Human Rights and Social Justice Organizations

Association for Women's Rights in Development An international membership organization connecting, informing and mobilizing people and organizations committed to achieving gender equality, sustainable development and women's human rights.
American Friends Service Committee A Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace and humanitarian service around the world.
Catholics for a Free Choice Working in the Catholic social justice tradition, CFFC engages in research, policy analysis, education, and advocacy on issues of gender equality and reproductive health.
Center for Economic and Social Rights promotes the universal right of every human being to housing, education, health and a healthy environment, food, work and social security.
Center for Reproductive Rights A legal organization dedicated to defending women’s rights to reproductive freedom around the world.
Center for Women's Global Leadership Develops and facilitates women’s leadership initiatives worldwide.
Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era Based in Fiji, DAWN is a network of women scholars and activists from the economic South who engage in feminist research and analysis of the global environment and are committed to working for economic justice, gender justice and democracy.
Development Group for Alternative Policies Through its collaboration with citizens' organizations overseas, it works to ensure that the knowledge, priorities and efforts of the women and men of the South inform decisions made in the North about their economies and the environments in which they live.
Global AIDS Alliance works to galvanize the political will and financial resources needed to slow, and ultimately stop, the global AIDS crisis, and to reduce its impacts on poor countries hardest hit by the pandemic.
Global Exchange A non-profit research, education, and action center that works to increase global awareness among the US public while building international partnerships around the world.
Global Fund for Women makes grants to seed, support, and strengthen women's rights groups around the world.
Gender and Disaster Network is an educational project initiated by women and men interested in gender relations in disaster contexts.
Grassroots International works to create a just and sustainable world by building alliances with progressive movements. They provide grants to their Global South partners and join them in advocating for social change. Their primary focus is on land, water and food as human rights and nourishing the political struggle necessary to achieve these rights.
HandCrafting Justice is a fair trade project partnering with women struggling for economic justice and independence in developing countries.
International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission seeks to secure the full enjoyment of the human rights of all people and communities subject to discrimination or abuse on the basis of sexual orientation or expression, gender identity or expression, and/or HIV status.
International Women's Rights Action Watch, Asia Pacific is an organization that carries out collaborative projects to facilitate the monitoring and implementation of the CEDAW Convention regionally and globally.
International Women's Health Coalition works to generate health and population policies, programs, and funding that promote and protect the rights and health of girls and women worldwide, particularly in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and countries in post-socialist transition.
ISIS International is a feminist NGO dedicated to creating opportunities for women’s voices to be heard, strengthening feminist analyses through information exchange, and promoting solidarity and support feminist movements across the globe.
Mothers Acting Up An organization dedicated to mobilizing the political strength of mothers in order to ensure the health, education, and safety of every child.
Partners In Health works with community-based organizations to improve the well-being of people struggling against poverty; assists partner projects in Haiti, Peru, Mexico, Russia, and the United States with funding, technical and financial assistance, medical supplies, and administrative support.
People's Movement for Human Rights Education A non-profit, international service organization that works directly and indirectly with its network of affiliates – primarily women's and social justice organizations – to develop and advance pedagogies for human rights education relevant to people's daily lives in the context of their struggles for social and economic justice and democracy.
United for Peace and Justice is a national campaign that brings together a broad coalition of organizations throughout the US to help coordinate our work against a US war on Iraq.
Witness strengthens local human rights activists by giving them video cameras and field training to expose human rights abuses and use video to combat injustices.
Women in Black stand in silent vigil to protest war, rape as a tool of war, ethnic cleansing, and human rights abuses all over the world.
Women’s International Coalition for Economic Justice is an international coalition that links gender with macroeconomic policy at international policymaking arenas and works from a human rights perspective.
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom works to create an environment of political, economic, social and psychological freedom for all members of the human community, so that true peace can be enjoyed by all.
Women's Initative for Gender Justice is a network of individuals and groups committed to strengthening advocacy on women's human rights and helping to develop greater capacity among women in the use of International Criminal Court, the Optional Protocol to CEDAW and other mechanisms that provide women avenues of and access to different systems of justice.
Women Living Under Muslim Laws is an international network that provides information, solidarity and support for all women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam.
Women of Color Resource Center A non-profit education, community action and resource center working on social justice issues that affect women of color. WCRC develops and distributes education and information resources about women of color that support, sustain, and advance social justice movements.
Women's Environmental and Development Organization An international organization working to increase women's visibility, roles and leadership nationally, regionally, and internationally.
Women's Human Rights Net A partnership of women’s human rights organizations around the world; provides links to organizations and explanations of systems and strategies for women’s human rights work.
Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace is an international, non-governmental organization that empowers women and girls in the Global South to re-imagine and re-structure their roles in their families, communities, and societies.
Women’s Net Links to women’s organizations and posts regularly updated news announcements about women from the Institute for Global Communications, which links the on-line progressive community.
50 Years is Enough A coalition of 205 grassroots, faith-based, policy, women's, social and economic justice, youth, solidarity, labor, and development organizations dedicated to the profound transformation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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Africa

ABANTU for Development works to empower African people, particularly women, to participate at local, national, regional and international levels in making decisions that affect their lives enabling action for change.
Africa Action is a national organization that works for political, economic and social justice in Africa.
Africa Files is a network of volunteers committed to promoting human rights and economic justice in Africa and to relaying African perspectives and alternative analyses for viable human development.
Africa News A compilation of news about Africa from local papers across the continent.
East African Media Women Association works for African women to have equal access to new information and communications technologies and to be empowered to use these in ways that benefit their lives and their communities. (Highlights issues in Rwanda and Kenya, and other countries in East and Central Africa)
Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa is a pan-African NGO that works to strengthen the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN) A news source compiled by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs; provides news briefs for every region and nation in Africa.
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda home page hosted by UN site.
Internews: Reports on the International War Crimes Tribunal For Rwanda (ICTR) Provides daily updates on findings and related news from the ICTR.
Panapress Pan African news agency providing up-to-the-minute news coverage of the African continent in English, French, Portuguese and Arabic.
TransAfrica Forum is a major research, educational, and organizing institution for the African American community, offering constructive analyses of issues concerning US policy as it affects Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America.
Washington Office on Africa is a church-sponsored nonprofit organization seeking to articulate and promote a just American policy toward Africa.

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Latin America and the Caribbean

Center for Cuban Studies Dedicated to providing information and activities relating to contemporary Cuba and contributing to a normalization of relations between Cuba and the U.S.
Center for Justice and International Law works to achieve the full implementation of international human rights norms in the member States of the Organization of American States through the use of the Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights and other international protection mechanisms.
Center of Legal Action for Human Rights (CALDH) is a Guatemalan human rights organization that works within the peace-building process to promote the rights of women, children and youth, disabled people and Indigenous Peoples.
Centro de Investigaciones Economicas y Politicas de Accion Comunitaria (CIEPAC) Provides news updates and activist information about Chiapas.
Chirapaq MADRE’s partner organization in Peru.
Colombia Support Network Strives to improve the human rights situation in Colombia and build solidarity between the peoples of North America and Colombia.
Cuban Red Cross MADRE's partner organization in Cuba.
Cuba Solidarity web links An extensive list of sites dedicated to partnerships with Cuba and anti-embargo work.
The Disarm Education Fund promotes peace and social justice through political and social advocacy, while delivering life-saving medicine, medical supplies and medical delegations to Cuba and Central America.
Enlace Civil Provides news updates and activist information about Chiapas.
International Service for Peace A coalition of North American, Latin American and European organizations formed in 1995 to support the peace process in Chiapas, Mexico. Combines violence reduction and peace building strategies in Chiapas with efforts to inform and mobilize the international community.
K’inal Antzetik MADRE’s partner organization in Chiapas, Mexico.
The Latin American Information Agency (Alai Amlatina) is a communications organization, committed to the full respect of human rights, gender equality and people's participation in development and policy making in Latin America
Latin American Working Group A coalition of over 65 religious, human-rights, grassroots, foreign-policy, research, peace and development organizations committed to just and humane US policy toward Latin America. LAWG maintains an email network of people interested in promoting change in US/Cuba policy.
Mexico Solidarity Network A coalition of over 80 organizations struggling for human rights, economic justice and democracy in the United States and Mexico.
Nicaragua Network is committed to social and economic justice for the people of Nicaragua. The Network advocates for sound US foreign policies toward Nicaragua and provides information and organizing tools to a network of 200 solidarity and peace and justice organizations across the US.
Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala (NISGUA) Works to provide moral and material support to grassroots movements; reorient US policy towards Guatemala; build support in the United States for the ongoing peace negotiations to end Guatemala's civil war; and educate the US public about the current situation in Guatemala.
North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) Provides information on major trends in Latin America and its relations with the United States. Publishes NACLA Report on the Americas, the most widely read English language publication on Latin America.
Resource Center on the Americas Educates about the peoples and countries of the Americas–their history, culture and politics. Focuses especially on the global economy, a system in which a minority flourishes while millions of people lack adequate food, shelter and employment.
Rigoberta Mench� Foundation MADRE's partner organization in Guatemala.
Taller de Vida MADRE's partner organization in Colombia.
Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) Facilitates dialogue between governments and NGO’s, monitors the impact of policies and programs of governments and international organizations, and promotes alternatives through reporting, education, training, and advocacy.
Witness for Peace A politically independent, grassroots organization that works to support peace, justice and sustainable economies in the Americas by changing US policies and corporate practices which contribute to poverty and oppression in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Middle East

Alternative Information Center (AIC) An information source on the Arab-Israeli conflict; promotes cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis.
Badil Resource Center A Palestinian NGO that serves as a resource center for Palestinian residency and refugee rights.
Bat Shalom is an Israeli national feminist grassroots organization of Jewish and Palestinian Israeli women working together for a genuine peace grounded in a just resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict, respect for human rights, and an equal voice for Jewish and Arab women within Israeli society.
Birzeit University An independent Palestinian University located in the West Bank.
B’Tselem: The Israeli Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories Endeavors to document and educate the Israeli public and policymakers about human rights violations in the Occupied Territories. Acts primarily to change Israeli policy in the Occupied Territories and ensure that its government protects the human rights of residents there.
Campaign to Stop the War Profiteers and End the Corporate Invasion of Iraq A growing movement demanding an end to US-led war profiteering and corporate looting of Iraq's wealth and resources.
Children of Shatila: This website was established to allow Palestinian children living in Lebanon a means of expressing themselves through their writings, artwork and photography.
Electronic Intifada publishes news, commentary, analysis and reference materials about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from a Palestinian perspective.
Electronic Iraq is a news portal on the US-Iraq crisis published by Voices in the Wilderness and Electronic Intifada.
International Solidarity Movement is a Palestinian-led movement of Palestinian and International activists working to raise awareness of the struggle for Palestinian freedom and an end to Israeli occupation.
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions a non-violent, direct-action group established to resist Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses, land expropriation, settlement expansion, by-pass road construction, policies of "closure" and "separation," the wholesale uprooting of fruit and olive trees and more.
LAW: The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment A human rights and environmental law firm that provides free legal services to those in need in the West Bank and Gaza concerning land confiscation, property destruction, and environmental degradation.
Middle East Research & Information Project (MERIP) Prrovides independent news and analysis about the Middle East that is not available from mainstream news sources. Publishes the Middle East Report.
Middle East Children’s Alliance An NGO working for peace in Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, and Iraq. Focuses on educating about US Foreign Policy.
Middle East analyst Phyllis Bennis is an analyst for Foreign Policy In Focus and the Institute for Policy Studies.
The Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq MADRE's partner organization in Iraq.
US Committee to End the Israeli Occupation is a diverse coalition of organizations and individuals focused on changing US policy towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in support of freedom from occupation and equal rights for all.
US Labor against the War advocates, educates, and mobilizes the US labor movement for an end to US occupation of foreign countries and the protection of workers' rights, civil rights, civil liberties, and the rights of immigrants.
Voices in the Wilderness is a campaign to end the economic sanctions and military warfare against the people of Iraq.

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Selected United Nations Sites

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Research Sites

The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights The first academic center to focus exclusively on health and human rights, the FXB Center combines the academic strengths of research and teaching with a strong commitment to service and advocacy.
Foreign Policy in Focus
Gender Statistics from the World Bank This site enables searching for general or specific information about indicators of health and economic well-being using gender-related factors.
Global Issues That Affect Everyone
Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut
Human Rights Links
Institute for Policy Studies
Institute for Public Accuracy
International Gender Studies Resources This site offers general and specific bibliographies and filmographies on issues pertaining to women and gender in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Arab World, and among minority cultures in North America and Europe. Connected to the University of Berkeley.
Jay’s Leftist and Progressive Internet Resource Directory
Peace Women A project of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Seeks to nurture communication among a diversity of women's organizations by providing an accessible and accurate information exchange between peace women around the world and the UN system.
Political Research Associate (Public Eye) An independent, not-for-profit research center which monitors and analyzes those organizations, leaders, ideas and activities of the US political rights that undermine democracy and diversity.
The Scholar and Feminist Online A triannual, multimedia, online-only journal of feminist theories and women's movements from the Barnard Center for Research on Women.
Women’s Human Rights Resources This site provides access to an extensive database on women’s legal concerns, based at the University of Toronto.

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Progressive Media Sources

Alternet
Common Dreams News Center
Democracy Now
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Feminist International Radio Endeavor
Independent Media Center
La Jornada Mexican newspaper published in Spanish
Laura Flanders, Working Assets Radio
TheNation
One World
Open Democracy
The Progressive
The Women's Media Center
Women's Media Pool A Women�s Media Pool towards and during Beijing + 10 will contribute to share and articulate some of the media initiatives of women communicators and their organizations. It will promote information regarding the assessment and appraisal of the full spectrum of the Platform for Action and the Declaration by way of producing press releases, features for electronic networks, newspapers, reports, TV, community and commercial radio and internet during the Beijing + 10 process.
Znet

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