Human Rights Organizations
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- Amnesty International (AI)
- Human Rights Watch (HRW)
- Ligue des droits de l'homme (LDH, Human Rights League – created during the Dreyfus Affair at the end of the 19th century)
- MRAP anti-racist NGO
- SOS Racisme
- CIMADE (the only organization authorized to visit internment camp for illegal aliens (sans-papiers, literally "without-papers", that is people who do not possess identity documents)
- GISTI (immigrants support NGO)
- etc.
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