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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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
CASA MILAGRO FOUNDATION

CASA MILAGRO FOUNDATION

Providing love, life skills and inspirational hope to child victims of commercial sexual exploitation in Costa Rica.

Miami, Florida
Association on American Indian Affairs

Association on American Indian Affairs

For 94 years, AAIA has been working to promote these goals and provide the critical elements that Native American children and families need to live happy, healthy and productive lives.

District Of Columbia
OneRefugee

OneRefugee

Champion individuals from a refugee background by helping students obtain an education and prepare for a successful, meaningful, and professional future.

Salt Lake City, Utah
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
DAI

DAI

Enhancing the integrity and effectiveness of Christian leaders worldwide so that the Church can fulfill its role in extending the Kingdom of God.

Colorado Springs, Colorado
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
Keshet Dance /Center for the Arts

Keshet Dance /Center for the Arts

Rooted in dance, mentorship, and a welcoming space for the arts, Keshet activates community and fosters unlimited possibilities through education, engagement, innovation, and the pursuit of justice.

Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Phoenix Phase Initiative

The Phoenix Phase Initiative

Our mission is to meet the immediate needs of women who have been sexually trafficked by providing a safe environment where they can work toward personal and spiritual restoration in addition to occupational self-sufficiency.

Newton, Iowa

The LifeGuard Group

The human trafficking numbers continue to grow exponentially every year, with nearly 30 million estimated being exploited world-wide and 2 million within the United States. THE LIFEGUARD GROUP is a group of experts committed to an aggressive, comprehensive approach to taking the fight to human trafficking. THE LIFEGUARD GROUP is a non-profit, mission-focused organization designed to: RESPOND Edmund Burke said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Immoral, dishonorable and depraved behavior is not only present in our world, but it has been allowed to thrived simply because of a lack of response by those who desire to do right. For freedom to reign and justice to be served, we must respond aggressively to those who desire to do evil and to those who seek a helping hand. RESCUE There are millions of individuals in the United States and World Wide who are being held in slavery. The means of their captors may be different, but the outcome is still the same. Slavery is alive and well in our world and the numbers are only growing. In partnerships with Law Enforcement organizations, we will train and work alongside experts who are actively reaching out to victims looking for FREEDOM! RESTORE Young women are being sexually violated at a rate never before heard of, and their cries for justice are not being heard. Young men are growing up with a broken mindset of what it is to, “be a man.” We will establish victim outreach and restoration through safe houses and referrals programs as well as initiate a trained “rapid response” team that can help those who search for their own justice. REVIVE Ask any expert, in any field...Social, Psychological, Law Enforcement, Justice, Corrections, and they will tell you that the single most contributing factor to the breakdown of our society falls back to the disintegration of the family. This is not an “American” or western problem but it is World Wide. We have devalued life. We have diminished the importance of parenthood. The Building Winning Families program will undertake the assignment of educating, empowering, and equipping families.

Missoula, Montana
Seeds of Peace

Seeds of Peace

Seeds of Peace inspires and cultivates new generations of global leaders in communities divided by conflict. We equip them with the skills and relationships they need to accelerate social, economic, and political changes essential for peace.

New York City, New York
Corona Life Services

Corona Life Services

Each year approximately 40 to 50 MILLION unborn children are killed worldwide. That averages 125,000 a day. Corona Life Services exists to ensure that women have access to free services that grant them authentic informed consent prior to making a life altering decision as irreversible as abortion. Many women are coerced into abortion by partners, abusers, molesters, and even sex traffickers. It is our goal that women are aware of their options, community resources available to them, and receive appropriate support when facing an unplanned pregnancy.

Corona, California

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