Research Guides: AAS490: Senior Seminar on American Human Rights Policy / Anderson: Human & Civil Rights Organizations

Lists of Human Rights and Civil Rights Organizations

Human Rights Organizations
List of Civil Rights Organizations

Select Organization Websites

Human Rights Watch
Website of Human Rights Watch, an organization that investigates and reports on abuses happening in all corners of the world.
NAACP
Website for the civil rights organization formed in 1909 to advance justice for African Americans
Children's Defense Fund
Website of the Children's Defense fund, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on child advocacy and research
African American Policy Forum
Website of the AAPF, a social justice think tank focused on issues of gender and diversity.

Shadow Reports

What are shadow reports?

A “shadow report” is information submitted by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to the treaty monitoring bodies that addresses omissions, deficiencies, or inaccuracies in the official government reports. Here are some examples:

Holding the Line: Combating Racial Discrimination in a Divided America” (The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights)
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ACLU)
US Government and Compliance with CERD Treaty (Center for Constitutional Rights)