RIPOTI is a platform developed by Paradigm Initiative to enable individuals, CSOs, human rights defenders, advocates, activists, and the general public to report and collaboratively address African digital rights violations.

• corruption
• human rights
• cyberwar

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Digital rights

The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) was formed in the firm belief that there is an urgent need to strengthen institution and capacity-building for good governance and conflict transformation in Sri Lanka and that non-partisan civil society groups have an important and constructive contribution to make to this process.

• human rights
• Global South Alliance

• Advocacy tech
• Policy

Digital Access is a non-profit social enterprise that aims to promote digital opportunities for young people.

• youth
• Global South Alliance
• human rights

• Fight disinformation
• Digital rights
• Digital literacy

The Digital Forensic Research Lab’s Democracy + Tech Initiative centers human rights and democracy in technology and policy debates.

• human rights

• Fellowships
• Civil society research outfits

Somos una coalición de organizaciones que trabajan para defender los derechos humanos en el contexto de las tecnologías digitales.

• human rights

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Campaign organizations

IWGIA promotes and defends Indigenous Peoples’ collective and individual rights with partners in 32 countries.

• indigenous
• human rights

• Partner networks and coalitions

Creative project design for social good champions through appropriate technology that strengthens human systems.

• human rights
• humanitarian
• coaching

• Build something
• Design
• Civic and social impact companies

Free and simple information for immigrants

• immigration
• human rights

• Legal tech
• Access to laws
• Pro bono and volunteer

FactStream AI utilizes advanced artificial intelligence to simplify access to essential legal information for newcomers and new community members across Europe.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• Reduced inequalities
• refugees

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech
• Data science for social good

Fondation Botnar works with and for young people towards a world that fulfils their rights and supports their wellbeing.

• youth
• city
• mental health

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A Irídia defensem els drets civils i polítics. Denunciem la violència institucional i promovem canvis en les polítiques públiques. Actua!

• human rights
• surveillance

• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Campaign organizations

Prathya is an online ecosystem of support for persons affected by OGBV in Sri Lanka developed by the organizations Hashtag Generation and Delete Nothing and was launched in October 2022.

• Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)
• domestic violence
• anti-harassment

• The Tech
• Case management

This database by Mozilla Foundation maps intersections between the key social justice and human rights areas of our time and documented AI impacts and their manifestations in society.

• human rights
• Decent work and economic growth
• racial equity

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs

Sets out best practices and actions online platforms can take to implement more robust support for Human Rights Defenders under threat

• human rights
• reports
• United States (federal government)

• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

We exist to protect democracy and human rights from digital threats.

• human rights

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Campaign organizations

56 countries working together for prosperity, democracy and peace

• human rights

• Peer networks

This project brings together leading innovators from the international criminal law community with pioneers in the Web3 ecosystem to develop secure and resilient solutions for accountability in Ukraine.

• Ukraine
• human rights
• humanitarian

• Emerging tech
• Blockchain
• Archives

Groundviews is a citizens journalism website based in Sri Lanka which uses a range of genres and media to highlight alternative perspectives on governance, human rights, the arts and literature, peace-building and other issues.

• democracy
• human rights
• peace

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Factchecking
• Media and social media analysis

All Out is a global movement for love and equality. We're mobilizing thousands of people to build a world where no person will have to sacrifice their family or freedom, safety or dignity, because of who they are or who they love.

• human rights
• LGBTQI

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

ARTICLE 19 works for a world where all people everywhere can freely express themselves and actively engage in public life without fear of discrimination.

• human rights
• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Digital rights
• Freedom of Information

ctrn is a space of convening for those organizing against the design, experimentation, and deployment of carceral technologies.

• human rights
• criminal justice

• Digital security and privacy
• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns

CLD works collaboratively with NGOs around the world, on a consultancy or small project basis, to carry out projects aimed at boosting respect for key human rights.

• human rights

If you are a human rights defender at risk as a result of your work, ProtectDefenders.eu is to support you

• human rights

• Solidarity networks

Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 10 million people in over 150 countries and territories who campaign to end abuses of human rights.

• human rights

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

La Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC) es una organización de la sociedad civil con sede en Argentina que, desde su creación en 1995, trabaja en la defensa y promoción de los derechos civiles y humanos en Argentina y América Latina.

• human rights

• Participatory democracy

Derechos Humanos en Venezuela #RedesAyuda #ONG

• free speech
• human rights

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

Polaris holds the largest known data set on human trafficking in North America, which grew out of more than a decade of operating the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline.

• human rights
• anti-trafficking

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

Mnemonic is an NGO dedicated to archiving, investigating and memorializing digital information documenting human rights violations and international crimes.

• human rights
• trainings

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Based on extensive research with these communities to build and refine products, we are offering: best practices, use cases, and knowledge from human rights activists, community organizers, and technologists from across the globe.

• human rights

• Courses

A non-profit organisation that promotes democracy and a culture where media and the powerful respect human rights and encourage a just and fair society. MMA acts in a watchdog role to promote ethical and fair journalism that supports human rights.

• human rights

• Media
• Media monitoring

The Digital Freedom Fund supports strategic litigation on digital rights in Europe that contributes to advancing human rights in the digital context.

• human rights

• Digital security and privacy
• Funders & donors

Visualize your impact, track data trends, and share the stories that matter most.

• human rights

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Tools for Funders

CIR is a non-profit social enterprise dedicated to countering disinformation & exposing human rights abuses.

• Ukraine
• human rights

• Fight disinformation

Solidarity with frontline communities using tech to defend environmental & human rights. Co-building mapping & monitoring tools. Challenging tech colonialism.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• human rights

• Digital rights

We are a non-profit research group that analyzes thousands of public records to create a simple searchable database of the commanders and the command structures, locations, and areas of operations of security force units and investigate their potential connections to alleged human rights violations.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• peace
• human rights

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

WhoWasInCommand is our free to use, public database of military, police and other security and defense force units.

• peace
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• human rights

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Archives

More than a non-governmental organization, Conectas are part of a lively and global movement that persists in the struggle for equal rights

• human rights

The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) has operationalized the study of disinformation by exposing falsehoods and fake news, documenting human rights abuses, and building digital resilience worldwide.

• human rights

• Fight disinformation

Human rights defenders need evidence, law and research to advocate justice and accountability. We develop tools and strategies that make this information accessible.

• human rights

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

VFRAME is a computer vision toolkit for human rights researchers

• human rights

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

Microsoft and the Clooney Foundation for Justice have teamed up to create TrialWatch, an app designed to help human rights advocates more easily monitor legal proceedings around the world.

• apps
• human rights

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

WITNESS is an international nonprofit organization that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights.

• human rights

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Every year, Access Now celebrates the heroes of human rights in the digital age, and we’re looking for nominations!

• human rights

Syrian Archive is a open source platform that collects, curates, verifies, and preserves visual documentation of human rights violations in Syria

• human rights

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Archives

European Digital Rights (EDRi) is an association of civil and human rights organisations from across Europe. We defend rights and freedoms in the digital environment.

• human rights

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Kubatana's core work is making the civic and human rights information published by civil society in Zimbabwe accessible to members of the public

• human rights

RightsCon is the world's leading event on human rights in the digital age.

• human rights

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

Amnesty Decoders is an innovative platform for volunteers around the world to use their computers or phones to help our researchers sift through pictures, information and documents.

• human rights

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Media and social media analysis
• Pro bono and volunteer

Astrea Justice is human rights remedy mobile app that is being used in Zimbabwe and has the potential of being scaled into other countries. It comes along with functions aimed to empower citizens to demand good governance, observance of human rights, accountability, inter alia.

• human rights

• Justice tech

The Human Rights Data Analysis Group is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that applies rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations around the world.

• human rights
• immigration

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields