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...)

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.

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 ...)

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 ...)