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Every year, people across the world lose their careers, their freedom and sometimes their lives for revealing what the powerful wanted hidden. Hundreds of organisations already stand behind them — legal defence funds, press-freedom groups, digital-security teams, trauma clinics, safe-house networks. They rarely act together. The Truth Teller Society exists to connect them, make them findable in one place, and turn scattered solidarity into a movement with a public face.
“Truth never damages a cause that is just.” Mohandas K. GandhiThis month's public vote is open at TruthIcons.com
We are not another advocacy group competing for the same attention. We are the connective tissue between the ones that already exist.
An open, searchable directory of every organisation that shelters, funds, litigates for or publishes truth tellers — filterable by region and by the kind of help they give. If you are in trouble at 3am, you should not have to guess who to call.
Through our sister site TruthIcons.com, the public elects a Truth Icon every single month and we send them a printed award and a letter of congratulation. Recognition is not a trophy — it is protection. Attention keeps people alive.
We write to editors, funders, parliaments and civil society on behalf of the whole field, and we build the donor base for the Pnyx Aletheia annual prize — an award of real weight for those who serve the truth.
We track reprisals, publish what is being done to truth tellers, and give the network one voice when a member is threatened, prosecuted or silenced anywhere in the world.
Every week we open this window on one organisation defending human rights and truth tellers — the largest in the world and the smallest in a single city — what they are doing right now, and how to reach them directly.
Open the Chapter of Defenders See all organisations in the directory
Think of it as a public square. The Society is the gate, Truth Icons is the assembly where people vote, and Pnyx Aletheia is the tribune where the year's greatest service to truth is honoured.
The network and the public voice. Directory of support organisations, help for people in danger, campaigns, and the outreach that brings media, donors and civil society to the table.
truthtellersociety.org
The people's monthly vote. Anyone, anywhere, can nominate anyone from any continent. The winner receives a printed award, a public citation, and a standing place on the shortlist for the annual prize.
The first worldwide prize for truth tellers, conceived in the Nobel tradition. Named for the Pnyx — the hill where Athenian citizens spoke freely — and Aletheia, the Greek word for truth: that which is no longer hidden. Awarded once a year, once donor backing is in place.
A truth teller is anyone who knew something the public needed to know, and told it — knowing what it would cost them.
Employees and officials who disclose wrongdoing inside governments, armies, banks, hospitals, churches, tech companies and NGOs — and are punished for it.
Reporters, editors, fixers, photographers and outlets who verify and publish what they are told, and who carry the legal and physical risk of doing so.
Researchers, doctors, engineers and auditors who refuse to soften a finding, sign a false report, or stay quiet about a danger to the public.
People who testify to atrocity, corruption or abuse when it would be far safer to say nothing — including those who speak from exile or in hiding.
Advocates who take the cases nobody else will take, and human-rights defenders who document what states deny.
The bystander with a phone. The clerk who kept the file. The neighbour who told the world what happened on their street. Most truth arrives this way.
Add your group to the directory. It is free, it takes five minutes, and it makes you findable to the people who need you most. Join the network →
Nominate and vote for this month's Truth Icon. It costs nothing and takes a minute. Vote at Truth Icons →
Take our media kit, the monthly result, and our contacts. We will always give you a named person to interview. Open the outreach kit →
The annual prize needs an endowment before it can be awarded. Talk to us about founding it. Founding-donor brief →
The articles every member signs, with “Sign the Charter”: tick each article and watch your founding-member card fill in as you type.
The circles of membership, what members do, and how founding registration will open.
The calendar of verified UN days the Society marks, with the next one highlighted from today’s date.
Six hubs on six continents, each with its live local time and what it will do.
Essential reading on truth telling, whistleblowing and press freedom, with verified titles and details.
What we collect, why, and your rights under GDPR and CCPA. No cookies, no trackers.
Prison. Exile. Bankruptcy. Silence. A society that lets that happen learns, very quickly, to stop being told anything at all. The cheapest defence of the truth is to make sure the person who told it is not forgotten.
An AI assistant · answers in your language
Guide
Welcome. I am the Society Guide, an AI assistant. I can explain what the Society does, point you to the organisations that support people who tell the truth, explain how to join, or help you invite others.
You can still find everything it would tell you on these pages, or write to the Society.
The Guide is an AI and can make mistakes. Messages are processed by Anthropic’s Claude to write replies; the Society does not store them unless you choose to send the conversation to the team. Please do not share sensitive personal information here. Privacy.
Un assistant d’IA · répond dans votre langue
Guide
Bienvenue. Je suis le Guide de la Société, un assistant d’IA. Je peux expliquer ce que fait la Société, vous orienter vers les organisations qui soutiennent celles et ceux qui disent la vérité, expliquer comment adhérer, ou vous aider à inviter d’autres personnes.
Vous trouverez tout ce qu’il vous dirait sur ces pages, ou écrivez à la Société.
Le Guide est une IA et peut se tromper. Les messages sont traités par Claude d’Anthropic pour rédiger les réponses ; la Société ne les conserve pas, sauf si vous choisissez d’envoyer la conversation à l’équipe. Ne partagez pas d’informations personnelles sensibles ici. Confidentialité.
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Guía
Bienvenido. Soy la Guía de la Sociedad, un asistente de IA. Puedo explicar lo que hace la Sociedad, orientarle hacia las organizaciones que apoyan a quienes dicen la verdad, explicar cómo unirse o ayudarle a invitar a otras personas.
Encontrará todo lo que le diría en estas páginas, o escriba a la Sociedad.
La Guía es una IA y puede equivocarse. Los mensajes los procesa Claude de Anthropic para redactar las respuestas; la Sociedad no los guarda salvo que usted decida enviar la conversación al equipo. No comparta aquí información personal sensible. Privacidad.
