Participate in the Anti-Torture Movement
Check out these organizations and campaign working to end torture! They are great places to find information and opportunities to take action.
| ACLU: Safe and Free: Torture | The American Civil Liberties Union offers information and news about American use of torture. |
| Amnesty International USA: Denounce Torture | Amnesty International has information, action items, and activist resources. They focus especially on closing Guantánamo. |
| Center for Constitutional Rights | The Center for Constitutional Rights focuses on protecting and advancing the rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. They focus in particular on illegal detentions and Guantánamo. |
| Human Rights First: End Torture Now | Human Rights First’s current campaign is "Elect to End Torture," a petition pressuring the presidential candidates to uphold a total ban on torture. |
| Human Rights Watch: U.S. Torture and Abuse of Detainees | Human Rights Watch has quote a few reports and articles about U.S. torture and abuse of detainees. |
| National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) | The National Religious Campaign Against Torture is an organization of over 130 religious groups. They are "committed to ending U.S.-sponsored torture, and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment." |
| No Torture. No Exceptions. | This campaign is not directly associated with an organization, but it asks people to call the presidential candidates and tell them to make rejecting torture part of their party platforms. |
| Physicians for Human Rights | Physicians for Human Rights investigates human rights abuses and works to stop them. They have done a number of reports relating to torture. |
| Physicians for Human Rights: Broken Laws, Broken Lives | This is PHR’s recent report, which profiles 11 detainees who were tortured, then released without ever being charged. |
| Torture Abolition Survivors Support Coalition (TASSC) International | TASSC’s mission is to "end the practice of torture wherever it occurs and to empower survivors, their families and communities wherever they are." |
| Torture on Trial |
Torture on Trial supports people who are arrested for nonviolent protest against torture at Ft. Huachuca in Sierra Vista, Arizona, home of the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and interrogation training school. |
| Witness Against Torture | Witness Against Torture is a campaign to close Guantánamo. They have organized many nonviolent actions in protest of the detention center. |
