Human Rights

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

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

Your gift can give a law student the chance to work with Legal Network lawyers during a summer internship in Toronto. more

Amnesty press officers worldwide work with journalists to bring to the public's attention breaking developments on serious human rights concerns. more

Instead of buying a high-tech device for your own family or friend, why not get one for someone who really needs it? A digital voice recorder in the hands of an activist in India can record the voices of people who will never be heard without it. more

Your gift provides one resource packet about human rights, allowing someone to learn about important issues in a simple and friendly way. 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

Support writers in need by contributing to PEN’s Writers’ Fund. more

Your gift will fund one trip by an activist to help document and report ongoing abusive practices against these communities. Because of the work of Fund grantee Green Advocates, these local communities are starting to organize, resist, and generate media attention. more

We cannot allow the destruction of women and girls' education to continue, with education so crucial to long-term empowerment. The Feminist Majority Foundation is working to keep Afghan girls' schools open, as well as to reopen those schools that have been closed. more

Your small contribution will be enough to cover the costs of a lawyer appearing for an entire court case in Burma. Think about it. This amount doesn't cover the cost of even an hour of a lawyer's time in many countries; perhaps yours too. more

Your gift will allow one youth to attend a local human rights training. This neighborhood workshop in a Human Rights city will educate youth and help them plan actions for change, to shape a decent way of life and a secure future for the world's youth. more