Please review the compiled list of external institutions addressing human rights. The list includes international organizations (global and regional), selected government foreign policies on human rights, and selected international non-governmental organizations. These outside resources on human rights may be useful for students and constituents for both research and job searching.
Global International Organizations
- Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions
- International Criminal Court
- International Labour Organization
- International Organization for Migration
- Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- United Nations Children's Fund
- United Nations Development Programme
- United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
- United Nations Environment Programme
- United Nations Human Rights Council - Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- The United Nations Refugee Agency
- United Nations Sustainable Development Group
- World Bank
- World Food Programme
- World Health Organization
- World Trade Organization
Regional International Organizations
- African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
- African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights
- African Union
- Arab Human Rights Committee
- ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights
- Council of Europe
- European Court of Human Rights
- European Union
- Inter-American Commission of Human Rights
- Inter-American Court of Human Rights
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe High Commissioner on National Minorities
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
- Organization of American States
Selected Governments (foreign policy on human rights)
- Australia – Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Brazil – Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Canada – Global Affairs Canada
- France – Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères
- Germany – Federal Foreign Office
- International Geneva
- Korea, Republic of – Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Mexico – Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores
- Japan – Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Spain – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation
- Switzerland – Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
- United States Department of State – Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
Selected International Non-Governmental Organizations
Please note: Inclusion on this list does not represent any endorsement of the organization; the list does not include NGOs focusing on work in one country.
- AIRE Centre
- Amazon Watch
- American Association for the Advancement of Science: Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights & Law Program
- Amnesty International
- Anti-Slavery International
- Arab Organization for Human Rights
- ARC International
- Article 19
- Asian Human Rights Commission
- Association for Women's Rights in Development
- Asylum Access
- Avocats Sans Frontières
- Business and Human Rights Resource Centre
- CARE
- Carter Center
- Center for Economic and Social Rights
- Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
- Center for International Environmental Law
- Center for Justice and Accountability
- Child Rights International Network
- Coalition for the International Criminal Court
- Comité International pour la Protection des Droits de I'Homme
- Committee of Concerned Scientists
- Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative
- Cultural Survival
- Enough Project
- Equality Now
- European Roma Rights Center
- Forest Peoples Programme
- Freedom House
- GATE
- Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
- Global Exchange
- Global Rights
- Helsinki Committee for Human Rights
- Human Rights Education Association
- Human Rights First
- Human Rights Foundation
- Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems, International
- Human Rights Watch
- Human Rights Without Frontiers
- Institute for War and Peace Reporting
- International Center for Transitional Justice
- International Commission of Jurists
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- International Crisis Group
- International Development Association
- International Federation for Human Rights
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- International Fund For Agricultural Development
- International Institute for Sustainable Development
- International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
- International Rescue Committee
- International Service for Human Rights
- International Union for Conservation of Nature
- Minority Rights Group International
- No Peace Without Justice
- Norwegian Refugee Council
- OXFAM America
- PEN International
- Physicians for Human Rights
- Protection International
- Redress
- Refugees International
- Reporters Without Borders
- Reprieve
- Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights
- TECHO
- Transparency International
- United for Human Rights
- Universal Rights Group
- Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
- World Council of Churches
