AB Costa Rica: We are a group of UCSD students making a precedent in UCSD by going to the newly added Cross Cultural Solutions’ site location of Santiago de Puriscal, Costa Rica in order to volunteer for two weeks during Summer Break from July 5th, 2008 to July 19th, 2008. “This is a true story about twelve motivated and passionate strangers, chosen to volunteer abroad in an exotic location and have their lives changed forever, to find out what happens when people stop being ignorant, and start getting real.”
(UC San Diego)

AB Peru 2008: To cultivate socially active and globally conscious leaders through networking, developing, and expanding Alternative Break teams at UCSD who are centrally focused on international volunteerism. Alternative Breaks are national or international service learning, alcohol and drug free trips that incorporate direct service, education, diversity, reflection, issues of social justice, and reorientation to have a LIFELONG impact on participants.
(UC San Diego)

AB@UCSD: Guatemala: Alternative Breaks is committed to giving students the opportunity to participate in national and international service trips. During Spring Break 2008, the members of AB@UCSD: Guatemala will travel to Quetzaltenango in order to immerse ourselves in Guatemalan culture and serve the community with Cross-Cultural Solutions.
(UC San Diego)

ACLU at UCSD: ACLU at UCSD is a nonprofit organization focusing on educating, campaigning, and fundraising on behalf of both constitutional rights and human rights.
(UC San Diego)

Advocates for the Rights of Children (ARC) strives to help students pursue legal careers in helping children as well as increase awareness regarding issues facing children.
Contact: Jessica Foster, jrfoster@ucdavis.edu
(UC Davis)

Alternative Breaks: India: The purpose of this not-for-profit organization is to help students strengthen their leadership skills, and cross-cultural understanding leading up to, after the trip, and while volunteering in the needy, Himalayan village of Dharamsala, India.
(UC San Diego)

Alternative Break: Thailand: To help students strengthen their leadership skills and cross-cultural understanding leading up to, and while volunteering in needy areas of Trang, Thailand.
(UC San Diego)

Alternative Breaks@UCSD: Campus Wide Alternative Breaks is a student run organization acting as a facilitator for all Alternative Breaks on campus. Meetings will be held with principal members of each Alternative Break trip to discuss and train on such issues occurring pre-trip, on-trip, and post-trip. Logistics, site logistics, pre-trip and post-trip cultural education, and on-trip scenarios amongst others will be discussed.
(UC San Diego)

Alternative Spring Break-China: To service the global community.
(UC San Diego)

Alternative Summer Break- Brazil: Alternative Summer Break- Brazil is an international service learning, alcohol and drug free trip that incorporates direct service, education, diversity, reflection, issues of social justice, and reorientation to have a LIFELONG impact on participants.
(UC San Diego)

American Constitutional Society - Hastings Chapter (ACS) seeks to revitalize and transform the legal debate from our classrooms to our courtrooms. We seek to counter the dominant vision of American law today, a narrow conservative vision that lacks appropriate regard for the ways in which the law affects people's lives. We seek to restore the fundamental principles of human dignity, individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, and access to justice to their rightful - and traditionally central - place in American law.
Contact: Rebecca Raiser, raiser@uchastings.com
(UC Hastings College of the Law)

Americans for Informed Democracy: We are a non-partisan organization that aims to foster global awareness, promote understanding of American foreign policy and engage the public on international affairs. This year, we will sponsor film screenings, guest speakers, and student discussion sessions to raise awareness about a variety of different international issues.
(UC San Diego)

Amnesty International at Hastings (AIHC) raises awareness of international and domestic human rights violations and policy issues on campus and to promote activism regarding these causes.
Contact: Cara Sherman, cara.sherman@gmail.com
(UC Hastings College of the Law)

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Amnesty International at UCR

Amnesty International at UCSD: Amnesty International at UCSD is a chapter of the international organization recognized and respected around the world for its impartial efforts to ensure and defend the natural rights of all people, no matter what their political or religious affiliation. The chapter of Amnesty International at UCSD, formed in 1988, seeks to raise awareness of current world issues, particularly those concerning violations of human rights, to the UCSD campus and its surrounding neighborhood, as well as raise funds to benefit non-profit organizations that work to achieve our goals.
(UC San Diego)

Amnesty International at UCSB is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.
(UC Santa Barbara)

Arusha Project: To provide education and service opportunities on issues in gender equality and sexual health, with special emphasis on HIV/AIDS.
(UC San Diego)

Asha for Education: Asha for Education is a secular non-profit organization that works towards raising funds and awareness towards the betterment of education for underprivileged children in India.
(UC San Diego)

CADRE: Community Advocates for Disability Rights and Education is A UCSD association that promotes full inclusion and equal opportunity for people with disabilities.
(UC San Diego)

California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG): To deliver persistent, result-oriented public interest activism that encourages a fair, sustainable economy, and fosters responsive, democratic government.
(UC San Diego)

Circle K. International: To promote the objects of service, leadership and fellowship to make the world a better place. This is a non-profit organization.
(UC San Diego)

Clear Path International: Clear Path International (CPI) is a non-profit organization that focuses on fundraising and campaigning on behalf of landmine victims in Cambodia, Burma, and Vietnam.
(UC San Diego)

Community Outreach Effort at ERC (CORE): To serve the local and international communities through volunteer public service.
(UC San Diego)

Development Club: The Development Club is a pre-professional organization which brings together students who are interested in pursuing international development and non-profit management to exchange stories and swap information about this dynamic and ever-changing field. This organization is not-for-profit and is solely for student information.
(UC San Diego)

Engineers without Borders UCSB partners with disadvantaged communities to improve their quality of life through implementation of environmentally and economically sustainable engineering projects, while developing internationally responsible engineering students.
(UC Santa Barbara)

Falun Dafa Club: Falun Dafa Club at UCSD is dedicated to promoting the awareness of Falun Dafa and enhancing the understanding of the profound wisdom contained therein. It is also dedicated to promoting the awareness of the massive human rights abuses of Falun Dafa practitioners in China since 1999, and helping bring an end to the persecution of Falun Dafa.
(UC San Diego)

Habitat for Humanity UCSB is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to eliminate poverty housing from the earth. Habitat works towards this goal by providing permanent solutions to the housing crises of low-income families.
(UC Santa Barbara)

Hastings International Human Rights Organization provides the opportunity for all Hastings students to engage in substantive legal work in the area of international human rights.
Contact: Blaine Bookey, HastingsHIHRO@gmail.com
(UC Hastings College of the Law)

Human and Earth Rights Organization for Zero Population Growth: To provide information regarding environmental and social issues to the UCSD and San Diego communities.
(UC San Diego)

The Human Rights Center investigates war crimes and other serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. Our empirical studies recommend specific policy measures to hold perpetrators accountable, protect vulnerable populations, and help rebuild war-torn societies.
(UC Berkeley)

Improving Dreams Equality Access and Success (I.D.E.A.S.): The purpose of I.D.E.A.S UC Davis is to holistically advocate for immigrant students rights to an accessible university education.
Contact: Miriam Delgado, mgdelgado@ucdavis.edu
(UC Davis)

Interdiscipinary Humanities Center regards its principal mission as encouraging interdisciplinary scholarship and instruction. It does this by supporting research projects, team-taught courses, lectures, seminars, and conferences.
(UC Santa Barbara)

The International Human Rights Law Clinic allows students to design and implement creative solutions to advance the global struggle for the protection of human rights. Students work on innovative human rights projects on behalf of individuals and marginalized communities that have been the targets of repression and violence. In addition, they prepare and conduct litigation before national and international judicial forums concerning human rights violations. They also engage in interdisciplinary empirical studies of the impact of human rights abuses--research that aims to achieve policy outcomes. Clinic projects frequently involve policy analysis and the drafting of statutes and standards to govern the conduct of state and non-state actors.
(UC Berkeley)

Migrant Rights Awareness: We, Migrant Rights Awareness are determined to foster change in our community so that all people regardless of immigration status are guaranteed absolute access to equal rights and opportunities and are perceived as being deserving of the same.
(UC San Diego)

Multicultural Center awareness and understanding. These events include lectures, films and videos, panel discussions, readings, art exhibitions, and music, dance, and dramatic performances.
(UC Santa Barbara)

National Alliance for Human Rights is a network of leaders, activists, scholars and organizations committed to the promotion of human rights, social justice and political empowerment of the Latino community in the United States.
(UC Riverside)

The National Lawyers Guild - Hastings (NLG-Hastings) promotes change in the structure of our political and economic system. NLG unites lawyers, law students, and legal workers as an effective political and social force in service of the people. Our aims include: strengthening the rights of workers, women, and minority groups, maintaining and protecting our civil rights and liberties, and using the law as an instrument for the protection of the people.
Contact: Sara Kaeni, kaenis@uchastings.edu
(UC Hastings College of the Law)

National Organization for Women (NOW): Our goal is to bring about equality for all women, NOW works to eliminate discrimination and harassment in the workplace, schools, the justice system, and all other sectors of society: secure abortion, birth control and reproductive rights for all women; end all forms of violence against women; eradicate racism, sexism and homophobia and promote justice and equality.
Contact: Eric Tyler-Felix, etfelix@ucdavis.edu
(UC Davis)

ONE at UCSD: “ONE at UCSD” is an organization of volunteers promoting the goals and efforts of the national ONE Campaign. According to the ONE website, “The ONE Campaign seeks to raise public awareness about the issues of global poverty, hunger, disease and efforts to fight such problems in developing countries.” Our mission is primarily educational—we hope to increase the knowledge and consciousness of the UCSD community with respect to international issues of extreme poverty and disease.
(UC San Diego)

One Earth, One Justice (OEOJ): Help create a nonprofit, college venue to carry out the mission of raising awareness of environmental and social injustices.
(UC San Diego)

Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies has been established to provide an intellectual and programmatic focus for the University’s activities in global, international, and area studies. The Center provides financial support and arrangement facilities to sponsor public programs, seminars, publications, and research planning for units across the campus.
(UC Santa Barbara)

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR): The goal of PHR's student program is to advance health professional student s understanding and live long investment in health and human rights activism and to cultivate their unique contributions as advocates promoting health and human rights, locally, nationally and globally.
Contact: Ari Zadel, aazadel@ucdavis.edu
(UC Davis)

Rotaract Club at UCSD: Serving our local and international community through service, with the help of the La Jolla Golden Triangle Rotery Club
(UC San Diego)

Still Thoughts Association: To practice the principles of compassion and wisdom through carrying out charitable works. Through practice, purify other's mind and bring positive influenes into the community.
(UC San Diego)

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is a diverse group of students, faculty, staff, and community members working towards common goals of creating a forum for Palestinian independence and basic human rights. We are organized on principles to promote justice, human rights, liberation, and self-determination for the Palestinian people.
(UC Riverside)

Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND): To bring awareness about the crisis in Darfur to the UCSD campus and raise funds to send to aid agencies.
(UC San Diego)

UCI Amnesty International Club (AI) works to improve human rights through the actions of ordinary people around the world. However bleak the situation, the actions of AI's members and supporters can make a difference.
(UC Irvine)

UCI Center for the Study of Democracy sponsors research and education aimed at improving the democratic process in the United States and expanding democracy around the world. We believe that the democratic process is one of America's most precious natural resources. Democracy makes many of the remarkable achievements in American society and economy possible; the global spread of democracy can similarly contribute to personal freedom, individual well-being and increased international cooperation.
(UC Irvine)

UCI Center for Unconventional Security Affairs addresses the security challenges of the 21st century through innovative research and education programs that integrate experts from the public and private sectors.
(UC Irvine)

UCI Cross Cultural Center seeks to provide a network of support services promoting the personal, social, cultural, and academic wellbeing of UCI's ethnic and culturally diverse student body. Toward this end, the Cross-Cultural Center offers a wide array of educational programs that advance learning and discovery about UCI's various multicultural communities. The Cross-Cultural Center supports the campus' academic mission by promoting an environment that encourages intellectual exchange, civility, and the responsible exercise of individual expression.
(UC Irvine)