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Alt text: A construction site. In the front, a large square metal form is covered in an orange tarp. / Un chantier. À l'avant, une grande structure métallique en forme de carré est recouverte avec une toile orange.
Nagineh Azar is the women's project coordinator for the Glasgow Afghan United Women Empowerment Project, where she works to tackle the social isolation of women of ethnic minorities, empower women from all backgrounds and tackle stereotypes.
Yahya Assiri is a Saudi Arabian human rights activist. Yahya is the founder of ALQST, an organisation documenting human rights violations in Saudi Arabia.
Kazakhstan signed the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol in 2008.
See how the rights of people with disabilities have improved in Kazakhstan.
Abu Zayd Abdulrahman theatre maker and filmmaker, originally from Sudan, who facilitates drama workshops with community groups across the UK, including refugee communities. His documentary Only and Lonely, exploring the chronic loneliness of elderly people in North East England, has been screened at festivals around Europe.
Simon Coates founded a monthly arts night called Tse Tse Fly Middle East while living in Dubai in 2015. Since moving back to the UK, Simon has transformed Tse Tse Fly Middle East into a non-profit organisation which uses events, artworks and interventions to highlight human rights and freedom of speech issues in the Middle East.
United Nations Human Rights Chief Navi Pillay during her first visit to Zimababe - the first ever such visit by a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, where she raised issues of sanctions, food and land rights. She met Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe.
UUSC's JustWorks programming includes a service-learning trip entitled "Freedom Summer: A Civil Rights Journey." This inter-generational experience visits important historical locations from the Civil Rights movement and participants hear firsthand accounts from activists who took a stand for social justice.
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Mall security at Durham's The Streets at Southpoint identified themselves as "police" and threatened to seize my camera.
At UUSC's Gala during UUA General Assembly in Portland, Ore. honored Rep. John Lewis on June 27, 2015 with the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award for Leadership.
The CSIS Americas Program and the Atlantic Council's Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center host a timely discussion with Venezuelan congresswoman and opposition leader Maria Corina Machado while she is in Washington, D.C. to address the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States. She will provide her commentary on the country's ongoing political crisis, the state of the Venezuelan opposition, and what can be expected in Venezuela moving forward. Her remarks will be followed by a panel featuring three Venezuelan citizens involved in the protest movement.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and First Lady Tammy Murphy deliver remarks and march in the Women's March in Morristown New Jersey on Saturday, January 20th, 2018. Edwin J. Torres/Governor's Office.
Dinner Co-Chair and Verizon Senior VP Kathryn Brown, AAJC President and CEO Karen Narasaki, and Leadership Conference staffer Lisa Haywood pose backstage at the 2010 Hubert H. Humphrey Civil and Human Rights Award Dinner.
Washington, D.C., May 12, 2010
Photo Credit: George Tolbert
Mall security at Durham;s The Streets at Southpoint identified themselves as "police" and threatened to seize my camera.
UUSC's JustWorks programming includes a service-learning trip entitled "Freedom Summer: A Civil Rights Journey." This inter-generational experience visits important historical locations from the Civil Rights movement and participants hear firsthand accounts from activists who took a stand for social justice.
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UUSC, Economic Justice program
Partner: Equal Exchange
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Photographer: Eric Grignol
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A group of children create difference pieces of art expressing their feelings on discrimination at the event organized by UNIC Bujumbura. (Photo credit: UNIC Bujumbura, 3 December 2009)
Our Law and Human Rights Clinics have moved to new, purpose-built spaces where our students will learn valuable legal practice skills providing vital pro bono work. Former Director of Public Prosecutions and now Labour MP, Sir Keir Starmer opened the new clinics.
Roza Salih began working for asylum seekers’ rights when she was in school: she was one of the ‘Glasgow Girls’ whose campaign prevented the removal of a classmate. Today, she works with solicitors to prevent asylum seekers being evicted from their accommodation.
Laura Pasternak challenges prejudice and discrimination through her work with the Holocaust Educational Trust. As the trust’s regional ambassador for Scotland, her role is to empower communities to defend the truth of the Holocaust and challenge anti-Semitism and all other forms of racism.
Alle mensen worden vrij en gelijk in waardigheid en rechten geboren. (All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.)
Mall security at Durham's The Streets at Southpoint identified themselves as "police" and threatened to seize my camera.
On Sept. 1, 2007, a group protested the "Bodies: The Exhibition" show at Durham's The Streets at Southpoint mall.
Elena Soper is a women's rights and inter-sectional feminism activist, and has been volunteering with Amnesty International since age 14. Elena is a a school speaker who delivers talks about violence against women, using her own experience to educate and empower others.
Angel Correa is an artist whose work explores themes such as death, war, conflict, violence, crime, destruction and mental illness.
UUSC's JustWorks programming includes a service-learning trip entitled "Freedom Summer: A Civil Rights Journey." This inter-generational experience visits important historical locations from the Civil Rights movement and participants hear firsthand accounts from activists who took a stand for social justice.
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Ibrahim Khraishi, Permanent Observer of State of Palestine to the United Nations Office at Geneva, addresses the 50th regular session of the Human Rights Council (13 June – 8 July 2022) after the presentation of the first report of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
UN Photo/Jean Marc Ferré
13 June 2022
Geneva, Switzerland
Photo # UN7939606
Troy's sister and nephew, Martina and De'Jaun Correia, visited Amnesty UK on 25 November to speak about Troy's case and the campaign for justice for Troy.
Richard Hughes, drummer of the band Keane, talked about his experience as an activist and support for the campaign to save Troy from death row.
Troy Davis has spent over 18 years on death row for a murder he maintains he did not commit.
Photo by Marie-Anne Ventoura
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Disabilities, Social Inclusion and Human Rights: Good Practices from Asia and Europe
26 July 2017 | Jakarta, Indonesia
Remzije Sherifi has been working on equal rights for refugees and people seeking asylum for more than 20 years. Remzije's community engagement work focusses on tackling challenges faced by new Scots. She also campaigns for the right to work for people seeking asylum.
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February 24, 2010 Ambassador and Mrs. Roemer, and the U.S. Embassy community, joined to recognize the hard work of Sulabh International in improving the environment, ensuring health and hygiene, and fostering growth and opportunity. Sulabh works to restore human rights and dignity to the Dalit caste by supporting social integration and poverty alleviation efforts.