Global Rights: About Us

Founded in 1978, Global Rights is a human rights capacity-building organization working in partnership with local activists in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to promote and protect the rights of marginalized populations. Through broad-based technical assistance and training, we strengthen partners to document and expose human rights abuses, conduct community outreach and mobilization, advocate for legal and policy reform, and provide legal and paralegal services.

OUR VISION
The work of Global Rights is motivated by our vision of a just society worldwide built on the fundamental principles of human rights.

OUR CORE BELIEFS
The critical forces for achieving deep-rooted and sustainable change in societies come from within each nation. Human rights cultures are built from the ground up.

OUR MISSION
Global Rights is a unique human rights capacity building organization that works side by side local activists in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to challenge injustice and amplify new voices within the global discourse.

We focus on strategies that are essential to promoting, protecting, and fulfilling human rights such as: documenting and exposing violations, conducting community education and mobilization, advocating legal and policy reform, using the courts on behalf of disadvantaged populations, and engaging the international community, including the United Nations and regional bodies.

CORE STRATEGIC APPROACH
Global Rights establishes partnerships with local organizations and activists around the world, which are designed to build their capacities as effective agents for human rights and social change, in local and international arenas.

CORE PURPOSE AND CORE PROGRAMS
The programmatic activities of Global Rights are united under a banner of the organization's core purpose to:

Increase access to justice for poor and marginalized groups
Advance women’s rights and gender equality
Advance racial and ethnic equality

CURRENT SPECIAL INITIATIVES
Special initiatives allow Global Rights to explore new program areas while targeting populations that fit within our core programming. Currently the special program initiatives include:

OUR BOARD AND STAFF
Global Rights is governed by a fifteen-member board of directors comprising senior lawyers, journalists, and academics and operated by a 60-member staff, two-thirds of whom work outside the United States.

GLOBAL RIGHTS ANNUAL REPORT
Learn more about our innovative programs and recent accomplishments in our Annual Report.

GLOBAL RIGHTS AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Global Rights is proud to present a strong audited financial statement. We want to thank our individual donors and funders for making our work to promote and protect the rights of marginalized populations possible.