Leading Organizations

Works to defend the rights of detainees, and work with them on activities in detention centres, along with providing reinsertion mechanisms.

Works to assist animals victims of abuse and to help law enforcement track animal trafficking.

Works to defend the rights of migrants and protect the rights of migrants and refugees deprived of liberty through counsel and prison visits.

Citizen Action is the Guatemalan chapter of Transparency International. Their mission is to achieve a democratic and corruption free Guatemala by fostering conscious and committed citizens to promote transparency in public administration. Their Anticorruption Legal Assistance program (ALAC) provides legal support for citizens denouncing corruption in Guatemala.

It is a civil society group that promotes participation, accountability, and human rights. It creates spaces for concertation and dialogue with the state as a mechanism to protect democratic values and the rights of all Panamanians.

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

Citizen public spending watchdog. Through their program Stop Corruption they have set up denouncing mechanisms with regards to government officials corruption allegations.

Citizen Control defends the rights of citizens to exercise control over the security, defense, and the national armed forces sectors. It promotes access to information, participation, and public debate.

An association which works to promote the rights of marginalised persons, such as street children or single mothers. Their objective is to create an Attention Center for street children to receive medical attention and receive education in order to start small businesses.

It is a space created by civil society to promote reforms to electoral laws.

Works to provide the public organizations and academics with innovative tools for participation and research for the progress and diffusion of democracy.

Works to provide access to information, through citizen sollicitation, and to develop mechanisms for transparency and the fight against corruption from a bottom up perspective through guiding manuals and participation in the democratic process.

Works to monitor human rights abuses of local and indigenous communities, document cases and provide legal assistance for the defense of peoples' rights.

Citizen group that has developed a range of indicators about quality of life in Leon, and seeks to diffuse the practice nationwide.

Works to monitor violence and security through an annual population survey, to modernise the prison system, reinsert criminals into society, provide legal assistance and work on prevention of criminal activity and recidivism.

It is a coalition of civil society organizations committed to the promotion of access to justice and the protection of human rights, most notably the defense of individuals deprived of their freedoms.

Works to monitor government practices, elections and the transparency process, along with promoting citizen participation in public accountability practices.

It collaborates with national authorities in the prevention of delinquency and crime through support of community security initiatives and justice. They also promote the participation of citizens in the defense of their rights and the fulfillment of their duties.

Citizen Voice is a civil society organization that works to empower women and children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan to acitively engage is social life.

CCRI is dedicated to the promotion, protection and implementation of the right to information in Nepal. The core areas of its work include awareness, research and dissemination.

CCHD works to empower people to demand and shape better policies, express grievances, seek justice and hold leaders and private sector to account.

Seeks to strengthen the relationship between citizens, civil society, and the government to promote education on climate change and encourgae sustainable practices

Works to organize parliamentary and civilian control over police, security servicess and the armed forces through an independent court, research and formation for lawyers and judges.

Works to monitor elections and provide independent review of the electoral process to citizens.

It is a coalition of civil society organizations that works to achieve judicial reform and to improve the administration of justice in Panama. They also have programs focused on community justice, peace building, and conflict resolution.