Leading Organizations

Advocates for policy on prostitution and gives assistance and support to sex workers and victims of sex trafficking.

Provides free legal consultation in civil cases to those who cannot afford to hire an attorney.

UNAMA’s Human Rights Unit, as part of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, pursues an overall strategy to ensure the protection and promotion of human rights in Afghanistan.

It works in partnership with a range of governmental and non-governmental actors to achieve shared goals and objectives. It is one of the most prominent and active external partners of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR).

CANA aims to help ordinary citizens improve the quality and effectiveness of services provided by local government units (LGUs) across the Philippines.

It promotes transparency and accountability in public offices, enterprises, and organizations by offering ethics and anti-corruption education and by mobilizing the public against corruption and impropriety.

Funded by the national government to bring various women's organizations together to combat violence against women, namely those who are disproportionately abused.

A coalition of citizens and civil society organizations that promotes transparent electoral processes through networking, lobbying, and advocacy

Founded in 1996, it monitors and reports on detention conditions and prison infrastructure in Sierra Leone. They strive to ensure safe custody and humane conditions for individuals deprived of their liberty. It provides training on human rights for officers and civil society members.

It works on enabling children to learn, citizens to exercise agency, and governments to be more open and responsive in Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda. Undertaking effective public policy engagement, through powerful media partnerships and global leadership of initiatives such as the Open Government Partnership.

Works to investigate the matters of different ministries, in order to make government functionaries responsible towards the Legislature-Parliament.

The Center works to uphold the rule of law within the justice, criminal and prison systems of Brazil and other countries through high quality research and innovative programmatic operations with different area experts.

The Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process or OPAPP is the office mandated to oversee, coordinate, and integrate the implementation of the comprehensive peace process.

It works to conduct free and fair elections and to institutionalize a sustainable electoral process. It is responsible for conducting or supervising referendums and elections to any elective body or office established by the Constitution.

Works to promote youth involvement in the promotion of human rights and social change through art projects for advocacy.

It is a civic initiative that uses open technology and applications to produce information accessible for the public. It aims to improve governance and encourages greater citizen participation in public affairs by making the Parliament and the Malaysian Government more open, transparent, and accountable.

Think-India Foundation acts as a media-active think tank engaged in public policy advocacy. It propagates the principles of fiscal conservatism, regulated free markets and social liberalism.

It works to expand constitutional governance, pluralism, democracy and respect for human rights in Nigeria through education, advocacy, community mobilization, and counseling. The Center is active in the defense of journalists and press freedom rights.

Works to rescue victims and provide both psychosocial counseling and medical services to victims of tortures and other forms of threats and inhumane treatments.

Works to fight for the rights of persons to water and prevention of natural disasters. They have been at the forefront of the fight for a water law during the current water shortage crisis

CRY is a pioneering institution in the field of rights of underprivileged children in India.

Interfaith association working with UNICEF to combat AIDS and set up programs for access to drugs.

It is an energy policy think tank that influences the creation of transparent policies in Africa through professional analysis of energy policy, training, advisory services, and advocacy activities for the efficient management of energy resources.

Represents lawyers and the legal profession in order to promote social justice, better laws, and access to justice

Promotes transparency and accountability in extractive industries in order to account for fraud, corruption and tracability of taxpayer money.