Leading Organizations

As a pioneer human rights organization, FOHRID focuses on the issues of impunity and rule of law, human rights including ESCR, transitional justice, democratic governance and democratic reform including inter party democracy and political accountability.

DI has worked on different projects related to electoral reforms, and civil society and public participation in elections.

The Akshaya Patra Foundation strives to fight issues like hunger and malnutrition in India. It has also partnered with the government to implement the Mid-Day Meal Scheme in government schools and government aided schools. Today, it serves over 1.4 million children from 10,948 schools across 10 states in India.

It combats gender inequality and extreme poverty in urban slums by linking tuition free schools for girls to holistic social services. Its model is centered around a school that provides a superior education with free healthcare, food, and psychosocial services.

"Damu-Ұlytau" works to promote environmentally social policies and regulation in Kazakhstan. It also organizes tranings and public consultations about the enviroment, and supervises program implementation

It is the Ghanaian chapter of the global humanitarian organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It works to create positive change in the conditions that cause poverty, with activities including agriculture, food security, WASH, as well as livelihood support to refugee population, among others.

Rights Now Collective for Democracy is a Civil Society Organization committed to the protection and promotion of Human Rights, Rule of Law, and Democracy in Sri Lanka.

Leading think tank and resource center on the state of health in the United States.

A permanent government body incorporated to monitor and protect human rights

The Global Justice Center seeks to effectively make use of international human rights treatise in order to guarantee access to human rights for people around the world. Through an expert team of lawyers and human rights advocates they seek to apply the treaties' guarantees to expand access and ensure normative control. 

It is the local chapter of the international organization working towards the promotion and protection of children's rights. They provide education and access to justice for the children and their families, through their socio-legal defense centers.

It aims to enable members of women's faith organizations to work together to address conflict, poverty, and insecurity. It works principally in the Kanduna region.

SYF is a non-profit youth led organization striving for peace-building, tolerance and human development in Malakand Region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

It is the national employers organization with branches throughout the country. It offers training, legal advice on labor and industrial relations, and mediation services for issues pertaining to employment. It also participates in the revision and analysis of policies and collective bargaining processes.

It was established to support and develop social documentary filmmaking to address issues pertaining to human rights, and specifically the right to freedom of expression. Every year in September they organize the international human rights documentary and social film festival Freedom Film Festival.

The Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) is an independent non-profit policy research organization, aiming to provide independent and high quality research on issues in Afghanistan for people to have access to better information on social and political issues.

NCACL seeks to identify, form, nurture and recognize individuals who, through a process of self-transformation, can develop into a community of empowering, world-class leaders.

Produces research, booklets and advocates for the elimination of all forms of racism and discrimination through a network of militants.

The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) is an international NGO head quartered in India and is mandated to ensure the practical realisation of human rights in the countries of the Commonwealth.

Through Media and Arts, Tanzania Bora Initiative engages the youth community in providing civic educational programs and projects based on effective leadership, democracy and accountability, good governance, Human rights, and development issues.

Produces research on innovative ways to manage and prevent violence (sexual, youth or other) and implements programs with families, communities and government to prevent and redress violent situations.

REDRESS is a human rights organization that helps torture survivors obtain justice and reparation. In Nepal, REDRESS is working in partnership with Advocacy Forum, a leading human rights NGO in Nepal, to reduce incidents of torture in Nepal and to improve torture survivors' ability to access justice and obtain reparation for what they have suffered.

Intergovernmental development agency working to build peace and democratic governance across the full range of development contexts, through rule of law and human rights assistance.

It provides services to many vulnerable people, among them prisoners, ex-prisoners, and refugees. They work in collaboration with the Kenya Prisons Service and the Probation and After Care Services for the rehabilitation, reintegration, and after care of offenders.

It advocates for the rights of persons with disabilities, and is committed to create an equal platform to work with authorities to ensure their inclusion in policy framework development. They promote the participation and representation of persons with disabilities in governance structures.