That promise has been betrayed over and over again.
Why? And who is responsible?
The US has turned a blind eye to suffering around the world, including:
- Unprecedented official sanctioning of
kidnapping, disappearances, and torture by the US.
- The suffering that has resulted, and will result in the future, because
of climate change.
- Human trafficking, including sex slavery.
- Genocides in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and now Darfur.
The
US failure to respond has been tragic, but it hasn’t
been because people don’t care. People do care. The US, as a vital
leader in the international community, has failed to act because of a cycle
of complacency that works like this:
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The media remains mostly silent about human suffering around the world.
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Caring people, who do not hear or see much in the media about human rights
atrocities and who believe that their elected representatives will act
effectively to solve the problems, do not speak up or act to bring pressure
upon government officials to take action.
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Elected
officials conclude from the public’s
silence and the lack of media coverage that nothing is expected
of them in
dealing
with the problems,
so they take no action.
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The
tragedies continue – while
the US and the international community look the other way.
High Road for Human Rights was founded to stop the
cycle of complacency – to
elevate understanding by people in communities throughout the nation and
to organize them so they will be empowered to help make a difference. By
taking the High Road, you can join in a mass movement to make certain effective
action is taken to protect the human rights of people around the world and
help High Road continue its vital work.
When the US
government officially sanctioned the kidnapping, disappearance, and torture
of people (some of them innocent of any connection
to terrorism),
High Road for Human Rights successfully organized people and other organizations
to push for change by the US Congress. (Read
more...)
You can help
High Road for Human Rights continue its crucial work in keeping up the
momentum
for an end to torture and a restoration of the rule of law.
High Road is the only human rights
organization in the nation that addresses climate change within a human
rights framework. (Read
more...)
Without aggressive
action, including an end to construction of coal-burning power plants,
our world will be a very different, far less hospitable,
planet for our children and later generations. Hundreds of millions of
people will
be forced from their homes; draughts, floods and more extreme weather
events will kill many people; water resources will disappear; and ocean
life will
be severely impacted. Help us organize, community-by-community, to protect
our climate and prevent catastrophic human rights violations.
Help us organize, community-by-community, to protect our
climate and prevent catastrophic human rights violations.
High Road
is elevating understanding throughout the nation about the horrors of human
trafficking, including sexual slavery, with the objective of motivating
people to advocate for far better international leadership by the US to reduce
the
suffering. Elected officials have proven that, without a call by the public
for change, they are not going to effectively act to stop trafficking.
Help High Road for Human Rights organize people to tenaciously demand changes
in US policies and practices to stop the trafficking in human beings, many
of whom are young girls. (Read
more ...)
Help High Road for Human Rights organize people to tenaciously
demand changes in US policies and practices to stop the trafficking in human
beings, many of whom are young girls.
The genocide in
Darfur could have been stopped five years ago, yet the killing, the rapes,
the displacement of hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children continues.
The missing element has been grassroots education and advocacy. Help High
Road for Human Rights organize in communities in every state to help end
the genocide by raising awareness about the challenges and, perhaps most
importantly, the solutions we demand be pursued by our elected officials.
(Read
more ...)
High
Road for Human Rights is dedicated to real change. Please join High
Road in its unique, vital work to make the world a safer, more peaceful,
just place for all.
Don’t remain
silent. Don’t sit back, leaving
it for others to do. Join in the mass mobilization organized by High
Road for Human Rights and contribute toward compassionate change to help our brothers and sisters
throughout the world.
Help
High Road for Human Rights organize in communities in every state to
help end genocide, torture, human trafficking, sexual slavery and global
climate change by raising awareness about the challenges and, perhaps most
importantly, the
solutions
we demand
be
pursued
by our
elected officials.
While
your financial contribution would be greatly appreciated and vital
to the successes
of High Road for Human Rights, membership does not require payment
of money. To become a member, all you need to do is provide your contact
information
and indicate the grassroots action(s) you would be willing
to consider
in helping to bring about change.
Click here to indicate how you
would like to become a citizen activist.
After you have joined as a member of High Road, you will be contacted so
that your voice can be added to the unified national call for change. You
will also be provided the means to engage in grassroots actions coordinated
with citizen activism around the country. You will be an essential part of
a national citizens lobby, with the means to make your voice heard and to
have an impact in bringing about compassionate change.
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