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Human Appeal International: Fighting Poverty, Social Injustice, and Natural Disasters

Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, March 21, 2014, In : human rights 
In 1991, in Manchester, a relief charity was created to help fight against poverty. Established to help the advancement of education, protection of good health, and relief of sickness, Human Appeal International works as a British international development organization.

The organization is focused primarily on impoverished countries like Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Mauritania and Sudan. As a non-profit institution, it has a presence in 24 countries in the continents of Asia, Africa and Eur...

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FIAN International: Advancing People’s Right to Food

Posted by Charity Watcher on Saturday, March 1, 2014, In : human rights 
FIAN International, formerly known as Food First Information and Action Network, is a human rights organization that has been advocating for the realization of the right to food. The international organization has been working on its mission for over 25 years, consisting of national sections and individual members across 50 countries worldwide. It is classified as non-profit, with no religious or political affiliation. It also maintains consultative status to the United Nations.

The organizati...

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Esther Benjamins Trust: Remembering the Forgotten Children

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, February 18, 2014, In : human rights 
The Esther Benjamins Trust or EBT is a charitable organization registered in the United Kingdom. It promotes the rights of children, particularly those from and in Nepal. It is through the work of the Trust that the imprisonment of Nepali children and their parents, as well as forcing them to work in Indian circuses, illegalized. Currently, it aims to end the use of large scale institutions to care for the children, promoting that care should start with the home where rescued children from th...

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Age UK: Caring for the Elderly

Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, January 17, 2014, In : human rights 
Registered on February 25, 2009, Age UK, is a charity in the United Kingdom that focuses on the elderly people. The organization combines the efforts of Help the Aged and the Age Concern and is now considered the largest charity in the country for older people. 

The merger of the two charitable institutions is among the largest in charities in the United Kingdom. The current brand name was not used until April 2010. Tracing the history of the two charitable entities will go back to the year 19...

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American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee: Helping Jews Around the World

Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, December 6, 2013, In : human rights 
Established in 1914, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) has been actively involved in helping to alleviate hunger and hardships of Jews around the world. JDC operates in Israel and 70 other countries. Although known to serve the Jewish communities, JDC also provides their services to areas in need of immediate assistance. One of their latest programs was to provide aid to victims of Typhoon Haiyan when it hit the Philippines. 

JDC was formed during World War I when the Jewi...

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American Civil Rights Union: The Conservative Civil Liberties Organization

Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, November 1, 2013, In : human rights 
The American Civil Rights Union, or ACRU, is an American organization focused on advocating civil liberties in the country, for its people. It was founded by Robert B. Carleson, a former Reagan administration official, in 1998. It was established in response to views that the more prominent civil rights organization, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLA), was too liberal or leftward-leaning. Because of this, ACRU has been considered as a conservative civil liberties advocacy group. 

Since ...

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League of Women Voters: Empowering People’s Right to Vote and Making Democracy Work

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, October 22, 2013, In : human rights 
The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a civic organization that aims to help women take a larger role in public affairs as they have acquired the right to vote. The American organization was founded in 1920 by Carrie Chapman Catt during the last meeting of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The founding of the organization happened about six months before the Amendment XIX allowed the women to exercise the right to vote. 

LWV began as a “mighty political experiment” that was d...

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United States Fund for UNICEF: Working towards Zero Avoidable Child Deaths

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, October 8, 2013, In : human rights 
Thousands of children around the world die every year due to reasons that may have been avoided. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) works hard to radically reduce this amount by providing vaccines, healthcare, and educational support to millions of children and their families around the world. UNICEF is supported by other charitable organizations. In the US, the United States Fund for UNICEF is one of the largest charitable organizations that support the advocacies of UNICEF throug...

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Witness for Peace: Keeping an Eye Open to Secure Peace

Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, October 4, 2013, In : human rights 
Witness for Peace or WFP is an activist organization based in the United States. Founded in 1983, it was originally established to oppose the then administration, led by Ronald Reagan, as it supported the Nicaraguan Contras. They alleged and worked against the widespread atrocities that the counterrevolutionary groups got involved with back then.

In order for the organization to be able to show people the real deal, they took US citizens to Nicaragua for them to personally see what their gover...

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The American Civil Liberties Union: Securing Every Citizen’s Liberty and Human Rights

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, October 1, 2013, In : human rights 
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization that works around the mission, “to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in the country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.” They fulfill their mission and perform their programs through lobbying, litigation, and community education. 

ACLU was founded in 1920 by Roger Baldwin, Walter Nelles, and Crystal Eastman. However, it rooted from its predeces...

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The Fund for Global Human Rights: Achieving Human Rights Victories World Wide

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, September 3, 2013, In : human rights 

In the highly developed world that we live in today, it can sometimes be unimaginable that human rights violations would still exist. Unfortunately, they do and a good part of the population living in advanced, protected, and highly sophisticated communities and countries can often forget that there are people on this planet who are being subjected to human rights violations every single minute of every day. It is also saddening that some of the supposedly civilized individuals and groups are...


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Hugh Evans: Dedicating His Life to Ending Extreme Poverty

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, April 16, 2013, In : human rights 

Many people spend their youthful years trying to make the most out of life through partying, buying the hottest items available in the market, travelling around the world and countless other You-Only-Live-Once-themed activities. But for Hugh Evans, it’s an entirely different story.

Born in Melbourne, Victoria, Evans puts his resources into good use by transforming the world into a better place, especially for the underprivileged and marginalized. He is the brains behind the Global Pover...


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The It Gets Better Project and Its Mission to Lead LGBT Youths Towards Better Futures

Posted by Charity Watcher on Wednesday, March 20, 2013, In : human rights 

The It Gets Better Project was founded by Dan Savage and Terry Miller, partners, in response to the growing number of suicides of LGBT youths after being bullied. True to its name, the project aims to tell LGBT kids that it does get better. It Gets Better started out in September 2010 and in its first week received more than 200 videos. By its second week, It Gets Better reached its YouTube channel limit of 650 videos. From a simple YouTube channel, It Gets Better now has its own website ho...


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Free the Slaves: Liberating the World from Oppression

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, March 5, 2013, In : human rights 

Every human being has the right to be free – this is a basic necessity. Oppression, in all its forms, is unacceptable. Free the Slaves, an international, non-government organization based in Washington, D.C., is the world's largest lobby group fighting against slavery. Free the Slaves works in tandem with Anti-Slavery International, known as the world's oldest human rights group. Free the Slaves was established in light of research conducted by Dr. Kevin Bales regarding the role of modern...


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Mercy Corps: Helping People through the Toughest of Times

Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, February 1, 2013, In : human rights 

When natural disasters or conflict results in a large number of people losing everything they have and being displaced, there are many humanitarian groups that come to their rescue and provide them with aid and relief goods. Unfortunately, for most of the victims of these tragic circumstances, the help they receive isn’t enough.

Mercy Corps is a non-profit humanitarian organization that aims not just to provide immediate relief to victims of extreme poverty, calamities, and war. They sta...


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Theodore H. Friedman and The North American Conference on Ethiopian Jewry

Posted by Charity Watcher on Wednesday, December 12, 2012, In : human rights 
Attorney Theodore H. Friedman embarked on his career in the legal arena following the completion of his studies at Harvard Law School. Still practicing today, Friedman enjoys a reputation as one of New York's most talented trial lawyers, a distinction he leverages outside of the courtroom to spearhead a number of commendable charitable endeavors. Throughout his career, Theodore H. Friedman has always set time aside to take on pro-bono cases, both independently and in collaboration with collea...
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A Discussion of Tzedakah: Charitable Responsibility and the Jewish Faith

Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, September 21, 2012, In : human rights 
Sponsored by Rabbi Leib Tropper
 
A fundamental aspect of Jewish life discussed extensively in the Talmud and other key religious texts, tzedakah is viewed less as a mitzvah (good deed) and much more so like a responsibility. Derived from the Hebrew root “tzedek’, tzedakah is often misinterpreted as a form of charitable giving that a person may choose to engage in so long as he or she possesses the resources and desire to do so. Unlike the modern concept of philanthropy, a practice that man...
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Child’s Play: Enriching Kids’ Morale by Inducing Fun

Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, September 7, 2012, In : human rights 

Every charity that focuses on children’s welfare does their job according to their pre-set guidelines, based on their beliefs. It can be said that each of these charities has their own way of doing things. For Child's Play, improving the lives of children can be helped by providing them toys and allowing them to play games despite misfortunes or sickness.

Child's Play is the game industry charity established in 2003 that works together with the staff of different hospitals to generate fu...


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Kids First Fund: Putting Kids First

Posted by Charity Watcher on Thursday, August 30, 2012, In : human rights 

Many charitable institutions prioritize the welfare of children. One of the most effective and successful ones is the Kids First Fund. Unlike most charities that focus on fighting poverty and its effects on children, Kids First Fund helps abandoned and abused children. Children who have experienced abuse can find the protection that they long for through the Fund. Furthermore, one of their goals is to empower young adults to become better individuals in the future, enriched with nothing but...


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Outreach International: Propagating the Sustainable Good

Posted by Charity Watcher on Wednesday, August 22, 2012, In : human rights 

Nobody could help people who are in need except for people themselves. Indeed, governments may provide assistance, organizations may initiate actions, but only the good nature of people can sustain the continuity of charity and goodwill. Outreach International, one of the premier charitable organizations of today, is among those institutions that believe in the force that is within the human race. They believe that people have the ability to end poverty and this is the reason why they inves...


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The Strength of a Woman: Somaly Mam

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, July 31, 2012, In : human rights 

Somaly Mam’s courage and dignity in overcoming her traumatic childhood as a victim of human trafficking, prostitution and abuse has made her one of the world's most inspiring figures and leaders in combating slavery and human injustice. She has been honored as one of the “100 Most Influential People of 2009” by TIME Magazine, was featured as a CNN Hero, garnered the Prince of Asturias Award for International Cooperation, was awarded the World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the C...


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Elevating Children’s Hope for a Better Tomorrow

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, July 24, 2012, In : human rights 

Violence against children is one of the most prevalent social problems on the planet. Children who cannot fight back are taken advantage of, abused and abandoned. In the United States alone, some 790,000 children are abused or abandoned yearly and Child Protective Services agencies record over 3.2 million referrals annually.

Elevate Hope Foundation (EHF) was founded in 2001 by Sheila E. and Lynn Mabry, both of whom were victims of sexual abuse as children. Their experiences led them to ...


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Get Educated, Get Schooled

Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, July 13, 2012, In : human rights 

Every child has the right to a good education, in order for him or her to realize his or her full potential and become an active, helpful citizen of his or her community. It is this belief that Get Schooled, a non-profit organization, espouses.

Statistics show that more and more young people are dropping out of high school and college, with some not even bothering to enter public school. Get Schooled seeks to reverse this alarming trend by empowering and encouraging young people to stay in s...


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Mary Robinson, a Woman's Powerful Voice

Posted by Charity Watcher on Wednesday, June 13, 2012, In : human rights 

Women in positions of power are, indeed, very powerful. Mary Therese Winifred Robinson, the first female President of Ireland and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights until 2002, has been fighting the good fight since she first entered the political arena.

Mary Robinson first stepped into the spotlight as a member of the Dublin City Council then moved up to the University of Dublin's Seanad Eireann, where she actively campaigned for women's rights and public access to co...


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Angelique Kidjo: The Humanitarian Diva

Posted by Charity Watcher on Friday, June 1, 2012, In : human rights 

Time magazine called her “Africa's premier diva,” but singer Angelique Kidjo does more than just belting out those notes. Born in Cotonou, Benin, Angelique is known worldwide for her active support of human rights causes.

A UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2002, Angelique is likewise an ambassador for Oxfam International and LiveEarth, campaigns strongly for African women's rights under The International Federation of Human Rights. She has been supportive of musical collaborations a...


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WITNESSing to the World

Posted by Charity Watcher on Tuesday, May 29, 2012, In : human rights 

The media holds great power. It is an omnipresent force in people's lives all over the world each day, from entertaining the masses to influencing major, life-changing decisions. WITNESS, a nonprofit organization, is known globally for its use of film and videos to champion human rights causes and call for those in authority to effect change.

WITNESS was co-founded by three human rights advocates in 1992: musician Peter Gabriel, Human Rights First and the Human Rights Foundation of spo...


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National Council on Aging Makes Life Better for Elder Americans

Posted by Charity Watcher on Wednesday, April 25, 2012, In : human rights 

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