Human Rights

The members of The Fair Trade Zone are working to avoid that fate. This Nicaraguan cooperative was formed after Hurricane Mitch by a group of 11 women facing the loss of all of their belongings. more

With your gift we will be able to cover some of the costs of sending a youth activist to the 5-yr Review of the UN Special Session on Children. By sending a youth activists to this meeting you will ensure that youth voices are heard and taken into account in the decisions being made. more

By funding the participation of a West African woman for one year of Tostan’s Community Empowerment Program, you will change the life of one woman, her family, and her community through our respectful, positive methods of sustainable social transformation. more

By funding the participation of an adolescent in the full 30 months of Tostan’s Community Empowerment Program, you will change the life of an adolescent and allow her to improve the state of her community and future generations through sustainable social transformation. more

In addition to broad advocacy for threatened journalists in Columbia, one of the world’s most murderous countries for journalists, CPJ provides financial support for Columbian journalists in extreme and imminent danger. more

Battered immigrant women face a unique set of challenges as they struggle for safety in the United States. more

We are committed to mentoring young activists who are working to apply their unique skills and talents to protect human rights. Through one-on-one mentoring and support, we help make sure young people have an impact on human rights in their community and in the world. more

Your gift to support litigation would allow lawyers and activists to bring forward key cases to advance and protect the rights of people living with or vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. more

Your gift will enable consumers around the world to urge a major company to engage in the fight against slavery. Your gift is the first step in ensuring profits drive freedom--not the other way around. more

You can help bridge the knowledge gap by linking solution-seekers with problem-solvers. Your gift can help bring a front-line AIDS worker -- a researcher or lawyer from a country hit hard by HIV/AIDS, for example -- to Toronto to work side by side and face to face with Legal Network staff. more

Your gift will provide a 2-3 day human rights training session for one person. Every person must become a mentor and a monitor of human rights as a way to achieve economic and social justice, peace and human security. more

Your gift will enable Equality Now to produce and distribute Women's Action campaign alerts to approximately 50 members of the Women's Action Network, who voice their opposition to human rights violations against women and girls by contacting government authorities, circulating petitions and raising awareness in the... more