Every day the Trump administration is harming immigrant families. They are now ripping toddlers from their parents’ arms at the border, leaving children vulnerable to harm. This shouldn’t be our nation’s legacy. Take action to demand better.
Act NowUUSC advances human rights through grassroots collaboration. In more than a dozen countries throughout the world, UUSC fosters social justice and works toward a world free from oppression. Our innovative approach and measurable impact — in promoting economic justice, bolstering environmental justice, and protecting rights at risk — are grounded in the belief that all people have inherent power, dignity, and rights.
Your voice is urgently needed to advance legislation that will end the continuing violence against the Rohingya in Burma.
Legislation has been introduced that will make a genuine difference for the Rohingya by ending U.S. support of the Burmese military and holding those responsible for the atrocities and violence accountable. Sign and send a letter to your Members of Congress urging them to cosponsor S. 2060/H.R. 4223 today.
Increasing temperatures and variable precipitation are intensifying natural disasters, melting glaciers, rising sea levels, intensifying droughts and causing widespread flooding disproportionately impact marginalized populations by multiplying their risks, widening inequalities, and threatening their basic human rights and dignities.
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Economic justice is essential for securing basic human rights, alleviating poverty, and achieving a more just world. UUSC’s Economic Justice Program partners with grassroots organizations to protect the rights of workers and advocate for fair wages, fair, treatment, and safe work environments.
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In extreme situations of natural disaster, armed conflict, genocide, forced migration, and systematic injustice, the Rights at Risk Program strategically addresses the needs of the most vulnerable by providing aid and pursuing structural change.
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UUSC is deeply disappointed by the President’s shortsighted move, which will only serve to further isolate the United States and limit our country’s ability to engage in diplomacy in support of human rights.
The Border Security and Immigration Reform Act of 2018 would further militarize the border, continue to restrict lawful immigration, and close avenues for asylum-seekers to seek protection, while failing to […]
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UUSC is outraged by Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ decision to refuse asylum to survivors of domestic abuse and gang violence.
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