As the number and type of human rights groups operating around the world has grown in recent times, so has the potential for the human rights movement to dramatically increase its influence.  But many factors stand in the way of the movement’s ability to become greater than the sum of its parts.  This is especially so in the Global South, where there has been the greatest expansion in local human rights activity over the last several years, and at the same time, where human rights problems are arguably the most stark and most pervasive.  Human rights advocates in this part of the world need assistance to strengthen their own in-country work, and to develop a more powerful collective voice in the international debates that affect human rights in the Global South.