Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights
"Robert F. Kennedy boldly faced
tough problems and challenged the comfortable and complacent. To realize his dream
of a more just and peaceful world, his family and friends founded a living memorial
in 1968. Today the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights is dedicated
to advancing human rights. Through long-term partnerships and cutting edge methods,
we assist advocates who have won the RFK Human Rights Award. We support investigative
journalists and authors who bring light to injustice through the RFK Book and Journalism
Awards. Our Speak Truth to Power program educates the public and provides students
with a toolkit for action to create change in the classroom, the community, nationally
and internationally. Partnering with RFK Europe, we provide human rights education
advcacy programs to schools and communities across the continent. With RFK Children's
Action Corps, we urge legislative reform of juvenile justice systems. Today the
Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit
charitable organization that works to realize his dream of a peaceful and just world"
http://www.rfkcenter.org
The Innocence Project
The Innocence Project is a national litigation and public policy organization
dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and
reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J.
Neufeld at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University to assist
prisoners who could be proven innocent through DNA testing. More than 200 people
in the United States have been exonerated by DNA testing, including more than 15
who served time on death row. These people served an average of 12 years in
prison before exoneration and release.
The Innocence Project’s full-time staff attorneys and Cardozo clinic students
provided direct representation or critical assistance in most of these cases.
The Innocence Project’s groundbreaking use of DNA technology to free innocent
people has provided irrefutable proof that wrongful convictions are not isolated
or rare events but instead arise from systemic defects. Now an independent
nonprofit organization closely affiliated with Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva
University, the Innocence Project’s mission is nothing less than to free the
staggering numbers of innocent people who remain incarcerated and to bring
substantive reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment.
http://www.innocenceproject.org
ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union
The mission of the ACLU is to preserve all of three protections and guarantees:
• Your First Amendment rights - freedom of speech, association and assembly;
freedom of the press, and freedom of religion.
• 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.
http://www.aclu.org