The League of Minnesota Human Rights Commissions, founded in 1972 and reorganized in 1987, is a coalition of local human-rights commissions that have been established by charter or ordinance in communities throughout Minnesota. While its member commissions are public organizations, the league is a private, nongovernmental organization with 501(c)(3) classification under the IRS code. Grants and gifts to the league are tax deductible.

World Without Genocide works to protect innocent people around the world; prevents genocide by fighting racism and prejudice; advocates for the prosecution of perpetrators; and remembers those whose lives and cultures have been destroyed by genocide. World Without Genocide envisions a future in which genocide and other mass atrocities perpetrated against innocent people will disappear from the earth.

Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment through Research (HACER) is a nonprofit, community-based research organization that originated in 1988 as a collaborative effort between Ramsey County Human Services, Communidades Latinos Unidos en Servicio (CLUES), and Metropolitan State University to address the lack of information about Latinos and Latino issues in Minnesota’s public discourse. HACER is housed within the University of Minnesota’s Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA).

HACER’s mission, is to provide the Minnesota Latino community the ability to create and control information about itself in order to affect institutional decisions and public policy. 

The mission of La Conexión de las Americas is to develop social and economic justice in our community and beyond, by empowering local Latino communities through civic engagement and economic development, developing reciprocal understanding between established residents and Latino immigrants, and educating on U.S. policy and the Latin America region.

Workers Interfaith Network unites religious leaders, labor leaders, and workers to address economic disparities by demanding improved wages, benefits, and working conditions assuring that our community’s economic abundance is shared by all.

The Human Rights Center, located in the University of Minnesota Law School, trains and assists the work of human rights professionals and volunteers through five primary programs including: applied human rights research; educational tools; the Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellowship Program, the Hubert H. Humphrey Human Rights and Law Fellowships and other field and training opportunities; the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library; and through learning communities and partnerships.

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 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 Centre 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.

The Council on Crime and Justice, a leader in the field of criminal and social justice for over 40 years, provides an independent voice for a balanced approach to criminal justice. The Council has been at the forefront of many new programs in such areas as offender services, alternative sanctions, victim's rights, and restorative justice. The mission of the Council is to build community capacity to address the causes and consequences of crime and violence through research, demonstration, and advocacy.