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| American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee..."ADC: Protecting civil rights and advocating a balanced Mideast policy" American Civil Liberties Union...The
mission of the ACLU is to preserve all of these protections and guarantees:
Your First Amendment rights-freedom of speech, association and assembly.
Freedom of the press, and freedom of religion supported by the strict
separation of church and state. Your right to equal protection under the
law - equal treatment regardless of race, sex, religion or national origin.
Your right to due process - fair treatment by the government whenever
the loss of your liberty or property is at stake. Your right to privacy
- freedom from unwarranted government intrusion into your personal and
private affairs. Anti-Defamation League...For 90 years, ADL has been combating anti-Semitism and bigotry of all kinds. Children's Defense Fund...The Children's Defense Fund’s Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation. Human Rights Campaign...America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender equality. Human Rights Watch...is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world. MADRE is an international women's human rights organization that works in partnership with community-based women's organizations worldwide to address issues of health and reproductive rights, economic development, education, and other human rights. MarcoPolo Education Foundation - Double Take: There Are (At Least) Two Sides to Every Story... NAACP...has as it's mission: to Ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate racial hatred and racial discrimination. National Gay and Lesbian Task Force...works to build the grassroots political power of the LGBT community to win complete equality. Religions
of the World...An Introduction to the Study of World Religions Southern Poverty Law Center...the Center is internationally known for its tolerance education programs, its legal victories against white supremacists and its tracking of hate groups. Spring of Life...the world of religions Teaching @ Tolerance ...Education World’s Lessons on Tolerance The Tolerance
Project, a collaborative web resource for learning and teaching how
to understand, create, nurture, and find tolerance. Voices is a nonpartisan,
national organization speaking out for the well-being of children at the
federal, state and local levels of government. |