Monthly Featured Organizations & Programs

Each month, G.L.O.B.A.L. Justice features various advocacy organizations, justice programs, community events, and leaders that are making a significant impact on the pursuit of justice worldwide. Check out the Features for this month:

Featured advocacy Organization:

Action against child exploitation

ACE is a Japanese based NGO for international cooperation with a vision to realize the rights of children and a safe society for all children. It takes direct action for the abolition and prevention of child labor with citizens of Japan. Currently, ACE works on the abolition of child labor in Japan, India, and Ghana. ACE aims to transform the world into one where all children and youths are free to shape their own lives and capable of building a society that they want to live in. ACE understands that child labour is deeply rooted within a wider network of social issues. That is why it requires a systemic-thinking approach to achieve its short- and long-term resolution. Their work includes but is not limited to their Child Rights Protection Program, Advocacy Program, Awareness Program, and Social Business Acceleration Program.

Featured ArtS:

Access gallery

Access Gallery is an inclusive nonprofit organization that engages the community by opening doors to creative, educational and economic opportunities for people with disabilities to access, experience and benefit from the arts. They believe everyone deserves a creative outlet and we advance their mission in three ways: Access Gallery, a professional gallery space located in the heart of the Arts District featuring and selling the work of artists with disabilities; Access Studio, an inclusive studio where community artists explore and build their skill sets across a variety of visual art media; and Access Creative Services, social enterprise that provides a wide range of services including but not limited to graphic design services, corporate art commissions, and murals.

Featured Education Program:

Human rights major at trinity college

Trinity College’s Human Rights Studies, the first human rights program at a liberal arts college in the United States, is committed to excellence in the study and practice of human rights. The program seeks to foster critical debate about human rights problems, inter-disciplinary dialogue, and conversations that bridge the divide between local and global human rights concerns. The program offers an unparalleled range of activities for an undergraduate institution: a strong human rights curriculum, summer internships at leading human rights organizations, as well as the opportunity to cross disciplinary boundaries and research cutting-edge human rights issues.

Featured Publication:

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by anne fadiman

When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors would ever recover. Lia's parents, Foua and Nao Kao, were part of a large Hmong community in Merced, refugees from the CIA-run "Quiet War" in Laos. The Hmong, traditionally a close-knit and fiercely people, have been less amenable to assimilation than most immigrants, adhering steadfastly to the rituals and beliefs of their ancestors. Lia's pediatricians, Neil Ernst and his wife, Peggy Philip, cleaved just as strongly to another tradition: that of Western medicine. When Lia Lee Entered the American medical system, diagnosed as an epileptic, her story became a tragic case history of cultural miscommunication. Parents and doctors both wanted the best for Lia, but their ideas about the causes of her illness and its treatment could hardly have been more different. The Hmong see illness and healing as spiritual matters linked to virtually everything in the universe, while medical community marks a division between body and soul, and concerns itself almost exclusively with the former. Lia's doctors ascribed her seizures to the misfiring of her cerebral neurons; her parents called her illness, qaug dab peg--the spirit catches you and you fall down--and ascribed it to the wandering of her soul. The doctors prescribed anticonvulsants; her parents preferred animal sacrifices.