Leading Organizations

Aims to increase citizen awareness of their rights and responsibilites to promote good governance and strengthened democracy

It seeks to promote and reinforce the rights of vulnerable children. Their four key areas are: child marriage (they hold the Secretariat for the Tanzania Ending Child Marriage Network - TECMN); female genital mutilation; child protection and participation; and male engagement (they coordinate The MenEngage Network in Tanzania).

The Centre for Civil Society advances social change through public policy. It is extensively involved in education, livelihood, and policy training to promote choice and accountability across private and public sectors. CCS engages with policy and opinion leaders through research, pilot projects and advocacy.

It was founded in 1989 and provided emergency and humanitarian relief during the civil war. Their present initiatives include post war peace building projects, programs for HIV/AIDS prevention, food security, environmental protection, poverty eradication, and gender equality.

It promotes social justice, peace, and the rule of law. Their Free Legal Clinics offer access to justice to the underprivileged in areas such as employment, family, housing, immigration, and welfare benefits, to name a few.

HRDF is an NGO working to solve the economic and social problems facing disadvantaged communities of different strata in the civil society and the environment; they seek sustainable development and democracy in their efforts.

Aims to provide safe and humane correctional facilities, to be transparent to the public, and to ensure an effective criminal justice system

It is an initiative that promotes democratic principles, the rule of law, and respect for human rights in criminal law and the administration of criminal justice. Its mission is to improve the quality of justice through reforms of criminal law, policy, and practice.

Works to expand education about the rule of law by disseminating its principles and tenets in order to change the understanding of the rule of law and provide capacity for adults and, especially, young people to explore its usefulness as a foundation of society.

The Women's Studies Research Centre is an independent and interdisciplinary initiative founded in 1994 at the University of Hong Kong. It promotes research and dialogue in areas such as gender, cross-cultural awareness, sexuality, and policy making.

Besides monitoring human rights violations and seeking redress through public campaigns, lobbying and intervention in courts, HRCP organizes seminars, workshops and fact finding missions.

Founded in 1987, SALIGAN is a legal resource non-governmental organization doing developmental legal work with women, farmers, workers, the urban poor, the indigenous peoples and local communities.  It has more than one hundred (100) partner-organizations all over the country.

DHRC was established in 2000 by a group of young people from different areas realizing the real situation of disables persons in Nepal, committing to defending and raising awareness about their rights.

Think tank working with business, political and civil society organizations in order to regulate and open up the space for the energy sector in Ukraine.

EPD's mission is to empower and strengthen women and youth at the community and policy levels to build coalitions and networks and promote human rights, peace and good governance.

It represents different sectors of Coastal Muslim communities in Kenya. Their work is focused on the following areas: peace and security development, social accountability, access to justice, and land and advocacy. They also promote the health rights of drug users, especially related to HIV infection.

Works to provide information on human trafficking, and develop outeach and awareness projects.

Works to uncover cases of fraud and corruption through investigative journalism and produces a corruption risk report card ranking states.

It supports small and medium Ethiopian enterprises that are developing innovative solutions to address the challenges of climate change. The initiative is supported by the World Bank’s program infoDev, UK Aid, and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

It is a collective action organization that combats corruption affecting the business sector by connecting companies, chambers of commerce, and industry groups with the government. It also maps corruption to identify where it is occurring within the business community.

National social justice network dedicated to the fundamental human rights of people involved in the sex trade and their communities, focusing on ending violence and stigma through education and advocacy.

PASI has deployed trained paralegals to provide legal education, advice and assistance throughout the criminal justice processes, from arrest to appeal, along with developing community justice mechanisms for access to justice for the poorer and more vulnerable persons in Malawi.

It was founded in 1995 in Arusha city, it is the premier Bar Association in the East African Region. It seeks the promotion of constitutionalism, democracy and good governance, the rule of law and the advancement, promotion, and protection of human rights of all people in East Africa and beyond.

It aims to promote a culture of peace, especially among young people, ensuring a peaceful co-existence and promoting justice and equality.

Founded in 2005, it promotes and facilitates access to sexual health and other rights for sexual minorities. It works principally through policy advocacy, research, education, and service provision.