Non-Governmental Organizations
International
- Amnesty International
- Human Rights First – formerly Lawyers Committee on Human Rights
- International Bar Association, Human Rights Institute – contains press releases and information of arrests and detentions of human rights defenders
- Human Rights Watch (HRW) – this site is a bit hard to navigate, but if you do a search for human rights defenders, you can retrieve reports including the World Report 2000 on human rights defenders
- Interights – the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights
- International Criminal Defense Attorneys Association
Europe
- Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales (BHRC) – good source of information
- European Lawyers’ Union, European Bar Human Rights Institute (UAE) – very good; has a “Lawyers in Peril” section
- Institute des Droits de l’Hommes du Barreau de Bordeux (IDHBB)
Asia
Americas
- Global Exchange – a good site for South America, Mexico; it contains press releases, letter writing campaigns, and the Global Exchange report, “Defenders Defending Human Rights Report”
- Amnesty International – link to human rights defenders in Central America and Mexico
Africa
- Zimbabwe Human Rights Forum – good country-specific information