UNA-USA Human Rights Affinity Group
We stand for human rights.
We are the UNA-USA Human Rights Affinity Group, educating, advocating, and mobilizing Americans around universal human rights, and holding the United States accountable to them.
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.” — Eleanor Roosevelt, first chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights
Events
Show up for human rights near you
Workshops, chapter toolkits, Human Rights Day gatherings, and Peace Through Sports on the road to 2028 — find one, register, and add it to your calendar.
Peace Through Sports · LA 2028
Human Rights is Partnering with the 2028 Summer Olympics
We're bringing human rights to the world's biggest stage. Browse events, register, and add them to your calendar.
See the eventEmpowerment through technology
Technology built as a public good
Human rights increasingly run through digital systems — who can reach a service, and on what terms. We back Digital Public Infrastructure: open, accountable technology built as a shared public good, so communities gain equitable access instead of being locked out.
Digital Public Infrastructure in practice
The Clearinghouse — resources, campaigns & events
Our own contribution to Digital Public Infrastructure: a single, low-friction way to reach a US human-rights resource, campaign, or event in three clicks or fewer — browse by state and by purpose, no sifting through sites or long articles.
Browse by purpose
Follow the issues the Affinity Group works on — from the Universal Periodic Review to racial justice, disability rights, and Pride.
Filter by state
Choose your state or territory, or use your location, to see the resources, campaigns, and events near you.
Or jump straight to a need
Shelter, food, crisis support, domestic violence, legal aid, and more — a fast path to help when time matters.
Leadership
Meet Ruby Guillen
Co-Chair, UNA-USA Human Rights Affinity Group
A retired LA County child-welfare investigator, technologist, and United Nations civil-society leader, Ruby leads the group's human-rights agenda — child welfare, mental health, and technology as a public good.
The foundation
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948, the UDHR is the common standard we return to — a Preamble and 30 articles that belong to everyone, everywhere.