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Benefit event for Advocates for Human Rights, Women's Human Rights. Saturday February 27, 1-4 pm.
The Advocates applies international human rights standards to advocate for women’s rights in the United States and around the world. The Advocates works with local organizations to document human rights abuses against women, including domestic violence, rape, employment discrimination, sexual harassment in the workplace, and trafficking in women and girls. The Advocates has partnered with organizations in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Morocco, Nepal , Mexico, and Haiti, as well as in Minnesota. Staff and volunteers conduct in-country research through close collaboration with local women's non-governmental organizations, using traditional human rights fact-finding methods to document violations of women's human rights.
The Advocates also provides training on legal reform related to violence against women and consultation on new laws to legal professionals and women’s organizations in the United States and overseas.
The Advocates' Stop Violence Against Women website is an online forum for information, advocacy, and change.
Proexport, S.A.
Proexport is a marketing organization helping small Nicaraguan handicraft producers market their products internationally.
Women's Multipurpose Coop.
Women’s Multipurpose Cooperative helps women artisans work together in groups, obtain government help in skills training, buy raw materials, gain access to low interest loans and obtain titles to their land.
Nepal Traditional Crafts Pvt. Ltd.
Nepal Traditional Crafts provides jobs for a large network of low-income producer groups and economically underprivileged people in Nepal, and helps keep the traditional crafts of the region alive.
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