5 Rights, Inc. conducts human rights education through the production and promotion of sustainable cultural endeavors.
1000 Voices Archive is a curated, national collection of video stories created by filmmakers and communities across the country. It is presented by Creative Counsel and The Fledgling Fund and based on the idea that good stories have always been the most powerful way to engage, inspire, and, over time, shape public dialogue.
Alliance for Fair Food is a network of human rights, religious, student, labor, and grassroots organizations who work in partnership with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers.
Coalition of Immokalee Workers is a constituency based organization
of farmworkers in Florida fighting severe human rights abuses,
including inhumane work conditions, sub-standard wages, and slavery,
by multinationals and their subcontractors.
Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute was founded in 1998 to help prepare future working professionals to utilize theory and practice of constitutional rights and international human rights in their careers.
Community Asset Development Re-defining Education (CADRE) is a community-based, grassroots organization forged by low-income parents of color in South Los Angeles in 2001. Through parent capacity building, political education, advocacy, and organizing, CADRE challenges schools' beliefs and practices that criminalize children and parents and violate their human rights to a quality education, dignity, and participation in the current public education system.
Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC) challenges the systemic problem of pushout in our nation's schools and advocates for the human right of every child to a quality education and to be treated with dignity. The DSC unites policy advocates, parent and student organizers, educators and lawyers in a campaign to promote local and national alternatives to a culture of zero-tolerance, punishment and removal.
François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights (FXB) is the first academic center to focus exclusively on health and human rights. The Center combines the academic strengths of research and teaching with a strong commitment to service and policy development.
Families & Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children (FFLIC) is a statewide membership-based organization that fights for a better life for all of Louisiana's youth, especially those involved in or targeted by the juvenile justice system. FFLIC works to build a society based on the principles of racial justice, human rights, and full participation through our tireless fight for justice for youth.
Human Rights Implementation Project works to promote human dignity and social justice by integrating international human rights principles into local, regional, and national programs in the United States.
Independent Commission on Public Education (ICOPE) works within a human rights framework, which guarantees that every child in New York City has the right to education. Children have the right to quality teachers and curricula, and to a school environment that respects the dignity of every child.
IPAS has worked for three decades to increase women's ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights and to reduce deaths and injuries of women from unsafe abortion. Ipas's global and country programs include training, research, advocacy, distribution of equipment and supplies for reproductive-health care, and information dissemination.
May Day New Orleans is a people-driven and -inspired social justice movement. We believe that active and direct participation from community members is essential to ensuring that basic needs, such as adequate housing, healthcare, education and safe streets, are met. We hold government, the private sector, and those who work on behalf of communities accountable to those who are directly impacted by their policies and practices. Through public education, training, community empowerment and activism, we hope to build stronger communities and a more just society.
Montana Human Rights Network promotes democratic values such as pluralism, equality and justice; challenge bigotry and intolerance; and organize communities to speak out in support of democratic principles and institutions. In addtion, they challenge hate groups and other extremists who use violence and intimidation as tools for political activism.
National Health Law Program (NHeLP) is a national public interest law firm that seeks to improve health care for America's working and unemployed poor, minorities, the elderly and people with disabilities. NHeLP serves legal services programs, community-based organizations, the private bar, providers and individuals who work to preserve a health care safety net for the millions of uninsured or underinsured low-income people.
National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (NLCHP) was established in 1989 to prevent and end homelessness by serving as the legal arm of the nationwide movement to end homelessness. To achieve this mission, the Law Center pursues three main strategies: impact litigation, policy advocacy, and public education.
National Mobilization Against Sweatshops (NMASS) a workers membership organization founded by
young working people in 1996 in New York City. NMASS currently
has two Workers' Centers -- one in Brooklyn and one in the Lower
East Side of Manhattan -- and members and supporters all over
the country.
NYU Law Students for Human Rights divided into several different committees, this student group focuses on implementing a global human rights perspective.
The Opportunity Agenda began in 2004 to work to ensure that the U.S. lives up to its promise as the land of opportunity for every person who lives here. To offer true opportunity, we believe our nation must acknowledge and address the barriers that keep people from achieving their full potential. When we find these barriers—such as limited access to health care, over-reliance on prisons, racial or gender bias—we must work together as a society to eliminate them.
Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, Northeastern School of Law is designed to provide a forum for future and existing practitioners with practical information on economic, social and cultural rights, in addition to globalization theory and practice.
Teachers Unite is a growing membership organization dedicated to building a social justice movement of New York City public school teachers. It provides leadership opportunities that build ties between educators and community organizers, and political education forums that build an informed teacher constituency. Teachers Unite is for educators who act in solidarity with the communities they serve.
U.S. Human Rights Network was formed to promote US accountability to universal human rights standards by building linkages between organizations, as well as individuals, working on human rights issues in the United States. The Network strives towards building a human rights culture in the United States that puts those directly affected by human rights violations, with a special emphasis on grassroots organizations and social movements, in a central leadership role.
Vermont Workers' Center is a democratic, member-run organization dedicated to organizing for workers' rights and living wages for all Vermonters. The VWC currently has a Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign.
Advocates for Environmental Human Rights (AEHR) is a nonprofit public interest law firm committed to defending and advancing the human right to a healthy environment AEHR provides a broad range of litigation and public advocacy services to communities.
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) works daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to all people in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States. The ACLU hosted a groundbreaking conference in 2003 on implementing human rights standards in US Courts and is taking leadership in the legal community to bring the US into compliance with international human rights standards.
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a Quaker organization that includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service.
Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights. AI's vision is of a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights standards.
Bringing Human Rights Home Project is an initiative of the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School. The project develops new strategies and legal support for the domestic implementation of international human rights standards. It also facilitates a lawyer’s network that provides a forum for experienced public interest lawyers to learn about emerging human rights approaches, to collaborate and develop new models of legal advocacy.
Center for Human Rights Education (NCHRE) provides educational programs for community groups, nonprofit organizations, schools and universities, helping individuals to appraise their efforts in the context of the global human rights standards.
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights documents, exposes, and challenges human rights abuses within the United States criminal justice system. The Ella Baker Center combines policy reform, media advocacy, public education, grassroots organizing, direct action mobilizing, cultural activism, new technology and legal services to accomplish their mission. (also see www.booksnotbars.org)
Eugene Human Rights City One of the goals of the City of Eugene Human Rights Commission is that of “ensuring that human rights are a central part of every City program.” In 2006, the Commission put the “Human Rights City Project” on its bi-annual work plan, an action approved by City Council. The Project is exploring ways that City government can implement international human rights standards and principles in its overall operations.
From Poverty to Opportunity Campaign: Realizing Rights in Illinois Created by the Heartland Alliance, an initiative of the Illinois Poverty Summit, that works to bring together a broad range of residents from the most affected communities throughout the state as well as advocates and policy leaders to develop and advocate for a poverty eradication strategy anchored to human rights standards that will reduce extreme poverty in Illinois by half by the year 2015.
Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center is a private, non-profit civil rights organization established in the summer of 1995 to eradicate housing discrimination throughout the greater New Orleans area. GNOFHAC is dedicated to fighting housing discrimination not only because it is illegal, but also because it is a divisive force that perpetuates poverty, segregation, ignorance, fear, and hatred.
Gulf Coast Civic Works Project is the national effort to develop federal legislation to create 100,000 WPA-like jobs for Gulf Coast residents to rebuild their communities.
In the N.O. is an online newsletter put out by the Homecoming Center to support the process of rebuilding New Orleans. This newsletter is supported by many organizations locally and nationally. It is committed to encouraging all pre-Katrina residents of New Orleans to stay connected, informed, and active. They are committed to reaching out and maintaining a strong connection to those who are still living in the Diaspora, and to encouraging the right to return.
Human Rights Tech leverages information technology to assist and encourage grassroots anti-poverty initiatives by training organizations to use the Internet to build capacity, create networks of support and broadcast the voices of poor people. Human Rights Tech creates web-based collaborative tools, establishes community-based networking centers, and develops innovative models of the grassroots use of the Internet. The organization serves poor people and their communities, people of all genders and races, in rural and urban areas, across the United States.
Human Rights Watch, known for groundbreaking human rights documentation and reporting, is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world.
Indian Law Resource Center was founded and directed by Native Americans, the Indian Law
Resource Center is dedicated to protecting the right of indigenous peoples to live with dignity and respect. The Resource Center’s goal is the survival of indigenous peoples, including protection of their land rights, environment, and right to self-determination.
Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU) is a multi-racial organization of, by and for poor and homeless people. KWRU believes the poor have a right to thrive - not just barely survive. KWRU is dedicated to organizing welfare recipients, the homeless, the working poor and all people concerned with economic justice.
Legal Momentum, formerly NOW Legal Defense Fund, pursues equality for women and girls in the workplace, the schools, the family and the courts, through litigation, education, and public information programs.
Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights is a non-profit worker advocacy organization that provides education, legal assistance and organizing support for Mississippi workers.
NAACP LDF Over the years, LDF has built a formidable reputation as the primary legal representative of the African-American community. However, LDF has impacted not only black Americans, but other minorities: women, the aged, the disabled, gays and lesbians, and the poor. Today, LDF’s primary program areas—education, political participation, economic justice and criminal justice—continue to challenge America to meet its democratic ideals.
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) is a national organization composed of local coalitions and immigrant, refugee, community, religious, civil rights and labor organizations and activists.
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest is a nonprofit, civil rights law firm that strives for social justice. In partnership with member law firms, corporate law departments and other organizations, NYLPI helps underrepresented people develop legal strategies to serve their vision for themselves and their communities.
NYU Institute for Education and Social Policy works to strengthen public education in New York City and other urban areas nationally and abroad, particularly in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color. Through policy studies, research, technical assistance and evaluations, the Institute seeks to build capacity for school improvement and reform among policymakers, educators, parents, and community groups.
Poverty Initiative Launched in May 2003, the Poverty Initiative’s mission is to raise up generations of religious and community leaders dedicated to building a social movement to end poverty, led by the poor. In 2008-2009, the Poverty Initiative is focused on re-igniting the Poor People’s Campaign launched in December 1967 by Martin Luther King, Jr. by bringing together and training leaders of poor communities across racial, gender, and religious lines into a broad-based human rights movement.
Prison Moratorium Project is a group of young activists, community
members, and formerly incarcerated people calling for an end to
prison expansion and mass
incarceration, and a restoration of the communities devastated
by the
criminal injustice system. We are committed to bringing the voices
of
directly affected people into the center of the criminal justice
debate,
through grassroots organizing, training, and technical assistance.
RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights is to support the human
rights work of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award laureates
and Social Justice Fellows. The Center implements Robert F. Kennedy's
vision of social justice by promoting respect for the full spectrum
of human rights, both in the US and throughout the
world. The Center develops and carries out projects, which enhance
and complement the social change agendas of the Robert F. Kennedy
Human Rights Award laureates and Social Justice Fellows.
Rutgers Univ. Law School - Constitutional Litigation Clinic The Clinic’s aim is to advance civil rights and human rights
using test cases and impact litigation, and to train generations
of new lawyers to work on cutting-edge legal issues.
SisterLove, Inc. is on a mission to eradicate the impact of HIV/AIDS and other reproductive health challenges upon women and their families through education, prevention, support and human rights advocacy in the United States and around the world.
SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective is a network of local, regional and national grassroots agencies representing five primary ethnic populations/indigenous nations in the U.S.: African American, Arab American/Middle Eastern, Asian/Pacific Islander, Latina, Native American/Indigenous. The Collective was formed in 1997 and initially funded by the Ford Foundation to educate women of color and policy makers on reproductive and sexual health and rights, and to work towards the access of health services, information and resources that are culturally and linguistically appropriate.
United Workers - The United Workers is a human rights organization led by low-wage workers and focused on leadership development through education, reflection and action. We were founded by homeless day laborers in an abandoned firehouse-turned-shelter and have grown to a multi-racial and bilingual membership base of over 1,000 low-wage workers.
University of the Poor is concerned with the unity and development of the leaders of a growing movement to end poverty, led by the poor as a united and organized force. Since its inception, the University of the Poor has shared education tools with grassroots anti-poverty groups across the nation, has helped link media professionals, performing artists, social workers, members of the religious community and labor organizers with the movement to end poverty, and has facilitated the exchange of knowledge between poor people and their allies across the globe.
Urban Justice Center/Human Rights Project attempts to situate domestic poverty and discrimination issues within a human rights framework. Our work represents a unique and creative attempt to push for a higher standard of government accountability than US legislation typically allows.
WILD for Human Rights mission is to promote human rights through the conscious leadership and action of women and girls. With a vision of social and political change, we strive to improve the conditions of women and girls and their communities. WILD provides human rights education, engages in public advocacy, and collaborates on the adoption and implementation of international human rights standards in the US.
Women’s Economic Agenda Project (WEAP) In keeping with its commitment to economic human rights for all and the elimination of poverty, WEAP's mission has always been grounded in justice for economic human rights.
Women's Voices for the Earth (WVE) is a growing, progressive national organization that engages women to advocate for the right to live in a healthy environment.
