Human Rights

Human Rights

Despite ongoing challenges, there have been significant positive developments in human rights worldwide. For example, the number of people living in extreme poverty has declined from 1.9 billion in 19...

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Despite ongoing challenges, there have been significant positive developments in human rights worldwide. For example, the number of people living in extreme poverty has declined from 1.9 billion in 1990 to 689 million in 2019, with many countries making significant progress in reducing poverty and increasing access to education and healthcare. The global literacy rate has also increased from 77% in 1980 to 86% in 2016, with significant gains made in countries such as China and India. In addition, there has been a growing recognition of the importance of human rights, with many countries adopting new laws and policies to protect the rights of marginalized communities. For example, in 2020, the United States Supreme Court ruled that workplace discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity is illegal, while around the same time, India decriminalized homosexuality. These positive developments indicate that progress is being made in advancing human rights worldwide, although there is still much work to be done to ensure that all people are able to live with dignity and freedom.

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Remerg

Remerg

Remerg is a 501(c)3 founded in 2017 to break down the barriers to re-entry and stop the revolving door of recidivism, one resource at a time. We believe that by enabling justice-involved populations to connect with housing, employment, and other community resources, we can empower those individuals to take ownership over their future, turn their lives around, and never return to incarceration. Since our inception, we have successfully helped thousands of formerly incarcerated and justice-involved populations – regardless of race, age, gender or type of offense – connect with critical re-entry resources.

Denver, Colorado
Legacy House

Legacy House

Legacy House, a public 501(C)(3), is a long-term aftercare program created to support human trafficking survivors, providing a loving and stable home environment where we work with survivors toward self-sufficiency.

Willits, California
Gifts With a Cause

Gifts With a Cause

Gifts With a Cause is passionate about providing a better education for children and a sustainable income to families and villages by designing and producing high quality Fair Trade products that then educate and inspire people to make a difference in the world by purchasing their wonderful handcrafted jewelry, scarves, purses, and home decor products.

San Diego, California
NightLight International

NightLight International

NightLight is an international organization compelled by love to reach out to, rescue, and restore all those who are negatively impacted by sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.

DeliverFund

DeliverFund

DeliverFund disrupts global human trafficking markets by combining uniquely qualified personnel with the best technologies, and then leveraging them in new ways to reach and rescue victims of human trafficking.

Albuquerque, New Mexico
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente (AIDA)

Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente (AIDA)

AIDA is an organization that uses the law to protect the environment, primarily in Latin America.

San Francisco, California
Ethnovision

Ethnovision

Ethnovision exists to protect and promote the human rights of vulnerable and marginalized individuals by raising public awareness and amplifying solutions.

Belgrade, Beograd
PWI Foundation

PWI Foundation

The PWI Foundation’s Mission is to raise financial and material support, advance public awareness, and develop collaborative solutions to help address the most significant humanitarian and educational challenges in the United States and World.

St Charles, Illinois
Freedom 4/24

Freedom 4/24

Freedom 4/24 exists to bring freedom and justice to victims and survivors of sexual exploitation and trafficking through raising awareness and education and expanding the work of our partners.

Lynchburg, Virginia
Southern Vision Alliance

Southern Vision Alliance

Southern Vision Alliance (SVA) is a justice-centered values-based “grassroots intermediary” organized to provide incubation, infrastructure, capacity building, coaching, and technical assistance to frontline organizing projects, leadership programs, and collaborations led by directly-impacted communities in the US South. We are an anchor for frontline groups and leaders to disrupt and transform power for collective liberation.

Durham, North Carolina
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE COMMUNITY ACTION, INC.

RESTORATIVE JUSTICE COMMUNITY ACTION, INC.

Restorative Justice Community Action (RJCA) is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization providing community-based restorative services throughout Hennepin County. Restorative justice is an approach that focuses on the needs of the victims, the wrongdoers and the involved communities to identify solutions that promote repair, reconciliation and rebuilding of relationships. RJCA brings residents and victims of Hennepin County and Minneapolis together with adults and youth who have committed crimes in their area. Together they participate in a “community conference”, an alternative sentencing option and restorative justice process that strengthens accountability and opens a line of communication between the offender and those harmed.

Minneapolis, Minnesota
Grace and Life Church

Grace and Life Church

Our Mission Statement is: "To Make Christlike Disciples in the Nations." We do this by reaching out into our Denver Westwood Community in several ways. Iglesia Gracia y Vida (Grace and Life Church) is a Spanish language congregation that is home to about 100 parishioners. Our church looks for answers to our community struggles by raising up leaders who seek God and love people. Many of our program leaders and volunteers are people who live in our neighborhood and have found Christ through our ministry. When society offers nothing but closed doors and harsh words we want our doors thrown open with the opportunity to know and be loved of God and his Church in such a way that stimulates worship, service and holistic growth. Jesus of Nazareth Compassion Ministries Purpose Statement is: "To Grace the Body of Christ with Opportunities to Evangelize the Hurting via Compassion Ministries and to Love Them into the Church." We have done this by becoming an official "Community Safe Haven" in times of gang violence, organizing community events such as our "Young Men's Career Day" and Christmas Drives as well as by striving to become a community Justice Center that will help all immigrants file their documentation and paperwork to help them achieve legal status. In addition we continue to collaborate with the District 4 of the Denver Police, GRID (Gang Reduction Initiative of Denver), area universities and colleges, churches, and service organizations like the Lakewood and Englewood Rotary Clubs to bring resources into our under-served community. The Academia Mauricio Saravia is our after-school program that endeavors to reach children ages 4-11 from the five elementary schools in and around our neighborhood. Our purpose statement is: To H.E.A.L. a Child’s Confidence by Supporting His/Her Growth in: Health, Education, and the Arts with Love. We are achieving this by offering three 8-week sessions where we provide the children with a hot meal, help with homework, an online digital reading library and teaching program, a physical activity time, and a one hour class of their choosing. Our 2017 Spring session offered classes in ballet (taught by the Colorado Ballet), cooking, carpentry, arts and crafts, zumba, and K'NEX (a machine building class). During our 8 week session we averaged 49 children in attendance every Wednesday. Our program is very unique in that our leadership and volunteers are from Latin America which puts our community at ease and gives them opportunities to serve as well.

Denver, Colorado

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