Leading Organizations

Created in 2005, R-Rights supports the Philippine LGBT Rights Advocacy Movement through in-depth legal and policy studies, to ensure that the law and its institutions are not used as instruments of oppression and discrimination, or to further reinforce gender-stereotypes.

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.

Since it was set-up in 1997, SWP has the objectives of increasing people's awareness and participation in promoting social development concerns with government.  It has annually put forward a strategy of advocacy, awareness-building, monitoring, organizational development and networking.

The highest court in the Philippines. It is presided over by a Chief Justice and is composed of fifteen Justices. The Supreme Court has "administrative supervision over all courts and the personnel thereof.".

Established in 1996, Tebtebba seeks to promote and disseminate indigenous peoples worldviews, their perspectives on key issues such as individual and collective human rights, sustainable development, climate change, biodiversity, traditional knowledge, customary laws and governance, conflict transformation, gender, etc.

The AIM Policy Center produces research and hosts discussions about public policy to support the growth of the Philippines and the Asian region.

FDC Philippines is a nationwide multi-sectoral, non-sectarian and pluralist coalition conducting policy advocacy work and campaigns to realize a common framework and agenda for economic development.

IWPR helps support democratic development and the rule of law in regions of crisis and transition through professional and media development.

The IACAT is the body created by law to coordinate and monitor the implementation of Republic Act No. 9208, otherwise known as the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act of 2003. The IACAT has been at the forefront of the drawn-out battle against trafficking in persons.

Established in 1987, LRC works for the recognition and protection of the rights of indigenous peoples and upland rural poor communities to land and other natural resources. The Center seeks to bridge the gap between the informal articulation of the aspirations of these marginalized communities on the one hand, and the formal, technical, bureaucratic and legal language used by the state.

The National Anti-Poverty Commission (NAPC) ensures that social reform is a continuous process that addresses the basic inequities in Philippine society, and that a policy environment conducive to social reform is actively pursued.

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.

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.

Established in 2002, the Council is a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to the study of Islamic and democratic political thought and the search for peace, democracy and equitable and sustainable development in Muslim communities.

PhilRights is the research and information arm of the Philippine Alliance of Human Rights Advocates .

The Philippine Judicial Academy, a separate but component unit of the Supreme Court, has become an all-important factor in the promotion of judicial education in the Philippines.Its mission is to provide opportunities to develop judicial competence, instill sound values, and form constructive attitudes in its continuing pursuit of judicial excellence.

The Transparency and Accountability Network (TAN) is a coalition of multi-sectoral organizations concerned in anti-corruption and good governance in the Philippines. It envisions a Philippines characterized by transparent, accountable, effective, and efficient public institutions and informed citizenry intolerant of corruption.

The Office of Legal Aid (OLA) houses the clinical education program of the College of Law. It provides free legal assistance to indigent litigants. It is also actively involved in public interest cases.