Leading Organizations

Works to foster citizen participation (esp. Through its Youth Movement), tackle corruption through its Citizen Transparency Observatory and work towards political reform for democracy.

Working to become the leading institution on providing quality information and influencing policy decisions of public value to citizens.

The Social Ombudsman is a collective of volunteer lawyers proposing free legal services in civil and criminal defense.

It is a multidisciplinary research group working on issues such as inequality, environmental change, and indigenous policy. They aim to both provide information on current policies and encourage policy reform.

ASIES is a private research institute that contributes to strengthening the rule of law and the development of Guatemala through research and advocacy. Their areas of work include legal analysis, economic and human development, education, labor studies, as well as the execution of projects related to public administration, public health, and municipal governance, to name a few.

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.

SoCO believes that everyone is entitled to equal rights and opportunities for participation and the fair distribution of social resources. Their Civil Rights Education Center organizes civil rights education workshops, provides cross-border legal advice, and educates people on how to safeguard their basic civil rights through legal channels.

It works to advance democracy, governance, human rights, and the rule of law in Sierra Leone. They specialize in the promotion of legal reforms and governance accountability.

It has been working with Afghan refugees, non-Afghan asylum seekers, and IDPs to register them and providing them legal aid. It also works to promote human rights through education, seminars, lectures, symposium, training, workshops, mass media and print media.

SLD is a Delhi-based labour rights organization, that believes in equitable development through social and economic well-being of labour, migrants, and women workers; and through cultural renewal among disenfranchised people.

Publicize and promote the principles of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child through programme development and local monitoring strategies.

It seeks to promote the health and social well-being of Gambian women, through applied research and evidence-based advocacy. Their areas of intervention are gender and health, maternal health and nutrition, and policy engagement and advocacy on women's health issues, among others.

The society is a collective of all the various law firms in India that aims to build up the capacities of legal practictioners in the country and region to match those in developed countries and establish a true rule of law network in Asia.

Works to advance the socio economic rights of people and functions as an umbrella for associations and a guarantor of freedom of assembly and expression.

Solidarity Action contributes to the reduction of the social impact of HIV/AIDS in Venezuela by offering comprehensive responses in the areas of prevention, care, and public advocacy. It protects the human rights of people with HIV/AIDS, their partners, and families.

It contributes to the debate on the justice system and demands the implementation of a democratic criminal policy with social justice. It demands that guarantees of the rights to search for truth, justice, and reparation are respected. They focus on fair treatment, fair and impartial trials, and other rights for persons deprived of freedom or those prosecuted for political offenses.

It publicizes the situation of political prisoners in the country to solicit support from international public opinion in calling for the respect of human rights and the due process of law in Ethiopia.

Founded in 1997, the Network is comprised of organizations working on migrant's rights issues in Japan. Their activities include policy reform advocacy, information sharing, workshops, and research.

Founded in 1994 by the artist Walter Solón Romero, it fosters a creative and critical approach to confront injustices and build alternatives for a new world. Areas of work include Systemic Alternatives, Mother Earth, and Rights.

Promotes gender justice and works to reduce domestic and sexual abuse and to protect and promote access to health and rights for people with HIV/AIDS.

Civil Association working to promote the rights of lesbian women in Mexico through coordination efforts of different organizations and the promotion of those rights at the national level.

Works to reduce violence and improve security and the criminal justice system through community dialogue, projects with youth and police and mobilisation around certain issues to drive and change public policy.

Coalition of businesses working to organize a response to HIV/AIDS and public health issues inside and outside the workplace.

Monitors compliance with international treaties on environmental, housing, children, migrant and minority rights, along with providing legal assistance on these issues, along with working towards the abolishment of torture.

South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment (SAWTEE) registered in Nepal was launched in 1994 as a loose regional network of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from five South Asian countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.