Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Inc. (ABLE) is an unrestricted civil legal services program. ABLE works with sister-organization Legal Aid of Western Ohio, Inc. (LAWO), a federally funded legal services program, to provide high quality, legal assistance in civil matters to help

The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois is a non-profit, non-partisan organization, dedicated to protecting freedom, liberty, equality and justice for all within the United States. With a membership of more than 22,000 across Illinois - a total of more than 400,000 across the nation - the ACLU accomplishes its goals through litigation, lobbying and education programs.

The Chicago office of the American Friends Service Committee is committed to developing leaders from within the diverse communities of Chicago, and to building a sustainable peace with justice movement that reaches beyond the city's borders.

Founded in London in 1961, Amnesty International is a Nobel Prize-winning grassroots activist organization with over 1.8 million members worldwide. Amnesty International undertakes research and action focused on preventing and ending grave abuses of the rights to physical and mental integrity, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from discrimination, within the context of its work to promote all human rights.

The Center for Civil and Human Rights is founded on the belief that the worth and dignity of every human being mirrors the image of God and that education is essential to build a human rights culture in which the values of human dignity, peace and democracy are cherished and protected. Lawyers, serving as champions of the rule of law, have a unique responsibility to ensure that the civil and political institutions of each society are imbued with these fundamental values.

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, established in 1997, serves as a center for information and teaching about the Holocaust and contemporary aspects of genocide, houses a resource library, and provides speakers for events. The Center teaches and provides support for teaching about the Holocaust and genocide around the work, past and present, and the relationship to human rights questions.

The Center for International Human Rights conducts academic and practical work in support of internationally recognized human rights, democracy and the rule of law. The Center stresses a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach, and invites participation by other University departments.

The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) exists to heal the wounds of torture on individuals, their families, and communities and to stop its practice. CVT works locally, nationally, and internationally to build healing communities where torture survivors feel welcomed, protected and healed.

The Center on Housing and Eviction Rights (COHRE) promotes and protects the right to housing for everyone, everywhere. To achieve this, COHRE has developed a varied work program, guided by international human rights law, and designed to reach as may people as possible.

Centro Legal is committed to providing affordable, quality, bilingual and bicultural civil legal representation, education, and advocacy to the low-income Latino community of Minnesota who are underserved due to language, cultural, and economic barriers. Their services are focused on poor and working poor individuals and families on the edges of self-sufficiency, as well as persons who face significant language and cultural barriers to accessing the justice system.