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Pepe Julian Onziema (born November 30, 1980) is a Ugandan LGBT rights and human rights activist. [2] He began his human rights work in 2003. [3] [4] Onziema is the Director of Programs at Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG), an LGBTI advocacy organization. [5] [6] SMUG provides research, documentation, and evidence to advocate for policy change in ...
The Washington Office on Latin America aims to facilitate dialogue between governmental and non-governmental actors, to monitor the impact of U.S. foreign policy on human rights, democracy and equitable development in Latin America, and to promote alternatives through reporting and advocacy. It reports on these activities in order to inform and ...
Autism rights movement movement advocating for the right of people who are considered neurally divergent (anti-psychiatry) Black Consciousness Movement; Black Lives Matter; Black Power movement; Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions; Brights movement; Chicano Movement; Children's rights movement; Civil rights movement; Climate movement ...
Human rights advocates claim government authorities have used the project as a vehicle for pushing indigenous peoples out of their ancestral forests. They are not alone. In developing countries around the globe, forest dwellers, poor villagers and other vulnerable populations claim the World Bank — the planet’s oldest and most powerful ...
Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY November 25, 2024 at 5:06 PM Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, is the latest company to make changes to its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives ...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization, headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. [2] The group pressures governments, policymakers, companies, and individual human rights abusers to denounce abuse and respect human rights, and often works on behalf of refugees ...
Over the last 54 years, NARAL Pro-Choice America has become one of the largest and most well-known abortion rights advocacy groups in the nation, a mouthful of an organization that fights for ...
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]