IFLA/FAIFE

Intellectual Freedom and
Human Rights Organisations

  • ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom
    The Office for Intellectual Freedom of the American Library Association. The goal of the office is to educate librarians and the general public about the nature and importance of intellectual freedom in libraries.
  • Amnesty International
    A worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. In particular, Amnesty International campaigns to free all prisoners of conscience.
  • Article 19
    Named after Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the organisation works worldwide to combat censorship by promoting freedom of expression and access to official information.
  • The Johannesburg principles of National Security, Freedom of expression and Access to Information
  • Derechos Human Rights
    An Internet based human rights organization working for the promotion and respect of human rights all over the world, for the right to privacy and against impunity for human rights violators.
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation
    A non-profit, non-partisan organization working in the public interest to protect fundamental civil liberties, including privacy and freedom of expression in the arena of computers and the Internet.
  • Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de I'Homme (FIDH) (French)
    A non-governmental organisation aiming to encourage the implementation of all rights defined by the Universal Human Rights declaration and other international instruments to protect human rights.
  • Global Internet Liberty Campaign
    A coalition of civil liberties and human rights organizations fighting censorship and advocating the freedom of expression and other human rights on the Internet and in online communication.
  • Human Rights Internet
    HRI is dedicated to the empowerment of human rights activists and organizations, and to the education of governmental and intergovernmental agencies and officials and other actors in the public and private sphere, on human rights issues and the role of civil society.
  • Human Rights Watch
    Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world supporting victims and activists, investigating and exposing violations, holding abusers accountable and challenging governments to respect international human rights law.
  • International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX)
    The International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX) is an electronic network that distributes alerts on free-expression violations around the world. Managed by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, the IFEX alert service relies on reports and press releases from IFEX's 57 member organisations.
  • Index on Censorship
    A bi-monthly magazine for free speech, widens the debates on freedom of expression with some of the world's best writers. Through interviews, reportage, banned literature and polemic, it aims to show how free speech affects the issues of the moment.
  • International PEN
    A worldwide non-governmental association of writers, promoting co-operation among writers everywhere, regardless of their political or other views, fighting for freedom of expression and defending vigorously writers suffering from oppressive regimes.
  • Internet Free Expression Alliance
    Alliance working to ensure the continuation of the Internet as a forum for open, diverse and unimpeded expression and to maintain the vital role the Internet plays in providing an efficient and democratic means of distributing information around the world.
  • Open Net Initiative
    Explores the relationship between censorship, technology and resistance using a technical analysis of state-imposed content filtering, blocking and monitoring schemes.
  • Reporters without Boarders
    Defending press freedom and the right to be informed, RSF is an organisation officially recognised as serving the public interest.
  • United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
    The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights aims to ensure the protection and promotion of all human rights for all based on the pledge of States Members of the UN "to achieve, in cooperation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms".