Saskatchewan also had virtually no presence among rights associations before the 1960s except for branches of the League for Democratic Rights in Regina, Saskatoon and Moose Jaw.  As was the case in Alberta, the Saskatchewan Association for Human Rights (SAHR) was a direct result of celebrations surrounding International Year for Human Rights in Saskatoon.  Its founding president was Reverend G.E. Hobson, with executive secretary John D. Statychuk, a leading figure in the Saskatchewan Ukrainian community working for the provincial wheat pool. Statychuk was also one of the key founders of the Federation and helped recruit D.A. Schmeiser, a well known Canadian legal scholar, to the SAHR's Board of Directors.  By 1972 the group had 72 members. As was the case with many of the associations formed in 1967-8, one of the first priorities of SAHR was securing a provincial human rights commission with a human rights act.  The group worked closely with the government in preparing the legislation and successfully lobbied for significant amendments.  According to the Regina Leader Post, the "government has bowed to pressure from the Saskatchewan Association of Human Rights and will change its proposed human rights commission legislation to allow the commission to enforce its own decisions and to allow persons affected the right of appeal."

Three chapters of the SAHR were formed in the 1970s in Regina, Moose Jaw and Esterhazy, none of which lasted for very long. The only other rights organization to emerge during this period in Saskatchewan was the Regina Civil Liberties Association, a branch of the CCLA.  It was created in 1970 and was predominantly a collection of university professors, unionists and lawyers led by John Beke.  Several committees were initially set up to study various issues in the province including the status of inmates of public health institutions and prisons, the rights of juveniles and in the administration of justice.  The Regina branch remained active until 1980.