Human Rights

Through the “Weaving a Global Safety Net for American Victims – A Call to Men & Women” initiative, Paula Lucas of Americans Overseas Domestic Violence Crisis Center (AODVC) will be traveling to several European and Middle Eastern countries this spring to present the worldwide model she created to help victims. Interested volunteers will have the opportunity to meet directly with...

This campaign began in 2010 in neighboring countries Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, which had been torn apart by some of the worst atrocities of war that the world has seen in recent years. Women from opposing sides of war in these communities came together on a bridge joining the two countries in a plea for peace and...

On November 28, 2014, the American Graduate School in Paris (AGS - www.ags.edu) will host an international conference on the theme “Fighting Violence Against Women”, organized on the occasion of the United Nations’ International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (November 25).

This conference will bring together policy-makers, diplomats, NGO leaders, lawyers, journalists, scholars, and human rights activists from around...

Did you know that during World War II, the Japanese government systematically conscripted into “sex servitude” an estimated 300,000 poor and impoverished Taiwanese, Korean and other women through deception, abduction, and violence? If not, you are not alone; the existence of these sex slaves was only uncovered in 1992 when incriminating telegrams were discovered in the files of Japan's Defense...

United Nations World Humanitarian Day 2014:

"The World Needs More...."

This year the UN and its humanitarian partners continue their ground-breaking campaign called, "The world needs more…" which is a first-of-its-kind project that turns words into aid. Fellow humanitarians and supporters are encouraged to Tweet in three words or less what the world needs more of to #TheWorldNeedsMore.

On 19 August...

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime's End HT project has produced a new brochure giving updated information on Human Trafficking. You can download the flyer here to share with your club members.