Visayan Forum, Inc. (VF), in co-operation with the Philippine Ports Authority, runs eight unique halfway house facilities in strategic ports throughout the country’s archipelago. In addition to providing center-based services to vulnerable migrants, this partnership helps to intervene to combat human trafficking in these seaports by intercepting potential victims of trafficking and apprehending suspected traffickers.

The International Center for Bioethics, Culture and Disability proposes a holistic approach that views the human rights movement as a united coalition of groups seeking a shared-rights outcome.   Currently many groups working in the disability rights movement, and even the broader human rights movement, compete among each other in political debates and institutions in order to gain recognition, funding and policy changes.  Instead of recognizing their common goals and challenges, human rights groups often isolate themselves along victim hierarchies where, for example, someone living in poverty may be better off than someone who is physically disabled, experiences politically-motivated torture or lacks access to clean water.  In order for groups to identify their common experiences, the Center emphasizes an inclusive, social justice approach to disability.

The Lebanese Greenpeace office mapped environmental violations in order to educate the Lebanese population about the toxic industrial waste problem along the entire coast of the country.

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is a powerful legal instrument for articulating, advocating, and monitoring women's human rights.  Until the mid-nineties, the UN was not open to the voices of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).  Now, however, NGOs play a vital role in making the Convention an instrument of women's empowerment, t