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Social Justice Fund
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Social Justice
Through this fund, you will join with millions of people to change the world with education to create equality, advocacy for marginalized communities, protection services and more. Your contributions go directly to supporting real and meaningful work by our charities to achieve social justice.
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At its basic level, social justice is the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunities and privileges for all people, especially underserved and marginalized populations. While this is important in America, it is also a basic, crucial need for people in developing countries. In each community, the oppressed and the oppressors vary. The drive for social justice exists everywhere, but every community has its unique needs to achieve equity. Our charity partners understand the need for local change when doing social justice work on a worldwide scale. In many countries, heightened punishments and human rights violations make the stakes higher and the...
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The government of Uzbekistan continues to place severe restrictions on religious freedom and freedom of speech – despite numerous promises of reform. In the last three years, Human Rights Watch has documented over a dozen cases in which Uzbek authorities brought criminal charges against people for storing or sharing content containing “religious extremist” ideas or that penalized their freedom of speech. Non-violent content including religious songs or social media posts have been treated as “materials threatening public safety and public order” and outspoken critical bloggers have increasingly been targeted with dubious criminal charges. Uzbekistan authorities still deem legitimate expression of religious sentiment or belief ‘extremism,’ while media workers face increasing controls, restrictions, and intimidation. Despite many recommendations from the United Nations and other international bodies that the government should amend its overbroad and vague definition of “extremism,” Uzbek law does not distinguish between violent and nonviolent extremism. Extremism-related provisions in...
