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In April 2024, the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law partnered with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to file a Title VI complaint against Occidental College with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. The complaint alleged that the college failed to address anti-Semitic incidents on campus, including harassment ...
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (formerly the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, or RFK Center) [1] is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit human rights advocacy organization. [2] [better source needed] It was named after United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, a few months after his assassination. The organization of ...
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (the IACHR) is an autonomous organ of the Organization of American States, also based in Washington, D.C. Along with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, based in San José, Costa Rica, it is one of the bodies that comprise the inter-American system for the promotion and protection of human ...
The RWCHR mobilizes international advocacy in concert with other international human rights bodies, governments and NGOs to defend political prisoners around the world. According to the RWCHR's chair, the “plight of a political prisoner [serves as a] looking glass into the human rights violator country that imprisons them”. [37]
Barbora Bukovská is a Czech-Slovak human rights attorney and activist, known originally for her work on racial discrimination of Romani people in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, [1] [2] [3] and later for free speech advocacy.
It is best known for political advocacy surrounding issues of democracy, political freedom, and human rights. [3] Freedom House was founded in October 1941, with Wendell Willkie and Eleanor Roosevelt serving as its first honorary chairpersons. Most of the organization's funding comes from the U.S. State Department [4] and other government ...
James (Jim) Cavallaro is a professor of law and the co-founder and executive director of the University Network for Human Rights. [1] He teaches human rights at Wesleyan University, where he is a director of the Minor in Human Rights Advocacy, as well as the Wesleyan ACTS for Human Rights program.
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is an American LGBTQ advocacy group.It is the largest LGBTQ political lobbying organization within the United States. [2] Based in Washington, D.C., the organization focuses on protecting and expanding rights for LGBTQ individuals, including advocating for same-sex marriage, anti-discrimination and hate crimes legislation, and HIV/AIDS advocacy.