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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
Asian Conference Religions for Peace - ACRP Japan
Factor 5: Order and Security

This multi-religious initiative aims to transform violent conflict and achieve just and harmonious societies, through the advancement of the sustainable development goals, caring for the earth, promoting nuclear and conventional disarmament, and protecting human rights. The Japanese office is the Asian regional secretariat.

Justice Without Borders - JWB Singapore, Hong Kong S.A.R., China, Indonesia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

JWB empowers victims of human trafficking and exploitation to pursue legal remedies against their abusers in targeted host countries. JWB focuses on civil litigation in the host jurisdictions of Singapore and Hong Kong. They also have regional level operations through collaboration with local organizations along key migration routes to ensure victims have access to legal aid, irrespective of their location.

Community MIgrant Resource Center Australia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It is a community based organization that protects the rights of newly arrived migrants and refugees by providing services for these peoples and enhancing community awareness of migrant issues.

Development Network of Indigenous Voluntary Associations (DENIVA) Uganda
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

A network that creates collective advocacy and voice surrounding issues in Uganda to create a people-centered, sustainable nation

Centre for Legal Rights Advancement - CLERA Nigeria
Factor 7: Civil Justice

It works to advance and protect the fundamental rights of the underprivileged, providing free legal services and education.

Bonavero Institute of Human Rights International
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

The Institute seeks to provide excellent research and expand the understanding of human rights beyond academia through collaboration with practitioners and scholars.

International Commission of Jurists - ICJ Kenya Kenya
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

It is the Kenyan Section of the ICJ. It promotes human rights, justice, and democracy in Kenya and around Africa through the application of legal expertise and international best practices. Founded in 1959, ICJ Kenya is the oldest human rights organization in Kenya.

Ritanjali India
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Ritinjali has been working at the Tihar Jail for over 12 years. Among a select few NGOs permitted to work at Tihar Jail, Ritinjali's volunteers run a detailed rehabilitation and counselling programme and provides free legal assistance to juveniles and women inmates.

Media Women Center for Development and Democracy Liberia
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Media Women Center for Development and Democracy is a pro media, gender and policy research organization that uses media to promote and protect the rights of women, rural dwellers and the disabled.

National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux (ANBCC) Romania
Factor 3: Open Government

Network of Advice Bureaux for citizens to have access to information and offers assistance services for people to understand their rights.

Claremont Institute United States
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

Seeks to preserve the American Founding ideas and train young leaders to preserve these ideals and the constitutional guarantees of the American Revolution.

Christian Social Service Commission - CSSC Tanzania
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Founded in 1992, it supports the delivery of social services by church institutions in Tanzania through collaboration and partnership, advocacy, lobbying, capacity building, and selected interventions.

Afghanistan's National Journalists Union Afghanistan
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 5: Order and Security

Afghanistan National Journalists Union is the official representative body for defending the rights of journalists in Afghanistan.

The Philippine Judicial Academy  Philippines
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers

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.

Majlis India
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

They are an organization that uses youth volunteers to teach underprivileged children.

Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) India
Factor 7: Civil Justice

The Centre for Social Justice uses the law for social change to ensure access to justice to vulnerable communities and to secure social justice, equity and equality, and fraternity.

Peace and Justice Myanmar Myanmar
Factor 5: Order and Security
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

It is focused on actions that are conducive for a democratic and prosperous society through the engagement of citizens to participate politically and the promotion of adequate reforms for a sustainable peace-building process.

Women in the Media Sierra Leone - WIMSAL Sierra Leone
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

It was founded in 2007 and aims to improve the conditions for female journalists, while also advocating for the rights of all women in Sierra Leone. It is a member of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists, and has approximately 200 members distributed throughout the country.

Rethink Thailand Thailand
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

Rethink Thailand seeks to guarantee basic human rights by creating a new thinking space that encourages problem acknowledgement and discussions on real solutions. It uses a collaborative approach to develop audiovisual initiatives and content in partnership with graphic designers, animators, scholars, researchers, and civil activists.

Feminist Dalit Organization (FEDO) Nepal
Factor 7: Civil Justice

NGO founded to establish the rights of Dalit women by organizing and empowering them in order for them to bring their demands into the national development program.

Zambia Institute for Advanced Legal Education (ZIALE) Zambia
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Researches various legal areas and provides legal education

KARAPATAN Philippines
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights

KARAPATAN is an alliance of human rights organizations and programs, human rights desks and committees of people’s organizations, and individual advocates committed to the defense of people’s rights and civil liberties.

Human Rights Advocacy Centre (HRAC) Ghana
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

HRAC mission is the protection and promotion of the rights of all Ghanaians through increasing awareness, fostering a sustainable human rights culture, and enhancing democracy, good governance, and accountability.

The Centre for Comparative and Public Law - CCPL Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Founded in 1995 at the University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Law, it aims to make the law more accessible to the community and more effective, and it works to advance knowledge on public law and human rights issues primarily from the perspectives of international and comparative law and practice.

Lawyers for Human Rights and Development Sri Lanka
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

This organisation has been instrumental in the development of justice for women and access to legal protection for women; for the past thirty years, they worked with various international organisations established for the promotion of human rights, as well as the Ministry of Justice of Sri Lanka.