Below is an alphabetical listing of the web sites of many advocacy, human rights, aid, relief or development-related organizations and agencies, including some that are governmental, inter-governmental, non-governmental and/or church-related.
We have separated them into some broad - and not necessarily mutually exclusive - categories, as follows:
Human rights
Peace and conflict resolution
Economy and development
Humanitarian aid and emergency relief
Refugees and migrants
General interest
Intergovernmental organizations

Ecumenical links is maintained by the World Council of Churches as a service to the ecumenical community. These links are to sites outside of the WCC site. The contents of the sites listed here do not necessarily reflect the position or interests of the Council. Rather, we hope they are useful tools in making global connections and accessing information.

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Abya Yala Net

• L'Action des Chrétiens pour l'Abolition de la Torture (ACAT)

• The Advocacy Project
  Helps advocates in civil society to use the new information technology in their efforts to promote peace, justice, and respect for human rights.

• Amnesty International World news items on human rights, details of AI’s campaigns and access to reports and documents.

• Anti-Slavery International

• Asia Human Rights Resource Commission (AHRC)

• Argentine Forensic Anthropological Team (EAAF)

• Asociación de Estudiantes y Egresados de Periodismo Pro Derechos Humanos, Peru

• Canadian Consortium on Human Security
  is an academic-based network to promote policy-relevant research on human security. See also its Human Security bulletin

• Canadian Human Rights Foundation
  Programmes, publications and activities as well as links to other sites arranged thematically.

• Centre for World Indigenous Studies: Fourth World Documentation Project

• The Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)

• Children of Conflict (BBC World Service)

• Coalition for an ICC Home Page on the International Criminal Court

• The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers

• Defense for Children International

• ECPAT: Global Network to Protect Children against Commercial Sexual Exploitation

• European Commission of Human Rights

• European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT)

• Focal Point against Sexual Exploitation of Children

• Global March Against Child Labour

• Haitian Street Kids, Inc.

• Hope for Haiti
  Human Rights : Major International Instruments Status as at 31 May 2000
  Overview of the state of ratifications, successions and adhesions to human rights instruments as well as the membership of the UN, UNESCO and major regional organizations. Available in English and French.
  Human Rights Internet
  Information about human rights issues, forthcoming meetings and calendar events. It is also possible to submit your own calendar event and access a directory of related websites and the bookshop.
  Human Rights Watch
  Background and latest news on human rights, details of HRW campaigns and publications.
  Human Rights Web Resources Page
  Links to related sites, lists of organizations and resources, and information on human rights and abuses.
  HURIDOCS
  A global network of organisations concerned with human rights

• International Federation of ACAT (Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture)

• ILO - International Programme on Elimination of Child Labour International Service for Human Rights
  Inform human rights defenders and organisations around the world on United Nations proceedings and procedures regarding human rights
  Life Issues Net
  Related to The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, this Japan-based website "hopes to help change that by providing clear thinking about these most crucial issues: abortion, aids, bioethics, birth control, when life begins, population concerns, post-abortion healing, etc."
  Minority Rights Group
  Promotes the rights of ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities. Native Web

• Organisation mondiale contre la torture (OMCT)/ SOS-Torture

• Palestinetoday.org

• Pueblo Indio

• Quaker United Nations Office Geneva Reporters sans frontières

• South & Meso American Indian Rights Center

• Street Kids International

• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

• UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflicts

• UN World Conference against Racism War Child
  History, aims and projects of the organization.

• Youth Resource Centre on Human Rights

• World Directory of Human rights Research and Training Institutions
  A database of more than 600 human rights research and training institutions, on UNESCO's website
   

Economy and development

• Action Institute for Literacy and Human Resource Development (AILAHURD), India
  Project Learning Communities

• AfricaFiles

• African Christian Youths Development Forum

• Alliance for the Global Wellness Fund Treaty

• Alternatives for Simple Living

• Association of WCC-related Development Organizations in Europe (APRODEV)

• ATTAC

• British Department for International Development

• Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)

• Corporate Watch, USA

• Délégation Catholique pour la Coopération

• Diakonie, Kultur, Welt (Thüringen, Deutschland)

• DIFÄM, Deutsche Institut für Ärztliche Mission

• EarthLink e.V - The People and Nature Network

• Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA)

• Ecumenical Coalition for Economic Justice, Canada

• Ecumenical Coalition on Tourism/Ecumenical Coalition on Third World Tourism

• Evangelische Zentralstelle für Entwicklungshilfe E.V., Germany Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

• German Church School (Ethiopia)

• German Technical Cooperation

• Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP)

• Interchurch Organization for Development Cooperation (ICCO)

• International Council on Social Welfare

• International Development Research Centre (IDRC)

• Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) for the right to good guidelines website (of the FAO)

• Japan International Cooperation Agency

• Jubilee 2000 Coalition, UK

• Jubilee South Coalition

• Kairos Europe Kirchlicher Entwicklungsdienst (KED)
  Kirchenamt der EKD, Germany
  Marycare (non-profit organization promoting health, education and community-based development in Haiti, Argentina, and Nigeria)
   

• Netherlands Reformed Church
  Department for Mission, Diaconia and Ecumene

• Norwegian Church Aid

• Oikocredit (formerly Ecumenical Development Cooperative Society -- EDCS)

• Oikos

• One World directory of development cooperation organizations in the EU Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Develpment (OECD)

• Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)

• Pan American Health Organization

• PANOS Institute

• Philippine Agrarian Reform Foundation

• Presbyterian Church (USA)
  Worldwide Ministries Division, USA
  Presbyterian Church in Canada
  Presbyterian World Service & Development Committee

• Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI)

• Simultaneous Policy, an international campaign to counter the forces of globalisation and international competition
   

• Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA)
  United Nations organizations for Economic and Social Development
  ° United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
  ° United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
  ° United Nations Population Information Network (POPIN)
  ° Social Policy and Development
  ° Sustainable Development
  ° Women Watch
  ° United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
  ° United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  ° United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
  ° UN - World Summit for Social Development and Beyond: Special Session of General Assembly on Copenhagen + 5

• US Agency for International Development

• The Web of Creation, USA

• Women in Development Network (WIDNET)

• World Bank

• World Trade Organization

Humanitarian aid and emergency relief
 

• ACT - Action by Churches Together
  ACTIONAID
  Humanitarian issues and ACTIONAID campaigns.

• African Medical & Research Foundation (AMREF)

• Assist A.S.B.L. (Rwanda)

• Australian Baptist World Aid Inc.

• Brot für Alle, Switzerland

• Brot für die Welt, Germany
  CARE
  Programmes, job opportunities, newsroom, bookshop, virtual field trips.

• Caritas Internationalis

• Catholic Relief Services

• Centro Interculturale della Città di Torino Children’s Aid Direct
  Press releases, details of fund-raising activities and campaigns.

• Christian Church, Disciples of Christ
  (Week of Compassion), USA

• Christian Church, Disciples of Christ
  Division of Overseas Ministries, USA

• Christian Aid, UK

• Christian World Service
  National Council of Churches in Australia

• Christian World Service, Aoteara New Zealand

• Church of Sweden Aid

• Church World Service & Witness, USA

• Danchurchaid, Denmark

• Diakonia, Sweden

• Dienste in Übersee, Germany

• Dutch Interchurch Aid

• Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA)

• Episcopal Church
  The Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief, USA

• European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO)

• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
  Division for Global Mission, USA

• Entraide Protestante Suisse (EPER)

• Evangelisches Missionswerk, Germany

• Finnchurchaid

• Haitian Street Kids, Inc.

• Hilfswerk der Evangelischen Kirchen Schweiz (HEKS) Humanitarian Resource Institute, USA
  The Humanitarian Times
  Free e-mail publication available to all NGOs, devoted to balanced coverage of humanitarian concerns. To subscribe: e-mail.
  The Hunger Site
  Visit the site - feed a hungry person!

• Hungarian Interchurch Aid

• Icelandic Church Aid

• Inter-Church Action, Canada International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
  Press releases and weekly news about the organization.
  International Disaster Information Network

• International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

• International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC)

• Makeni Ecumenical Centre, Zambia

• Médecins Sans Frontières

• Medical Assistance Program International (MAP) Mercy Corps
  Current programmes, emergency initiatives, jobs and donation information.
  MERLIN
  Information on the activities of this humanitarian organization providing medical aid in emergencies around the world.

• MISEREOR, Germany

• MISSIO - München
  MISSIO - Aachen Oxfam
  News on humanitarian concerns, the organization and its campaigns.
  Reliefweb
  "Serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief community". Latest world news, resources and links to other web sites.
  Save the Children
  Campaigns and global events.

• Social Watch

• United Church of Christ
  Board for World Ministries, USA

• United Church of Christ's Welfare Working Group, USA

• United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR)
  General Board of Global Ministries, USA

• UNICEF

• United Nations Organization

  • Humanitarian Affairs

  • UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

• United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF)

• Volunteer Ministers

• World Food Programme (WFP)

• World Health Organization (WHO)

Refugees and migrants
 

The Brookings Institution Project on Internal Displacement
Seeks to improve the international community's response to the global crisis of internal displacement

• Churches Commission for Migrants in Europe, Belgium

• CIMADE, France

• December 18, USA

• European Council on Refugees and Exiles
   

• European Migration Centre (EMC)

• Forced Migration Review

• The Global Campaign for the Ratification of the Convention on Rights of Migrants

• Inter-Church Committee for Refugees

• Interfaith Refugee Ministry (USA)

• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)
  An independent website and information management service on Internally Displaced Persons, part of the Norwegian Refugee Council

• International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC) International Organization for Migration (IOM)

• Jesuit Refugee Service Norwegian Refugee Council

• United Nations: Humanitarian Affairs UN - Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons

• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
   

  Environment
   

  Greenpeace International

General
 

• Conference of NGOs in Consultative Status with the United Nations

• Ecumenical Directory of Church-Related Voluntary Service Organizations

• Global Volunteer Network International Commission of Jurists
  International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA)
  Focuses on issues and agencies involved in humanitarian and human rights policies and activities. Facilitates the formation of NGO consortia to address subjects such as sustainable development.

• International Law Inter-Parliamentary Union Mandat International
  Facilitates the participation of NGO delegates at international conferences in Geneva and provides space for meeting and exchange between delegates

• Quaker United Nations Office

• Research Guide to International Law on the Internet - European Union and EU Institutions

• Teachers For Africa

  Intergovernmental organizations

   

  • Council of Europe

  • Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly

  • Council of the European Union

  • European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT)

  • International Labour Organisation (ILO)

  • ILO - International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour

  • Inter-Parliamentary Union

  • International Organisation for Migration (IOM)

  • Mandat International

  • NATO

  • Organisation of American States

  • Organisation of African Unity (OAU)

  • Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe

  • Research Guide to International Law on the Internet - European Union and EU Institutions

  • UN Department for Disarmament Affairs UN Documentation Center
    For texts of Genral Assembly, Security Council resolutions etc.

  • United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

  • United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

  • UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

  • UN High Commissioner for Refugees

  • UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo: UNMIK

  • UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

  • UNICEF

  • Unicef - Innocenti Research Centre UN Non-Governmental Liaison service
    Strengthens UN-NGO dialogue and cooperation in the fields of development education, information and policy advocacy on global sustainable development issues

  • United Nations Population Information Network (POPIN)

  • UNRISD on-line
    UN Research Institute for Social Development

  • UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflicts

  • UN - Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons

  • United Nations Volunteers (UNV)

  • UN World Conference against Racism

  • UN - World Summit for Social Development and Beyond: Special Session of General Assembly on Copenhagen + 5

  • The World Bank Group

  • The World Trade Organisation (WTO)