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Human Rights Watch (Organization) (12)

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED This Record Group contains the records of Human Rights Watch/Asia (AW). Established in 1985, Asia Watch monitors and promotes the observance of internationally recognized human rights in Asia. Since its founding, AW has kept refining a three-pronged strategy of documentation, campaigning, and lobbying to expose abuses in the region. By the late 1980s, this strategy came to fruition with regard to China. To illustrate, even before the Tiananmen Square Massacre, A...

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Minnesota. Governor's Human Rights Commission (16)

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Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.) (21)

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Purpose of organization was to recruit health care personnel and supplies for civil rights workers who participated in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project and for local black residents.

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Archive for Human Rights (Duke University) (20)

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Michigan Organization for Human Rights (13)

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Organization established in 1977 to serve as resource for different human rights organizations. The organization early on focused on issues of civil rights for lesbians and gay men. After a series of meetings of its Steering Committee in Detroit during the Summer of 1977, the Michigan Organization for Human Rights (M.O.H.R.) was founded officially at an organizing conference attended by approximately 50 people and held in Lansing, Michiga...

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Human Rights for Women (9)

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HRW was founded in December 1968, as "a corporation created exclusively for purposes of providing financial assistance for research on issues relevant to discrimination against women, litigation involving rights of women under the law, and educational projects on conditions concerning women." Founded in 1968, HRW provides financial assistance for research on issues relevant to discrimination against women, litigation involving rights of women under the law, and education...

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Wisconsin. Governor's Commission on Human Rights (16)

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The first Governor's Commission on Human Rights consisted of 18 members appointed by the Governor in 1945. Two years later, the legislature confirmed this action by statute and enlarged the commission's membership to 35 (Chapter 296, Laws of 1947). The 1949 Legislature made the first appropriation to the Commission and a director was appointed the same year. The 1967 reorganization act merged the Governor's Commission and the Equal Opportunities Division (WIHV86-A2045) of the Ind...

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United Nations. Commission on Human Rights (13)

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Seattle Human Rights Commission (7)

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City agency of Seattle, Washington. The Seattle Human Rights Commission changed its name to the Seattle Human Rights Department.

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Human Rights Campaign (U.S.) (6)

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Steve Endean established the Human Rights Campaign Fund (HRCF) in 1980 to raise money for gay-supportive congressional candidates. In 1982, the HRCF incorporated, adopting bylaws stating their purpose is to "advance the cause of lesbian and gay civil rights by supporting and educating candidates for federal elective office." In 1985, HRCF merged with the Gay Rights National Lobby to increase its effectiveness and influence on Capitol Hill. In 1995, the organization changed its name to the Hum...

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