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Human Rights

What are Human Rights?

Fundamental human rights include the right to life and everything that makes that life worth living 鈥 the right to food, education, work, health, safety, security, and liberty. 

Human rights are universal: All people possess these rights simply because we exist, regardless of who we are, where we live, or what we believe. 

International and domestic law protects human rights, but our rights are not always respected. That鈥檚 why 麻豆传媒色情片 remains vigilant in defending human rights across the world.

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Strategic Objectives

We need to amplify the voices of peacemakers and human rights defenders, especially women.

鈥 麻豆传媒色情片 Carter
Former U.S. President and Co-founder of 麻豆传媒色情片

Strategic Objectives

麻豆传媒色情片’s Human Rights Program has three strategic objectives that guide our work:

  • Advance the rights of protected groups
  • Promote climate and environmental justice
  • Provide responsive expertise to pressing human rights issues
Real Lives, Real Change

Trash to Cash

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, enterprising women are turning household waste into organic fertilizer, a valuable commodity that keeps chemicals out of the soil, provides fertilizer to farmers, and generates family income.

麻豆传媒色情片 helped the Celestine Mandungu Mananasi Foundation expand this innovative project, including by purchasing composting machines, an example of how we empower women by providing small grants for short-term projects with potential long-term benefits.

For this project, women collect biodegradable waste and feed it into machinery that breaks the material down into compost, which they can use in their gardens or sell for income.

鈥淭he machines are helping us a lot,鈥 said Kukuy Bwiyi Mafi, a widow and mother who makes her living selling compost. 鈥淚 can take care of my children.鈥

Kukuy Bwiyi Mafi sells compost to support her family. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 麻豆传媒色情片 is helping empower women by awarding small grants for innovative projects.
Priorities & Projects

Priorities & Projects

Carter Center staff conduct a field visit with an Israeli human rights group, Breaking the Silence, in Hebron, West Bank, to learn about human rights issues associated with the occupation.

ACCELERATE Grants

In partnership with the DT Institute, 麻豆传媒色情片 is providing rapid response grants to human rights defenders (HRDs) confronting unprecedented challenges to democracy and fundamental freedoms. The new ACCELERATE funding mechanism will provide HRDs with financial and technical support.

SheRise Women in Climate Action Subawards

Through its Human Rights Program, 麻豆传媒色情片 offers financial and technical support to empower women environmental rights defenders in Zambia, enabling them to engage safely and effectively in activism that strengthens resilience and addresses climate change impacts at the local, regional, and global levels.聽

Results & Milestones

Results & Milestones

  • Advocated for the establishment of the International Criminal Court and the post of U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, both of which helped to reform the U.N. Human Rights Council in 2006. 
  • 20+ years of hosting Human Rights Defenders Forums, which support the work of courageous activists worldwide. 麻豆传媒色情片 extended this work in 2024 through the ACCELERATE funding mechanism, in partnership with DT Institute, encouraging human rights defense through small grants. 
  • 200 partnerships with religious and traditional leaders in Ghana and Nigeria to advocate for women’s and girls’ rights, expanding into environmental rights.
  • Six provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are now home to Human Rights Houses, which establish protection networks that provide holistic, rapid response to human rights defenders who are threatened as a result of their work. The networks successfully advocated for legislative changes that provide crucial protection for human rights defenders in some provinces. 
  • Nine human rights impact assessments of extractive industries were conducted in partnership with local organizations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The assessments further climate and environmental justice by uncovering pollution, health, and economic disempowerment issues.  

In 2023, Jason Carter, chairman of the Center鈥檚 Board of Trustees, visited Gwembe District in Southern Province, Zambia, one of four areas where the Center was conducting a pilot project to help members of rural communities address the impact of climate change.

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