Human rights charities
18th December 2007, 4:08 pm
The Charity Commission has produced a short report about charities working in the human rights field. Human rights was only recognised as a charitable purpose in its own right in 2002, with currently just 206 charities registered under this head, although the number is rising.
Report RS16, ‘Charities working in the field of human rights’, from http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/publications/rs16.asp.