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From: Breakthrough
Posted: Oct 16 07
Witnessed: 8935 times
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Asia, Micronesia, Norway, United States
Armed conflict, Child soldiers, Detention, Discrimination, Forensic anthropology, Immigration , Poverty, Sexual exploitation
right to return
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A Loud Color
festival@artsengine.net, Jun 27 08
Witnessed: 14 times
United States
Minorities, Natural disasters, Poverty
Death by Detention
Breakthrough, Jun 18 08
Witnessed: 135 times
United States
Detention, Immigration
Agatha Joseph: Exposing Detention
Breakthrough, Jun 17 08
Witnessed: 137 times
United States
Immigration
Tavis Smiley talks to Pras Michel about SKID ROW
nelsonmadison, May 30 08
Witnessed: 186 times
United States
Crimes against humanity, Poverty, Shelter
Doug Schenkelberg's Testimony to UN Special Rapporteur
MidwestHumanRights, May 29 08
Witnessed: 213 times
United States
Poverty, Shelter
Jenkins Cooper - Southwest Youth Collaborative
Hub Intern, May 27 08
Witnessed: 206 times
United States
Poverty
Riding on a Rickshaw
sirajdhaka, May 25 08
Witnessed: 149 times
Asia, Bangladesh, Southern Asia
Labor, Poverty, Sustainable development
SKID ROW - Photos from the street
nelsonmadison, May 25 08
Witnessed: 297 times
United States
Housing, Poverty, Shelter
SKID ROW Trailer
nelsonmadison, May 25 08
Witnessed: 276 times
United States
Housing, Poverty, Shelter
Bringing Human Rights Home book discussion
HR2Housing, May 13 08
Witnessed: 203 times
United States
Housing, Poverty, Racial discrimination
SKID ROW - Raise Awareness, Inspire Action!
United States
Drugs & human rights, Poverty, Shelter
We are using the documentary film, SKID ROW, to Raise Awareness and Inspire Action regarding the homeless crisis facing this country.
Midwest Coalition for Human Rights
United States
Immigration , Labor unions, Torture/ill treatment
MCHR has three project areas: Immigrant Detention, Torture, and Workers' Rights.
National Immigrant Justice Center
United States
Detention, Immigration , Refugees
The National Immigrant Justice Center provides immigration legal services to low-income immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. Our direct-service experience informs our reform-driven policy advocacy, impact litigation, and public education efforts to defend immigrant rights.
Breakthrough
India, United States
Detention
Breakthrough is an international human rights organization that uses education, pop culture and original media to promote values of dignity, equality and justice.
The Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers
Asia
LGBTQ, Sexual rights
The APNSW facilitates sex worker participation and information sharing on both technical and policy issues, encourages leadership amongst male, female and transgender sex workers and does direct advocacy.
Culture Project
Iraq, United States
Freedom of opinion & expression, Internally displaced persons, Refugees
<p>Blending prize-winning theater with urgent moral drama, Culture Project brings the national political conversation to life on the New York Stage. <p>For more than a decade, Culture Project has told stories as timely as the morning's newspaper in a way that news articles and editorials can never match. Through brilliantly conceived, expertly staged dramas, Culture Project sparks conversation, lifts the human heart and incites political action. <p>Now through June 28, 2008 see <b> Betrayed </b> George Packer. In early 2007, George Packer published an article in <ital>The New Yorker</ital> about Iraqi interpreters who jeopardized their lives on behalf of the Americans in Iraq, with little or no U.S. protection or security. The article drew national attention to the humanitarian crisis and moral scandal. <p><b>Betrayed</b>, based on Mr. Packer's interviews in Baghdad, tells the story of three young Iraqis - two men and one woman - motivated to risk everything by America's promise of freedom. <p><b>Betrayed</b> explores the complex relationships among the Iraqis themselves, and with their American supervisor, struggling to find purpose while a country collapses around them.
Maka Si Tomni (Lakota Surrounding the Universe)
United States
Indigenous peoples
Sovereignty In Action Bringing Forth a Thriving Lakota Language and Culture
WE International
United States
Human trafficking
To raise awareness of injustice and poverty in the less developed world
Race, Racism and the Law
Global
Discrimination, Justice
Come discuss methods of the Judiciary in conspiracy to pervert justice, fabricate evidence and documents, endorsing perjury in Institutionalised RACISM Institutional discrimination is far more complex and more difficult to combat than overt discrimination where there is a perpetrator. In law, we used to refer to "de facto" discrimination, as opposed to "de jure" discrimination. Covaleskie discusses power as consisting of two major types: sovereign and disciplinary. Sovereign power goes with titles and overt authority to dictate rules and regulations. Disciplinary power resides in the rules, norms, and expectations for traditional performance. Institutional discrimination relies on disciplinary power. Since disciplinary power seems to apply the same rules to everyone, there seems to be little discrimination. But when the rules grew from contexts in which there was discrimination, the unstated assumptions carry those discriminatory contexts right along with the rules in present contexts. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/20/121017/147/762/518935
National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
United States
Housing
The mission of NLCHP is to prevent and end homelessness by serving as the legal arm of the nationwide movement to end homelessness.
Magnum Photos
United States
Magnum photographers have compiled the world’s most respected library of images that chronicle the modern experience. From the beaches of Normandy, to the streets of Saigon, to the battles in Iraq, Magnum photographers have revealed the horror of modern war. In slums, border areas, mental hospitals, brothels, and AIDS centers, Magnum raise awareness for the abandoned, exposing the injustices and inequalities of our world.
CCR
United States
Independence of the judiciary, Racial discrimination, War crimes
The Center for Constitutional Rights is dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Founded in 1966 by attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South, CCR is a non-profit legal and educational organization committed to the creative use of law as a positive force for social change.
US Human Rights Network
United States
The US Human Rights Network was formed to promote US accountability to universal human rights standards by building linkages between organizations and individuals. The Network strives to build 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.
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