Year-end celebrations are a time to honor community generosity and gratitude! This Giving Tuesday, we at UUSC are thinking about all we’ve accomplished together in 2025. We’re so thankful for the opportunity to champion frontline leaders in the justice movement. Amid USAID funding cuts and global crises, our partners trusted us to support them throughout a challenging year. It’s an honor to be a part of their liberatory work.
This year, our partners have planted seeds of justice all over the world. Here are just 3 major highlights from 2025. We’re grateful to have championed these organizations, and we invite you to support them too! Contribute to our Giving Tuesday campaign today to get in on the gratitude and join our work to grow the global justice movement.
- Community Networks Help the Transgender Community find Safety and Belonging
Our partner Pink Haven continues to nimbly respond to heightened threats against the 2spirit, trans, and gender expansive (2STGE+) community in the United States. This year, over 1000 anti-trans bills were introduced across the country. Pink Haven helps 2STGE+ folks relocate to less hostile states and obtain medical care. This organization’s work has always been essential, but it’s perhaps more urgent than ever before.
- Pacific Youth Take the Climate Crisis to the World’s Highest Court
UUSC has had the honor of partnering with the Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change (PISFCC) since 2021, shortly after the organization launched its International Court of Justice (ICJ) campaign. They aimed to “refer the world’s biggest problem (climate change) to the world’s highest court (International Court of Justice),” seeking an Advisory Opinion on the issue of climate change and human rights. PISFCC succeeded, and in 2025, the ICJ issued a bold, landmark ruling for climate reparations and justice. This historical victory will provide essential leverage to ongoing climate advocacy.
- Leaders in El Salvador Innovate in the Face of Authoritarian Violence
Our partner Cristosal faced an incredibly difficult and tragic year under Bukele’s regime. As an organization devoted to human rights and state accountability, Cristosal was targeted by the authoritarian government. Ruth López, Cristosal’s Chief Legal Officer in Anti-Corruption, was arrested and is currently being held without cause as a political prisoner. While incarcerated, López was awarded the American Bar Association 2025 International Human Rights Award. To keep their community safe, Cristosal has been forced to work in exile, leaving their offices in El Salvador and relocating staff to Guatemala and Honduras. Still, their work for justice continues. “Even with this level of repression, there is resistance,” Executive Director Noah Bullock says. “Repression has never been able to turn out the light of people who are seeking freedom.”
With every contribution to UUSC, you help local leaders plant seeds of justice to make a global impact. By championing the work of organizations like Cristosal, PISFCC, and Pink Haven, among many others, UUSC directly furthers the justice movement. We hope you’ll join us this Giving Tuesday as we continue our work to advance human rights around the world. Thank you for all the generous ways you tend to the movement for collective liberation.
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