Conectas Human Rights is an international non-governmental, not-for-profit organization, founded in Sao Paulo, Brazil in October 2001, with the following mission:

Promoting respect for human rights and contributing to the consolidation of the Rule of Law in the Global South (Africa, Asia, and Latin America).

Accordingly, Conectas develops programs that aim at strengthening activists and academics in the southern hemisphere and increasing their interaction with the United Nations and among them. In Brazil, and in the region, Conectas promotes strategic and public interest litigation.

Conectas was accorded Consultative Status before the UN in January 2006.