Allies

In partnership with communities, NESRI works to build a broad movement for economic & social rights.  

Partners & Campaigns


  • Alliance for Fair Food

    A network of human rights, religious, student, labor, and grassroots organizations who work in partnership with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.


  • Border Network for Human Rights

    An immigration reform and human rights advocacy organization that organizes border communities through human rights education and mobilizes its members to ignite change policy and practice.


  • Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights

    A national coalition of housing rights organizations and community groups working to reclaim the government’s commitment to provide decent housing for everyone.  Find out more about NESRI's work the


  • Coalition of Immokalee Workers

    An organization of farm workers in Florida fighting human rights abuses, including inhumane work conditions, sub-standard wages, and slavery.

  • Community Asset Development Re-defining Education (CADRE)

    A community-based, grassroots organization of low-income parents of color in South Los Angeles advocating children’s rights of education in the current public education system.


  • Dignity in Schools Campaign

    DSC unites policy advocates, parent and student organizers, educators and lawyers in a campaign to promote local and national alternatives to a culture of zero-tolerance, punishment and removal.


  • Families & Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children (FFLIC)
    A statewide membership-based organization that fights for a better life for Louisiana's youth who have been targeted by the juvenile justice system.

     


  • Mayday New Orleans

    A people-driven social justice movement that believes in active and direct participation from community members to ensure that basic needs, such as adequate housing, health care, education and safe streets are met.

     


  • Montana Human Rights Network

    Montana Human Rights Network promotes democratic values such as pluralism, equality and justice; challenges bigotry and intolerance; and organize communities to speak out for human rights. 

     


  • Teachers Unite

    An organization of New York City public school teachers committed to support the development of local educational justice campaigns.

     


  • United Workers

    A human rights organization led by low-wage workers and focused on leadership development through education, reflection and action.


  • Vermont Workers' Center

    A democratic, member-run organization dedicated to organizing for workers' rights, living wages and the human right to health care for all Vermonters.

     

Allies

  • 1000 Voices Archive
    A national collection of video stories created by filmmakers and communities across the country in order to shape public dialogue.
  • 5 Rights FC: Local. Sustainable. Soccer.
    The Football Club for U.S. water, food, health, housing and education.        
  • ACLU Human Rights Project
    ACLU Human Rights Project works to ensure that the U.S. government complies with universal human rights principles in addition to the U.S. Constitution.
  • Amnesty International
    A worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
  • Center for Constitutional Rights
    A non-profit legal and educational organization committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change.
  • Center for Reproductive Rights
    Center for Reproductive Rights has used the law to advance reproductive freedom as a fundamental human right that all governments are legally obligated to protect, respect, and fulfill.
  • Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign
    Co-founded by Cabrini-Green public housing residents, the campaign has evolved into an organizing collective struggling to stop all economically-motivated evictions in Chicago, Illinois and transform community relations to land.
  • Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute
    Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute  prepares future working professionals to utilize the theory and practice of constitutional rights and international human rights in their careers.
  • Domestic Workers United
    An organization of nannies, housekeepers, and elderly caregivers in New York, organizing for power, respect and fair labor standards.
  • François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights
    FXB focuses exclusively on health and human rights, while combining research and teaching with a strong commitment to service and policy development.
  • Health Right New Mexico
    Health Right NM is a new, broad-based coalition of health equity advocates in New Mexico campaigning to amend the state's constitution to recognize health care as a fundamental right of all residents.  
  • Healthcare-NOW!
    An education and advocacy organization that addresses the health insurance crisis in the U.S by advocating for national, single-payer healthcare legislation. We see healthcare as a human right, not a privilege tied to the ability to pay.
  • Housing is a Human Right
    Housing Is a Human Right is an ongoing documentary portrait of the struggle for a home.  Housing Is a Human Right creates a space for people to share their experiences of trying to obtain or maintain a place to call Home.  
  • Human Rights Implementation Project
    Human Rights Implementation Project is made up of national policy makers, community activists, and other non-profit organizations to incorporate international human rights principles into local law and regulations in the U.S.
  • Independent Commission on Public Education (ICOPE)
    A volunteer, New York City citywide collective and the founding organization of the Education is a Human Right campaign.
  • IPAS
    IPAS has global and country programs working to increase women's ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights and to reduce deaths and injuries of women from unsafe abortion.
  • Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA CAN)
    A grassroots organization based in LA's Skid Row community that works to ensure people dealing with poverty have voice, power and opinion in the decisions that directly affect them.  Founding member of the LA Human Right to Housing
  • Media Mobilizing Project (MMP)
    The MMP believes that media must be connected to the economic and social realities of everyday life in order to build a network that addresses the root causes of the problems we face.
  • National Alliance of HUD Tenants (NAHT)
    A multicultural, tenant-controlled alliance of tenant organizations in privately-owned, multifamily HUD-assisted housing.  Hundreds of tenant associations representing thousands of tenants in every region of the country are already involved
  • National Health Law Program (NHeLP)
    A national public interest law firm that seeks to improve health care for America's working and unemployed poor, minorities, the elderly and people with disabilities.
  • National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (NLCHP)
    The NLCHP works to prevent and end homelessness by serving as the legal arm of the nationwide movement to end homelessness.
  • National Mobilization Against Sweatshops (NMASS)
    A workers membership organization in New York City fighting for labor rights.
  • New York Katrina/Rita Solidarity Committee
    New York Katrina/Rita Solidarity Committee was formed to unite survivors as they fight for economic stability, healthcare, voting rights, adequate housing, and the basic rights guaranteed to them as U.S. citizens.
  • Northeastern Pennsylvania (NEPA) Organizing Center
    Based in Wilkes-Barre, PA, this resident-led organizing center is dedicated to providing local community members the means to develop long-term solutions to human rights issues.
  • NYU Law Students for Human Rights
    A student group that focuses on implementing a global human rights perspective.
  • Picture the Homeless
    A grassroots organization founded and led by homeless people organizing for social justice in New York City.
  • Poverty Initiative
    Poverty Initiative focuses on raising up generations of religious and community leaders committed to building a movement to end poverty, led by the poor.
  • Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, Northeastern School of Law
    Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, Northeastern School of Law works closely with scholars, institutions and advocates nationally and internationally to address issues of human rights and economic development.
  • Rights Working Group
    Rights Working Group believes in protecting civil liberties and human rights for all against racial and religious profiling, in accordance with Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights.
  • South Los Angeles Health & Human Rights Coalition
    A coalition of organizations serving South L.A. residents is developing community-led human rights approaches to tackle inequities and improve health. Collectively, they have drafted a South L.A. Declaration of Health and Human Rights.
  • Student Safety Coalition
    Student Safety Coalition works to end the New York City School to Prison Pipeline and its disproportionate impact on youth of color and youth with special needs.
  • The Opportunity Agenda
    The Opportunity Agenda works to ensure that the U.S. lives up to its promise as the land of opportunity for every person who lives here, and to address certain limited access to human rights.
  • U.S. Human Rights Network
    U.S. Human Rights Network was formed to promote US accountability to universal human rights standards by building linkages between organizations and individuals, working on human rights issues in the United States.
  • Unified Taxi Workers Alliance
    Unified Taxi Workers Alliance, Pennsylvania organized to promote the civil and human rights of low-income taxi workers, including improving their health, safety, and well-being.
  • Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP)
    West Coast grassroots coalition created to expose and eliminate root causes of civil and human rights abuses of people experiencing poverty and homelessness.
  • Witness
    Witness uses video and online technologies to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations, while empowering people to transform personal stories of abuse into powerful tools for justice.