Despite this mounting energy for a U.S. human rights movement, the ultimate aim of such efforts-- full U.S. compliance with universal human rights standards--will require the development of a broad-based, democratic movement that is dedicated to the long-term goal of transforming U.S. political culture. We see the strategic urgency of anchoring the Network's movement building within those groups that have been historically oppressed. This would include (but not limited to) the following: African American organizations, with a special emphasis on the student/youth sector; Latin@; LGBTQ; indigenous; progressive womens organizations; disabilities rights groups and immigrant and migrant rights organizations.

 

Presently, the Network is governed by a Board of Directors composed of leading human rights organizers, lawyers, policy analysts, educators, researchers and scholars. The leadership also includes individuals directly affected by human rights violations. The Board of Directors meets regularly to identify the ongoing needs and functions of the network and its members.

 

ACLU

ACLU of Mississippi

Advancement Project

Advocates for Environmental Human Rights

African American Institute for Policy Studies

African American Pastors Consortium, Inc.

African Rights Monitor

AFSC Immigrant Project (Formerly Project Voice)

Alabama Center for Sexual Violence

Alachua County Coalition for the Homeless and Hungry

Alive in Truth: The New Orleans Disaster Oral History and Memory Project

Alternative Women in Development/NY

American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) - Michigan

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

American Ethical Union

American Friends Service Committee

American Indian Law Alliance

American Muslim Voice

American University Washington College of Law, Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law

Amherst Human Rights Commission

Amigos Multicultural Services Center

Amnesty International Group 240 of Tampa Bay

Amnesty International, Michigan State University

Amnesty International USA

Amnesty International, Southern Regional Office

An Outreach of Love

Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF)

Atlanta Public Sector Alliance (APSA)

Audre Lorde Project

Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change

Beyond Shelter

Black Alliance for Just Immigration

Black August Planning Organization

Black Left Unity Network

Black Women's Blueprint

Black Workers for Justice

Border Action Network

Breakthrough: Building Human Rights Culture

Brennan Center for Justice, NYU School of Law

Campaign for a National Healthcare Program NOW

Casa Atabex Ache: House of Women's Power

Center for Community Alternatives

Center for Constitutional Rights

Center for Economic and Social Rights

Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, University of California, Hastings College of Law

Center for Genetics & Society

Center for Human Rights Education & Reporting

Center for Reproductive Rights

Center for Study in Sport in Society, Northeastern University

Center for Women's Health & Human Rights, Suffolk University

Center for Women Policy Studies

Center on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)

Centro Commnitario Juan Diego (Formerly Arnold Mireles Human Rights Project)

Chicago Coalition for the Homeless

Choice USA (formerly, Gender Youth Network)

Ciudado Global

City of Eugene, OR - Equity and Human Rights Center

Clemson University, International Human Rights Club

Coalicion de Derechos Humanos

Coalition of African, Arab, Asian, European and Latino Immigrants of Illinois (CAAALII)

Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Coalition to Protect Public Housing

Coastal Women for Change

Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

Community Housing and Empowerment Connection, Inc.

Communidades Unidas

Community Asset Development Redefining Education

Corporate Accountability International

Crotty Gym Flagella

CUNY School of Law, International Women's Human Rights

Dade County Legal Aid

Deaf and Deaf-Blind Committee on Human Rights

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

Eritrean Community for Human Rights and Refugee Protection

Equal Rights Center

Families Against Mandatory Minimums

Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children

Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC, AFL-CIO)

Farmworker Legal Services of New York, Inc.

Feminist Women's Health Center

Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project

Florida Coalition for the Homeless

Friend of America International

Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights

Global Justice Center

Global Rights

Good Work

Health Right International (Formerly Doctors of the World- USA)

Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights

Holler to the Hood

Housing is a Human Right Project

Housing RIghts, Inc.

Human Rights Coalition of North Carolina

Human Rights Education Associates

Human Rights and Tobacco Control Network

Human Rights Project, Fordham Law School

ICU Immigration Services

Idaho Human Rights Education Center

Illinois Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

Immigrant Voting Project

Incite! Women of Color Against Violence

Independent Commission on Public Education (ICOPE)

Indiana University in International Human Rights Law

Innocence Project New Orleans

Institute for Global Communications (IGC)

Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti

Institute for Juvenile Justice Reform and Alternatives

Institute for Policy Studies

Interfaith Housing Center of the Northern Suburbs

International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission

International Gender Organization

International Human Rights Observer (IHRO)

Invest-in Project

Ipas: Protecting Women's Health, Advancing Reproductive Rights

Jewish Council on Urban Affairs

Jobs with Justice

Journey of Hope

Just Associates (JASS)

Just Cause

Just Detention International

Just Housing

Keep the Ethical Light Burning

Kensington Welfare Rights Union

La Fuerza Unida: Empowering Women Workers

Latin American & Caribbean Community Center

Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Legal Momentum

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center

L'ORAGE Productions

Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness

Los Angeles Community Action Network

Louisiana Justice Institute

Main Street Project

Make the Road by Walking

Malcolm X Center for Self Determination

Malcolm X Grassroots Movement

Massachusetts CEDAW Project, Suffolk University

Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute

Mental Disabilities Rights International

Mental Patients Liberation Alliance, Inc.

Metro New York Healthcare for all Campaign

Michigan Association of Incarcerated Latinos

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights

Mississippi Immigrants' Rights Alliance (MIRA)

Mississippi's Workers' Center for Human Rights

MK Ghandi Institute for Nonviolence

Movement Strategy Center

Movimiento del Valle por los Derechos Humanos

Multicultural Student Coalition

Muslim Civil Rights Center

NAACP

NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund

NARAL Pro-Choice Texas

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

National Council for Urban Peace and Justice, Inc.

National Day Labor Organizing Network

National Economic & Social Rights Initiative (NESRI)

National Employment Law Project

National Gay & Lesbian Task Force

National Healthcare for the Homeless Council

National JERICHO

National Juvenile Justice Network

National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty

National Lawyers Guild

National Low Income Housing Coalition

National network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

New Immigrant Community Empowerment 

New Seasons Youth Program

New York Association for Gender Rights Advocacy (NYAGRA)

Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL), formerly New York City AIDS Housing Network (NYCAHN)

North Coast Opportunities

Northwest Immigrant Rights Project

NuLeadership Policy Group

Office of Women's Policy and Programs

Onyx Organizing Committee

Organization for Black Struggle

Organized Community of United People (C.O.U.P.)

Organizing Asian Communities, Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence (CAAAV)

Otto Bremer Foundation

Pan-African News Wire

Peace and Hope International

Penal Reform International

Pendulum Foundation

Pentecostal Church of God Fairburn Mission, Inc.

People's Health Movement - USA

Peter Cicchino Youth Project, Urban Justice Center

Petra Foundation

Physicians for Human Rights

Picture the Homeless

Pinellas County Coalition for the Homeless

Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign

Poverty & Race Research Action Council

Pro Egalitarian Group

Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, Northeastern School of Law

Progressive Action Alliance

Project for the Survival of the Collective Memory

Project South

Public Justice Center

Renaissance Development Organization

Resource Center of the Americas

Restaurant Opportunities Center United

Right Respect

Rights Working Group

Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights

Santa Clara County Network for Hate Free Community and South County Speak Out

Sergeant Shriver National Center on Poverty Law

Seton Hall Law Center for Social Justice (Sentencing Project)

Skins for Justice

Sister Love

Sister Song

Social Genesis

Sociologists Without Borders

South Austin Coalition

Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network

Southwest Workers Union

Southwest Youth Collaborative

St. Stephen's Human Services

Sunflower Community Action

Survivors Village - New Orleans

SW Alliance to Resist Militarization

Tenants and Neighbors

Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

The Advisory Group

Texas Moratorium Network

The Boukman Institute

The Center for International Human Rights, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

The Goodis Center for Research and Reform, LLC

The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health

The National Service Conference of the American Ethical Union

The Opportunity Agenda

The Praxis Project

The Public Housing Youth Coalition 

The U.S. Positive Women's Network

UNC School of Law Center for Civil Rights

UNITE HERE! Southern Region

United Church of Christ Network for Environmental & Economic Responsibility

United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 1529

Universal Human Rights Network

University of Minnesota Human Rights Center

University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs

Uplift International

Urban Homesteading Assistance Board

Urban Justice Center

Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights

U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants

Vermont Campus Compact

Vermont Workers' Center

Western Prison Project

WITNESS

Witness to Innocence

Women's Economic Agenda Project

Women's Environmental and Development Organization

Women's Human Rights Group

Women's Institute for Leadership Development for Human Rights (WILD)

Women of Color United

Women Watch Afrika, Inc.

Women's World

Woodhull Freedom Foundation 

Word and World: A People's School

Workplace Project

World Organization Against Torture USA

World Organization for Human Rights USA

World-Rights

You. Me. We., Inc.

Youth Rights Media

8th Day Center for Justice