Civil and Human Rights Partnerships

Coalitions and partners on issues of immigration, criminal justice reform, religious freedom, and other civil and human rights issues.

The Washington Interfaith Staff Community (WISC)

WISC is a network of over 70 Washington offices of national religious bodies and faith-based organizations, encompassing Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu and Humanist faiths. WISC offices collaborate on advocacy for U.S. government policies that advance a more just, peaceful and ecologically sustainable world. Today, “working groups”address a variety of issues including among others, immigrants’ rights, disability rights and criminal justice.

Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

The Leadership Conference, founded in 1950, is the nation’s premier civil rights coalition and has coordinated the national legislative campaign on behalf of every major civil rights law since 1957.
www.civilrights.org

National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (NCADP)

Since its inception in 1976, NCADP has been the only fully staffed national organization exclusively devoted to abolishing capital punishment. NCADP provides information, advocates for public policy, and mobilizes and supports individuals and institutions that share our unconditional rejection of capital punishment. www.ncadp.org

National Coalition for Public Education (NCPE)

NCPE is a coalition of civil rights, religious and parents and teachers’ organizations dedicated to a strong public education system in the United States.

Shoulder-to-Shoulder

Shoulder-to-Shoulder is a national campaign of faith-based, interfaith and religious organizations dedicated to ending anti-Muslim sentiment. The campaign mobilizes interfaith, faith-based and religious organizations across the country to speak out for religious freedom and oppose religious discrimination, particularly anti-Muslim sentiment.
www.shouldertoshouldercampaign.org

National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT)

NRCAT is a U.S. non-governmental organization committed to engaging people of faith to work together to ensure that the United States does not engage in torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment of anyone, without exceptions.