The science of behavior and cultural analysis has much to offer to organizations and movements interested in social justice and human rights, who are "acting to save the world" (Skinner, 1987). Behavior analysts are strongly encouraged to work with and join the following networks, and to contribute what they know in respectful ways to these efforts.

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• Read the International Declaration of Human Rights!

• Rights of Indigenous Peoples!

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• AAAS Directory of Human Rights Resources on the Internet
  
  "[A]s a matter of scientific freedom and responsibility, scientific societies should encourage international respect for the human rights standards embodied in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international treaties. Many of the rights and standards set out in the Universal Declaration are essential to the conduct of science..."
• American Civil Liberties Union
  
  "The American Civil Liberties Union is the nation's foremost advocate of individual rights -- litigating, legislating, and educating the public on a broad array of issues affecting individual freedom in the United States...."
• American Friends Service Committee
  
  "Confronting the evils of his time, the Quaker abolitionist Anthony Benezet asked, 'Can we be both silent and innocent spectators?' His question searches us today, and the answer is clear. In this time of moral crisis, the American Friends Service Committee calls upon all people to come together to help heal the world...."
• Amnesty International
  
  "Every day some 6,000 girls are at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM), a practice whose health consequences are often devasting and sometimes fatal...."
• Center for Neighborhood Technology
  
  "We believe that the present and future of urban communities involve practical approaches to energy use, job creation, housing, development, food production and material use. These will lead to a healthier urban environment, a sustainable economy and more viable neighborhoods...."
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
  
  "...The actual record of public job creation initiatives, however, is far more promising. Research findings from a wide range of program evaluations and data collection efforts provide substantial evidence that publicly-funded jobs can be effective in boosting employment and earnings for disadvantaged populations, increasing the supply of entry-level jobs, and responding to pressing community needs...."
• City Limits
  
  "The current edition of Child Welfare Watch, now available online, is devoted to exploring community-based child welfare services: To what extent do they currently exist? What form might a much broader commitment to community-based services take? And why is it so important that the current administration be encouraged to pursue a decentralization agenda?..."
• Children's Defense Fund
  
  "Since 1973, CDF has been working to create a nation in which the web of family, community, private sector, and government supports for children is so tightly woven that no child can slip through. We believe that no child should be left behind, and that every child needs and deserves a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life...."
• Death Penalty Information Center
  
  "Racial minorities are being prosecuted under federal death penalty law far beyond their proportion in the general population or the population of criminal offenders. Analysis of prosecutions under the federal death penalty provisions of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 reveals that 89% of the defendants selected for capital prosecution have been either African-American or Mexican-American...."
• Human Rights Watch
  
  "We stand with victims and activists to prevent discrimination, to uphold political freedom, to protect people from inhumane conduct in wartime, and to bring offenders to justice...."
• International Indian Treaty Council
  
  "The International Indian Treaty Council, an Indigenous Non-governmental organization with Consultative Status to the UN Economic and Social Council, joins the multitude of voices around the world in expressing our profound outrage and condemnation for the murders of 45 unarmed Tzotzil Indians in the village of Acteal on December 22...."
• Jesuit Advocacy Network
  
  "Latest information from congressional hearings, analysis of pending legislation and a calendar of events on the three main issues the Jesuit Advocacy Network is tracking: Immigrant Human Rights, Housing and Welfare...."
• Kidspage
  
  "There are many different ways to get involved in your community that will have a positive effect on reducing crime. You can be a leader! Get rid of gangs! Prevent drug use! Partner with cops! Join an after-school program! Check out some of the ideas in this section of the Web site...."
• National Coalition on the Homeless
  
  "While the causes of homelessness are complex, there is much an individual can do to help. No matter what your skills, interests, or resources, there are ways you can make a difference for some of the men, women, and children who are homeless...."
• National Organization for Women
  
  "NOW President Patricia Ireland attended the large affirmative action march and rally in San Francisco on the day that Proposition 209 took effect, ironically the 34th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s moving 'I Have a Dream' speech. She encouraged supporters by saying, 'Standing together, women and people of color have the strength, and we will save the dream.'..."
• The Nonviolence Web
  
  "There is a long tradition of conscientious objectors, those whose hearts and minds refuse to follow orders they deem to be immoral. Many are motivated by religious concerns, and consider any participation in killing or war to be against their religionís laws. Others resist government policies out of a sense of justice...."
• Native American Rights Fund
  
  "Indian lives are governed by hundreds of treaties, thousands of federal statutes, and numerous regulations and administrative rulings -- many of them which contradict each other. There must be resolution of these legal barriers if Indian people are to have any chance for an improved day-to-day existence. The Native American Rights Fund provides the necessary legal representation to Native American tribes and villages, organizations and individuals to help untangle the maze of laws impacting their lives...."
• Peacenet
  
  "At this critical moment when U.S. bombing seems inevitable and perhaps the only option left, FCNL proposes three alternative approaches for a peaceful, non-military outcome to this crisis...."
• PEACE POWER!
  
  "PEACE POWER! is a youth violence prevention strategy based on constructing interlocking practices in organizations and communities that are incompatible with violence and coercion. Unlike most violence prevention programs (some of which have been widely adopted without testing, the PEACE POWER! program is ased on state-of-the-art behavioral science. This research suggests that programs like this one (and PeaceBuilders) have the potential to reduce violence by 50% or more...."
• Physicians for Social Responsibility
  
  "The active conscience of American medicine, PSR uses its members' expertise and professional leadership, influence within the medical community and strong links to policy makers to address this century's greatest threats to human welfare and survival...."
• Southern Poverty Law Center
  
  "In response to an alarming increase in hate crime among youth, the Southern Poverty Law Center began the Teaching Tolerance project in 1991 as an extension of the Center's legal and educational efforts...."
• UNICEF
  
  "The Convention on the Rights of the Child has broken all records as the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history...."
• United Nations Commission on Human Rights
  
  "This situation sharpens a long-standing dilemma: How can universal human rights exist in a culturally diverse world? As the international community becomes increasingly integrated, how can cultural diversity and integrity be respected?..."
• United Nations Development Program
  
  "Through a unique network of 134 country offices, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) helps people in 174 countries and territories to help themselves, focusing on poverty elimination, environmental regeneration, job creation and the advancement of women...."
• The Urban Institute
  
  "Probably the feature that most starkly contrasts community building with approaches to poverty alleviation that have been typical in America over the past half-century is that its primary aim is not simply giving more money, services, or other material benefits to the poor. While most of its advocates recognize a continuing need for considerable outside assistance (public and private), community building's central theme is to obliterate feelings of dependency and to replace them with attitudes of self-reliance, self-confidence, and responsibility...."
• Witness
  
  Advancing human rights through the use of video and related communications technologies...."
• Women Leaders Online
  
  "WLO is the first and largest women's advocacy group created on the Internet, seeking to build a network of one million women (and sympathetic men) to empower women in politics, society, the economy, the media, and cyberspace...."
• WomensNet
  
  "WomensNet supports women's organizations worldwide by providing and adapting telecommunications technology to enhance their work."
• Women's Environment and Development Organization
  
  "WEDO values activist advocacy and movement building-encouraging and enabling greater participation in the political process by women at every level. Since its inception, WEDO has demonstrated competence in establishing open, participatory mechanisms that provide "on-the-job" training for thousands of participants in UN processes and demonstrating ways to effectively use UN agreements and conventions, other agreements and precedents in their advocacy. It consciously seeks to involve young women in all of its work...."
• WomenWatch
  
  "The Platform points out that available indicators suggest that the girl-child is discriminated against from the earliest stages of life, through her childhood and into adulthood. But adolescent girls are particularly vulnerable, physically and psychologically...."

  Skinner, B. F. (1987). Why we are not acting to save the world. In B. F. Skinner, Upon further reflection. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

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