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The National Youth Rights Association is dedicated to defending the freedom, equality, and rights of all young people by challenging age discrimination and prejudice. NYRA aims to achieve its goals through educating people about youth rights, empowering young people to work on their own behalf in defense of their rights, and taking positive steps to lessen the burden of ageism.

Learning Rights Law Center seeks to ensure that all students are provided with equitable access to the public education system and focuses on low-income students who have disabilities, face discrimination or are involved in the foster care or juvenile justice systems.

Northwest Immigrant Rights Project promotes justice by defending and advancing the rights of immigrants through direct legal services, systemic advocacy, and community education.

The mission of the Nonhuman Rights Project is, through education and litigation, to change the common law status of at least some nonhuman animals from mere “things,” which lack the capacity to possess any legal right, to “persons,” who possess such fundamental rights as bodily integrity and bodily liberty, and those other legal rights to which evolving standards of morality, scientific discovery, and human experience entitle them.

The National Civil Rights Museum, located at the Lorraine Motel, honors and preserves the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. We chronicle the American civil rights movement and tell the story of the ongoing struggle for human rights. We educate and serve as a catalyst to inspire action to create positive social change.

The Center for Educational Rights is a non-profit organization dedicated to advocacy on behalf of students with disabilities. Our advocacy takes many forms including (but not limited to): parent and educator trainings/workshops, self-advocate trainings, advocating for students, and consulting related to inclusion practices. We know that to best serve students we must work collaboratively with students, parents, and educators to ensure students’ unique needs are met, and to prepare them for further education, employment, and independent living.

Using the medical and forensic sciences, we investigate and expose violations of human rights worldwide and we work to stop them. We support institutions that hold perpetrators of human rights abuses accountable for their actions. We educate health professionals and students in the fields of medicine, public health, and nursing, as well as members of the public. We motivate people to become active in supporting a movement for human rights, and we strive to create a culture of human rights in the medical and scientific professions.

Human Rights Now-NY was incorporated in 2019 as a nonprofit charitable organization in New York. It shares the same vision and goals with its partner organization Human Rights Now: "Protection and promotion of human rights for all."