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Human Rights Institutes and Non-Governmental Organizations

Please note, this list is not exhaustive.

 

Organizations with a United States base (many also have offices abroad):

• American Bar Association | jobs
  • ABA Africa Law Initiative
  • ABA Asia Law Initiative | jobs
  • ABA Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative | jobs | internships
  • ABA Section of Individual Rights and Responsbilities | internships
• American Civil Liberties Union | jobs
• Amnesty International USA | jobs
• CARE | jobs
• Carter Center | jobs
• Center for Constitutional Rights | jobs
• Center for Economic and Social Rights | jobs
• Center for Justice and Accountability | jobs
• Center for Justice and International Law | jobs
• Center for Victims of Torture | jobs
• Coalition for the International Criminal Court | jobs
• Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking | volunteer
• Committee to Protect Journalists | jobs
• Doctors Without Borders | jobs
• EarthRights International | jobs
• François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
• Freedom House | jobs
• Global Fund for Women | jobs | internships
• Global Lawyers and Physicians
• Global Rights | jobs
• Human Rights First | jobs
• Human Rights Watch | jobs
• Indian Law Resource Center | jobs
• International Center for Transitional Justice | jobs
• International Crisis Group | jobs
• International Labor Rights Fund ("jobs/internship" link on left of page)
• MADRE | internships
• Mental Disability Rights International | jobs
• Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights | jobs
• Open Society Institute | jobs
• OXFAM | jobs
• Physicians for Human Rights | jobs
• Refugees International | jobs
• RFK Memorial: Center for Human Rights | jobs
• Save the Children | jobs
• United Nations Foundation | jobs
• U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants | jobs
• WILD (Women's Institute for Leadership Development) for Human Rights | jobs

 

Organizations based outside the United States:

• AIDS Law Project (South Africa)
• Al Haq | jobs (West Bank)
• Amnesty International: International Secretariat | jobs (UK)
• Anti-Slavery International | jobs (UK)
• Article 19 | jobs (UK)
• Centre for Equal Rights in Accomodation (Canada)
• Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation | jobs (South Africa)
• Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions | jobs (Switzerland)
• Danish Institute for Human Rights (Denmark)
• Equitas | jobs (Canada)
• Global March Against Child Labour | jobs (India)
• International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (France)
• International Commission of Jurists | jobs (Switzerland)
• International Committee of the Red Cross | jobs (Switzerland)
• International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (Austria)
• International Service for Human Rights | jobs | internships (Switzerland)
• Interights | jobs (UK)
• Minority Rights Group International (UK)
• Redress | jobs | internships (UK)
• World Organisation Against Torture | jobs (Switzerland)

Revised December 6, 2006