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Human rights advocacy

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United Nations Action for Cooperation Against Trafficking in Persons (UN-ACT)

Headquartered in Bangkok, the United Nations Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking in the Greater Mekong Sub-region (UNIAP) was established in June 2000 in order to formulate a more coordinated response to human trafficking in this region of Southeast Asia. UNIAP has over 30 staff members and they work closely with a number of donor organizations that work in the region and in other areas,...

http://ww25.un-act.org/?subid1=20211228-2215-1327-a86a-6495d...
Witness

Human rights abuses documented by the written word are powerful, but videos of human rights abuses can be even more transforming. WITNESS was co-founded in 1992 with the commitment of singer and activist Peter Gabriel. Their website states that it "partners with human rights organizations to bring the power of video into their existing campaigns and advance human rights causes around the world."...

https://www.witness.org/
Zimbabwe and the Politics of Torture

The United Institute of Peace recently released this report (written by John Brinkley) outlining the use torture as a means to achieve political ends in Zimbabwe. The brief report is divided into several sections, including an introduction that outlines the use of torture in the country, which dates back to the 1970s. Other sections of the report detail the populations most affected by these...

https://www.usip.org/publications/2002/08/zimbabwe-and-polit...
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