Human Rights Organizations. The following are human rights organizations that individuals can contact for their research, volunteer opportunities, employment, and donations.

• Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 7 million people who take injustice personally. They are campaigning for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all. They are funded by members and people like you. They are independent of any political ideology, economic interest or religion. No government is beyond scrutiny. No situation is beyond hope. Through their detailed research and determined campaigning, they help fight abuses of human rights worldwide. They bring torturers to justice. Change oppressive laws. And free people jailed just for voicing their opinion.

• Directory of Scientific Society Action on Human Rights (American Association for the Advancement of Science), this website serves as a resource for scientific societies that may be interested in networking with other scientific societies or learning what other groups are doing in the area of human rights. This website will be of interest to human rights organizations who are interested in partnering with scientific societies on specific activities, such as fact-finding missions or letter writing campaigns.

• Human Rights Careers provides a list and descriptions of 25 international human rights organizations.

• Human Rights Watch (HRW) investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world. They are roughly 450 people of 70-plus nationalities who are country experts, lawyers, journalists, and others who work to protect the most at risk, from vulnerable minorities and civilians in wartime, to refugees and children in need. They direct their advocacy towards governments, armed groups and businesses, pushing them to change or enforce their laws, policies and practices. To ensure theirependence, they refuse government funding and corporate ties. They partner with organizations large and small across the globe to protect embattled activists and to help hold abusers to account and bring justice to victims.
• Movements is an online crowdsourcing platform that connects civil society activists and human rights defenders in repressive countries with resource providers from across the world. This is done by capitalizing on a preexisting global network of professional expertise. Movements.org gives activists inside repressive countries access to the knowledge and resources that they would otherwise be isolated from. This improves the landscape of human rights by creating a secure environment where activists can get rights-based support and resources.
• Peace Direct does not establish country offices or employ expatriate staff. They believe that the current structure of the aid system is flawed, and that peace is not sustainable if imposed from the outside. They do not arrive in conflict zones, or leave them — instead they find creative ways to support local organisations to implement their own work, helping them to tackle the root causes of conflict—like prejudice, fear, and poverty. By partnering with local organisations in areas of conflict, they help to support already-impactful peacebuilding projects and work to stop war and save lives.
• The Advocates for Human Rights, a 501(c)(3) organization, works to change systems and conditions that cause human rights abuses. They fight injustice and improve laws and lives throughout the world while representing individual victims of human rights violations.
• The Carter Center, founded in partnership with Emory University on a fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering, the Center seeks to prevent and resolve conflicts, enhance freedom and democracy, and improve health.
• The Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB), founded in 2009, is the leading international think tank on business and human rights. IHRB’s mission is to shape policy, advance practice and strengthen accountability in order to make respect for human rights part of everyday business.
• Voices for Human Rights

University Human Rights Centers. The following are centers on human rights at universities that individuals can contact for their research and to seek advice on how to establish a comparable center on their own campus.

• American University, Washington College of Law, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

• Buffalo Human Rights Center

• Columbia University Law School, Human Rights Institute

• Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute

• Emory University, The Carter Center

• Gonzaga University, School of Law, Center for Civil and Human Rights
• Harvard Humanitarian Initiative

• Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center for Human Rights Policy

• Harvard Law School Human Rights Program

• New York University, School of Law, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice 

• New York University, School of Law, Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights

• New York University, Stern School for Business, Center for Business and Human Rights

• Stanford Human Rights Center

• The Global Campus of Human Rights

• University of California, Berkeley, Human Rights Center

• University of Chicago, Pozen Family Center for Human Rights

• University of Dayton, Human Rights Center

• University of Essex, School of Law, Human Rights Centre

• University of Iowa Center for Human Rights

• University of Minnesota, Human Rights Center

• University of Nebraska Omaha, Goldstein Center for Human Rights

• University of Notre Dame, Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights

• University of Oklahoma, College of Law, Center for International Business and Human Rights

• University of Oslo, Faculty of Law, Norwegian Centre for Human Rights

• University of Padua, Human Rights Centre

• University of Pretoria, Center for Human Rights

• University of Utrecht, Netherlands Institute of Human Rights 

• University of Washington, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Center for Human Rights