Center for Research on Women
- International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development
- International Committeee of the Red Cross
- International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
- International Federation on Human Rights
- International Institute for Sustainable Development
- International Lesbian and Gay Association
- International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
- International Service for Human Rights
- Islamic Human Rights Commission
- Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
- Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information
- Labors of Love Project
- Middle East Report
- Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
- National Center for Human Rights Education
- National Organization for Women (NOW)
- NativeWeb: Resources for Indigenous Cultures Around the World
- Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
- People's Movement for Human Rights Education (PDHRE)
- Peace Brigades International
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- RESULTS: The Power to End Hunger
- Sierra Club: Human Rights and the Environment
- Simon Wiesenthal Center
- Sisterhood Is Global
- Sisters Online
- Social Accountability International
- South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Sweatshop Watch
- Tamil Eelam
- Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy
- United Nations Association USA
- U.S. Human Rights Network
- United Students Against Sweatshops
- Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
- Vera Institute of Justice
- Washington Office on Latin America
- Worker Rights Consortium
- World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)
Academic Centers
Domestic
California
- Center for Law & Global Justice (University of San Francisco)
- Human Rights Center (University of California, Berkeley)
Colorado
Connecticut
- Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Law Project (Yale University)
- Human Rights Institute (University of Connecticut)
- Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights (Yale Law School)
Georgia
Illinois
- Center for International Human Rights (Northwestern University School of Law)
- Human Rights Program (University of Chicago)
Indiana
- Center for Civil and Human Rights (University of Notre Dame Law School)
- International Human Rights Law Program (Indiana University School of Law)
Massachusetts
- Carr Center for Human Rights Policy (Harvard University)
- Center for Human Rights and International Justice (Boston College)
- François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health & Human Rights (Harvard University)
- Human Rights & Justice Program (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Human Rights Program (Harvard University Law School)
Minnesota
- Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (University of Minnesota)
- Human Rights Center (University of Minnesota)
- Human Rights Program (University of Minnesota)
New York
- Buffalo Human Rights Center (SUNY-Buffalo Law School)
- Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (New York University)
- Center for the Study of Human Rights (Columbia University)
- Crowley Program in International Human Rights (Fordham Law School)
- Human Rights Institute (Columbia University)
- Human Rights Project (Bard College)
Ohio
Texas
Virginia
Washington, D.C.
Foreign
Australia
Canada
- Human Rights Research and Education Centre (University of Ottawa, Ontario)
- Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism (McGill University, Montreal, Quebec)
Finland
Finland
Israel
The Netherlands
- European Research Centre on Migration & Ethnic Relations (Utrecht University)
- Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (Utrecht School of Law)
Sweden
- Department of Peace and Conflict Research (University of Uppsala)
- Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (University of Lund)
Switzerland
United Kingdom
- Centre for the Study of Human Rights (London School of Economics)
- Centre for the Study of Human Rights Law (University of Glasgow, Scotland)
- Human Rights Centre (University of Essex, England)
- Human Rights Centre (Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Human Rights Law Centre (University of Nottingham, England)