Corporación Parque por la Paz Villa Grimaldi (Villa Grimaldi Park for Peace Corporation) is located at the site of one of the most important clandestine centers of detention and torture in Chile. Thousands of adults and children were detained, and hundreds disappeared or were executed by security forces of the Pinochet dictatorship. The Park provides young visitors with the opportunity to express their feelings and consider the implications of state terrorism and the need for human rights in society today.

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In 1968, prominent civil rights advocate Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel. Exhibits at this site commemorate the Civil Rights Movement from the earliest days of slavery, while events such as the annual Freedom Award and Public Forum encourage local school children and the general public to consider past and present issues of racism and poverty, and social welfare.



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Martin Luther King, Jr. was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement who fought against the system of racial segregation that was the way of life for most of the southern United States. Situated in the eastside Atlanta black community where Dr. King was raised, the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site offers special events that draw visitors into conversations on issues of slavery, poverty and welfare, reparations, racial profiling and healing, and discrimination.



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Viewed as a threat to national security during World War II, the American government forcibly removed over 110,000 Japanese Americans from their homes and into concentration camps. Today, the Japanese American National Museum preserves the history of these displaced citizens who were denied their rights and freedoms on the basis of race and ethnic origin. The original headquarters of the Museum now houses the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy, an educational institute which explores the largely untold stories of culturally and ethnically diverse individuals and communities that have contributed to and strengthened American democracy.



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As former First Lady of the United States and United Nations delegate, Eleanor Roosevelt spearheaded the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and spoke out against racism, poverty, injustice and oppression. Using Mrs. Roosevelt as a role model, the Girls’ Leadership Workshop at the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill (ERVK) promotes the empowerment of young women regionally, nationally and internationally through a nine-day leadership training program.



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An early form of social welfare, workhouses were a revolutionary yet harsh solution to caring for the poor in Victorian England. Located in an 1824 workhouse that housed poor and homeless individuals and families through to the 1970s, the Workhouse’s ‘What Now, What Next’ exhibit encourages visitors to challenge their concepts of poverty in the past and connect them to present-day realities.



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During the period of the Argentine military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983, state terrorism was justified in the name of national security. Thousands of men, women and children were kidnapped, tortured in clandestine concentration camps and secretly executed. An alliance of eight Argentine human rights organizations, Memoria Abierta (Open Memory) is dedicated to creating a place where Argentineans can come to reflect on the past in order to ensure history will not repeat itself.



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In a town that was transformed into a ghetto for displaced Jews during World War II, Terezín Memorial remembers state terrorism under the Nazi regime, and honors victims and those who struggled to save intended victims of genocide. In its education programs, Terezín Memorial connects the history of the Holocaust to contemporary issues of racist violence and totalitarianism.



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Located in one of the last slave trading post in Senegal, Maison des Esclaves (Slave House) reminds the world of human trafficking, racism and slavery through the greatest displacement of people in human history, and the need to preserve human liberties in order to move towards a universally egalitarian civilization. Maison des Esclaves welcomes individual visitors in search of identity or self-reconciliation, and provides school groups with a crucial complement to the curriculum in schools severely limited by lack of funds.



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The Lower East Side Tenement Museum tells the stories of immigrant families in New York City who toiled in sweatshops, struggled against poverty and racism, built thriving communities, and redefined American culture. Through its exhibits and post-tour dialogue program, visitors participate in discussions of such contemporary issues as immigration, labor and social welfare.



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