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Organization Name Organization Name (Local Language) Country Factors Organization Description
Defense of Due Process Institute (IDDD) Instituto de Defense do Direito a Defensa (IDDD) Brazil
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Works to provide training, education and assistance on due process to incarcerated person, while using strategic litigation to improve the quality of due process mechanims in Brazil.

Defence for Children International Sierra Leone Sierra Leone
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

It is the local chapter of the international organization working towards the promotion and protection of children's rights. They provide education and access to justice for the children and their families, through their socio-legal defense centers.

Defence for Children International Ghana Ghana
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

It is the Ghanaian chapter of the international organization that has worked in the country since 1996. It protects and promotes children's rights in specific areas such as juvenile justice, violence, exploitation, trafficking, while also carrying out activities for education on human rights and children's rights.

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Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 5: Order and Security

Founded in 2006, Deep South Watch is based at Prince of Songkla University Pattani Campus in southern Thailand. It works as a decentralized network with a platform for mobilization and education towards the achievement of peace in areas of violent conflict, notably in the southern part of the country.

Decoding Law Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Factor 3: Open Government
Factor 7: Civil Justice

It aims to democratize the law by providing a machine learning powered browser plugin that helps people to read and understand legislation to notably benefit unrepresented litigants. Decoding Law breaks down complex legislative drafting into simple language and explains defined terms.

Data.gov United States
Factor 3: Open Government

Government platform for access to to information and data about government performance.

Data Science Singapore
Factor 3: Open Government

Aims to bring together explorers of data in order to create data and information access within Singapore.

Data Coalition United States
Factor 3: Open Government

Advocates for government openness and data and information provision for accountability and oversight by citizens.

Dare to be a Feminist! Osez le Féminisme! France
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Works to promote the rights of women, and to change societal views and government policy on issues affecting women such as sexual and reproductive rights, health and gender equality.

Dar al Amal ??? ????? Lebanon
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Works with vulnerable and at-risk children, with an emphasis on young girls and women in situations of violence, mistreatment, exploitation, prostitution, marginalization, and/or in conflict with the law.

Daksh India
Factor 7: Civil Justice

DAKSH is a civil society organization that undertakes research and activities to promote accountability and better governance in India. Daksh works towards evaluating judicial performance and in particular, to study the problem of pendency of cases in the Indian legal system.

DAI - Assistance to Legislative Bodies of Afghanistan (ALBA) Afghanistan
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 2: Absence of Corruption

Program designed to help the Afghan parliament become more self-reliant and more independent as an effective legislative, representative, and oversight body throuhg capacity training and program development.

Da Qanoon Ghushtonky (DQG) Afghanistan
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Da Qanoon Ghushtonky was established to take up and follow up on criminal and family cases and provide free legal representation.

Cypress Home Rumah Cemera Indonesia
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Works to rehabilitate drug users and offenders along with people with HIV AIDS.

Cyber Privacy Project United States
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Seeks to inform and educate citizens and government on privacy issues in federal and state documents and legal processes.

Curatio International Foundation ???????????? ????? ??????? Georgia
Factor 6: Regulatory Enforcement

Works to monitor government regulations in the area of public health and infrastructure and is a leading authority on public health innovation.

Cross Cultural Foundation (CrCF) มูลนิธิผสานวัฒนธรรม Thailand
Factor 1: Constraints on Government Powers
Factor 4: Fundamental Rights
Factor 7: Civil Justice

The Cross Cultural Foundation (CrCF) was founded in 2002 to advocate for the promotion of a culture of human rights, access to justice, and justice reforms based on a human rights based approach, as well as to monitor human rights violations in Thailand.

Cristosal Foundation Fundación Cristosal El Salvador
Factor 7: Civil Justice

Works to defend the rights of persons displaced as the result of violence in El Salvador, and providing them with legal representation and assistance, while working for enhanced capacities to end regional violence and forced displacement.

Criminology Kriminológia Hungary
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

It is the website of the Department of Criminology of the Faculty of Law at the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE ÁJK). It offers graduate programs and conducts scientific research on current and relevant topics in criminology.

Criminal Thinking Pensamiento Penal Argentina
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Group of magistrates, lawyers, judges, ex prisoners, academics, students, and civil servants in penitentiaries working to develop and reform the criminal system.

Criminal Research Institute - UNAM Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas - UNAM Mexico
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

Works to train and educate future lawyers and to contribute to public debate on the criminal Justice system through research, along with providing training courses for police officers.

Criminal Policy Observatory Observatorio de Política Criminal Colombia
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

It collects the official information concerning the different institutions that take part in a policy, as well as statistical information, documents, and relevant issues such as judicial decisions for the incarcerated LGTBI population, and the Criminal Policy Information System.

Criminal Justice Institute Instituto de Justicia Procesal Penal Mexico
Factor 8: Criminal Justice

An Institute that works to promote human rights within the justice system. They have been leaders of the judiciary reform in Mexico, and work to promote due process and access to information.

CrimeaSOS ????SOS Ukraine
Factor 5: Order and Security

The organization works in Crimea to guarantee the rights of Internally Displaced Persons, advocate for the return of Crimea to Ukraine, and to monitor the situation in the region after the Russian invasion.

Crime and Corruption Commission Queensland Australia
Factor 3: Open Government

Investigates crime and corruption in the public sector and systematic corrupt conduct and conducts research on crime and policing.