Who we are

Rights Action is a multi-faceted community development and human rights organization with its main office in Guatemala City. In both Canada and the United States, Rights Action has tax-charitable status. Rights Action:

• provides funds directly to over 50 grassroots development organizations and projects.
• provides technical support, popular education and organizational strengthening training to these grassroots organizations.
• builds alliances for global justice between community development and human rights organizations and projects, both regionally and north-south.
• places interns and volunteers with community development and human rights organizations and provides human rights accompaniment to persons at risk of repression for doing their community development and human rights work.
• carries out education & activist work with our partner groups in the countries we work in, and in the US & Canada, about global human rights and development issues, and about how citizens and organizations can get involved and work on these issues.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Canada Office
Rights Action (Canada)
Box 73527
509 St. Clair Ave W.
Toronto ON M6C-1C0
Tel: 416-654-2074
Email: info@rightsaction.org

Guatemala Office
Email: info@rightsaction.org

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