This the fifth year marking International Day against Female Genital Mutilation and the UN has launched a multi-million dollar program to reduce the practice by 40% over the next seven years.
AVERT has HIV and AIDS projects in countries where there is a particularly high rate of infection, such as South Africa, or where there is a rapidly increasing rate of infection such as in India.
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Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) was founded on the idea that health professionals are uniquely qualified to investigate human rights violations around the world....
PEN American Center is the largest of the 141 centers of International PEN, the world’s oldest human rights organization and the oldest international literary organization....