Our Human Rights Council Representative in Geneva, Stacy Lara, reported on a recent conference focused on the importance of education in achieving peace, poverty eradication, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue. Read Stacy's report here.

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...

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...

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. 

Download and read Pam Perraud's UN report on trafficking here.

Following is a statement by United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, on the first-ever World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, which is commemorated on 30 July:



“The trade in and exploitation of human beings through trafficking is one of the gravest violations of human dignity that exist. The purposes of trafficking in persons range from forced and bonded labour...