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Human Rights
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. In particular, Amnesty International campaigns to free all prisoners of conscience; ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners; abolish the death penalty, torture and other cruel treatment of prisoners; end political killings and "disappearances"; and oppose human rights abuses by opposition groups.
Civilrights.org
Home to socially-concerned, issue-oriented original audio, video, and written programming, civilrights.org is committed to serving as the online nerve center not only for the struggle against discrimination in all its forms, but also to build the public understanding that it is essential for our nation to continue its journey toward social and economic justice.
Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama
Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama is a private, nonprofit organization that provides legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners who have been denied fair and just treatment in the legal system.
Human Rights First
Human Rights First works in the United States and abroad to create a secure and humane world by advancing justice, human dignity and respect for the rule of law. We support human rights activists who fight for basic freedoms and peaceful change at the local level; protect refugees in flight from persecution and repression; help build a strong international system of justice and accountability; and make sure human rights laws and principles are enforced in the United States and abroad
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination.
Sentencing Project, The
The Sentencing Project, incorporated in 1986, has become a national leader in the development of alternative sentencing programs and in the reform of criminal justice policy. The Sentencing Project originated out of pilot programs developed by Malcolm C. Young , Executive Director, for the National Legal Aid and Defender Association and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency from 1981-86.
Southern Center for Human Rights
The Southern Center for Human Rights is a non-profit community-based organization founded in 1976 to: (1) fight discrimination against minorities, the poor, and the disadvantaged in the infliction of the death penalty and (2) challenge cruel and unconstitutional treatment of imprisoned men, women, and children throughout the South. Center attorneys represent people facing the death penalty at trials, on appeal, and in post-conviction proceedings; provide technical assistance to other attorneys trying capital cases; and represent individuals confined to prisons and jails in federal class action litigation challenging inhuman conditions of confinement, discriminatory treatment and other constitutional violations. The Center also operates a Human Rights Internship Project which provides law students with practical experience in the areas of civil and human rights litigation.
The Anti Defamation League
The immediate object of the League is to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience and, if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the Jewish people. Its ultimate purpose is to secure justice and fair treatment to all citizens alike and to put an end forever to unjust and unfair discrimination against and ridicule of any sect or body of citizens.
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