As the grassroots arm of the women’s movement, the National Organization for Women is dedicated to its multi-issue and multi-strategy approach to women’s rights, and is the largest organization of feminist grassroots activists in the United States. NOW has hundreds of chapters and hundreds of thousands of members and activists in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Since our founding in 1966, NOW’s purpose is to take action through intersectional grassroots activism to promote feminist ideals, lead societal change, eliminate discrimination, and achieve and protect the equal rights of all women and girls in all aspects of social, political, and economic life.
UNHCR leads international action to protect people forced to flee conflict and persecution and those denied a nationality.
Amnesty International is a global, human rights organization that campaigns to end human rights abuses. It has more than 10 million members and supporters worldwide, working to ensure everyone enjoys the human rights outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The organization investigates, exposes, and seeks to prevent human rights violations.
The ACLU stands for the American Civil Liberties Union, a non-profit, non-partisan legal and advocacy organization. Founded in 1920, it works to protect Americans' constitutional rights and freedoms as outlined in the U.S. Constitution and its amendments.
Founded in 1992 by visionary attorneys Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, the Innocence Project has been at the forefront of criminal justice reform, using DNA and other scientific advancements to prove wrongful conviction.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz.
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