Human Rights Action Center

Human Rights Action Center (HRAC) is based in Washington, D.C. and is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.

• Founder, Jack Healey

Funding

In 2005 HRAC received funding from the Open Society Institute to provide "Support for U.S. Campaign for Burma Activities."

HRAC Accomplishments

• "Arranged funding for the rebuilding of a garment factory in Bosnia. It now employs over 900 women.
• Produced the 50th Anniversary event of the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights for the United Nations with Wynton Marsalis and Luciano Pavarotti.
• Produced an album with Jason Rothberg and Ark21 in honor of Eleanor Roosevelt, re: The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights called Punks For Human Rights.
• Consultant to the Human Rights Fund Of Haiti
• Consultant the the Free Burma Campaign
• Visited Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma as well as sending a team of photographers to obtain footage of her for the movement.
• Consultant to Groovefest, the longest running musical event in the human rights movement.
• Annually produce an event to remember the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights with artists like Natalie Merchant, Urge, Special Beat, Perry Farrell, Francis Dunnery, Mike Watt, Glen Phillips, Wynton Marsalis.
• Produced a concert in Bankok for Aung San Suu Kyi in 1999.
• Given over 50 speeches at conferences and colleges.
• Promotes a campaign to ask governments to print the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights in their passports.
• Advise and direct campaigns of other non-profit organizations in the the field of human rights and youth work.
• Published articles in the Washington Post regarding Northern Ireland (rerun in the International Herald Tribune and Houston Chronicle) and over the world about the future of human rights."

Contact

Web: http://www.dyr.org/index.html