Human Rights Organizations
Below is a list of non-governmental and inter-governmental organizations that are active in the human rights field. Though this list is necessarily incomplete, it is provided as a resource for those thinking about summer or post-graduate employment in this area. A list of job search sites is also included at the bottom of the page.
Human Rights Institutes and Non-Governmental Organizations
ORGANIZATIONS WITH A UNITED STATES BASE (MANY ALSO HAVE OFFICES ABROAD):
- American Bar Association
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Amnesty International USA
- CARE
- Carter Center
- Center for Constitutional Rights
- Center for Economic and Social Rights
- Center for Justice and Accountability
- CEJIL (Center for Justice and International Law)
- Center for Victims of Torture
- Coalition for the International Criminal Court
- Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking
- Committee to Protect Journalists
- Disability Rights International
- Doctors Without Borders
- EarthRights International
- François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
- Freedom House
- Global Fund for Women
- Global Lawyers and Physicians
- Global Rights
- Human Rights First
- Human Rights Now
- Human Rights Watch
- Indian Law Resource Center
- International Center for Transitional Justice
- International Crisis Group
- International Labor Rights Fund
- Jesuit Refugee Service
- MADRE
- Open Society Institute
- OXFAM
- Physicians for Human Rights
- Refugees International
- Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights
- Save the Children
- The Advocates for Human Rights
- United Nations Foundation
- U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
ORGANIZATIONS BASED OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES:
- Section 27 (AIDS Law Project) (South Africa)
- Al Haq (West Bank)
- Amnesty International: International Secretariat (UK)
- Anti-Slavery International (UK)
- Article 19 (UK)
- Centre for Equal Rights in Accommodation (Canada)
- Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (South Africa)
- Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (Switzerland)
- Danish Institute for Human Rights (Denmark)
- Equitas (Canada)
- Global March Against Child Labour (India)
- International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (France)
- International Commission of Jurists (Switzerland)
- International Committee of the Red Cross (Switzerland)
- International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (Austria)
- International Service for Human Rights (Switzerland)
- Interights (UK)
- Minority Rights Group International (UK)
- Redress (UK)
- World Organisation Against Torture (Switzerland)
International Human Rights Bodies
COURTS AND TRIBUNALS
- International Criminal Court
- International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
- Special Court for Sierra Leone
- International Court of Justice
OTHER INTERNATIONAL BODIES
- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- United Nations Development Program
- United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
- United Nations Development Fund for Women
- United Nations Children's Fund
- International Organization for Migration
Regional Human Rights Bodies
THE AMERICAS
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
- Inter-American Court of Human Rights
- Organization of American States
AFRICA
EUROPE
Job Search Sites
- Public Service Law Network: public interest job listings (login required)
- Idealist: non-profit job listings, many of which are non-legal
- Foreign Policy Association: legal, development, humanitarian, and policy job listings
- American Society of International Law: extensive list of organizations that provide international law internships, fellowships, and jobs
- Relief Web: humanitarian jobs, many of which are non-legal
- Association for Women's Rights in Development: women's rights and development jobs, many of which are non-legal
- Human Rights Jobs: email opics@law.georgetown.edu for password
- Human Rights Tools: see also the links on the right and left sides of the screen
- Lawyers Without Borders: click on "jobs" for legal job listings
- Pine Tree Legal Assistance: legal aid jobs worldwide
- Human Rights Internet: human rights jobs
- One World: public interest jobs, many of which are non-legal
- Human Rights Resource Center: human rights jobs
- United Nations: UN jobs; click on "human rights" or "legal affairs"
- United Nations System of Organizations: job listings with UN agencies
- United Nations Development Program: UNDP jobs
- Eldis: development jobs, many of which are non-legal
- National Immigration Project: immigration jobs, listed by the National Lawyers Guild
- Intjobs.org: job vacancies at international organizations
- Non-profit career network: non-profit jobs, many of which are non-legal