Think tanks

  • The Stimson Center
    – named after Henry L. Stimson, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank which aims to enhance international peace and security through a combination of analysis and outreach.
  • 38 North
    – A weblog focusing on North Korea in the Stimson Centre.
  • Brookings Institution
    – The Brookings Institution is an American research group. It conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and global economy and economic development.
  • ITIF
    – The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation is a U.S. nonprofit public policy think tank. The organization focuses on public policies that spur technology innovation.
  • American Enterprise Institute
    – a think tank that researches government, politics, economics, and social welfare.
  • PIIE
    – The Peterson Institute for International Economics, previously known as the Institute for International Economics (IIE), is a non-profit think tank focused on international economics.
  • Cato Institute
    – an American libertarian think tank.

Bar associations

  • IBA
    – The International Bar Association, is a bar association of international legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies.
  • UIA
    – The Union Internationale des Avocats or International Association of Lawyers.
  • CCBE
    – The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe is an association gathering together bar associations of countries in Europe and an additional associate and observer members.
  • IPBA
    – The Inter-Pacific Bar Association is an international association of business and commercial lawyers. Its members consist of residents of the Asia-Pacific region, or lawyers with a strong interest in that region.
  • LAWASIA
    – a regional association of lawyers, judges, jurists and legal organisations, which advocates for the interests and concerns of the Asia Pacific legal profession.

Human rights

  • Amnesty International
    – a NGO based in the United Kingdom focused on human rights. The organization claims it has more than seven million members and supporters around the world.
  • Human Rights Foundation
    – a non-profit organization that describes itself as promoting and protecting human rights globally, with a focus on closed societies.
  • Human Rights Watch
    – an international non-governmental organization, headquartered in New York City, that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.
  • UN Watch
    – a non-governmental organization whose stated mission is “to monitor the performance of the United Nations by the yardstick of its own Charter”.
  • Hong Kong Watch
    – a NGO based in the United Kingdom that was established to monitor the conditions of human rights, freedoms and rule of law in Hong Kong.
  • Freedom House
    – a U.S.-based U.S. government-funded non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on democracy, political freedom, and human rights.
  • CPJ
    – The Committee to Protect Journalists is an American independent non-profit, non-governmental organization.