Note: the list below does not include links that pertain to specific rights or countries in which CESR does work. For those links, please look at the particular right or country.
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights
Al Mezan is a Palestinian non-governmental organization, with its main office located in Jabalia refugee camp. The Center aims to encourage the protection, promotion and respect of human rights in the Occupied Territories, especially economic, cultural and social rights, through a wide range of activities.
American Civil Liberties Union
The ACLU is our nation’s guardian of liberty. We work daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
American Friends Service Committee
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service.
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards.
Brecht Forum
The Brecht Forum is a progressive educational organization based in New York City that offers classes, forums and popular education workshops for people working for fundamental social change and a new culture that puts human needs first.
Business & Human Rights
The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is an independent, international, non-profit organisation, in a collaborative partnership with Amnesty International sections and leading academic institutions.
Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs: Human Rights Initiative
The Human Rights Initiative is a multi year research and dialogue project of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, based in New York City. The Human Rights Initiative aims to provide critical perspective of what happens when international human rights confronts realities on the ground.
Center for Constitutional Rights
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Centro de Derechos Economicos y Sociales
CDES was established in 1997 to confront the most pressing development threats in Latin America through human rights, interdisciplinary investigations and grassroots pressure. CDES' work is based on the belief that long-term solutions require an active and engaged civil society, and its projects are aimed at broadening participation and accoutnability. CDES grew out of CESR's office in Quito, Ecuador and is now an independent sister organization of CESR.
Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales
CELS was founded to foster and protect human rights and to strengthen the democratic system and Rule of Law in Argentina. CELS’ activities include work on institutional violence, prison conditions, gender discrimination and economic, social and cultural rights justiciability.
CorpWatch
Corporate Watch provides news, analysis, research tools and action resources to respond to corporate activity around the globe and works with those fighting for corporate accountability, human rights, social and environmental justice.
Free Speech TV
Free Speech Internet Television provides news and media outlets that respond to the interests of that majority of the people whose voices are excluded or distorted in the corporate media.
Grassroots International
Grassroots International is an independent agency committed to progressive social change that provides grants and material aid, and advocates on behalf of community-based partner organizations in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Global Policy Forum
GPF monitors global policy making at the United Nations to promote a more open, accountable and democratic policy process at the global level so as to foster democracy, social justice, human rights and mutual solidarity. Their website includes resources on social and economic policy and on UN sanctions in Iraq and elsewhere.
Human Rights Council of Australia
The Human Rights Council of Australia Inc is a private non-government organization which promotes understanding of and respect for human rights for all persons without discrimination through adherence to the International Bill of Rights, and other human rights instruments, internationally and within Australia.
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice.
Independent Media Center
Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage.
INSAAF International
INSAAF International is a non-profit membership organization which concentrates on economic, social and political rights education, awareness and advocacy in Punjab, India, including women' rights.
Institute for Policy Studies
IPS is a multi-issue progressive think tank located in Washington, D.C. that offers resources for progressive social change locally, nationally, and globally through books, articles, films, conferences, and activist education.
International Network for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
The International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net) is an emerging coalition of organizations and activists from around the world dedicated to advancing economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR). For more on CESR involvement in ESCR-Net, click here
Kensington Welfare Rights Union
KWRU is a multi-racial organization of, by and for poor and homeless people. KWRU is dedicated to the organizing of welfare recipients, the homeless, the working poor and all people concerned with economic justice.
MADRE
MADRE works with community-based women’s organizations in conflict areas worldwide to address issues of health, education, economic development and other human rights by providing resources and training for sister organizations and empowering people in the US to demand changes to unjust policies.
National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
NESRI promotes cultural and political commitment to a sustainable comprehensive human rights vision for the United States that ensures dignity and access to the basic resources needed for human development and civic participation.
Pacifica Radio, WBAI
Pacifica Radio is a community-based radio network, with stations across the U.S., that seeks to promote cultural diversity and pluralistic community expression.
Publish What You Pay Campaign
International oil, gas, and mining companies pay billions of dollars a year to the governments of many less developed countries that are rich in natural resources. Few of these countries' citizens benefit from this financial windfall, however, because of government corruption and mismanagement. The "Publish What You Pay" campaign aims to help citizens hold their governments accountable for how these resource-related funds are managed and distributed.
Social Watch
Social Watch is an international citizens’ coalition monitoring implementation of the world governments' commitments to eradicate poverty and achieve gender equity. Their website includes country and thematic reports on economic and social conditions and a database of social development indicators.
Toronto Disaster Relief Committee
The Toronto Disaster Relief Committee deals with issues of homelessness and poverty in Toronto, Canada.
Union for Radical Political Economics
URPE is an interdisciplinary association devoted to the study, development, and application of radical political economic analysis to social problems.
United Nations maps of the world
United States Network on Human Rights
The US Human Rights Network was formed to promote US accountability to universal human rights standards by building linkages between organizations, as well as individuals, working on human rights issues in the United States. For more on CESR's involvement in U.S. Networks, click here
ZNet: Global Economic Crisis
ZNet offers this Global Economics Crisis site as a source for understanding global economics and trade issues and particularly in preparation for ongoing demonstrations about economic justice.