Skip to main content Skip to navigation

Society Charities That specialise in Human rights

Discover 30 Society charities that specialise in human rights. Use the search below to filter within these results.

30
Charities
£275,349,160
Total Income
£920,900
Avg Income
78.6%
Program Ratio

International Alert

Charitable activities, Society

International Alert works with people directly affected by conflict to build lasting peace. We focus on solving the root causes of conflict with people from across divides. From the grassroots to the policy level, we bring people together to build peace. Experienced and respected, we have a proud track record of achieving change in fragile and conflict-affected countries and territories.

Latest Income: £15,543,447
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
View Details

Freedom From Torture

Charitable activities, Society

Freedom from Torture is a human rights organisation which exists to enable survivors of torture to engage in a healing process. We provide direct care, treatment and protection services in five UK centres. We engage in activism in order to bring the plight of torture survivors to light and carry out research that underpins our policy and advocacy work.

Latest Income: £15,113,123
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
View Details

Amnesty International Charity

Charitable activities, Society

promotion of human rights throughout the world, including by: monitoring abuses, assisting the victims of such abuses and eliminating infringements; research into human rights issues and providing technical advice; contributing to the sound administration of human rights law; raising awareness of, and promoting public support for, human rights issues; and international advocacy of human rights.

Latest Income: £5,657,202
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
View Details

War On Want

Charitable activities, Social welfare, Society

War on Want fights poverty in developing countries in partnership and solidarity with people affected by globalisation. We campaign for human rights and against the root causes of global poverty, inequality and injustice.

Latest Income: £4,048,876
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
View Details

Christian Solidarity International

Charitable activities, Society

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) is a Christian organisation working for religious freedom through advocacy and human rights, in the pursuit of justice

Latest Income: £2,576,000
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
View Details

Writers And Scholars Educational Trust

Research, Society

Such charitable purposes including the advancement and promotion by teaching, lecturing, publishing or disseminating in written or spoken form or otherwise, as shall best advance and encourage education or other charitable purposes beneficial to the community in connection with the study of political, economic, social, natural sciences and the humanities and human rights.

Latest Income: £1,250,410
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
View Details

World Association For Christian Communication

Charitable activities, Society

The Association promotes communication for social change. It believes that communication is a basic human right that define's people's common humanity ,strengthens cultures,enables participation ,creates community & challenges tyranny & oppression. It works through advocacy,education,training and the creation & sharing of knowledge.Its worldwide membership works with faithbased & secular partners

Latest Income: £1,076,435
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
View Details

Society Of The Helpers Of The Holy Souls

Housing, Religion, Social welfare, Society

The charity provides support for the poor, sick and needy, whether home or abroad regardless of whether they are members of the Roman Catholic Religion. The Charity has made a commitment in favour of human rights and provides help for displaced persons and support for economic, education and health development projects.

Latest Income: £704,084
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
View Details

International Institute Of Communications

Arts, Beneficiary group, Education, Society

To provide a forum for those operating in the digital economy to identify and discuss issues and practices in the digital world (including advertising and trade related matters) and to promote the formulation of regulations and best practices to ensure that they benefit the public, provide appropriate safeguards for children and other vulnerable users and protect civil and human rights.

Latest Income: £690,956
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
View Details

Cumbria Law Centre

Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Education, Housing, Social welfare, Society

Free legal advice and representation in Carlisle, Allerdale, Copeland and Barrow. (Future plan for Eden). We tackle poverty and oppression for those who cannot access help elsewhere. Telephone advice (01228 515 129) every weekday, and clinics throughout Cumbria. Specialists in Housing, Employment, Community Care, Welfare Benefits, Debt, Discrimination, Public law and Human Rights & Education.

Latest Income: £538,488
Areas of Operation: Cumbria
Status: Registered
View Details

The Farthing Trust

Society

The Trust was formed as a vehicle to meet charitable causes in any area of the world. All manner of charitable causes are supported, predominantly in the areas of education, faith, health, human rights and reconciliation and the relief of those in need. The Trust rarely supports GAP year students or applications for educational courses. The Trust prioritizes small projects with "seed corn" funding

Latest Income: £500,935
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
View Details

World Education Berkshire

Education, Society

RISC is a Development Education Centre. We work with schools and community groups to raise the profile of global issues and promote action for sustainable development, human rights and social justice.

Latest Income: £467,862
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
View Details

Human Rights Protection Fund

Crime and Justice, Society

The charity provides practical and financial support to transform the lives of prisoners of conscience - people who have exercised a, non-violent, act of conscience to uphold their or others' human rights and consequently suffered persecution.

Latest Income: £440,802
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
View Details

The Bromley Trust

Crime and Justice, Environment, Society

To combat violations of human rights; to promote prison reform within the United Kingdom; to oppose extinction of the world's fauna and flora and destruction of the environment.

Latest Income: £334,160
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
View Details

Zimbabwe Educational Trust

Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Education, Society

ZET supports grass roots organisations in Zimbabwe to deliver projects for vulnerable and marginalised young people. Projects are education focused and vary to include; life skills, vocational skills and work experience, health, birth registration and access to basic human rights, as well as teaching about conservation agriculture.

Latest Income: £146,322
Areas of Operation: Zimbabwe
Status: Registered
View Details

The Lipman-Miliband Trust

Society

Supporting, both within the UK and internationally, research and educational projects with concerns around equality, diversity and democracy, and supporting educational activities that raise public awareness and understanding of struggles and movements for peace, human rights and labour rights.

Latest Income: £86,308
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
View Details

British Friends Of Quaker Council For European Affairs

Associations, Religion, Society

The primary purpose of the QCEA British Committee (BC) is to support the work of Quaker House in Brussels (QCEA). The Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) was founded in 1979 to bear witness throughout Europe to Friends' long-standing concerns for peace, human rights and the right sharing of resources. It does this chiefly through staff based at Quaker House in Brussels.

Latest Income: £63,176
Areas of Operation: Belgium
Status: Registered
View Details

Radley Charitable Trust

Society

The objectives remain the furtherance of:Conflict ResolutionPeaceJustice and Human Rights Sustainable developmentsEquality of opportunity and improving quality of life

Latest Income: £41,453
Areas of Operation: Cambridgeshire
Status: Registered
View Details

The Next Century Foundation

Society

Working to promote peace and rapprochement and to reduce and resolve conflict. The Next Century Foundation is a think and do tank and promotes the four freedoms: Freedom from fear, freedom from want, freedom of expression and freedom of religion. The Next Century Foundation also endeavours to promote a more inclusive world.

Latest Income: £30,950
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
View Details

New Hope Rural Community Trust

Charity and VCS support, Economic and community development, Health, Saving of lives, Society

PARTNER TRUST TO A TRUST IN INDIA. AWARENESS & FUND RAISING ON BEHALF OF LEPROSY RELIEF, HIV CARE, TRIBAL HEALTH CARE & CIVIL RIGHTS, WELL MOTHER & BABY TRAVELLING HEALTH WORKERS, POLIO CORRECTIVE SURGERY, CATARACT SURGERY & AFTERCARE, RESPONSE TO NATURAL DISASTERS.

Latest Income: £24,960
Areas of Operation: India
Status: Registered
View Details

The Foundation For Gaia

Charitable activities, Society

UNFCCC & UN accreditation, attendance, side-events organisation. Climate adaptation, resilience, mitigation. Human Rights advocacy, research, statements. SDGs. IUCN World Commission Protected Areas Specialist Group CSVPA on cultural value of PAs. UNESCO WHC, culture-nature programmes. NGO Forum Environment. Associazione Italiana Wilderness Appenine Bear Project. Eco-villages. Clean technologies.

Latest Income: £0
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
View Details

Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative

Society

The charity is a charitable company limited by guarantee and is independent and non-partisan and was set up on 2 April 1990. It is governed by a Memorandum and Articles of Association and its principal activity continues to be the advancement of human rights throughout the Commonwealth.

Latest Income: £100,112
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
View Details

The C Paul Thackray General Charitable Trust

Charitable activities, Society

Grant making in Yorkshire particularly within a ten mile radius of Harrogate for the care, rehabilitation and education of those with special needs, the protection of the local environment and complimentary medicine. Internationally, grants can be made for training and technology in developing countries, medical assistance, the protection of human rights, ecology and conservation.

Latest Income: £35,305
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
View Details

Parliamentary Human Rights Trust

Society

The charity undertakes, promotes and commissions research into the maintenance and observance of human rights, particularly those set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; and disseminates the results of such research to governments, parliamentarians, inter-governmental organisations, non-governmental organisations and the general public in the United Kingdom.

Latest Income: £35,115
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
View Details

The Miriam Rothschild And John Foster Human Rights Trust

Society

The Trust sponsors an annual lecture and its work is unique in that there is no similar lecture promoted in this way in the human rights field. It provides a special opportunity to enable a selected audience to meet and hear a talk on an important and topical subject of general interest

Latest Income: £24,000
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
View Details
Page 1 of 2 Next

Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many human-rights society charities are there in the UK?

There are 30 registered human-rights society charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

What is the combined annual income of human-rights society charities?

Human-rights society charities reported a combined annual income of £275.3m across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.

What is a typical program ratio for human-rights society charities?

Across all human-rights society charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 78.6%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.

What is the average annual income of human-rights society charities?

Human-rights society charities have an average annual income of £921k. The distribution is heavily skewed: a small number of large charities account for most sector income, while the majority report under £100k a year.

Where does this data come from?

All figures are sourced from the Charity Commission for England and Wales public register, refreshed weekly. Derived metrics (program ratio, efficiency) are calculated by Charity Finder using the formulas documented on the data sources page.