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The list is incomplete; please add known articles or create missing ones. The following is a list of articles on the human rights organizations of the world.It does not include political parties, or academic institutions.
A human rights group, or human rights organization, is a non-governmental organization which advocates for human rights through identification of their violation, collecting incident data, its analysis and publication, promotion of public awareness while conducting institutional advocacy, and lobbying to halt these violations. Like other NGOs ...
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) [a] is a United Nations body whose mission is to promote and protect human rights around the world. [3] The Council has 47 members elected for staggered three-year terms on a regional group basis. [4] The headquarters of the Council are at the United Nations Office at Geneva in Switzerland.
Advancing Human Rights. The Advocacy Project. Alliance for Human Research Protection. Alliance for Open Society International. Ambedkar International Center. Amer Fakhoury Foundation. American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization. American Committee for Peace in Chechnya.
H. Helsinki Citizens' Assembly. Helsinki Citizens' Assembly–Vanadzor. Helsinki Committee for Human Rights. Helsinki Committee of Armenia. Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights. Hindus for Human Rights. Human Rights Measurement Initiative. Humanist Association of Ghana.
Human rights groups, civil rights organizations, and social critics have criticized the United States for violating fundamental human rights through the use of disproportionately heavy penalties compared to many other countries, overly long prison sentences, over-reliance on police control, excessive control of individual behavior, and societal ...
A national human rights institution (NHRI) is an independent state-based institution with the responsibility to broadly protect and promote human rights in a given country. The growth of such bodies has been encouraged by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), which has provided advisory and support ...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization, headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. [2] The group pressures governments, policymakers, companies, and individual human rights abusers to denounce abuse and respect human rights, and often works on behalf of refugees ...