The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (Slovene: Odbor za varstvo človekovih pravic) was a civil society organization in Slovenia, which functioned...

Helsinki Committees for Human Rights exist in many European countries (and in the wider OSCE region) as volunteer, non-profit organizations devoted to the protection...

that enshrines the rights and freedoms of all human beings. Drafted by a UN committee chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, it was accepted by the General Assembly...

rose to prominence during the Slovenian spring, when he served as chairman of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, the largest independent civil...

Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre (previously Memorial Human Rights Centre) is a Russian interregional organization, deprived of the registration by the authorities...

scholar and expert on human rights who has served as the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories...

event for the organization and development of the liberal democratic opposition in the republic. The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights was founded...

14 October 1990, the General People's Committee for Defence was created by order Resolution No. 22 of the Supreme Commander of the Libyan military, Colonel...

awareness of activists who have been silenced for speaking out in defence of human rights. Each year, Human Rights Watch presents the Human Rights Defenders...

The Defenders of Human Rights Center (Persian: کانون مدافعان حقوق بشر) is an Iranian human rights organization. Based in Tehran, the organization was founded...

The Committee for the Defence of Democracy, CDD (Polish: Komitet Obrony Demokracji, KOD) is a Polish-born civic organization and NGO with goals that includes...

Wojciech Ziembiński Movement for Defense of Human and Civic Rights (ROPCiO) Jan Krzysztof Kelus Committee for the Defense of the Unjustly Prosecuted - similar...

Helsinki Committee for Human Rights Helsinki Watch Hindu American Foundation Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation Humanists International Human Rights First Human Rights...

Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD) is an international Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) based in The Hague, Netherlands. GHRD focuses specifically on...

Human rights in Cuba are under the scrutiny of human rights organizations, which accuse the Cuban government of committing systematic human rights abuses...

The designation of Defence for Children International – Palestine as a terrorist organisation was condemned by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), also known as the Strasbourg Court, is an international court of the Council of Europe which interprets the...

Assembly of Heads of State and Government, adopted a resolution calling for the creation of a committee of experts to draft a continent-wide human rights instrument...

for the conduct of the international relations and defence of the island. The Isle of Man does not have a written constitution, or a Bill of Rights which...

The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights is an independent and impartial non-judicial institution established in 1999 by the Strasbourg-based...

Movement for Defence of Human and Civic Rights (Polish: Ruch Obrony Praw Człowieka i Obywatela, ROPCiO) was a right-wing political and social organization...

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (commonly abbreviated as the CRC or UNCRC) is an international international human rights treaty...

1998, the United Nations issued their Declaration on Human Rights Defenders to legitimise the work of human rights defenders and extend protection for human...

in the sanctity of human life has ancient precedents in many religions of the world, the foundations of modern human rights began during the era of renaissance...

is illegal. The General Committee of the Icelandic Parliament, the Althingi, is responsible for the legislative oversight of human rights. In a 2012 interview...

Human Rights Watch (HRW), and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). This has long been a matter of controversy between the Government...

The Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (commonly known as the European Convention on Human Rights or ECHR) is a supranational...

of exposing human rights violations within the Russian military. The organization was founded in 1989. Before 1998, it was known as the Committee of Soldiers'...

The Committee for the Defense of Legitimate Rights (CDLR; Arabic: لجنة الدفاع عن الحقوق الشرعية) was a Saudi dissident group created in 1993 which opposed...

the Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch's Middle East Division, faced accusations of corruption and bias due to his family ties to the controversial...