Leading Organizations

It fosters the participation of women and promotes their education, healthcare, and equitable access to opportunities. It is a member of Vital Voices Global Partnership and it is comprised of more than one-thousand partners and executives from the private and public sectors.

The basic function of the Institute is to study fundamental issues related to State and Law; to provide the scientific evidence for making strategies and policies which are used for the development and building State and law.

Work towards the rights of minority groups in Vietnamese society through original research, policy advocacy, organizing conference and training events, holding popular annual community events, and running direct youth and minority initiatives.

Government agency working in the fields of social sciences, providing scientific evidences for the Party and the State in developing guidelines, strategies, plans, and policies in order to serve a fast and sustainable socialist-oriented development of the country.

Scientific organization of scholars, working with state agencies and civil society in building and developing public policies and legislation, and development of the rule of law, good governance and sustainable development.

It supports social integration and facilitates employment programs for people in preliminary or normal detention, ex-prisoners, and their relatives. It fosters crime and drug prevention through informative activities, seminars, and projects.

It works to defend the rights and interests of homeless people and people living in poverty in partnership with the City is For All group. They provide free legal aid to ensure access to adequate housing and social rights.

Works to defend the rights of vulnerable persons and groups against environmentally destructive projects, provide them with training to defend their rights and to enforce regulation on environmental issues.
WJP Program Grantee Title: Housing Rights for the Urban Poor in Fortaleza (2013-2015)

The Popular Office offers pro bono services and legal assistance by staff and students for criminal and civil cases.

The Law Office provides pro bono legal assistance and services by students for people who cannot access regular state sponsored services or lawyers.

Founded in 1980, UNAMG is a feminist organization that works to strengthen critical thinking and political action of women to transform their realities. Since 2010 it has worked with The Association Group of Psychosocial Studies and Women Transforming the World to provide legal assistance to the survivors of sexual violence from the internal armed conflict.

Affirmative Union was created to promote knowledge and the application of international human rights standards that protect people from discrimination based on sexual orientation. They promote legal protection and the recognition of same sex couples and LGBT families.

The National Union of Free Audiovisual of Burkina Faso (UNALFA) is the association of private radio and television of Burkina Faso to work for free media.

Since 2000, UDEFEGUA has supported human rights defenders and organizations in Guatemala and Central America. It offers legal support, monitors attacks and aggressions, and produces risk analyses and security plans. It also raises awareness concerning the safety situation of human rights defenders through their annual report.

UNDP Turkey cooperates with the government to promote access to justice through increased efficiency of judicial systems. It provides policy recommendations for organizational administration structure and development of mediation practice in the field of criminal justice.

Founded in 1997 to promote and defend the rights of prisoners in Venezuela through legislative proposals and public policies, it monitors the penal system and disseminates information and research concerning the situation of Venezuela's prisons.

No Gags uses art as a mechanism of expression that contributes to the promotion and defense of human rights and nonviolence in Venezuela and around the world, as well as to preserve freedoms, strengthen the rule of law, and facilitate a democratic culture.

TI- Turkey aims to set the rule of transparency, integrity and accountability principles in all segments of the society for the democratic, social and economic development of the country. TI-Turkey perceives corruption as a major source of social, economical and political crises and an obstacle on the way of economical development, rule of law, competitiveness and proper usage of natural resources.

TESEV conducts research and prepares reports on good governance, democratizarion and inclusion.

One of the issue areas of the TEPAV is to design a transparent and participatory constitution making process with widest possible participation by the civil society in order to promote democracy, human righats and the rule of law. TEPAV also works on "judicial independence" that would safeguard not only democratization and fundamental rights and freedoms but also economic growth and social change in general.

Committee on Human Rights monitors developments regarding the human rights in Turkey and the world. It harmonizes the implementations with the relevant regulations. It also investigates the individual applications regarding the violation of human rights.

The Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (HRFT) provides treatment and rehabilitation services for torture survivors and documents human rights violations.

Researching and implementing topics, programs and projects in communications and community education.

Works to regulate environmental degradation by government and business initiatives, along with providing legal assistance to persons affected by the projects.