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The mission of The Advocates for Human Rights is to implement international human rights standards to promote civil society and reinforce the rule of law. By involving volunteers in research, education and advocacy, we build broad constituencies in the United States and selected global communities.

Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition works to defend and support immigrants in the Portland area through rapid-response services, community education about rights, direct assistance (including a statewide hotline), legal support referrals, and policy advocacy to protect immigrant families.

Founded in 2003, the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) is a statewide, immigrant and refugee-led collaboration. Our mission is to build power, amplify our voices, and organize communities to advocate for our rights. Our vision is a stronger, more inclusive Tennessee where people of all nationalities, immigration statuses, and racial identities can belong and thrive.

The Southern Center for Human Rights is working for equality, dignity, and justice for people impacted by the criminal legal system in the Deep South. SCHR fights for a world free from mass incarceration, the death penalty, the criminalization of poverty, and racial injustice.

Doorways creates pathways out of homelessness, domestic violence, and sexual assault leading to safe, stable, and empowered lives

Her Equality Rights and Autonomy's (HERA) overall aims are: (1) to prevent trafficking and re-trafficking of young women; (2) to assist trafficked and other women survivors of violence, conflict, and exploitation build on the resilience they have demonstrated to achieve their ambitions for a better life; and (3) to engage the business community in countering trafficking and support women's entrepreneurship.

FIRE’s mission is to defend and sustain the individual rights of all Americans to free speech and free thought—the most essential qualities of liberty. FIRE educates Americans about the importance of these inalienable rights, promotes a culture of respect for these rights, and provides the means to preserve them.

To Empower Cuban Civil Society To Build A Durable Democracy In Cuba That Is Free Of Human Rights Violations By Enhancing The On-Island Civil Society's Awareness And Effectiveness In Nonviolent Activism And By Facilitating Civic Training Materials, Communication Equipment, Thematic "know-How" Manual(E.G., Entrepreneurship, Micro-Financing, Etc.)and Financial Support Along With Creating Awareness And Documenting, Within The Island And In The International Community, Human Rights Violations While Collaborating With International And On-Island Nongovernment Organizations To Provide For Additional Expertise And Resources To Provide Humanitarian Aid.

Based in Oakland, California, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC) advances racial and economic justice to ensure dignity and opportunity for low-income people and people of color. EBC is named after Ella Baker (1903-1986), a largely behind-the-scenes organizer and architect of the civil rights movement, who believed in the power of everyday people to change their lives. We mobilize everyday people to build power and prosperity in our communities. Together, we organize for reinvestment in communities, to change policies, to put an end to law enforcement violence, and to redefine public safety as a byproduct of economic opportunity and community-based care as opposed to policing and prisons.

Over 600 million Indians defecate in the open every day because they have no toilet. This practice cripples health, economic, and social outcomes. Open defecation (OD) causes the spread of infectious diseases that kill an estimated 300,000 children under five every year. The economic costs of OD total nearly $54 billion lost each year in India, with rural households bearing the highest per capita loss. Furthermore, women and girls who lack convenient access to toilets often miss school and work while they are menstruating. SHRI ends open defecation in India by constructing community toilet facilities that are free to use. They include eight toilets for women, eight for men, hand-washing stations, and a biogas digester (a large underground tank). Human excrement is stored in this tank where it decomposes to produce methane gas. SHRI uses this energy source to produce electricity, which powers a water filtration plant that uses a patented resin filter to remove arsenic, fluoride, iron, and bacterial contaminants. The resulting potable water is sold for $0.008 per liter, less than half the current market cost, helping SHRI to generate revenue to offset its monthly facility O&M costs. This ensures facility cleanliness, a key predictor of sustained toilet use. Thus SHRI fights alongside rural Indian communities to end open defecation as a key step in the struggle for health equity, and social and economic justice.

After identifying gaps in the support services available to migrant families and the resulting inequities that befall them, refugee community leaders and town residents founded the Refugee Community Partnership. We are a community-driven organization working to build unique, holistic, and comprehensive support infrastructure for relocated families. All of RCP’s initiatives are born out of grassroots community assessments; from the start, we listen. Through community feedback sessions we regularly evaluate our efficacy, reflect on lessons learned, and make course changes as needed.

Women Thrive Worldwide’s (Women Thrive) mission is to advocate for change at the U.S. and global levels so that women and men share equally in the enjoyment of basic capabilities, economic assets, voice, access to decent livelihoods, and freedom from fear and violence. We ground our work in the realities of women living in poverty, partner with locally based women’s organizations, and create powerful coalitions to advance the interests of women, families, and communities worldwide. Our vision is a world in which women and men work together as equal partners to secure better lives for themselves and their families.