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World Without Genocide works to protect innocent people around the world; prevent genocide by combating racism and prejudice; advocate for the prosecution of perpetrators; and remember those whose lives and cultures have been destroyed by violence.

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As the anniversaries of Operations Barbarossa and Bagration approach, it is an opportune time to reexamine the immeasurably brutal war between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.

At this free daylong public symposium, guests heard from leading historians on the challenges, battles, and victories that followed the June 6 Allied landings and made the liberation of Europe from Nazi oppression possible.

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Markers tell stories and point out facts. There is one at the site the northernmost battle of the U.S. Civil War and another at the southernmost point in the United States (can you guess where?). There is one next to a 17th century Japanese stone lantern symbolizing 20th century peace, and another one less than 20 miles away reminding us of the Nike missile sites that were built the same year the lantern was dedicated. They tell of battles,

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From several deadly attacks on synagogues and Jewish communal spaces to the appearance of swastikas in schools to a hate group publicly hanging a banner supporting antisemitic comments made by Ye (the rapper formerly known as Kanye West), there has been a frightening rise in antisemitism in the United States in recent years.

One in four American Jews experienced antisemitism in 2021, according to a recent report from the American Jewish Committee. That same year, the Anti-Defamation League tracked 2,717 antisemitic incidents in the U.S., a record high in their 42 years of keeping track.

Today, many Jewish organizations are responding to this disturbing trend with innovative initiatives meant to encourage Jewish pride and to combat threats to Jewish safety. Here, we highlight the work of three organizations from our U.S. Jewish grantmaking portfolio that are among those leading the way.

Representatives from Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA), Zioness and Hillel International say their efforts to build and sustain a thriving Jewish life are in themselves acts of resistance to ongoing antisemitism. Still, as tensions increase, the three groups are specifically focused on security concerns.

Expanding Security Resources

For Jewish Federations of America (JFNA), ensuring the physical safety of Jewish communities is an urgent priority. In January, a gunman entered Congregation Beth Israel, a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, during Shabbat services and held three congregants and the rabbi hostage for 11 hours-just one of several recent attacks on Jewish communities. In 2018, 11 Jews were gunned down at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue in the deadliest antisemitic act in U.S. history. In 2019, three civilians and a police officer were killed in what police described as a targeted assault on a kosher market in Jersey City, New Jersey.

In the wake of this violence, Federations are focusing on guaranteeing the physical security of Jewish spaces, including synagogues, community centers and schools. "We need to make sure Jewish communities feel safe entering Jewish institutions and remove barriers that prevent Jewish life from flourishing," says Shira Hutt, Executive Vice President of JFNA.

JFNA's LiveSecure campaign, launched last year, is nearing its goal of reaching $54 million to ensure that Jewish communities across the U.S. and Canada have effective, state-of-the-art security systems, led by the 146 Federations across North America. That includes professionally run security programs in every Federation community, as well as security plans for all institutions within these communities and training for emergencies.

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The funding goal, combined with local matching funds, constitutes the largest philanthropic effort of its kind, according to Hutt. And that excludes potential extra contributions from the federal Nonprofit Security Grant Program, under which Congress authorized $180 million in grants in 2021 for security upgrades to U.S. nonprofits and religious institutions. Federations are now advocating for the doubling of the program's funding to address the growing need.

While some Jews may be discouraged to see heightened security at synagogues, Hutt says the effort is sadly needed so that Jews can keep participating openly in Jewish life.

"Colleyville was a terrible reminder that we have to safeguard all of our Jewish institutions. This is not our sole response to the rise in antisemitism, but right now, it's at the top of the list," says Hutt. "For Jewish life to thrive, we must make sure that safety is a given."

Organizing for Social Justice

Jewish leaders say they're also concerned about antisemitism festering in activist spaces, ostracizing Jews who had felt at home working on issues of equity and justice, from LGBTQ rights to police brutality.

Intersectional activists come together to march with Zioness against antisemitism in NYC in January 2020 (Photo: Alexi Rosenfeld)
In 2018, two founders of the Women's March on Washington accused two other leaders of making antisemitic remarks, an accusation that caused an irreparable rift in the movement. One year later, organizers of the Washington D.C. Dyke March banned a rainbow pride flag with a Jewish star, resurfacing anger from a previous ban on these flags at the 2017 Chicago Dyke March. Then, last October, a Washington, D.C., chapter of the Sunrise Movement, which works to combat climate change, issued a statement asking organizers of a rally in support of D.C. statehood to exclude three Jewish groups from participation due to their "support of Zionism and the State of Israel."

In 2017, seeking to help Jews find a community in which they could fight for social justice and openly express their Zionism, Amanda Berman launched Zioness, a nonprofit working to spread awareness that antisemitism and anti-Zionism are threats to the advancement of social justice causes.

"Antisemitism presents a profound danger to democracy," Berman says. "Progress in the fight for social justice will never be achieved until the progressive movement is ready and willing to aggressively confront and uproot anti-Jewish bigotry wherever and whenever it manifests."

For many Zioness participants, the movement serves as a welcoming space for Jews who feel ostracized elsewhere, Berman says, adding, "just knowing that a community like this exists gives them courage and confidence."

Fostering Jewish Pride

For many Jewish college students, the rise in antisemitism has led to them feeling insecure and even unsafe on U.S. campuses.

In 2021, a survey conducted for Hillel International and the Anti-Defamation League found that one-third of Jewish college students in the U.S. experienced antisemitic activity directed at them during the previous school year. While many campuses were closed due to the pandemic, there was a corresponding increase in Jews being targeted on social media, says Matthew Berger, Hillel's Vice President of External Affairs and Campus Preparedness.

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In response, Hillel has dramatically increased its ongoing efforts to combat antisemitism, Berger says.

In the summer of 2021, the organization launched the Campus Climate Initiative, which now includes 40 colleges. The program trains college administrators to understand antisemitism and respond to incidents of antisemitism. The program is meant to be incorporated into the extensive diversity trainings already being held at universities.

Part of Hillel's initiative is to double down on reinforcing Jewish pride. "The best way to address and prevent antisemitism on campus is to build strong, engaging Jewish communities that make all students feel welcome and valued. That is what Hillels are doing on college campuses every day," says Berger.

In October 2021, the organization launched #OwnYourStar, a social media campaign that encourages students to share why they value being Jewish. The responding videos and photos received hundreds of thousands of likes and shares, according to Berger.

Sophia Corst, at Baruch College, sent a picture of herself holding out her Magen David necklace. Her great-grandfather had recently asked her: "You don't let anyone see you wearing it, right?" Corst wrote.

"Well, I'm choosing to share it with all of you today," she added, "ESPECIALLY because he couldn't."

"I love the #OwnYourStar campaign," says Adena Kirstein, Executive Director of the Hillel at George Washington University. "From what I've seen, kids don't want talking points; they don't want strategy; they want safe spaces to figure out who they are. We can be proud of our community without having to fight every single day."

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A living memorial to the Holocaust, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum inspires citizens and leaders worldwide to confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity.

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Historical Anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism in Europe did not begin with Adolf Hitler. Though use of the term itself dates only to the 1870s, there is evidence of hostility toward Jews long before the Holocaust-even as far back as the ancient world, when Roman authorities destroyed the Jewish temple in Jerusalem and forced Jews to leave Palestine.

The Enlightenment, during the 17th and 18th centuries, emphasized religious tolerance, and in the 19th century Napoleon Bonaparte and other European rulers enacted legislation that ended long-standing restrictions on Jews. Anti-Semitic feeling endured, however, in many cases taking on a racial character rather than a religious one.

Did you know? Even in the early 21st century, the legacy of the Holocaust endures. Swiss government and banking institutions have in recent years acknowledged their complicity with the Nazis and established funds to aid Holocaust survivors and other victims of human rights abuses, genocide or other catastrophes.

Hitler's Rise to Power

The roots of Adolf Hitler's particularly virulent brand of anti-Semitism are unclear. Born in Austria in 1889, he served in the German army during World War I. Like many anti-Semites in Germany, he blamed the Jews for the country's defeat in 1918.

Soon after World War I ended, Hitler joined the National German Workers' Party, which became the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), known to English speakers as the Nazis. While imprisoned for treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923, Hitler wrote the memoir and propaganda tract " Mein Kampf " (or "my struggle"), in which he predicted a general European war that would result in "the extermination of the Jewish race in Germany."

Hitler was obsessed with the idea of the superiority of the "pure" German race, which he called "Aryan," and with the need for "Lebensraum," or living space, for that race to expand. In the decade after he was released from prison, Hitler took advantage of the weakness of his rivals to enhance his party's status and rise from obscurity to power.

On January 30, 1933, he was named chancellor of Germany. After the death of President Paul von Hindenburg in 1934, Hitler anointed himself Fuhrer, becoming Germany's supreme ruler.

Concentration Camps

The twin goals of racial purity and territorial expansion were the core of Hitler's worldview, and from 1933 onward they would combine to form the driving force behind his foreign and domestic policy.

At first, the Nazis reserved their harshest persecution for political opponents such as Communists or Social Democrats. The first official concentration camp opened at Dachau (near Munich) in March 1933, and many of the first prisoners sent there were Communists.

Like the network of concentration camps that followed, becoming the killing grounds of the Holocaust, Dachau was under the control of Heinrich Himmler, head of the elite Nazi guard, the Schutzstaffel (SS) and later chief of the German police.

By July 1933, German concentration camps ( Konzentrationslager in German, or KZ) held some 27,000 people in "protective custody." Huge Nazi rallies and symbolic acts such as the public burning of books by Jews, Communists, liberals and foreigners helped drive home the desired message of party strength and unity.

In 1933, Jews in Germany numbered around 525,000-just one percent of the total German population. During the next six years, Nazis undertook an "Aryanization" of Germany, dismissing non-Aryans from civil service, liquidating Jewish-owned businesses and stripping Jewish lawyers and doctors of their clients.

Nuremberg Laws

Under the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, anyone with three or four Jewish grandparents was considered a Jew, while those with two Jewish grandparents were designated Mischlinge (half-breeds).

Under the Nuremberg Laws, Jews became routine targets for stigmatization and persecution. This culminated in Kristallnacht, or the "Night of Broken Glass" in November 1938, when German synagogues were burned and windows in Jewish home and shops were smashed; some 100 Jews were killed and thousands more arrested.

From 1933 to 1939, hundreds of thousands of Jews who were able to leave Germany did, while those who remained lived in a constant state of uncertainty and fear.

Euthanasia Program

In September 1939, Germany invaded the western half of Poland, starting World War II. German police soon forced tens of thousands of Polish Jews from their homes and into ghettoes, giving their confiscated properties to ethnic Germans (non-Jews outside Germany who identified as German), Germans from the Reich or Polish gentiles.

Surrounded by high walls and barbed wire, the Jewish ghettoes in Poland functioned like captive city-states, governed by Jewish Councils. In addition to widespread unemployment, poverty and hunger, overpopulation and poor sanitation made the ghettoes breeding grounds for disease such as typhus.

Meanwhile, beginning in the fall of 1939, Nazi officials selected around 70,000 Germans institutionalized for mental illness or physical disabilities to be gassed to death in the so-called Euthanasia Program.

After prominent German religious leaders protested, Hitler put an end to the program in August 1941, though killings of the disabled continued in secrecy, and by 1945 some 275,000 people deemed handicapped from all over Europe had been killed. In hindsight, it seems clear that the Euthanasia Program functioned as a pilot for the Holocaust.

'Final Solution'

Throughout the spring and summer of 1940, the German army expanded Hitler's empire in Europe, conquering Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France. Beginning in 1941, Jews from all over the continent, as well as hundreds of thousands of European Romani people, were transported to Polish ghettoes.

The German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941 marked a new level of brutality in warfare. Mobile killing units of Himmler's SS called Einsatzgruppen would murder more than 500,000 Soviet Jews and others (usually by shooting) over the course of the German occupation.

A memorandum dated July 31, 1941, from Hitler's top commander Hermann Goering to Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the SD (the security service of the SS), referred to the need for an Endlösung ( Final Solution) to "the Jewish question."

Yellow Stars

Beginning in September 1941, every person designated as a Jew in German-held territory was marked with a yellow, six-pointed star, making them open targets. Tens of thousands were soon being deported to the Polish ghettoes and German-occupied cities in the USSR.

Since June 1941, experiments with mass killing methods had been ongoing at the concentration camp of Auschwitz, near Krakow, Poland. That August, 500 officials gassed 500 Soviet POWs to death with the pesticide Zyklon-B. The SS soon placed a huge order for the gas with a German pest-control firm, an ominous indicator of the coming Holocaust.

Holocaust Death Camps

Beginning in late 1941, the Germans began mass transports from the ghettoes in Poland to the concentration camps, starting with those people viewed as the least useful: the sick, old and weak and the very young.

The first mass gassings began at the camp of Belzec, near Lublin, on March 17, 1942. Five more mass killing centers were built at camps in occupied Poland, including Chelmno, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and the largest of all, Auschwitz.

From 1942 to 1945, Jews were deported to the camps from all over Europe, including German-controlled territory as well as those countries allied with Germany. The heaviest deportations took place during the summer and fall of 1942, when more than 300,000 people were deported from the Warsaw ghetto alone.

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Amid the deportations, disease and constant hunger, incarcerated people in the Warsaw Ghetto rose up in armed revolt.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising from April 19-May 16, 1943, ended in the death of 7,000 Jews, with 50,000 survivors sent to extermination camps. But the resistance fighters had held off the Nazis for almost a month, and their revolt inspired revolts at camps and ghettos across German-occupied Europe.

Though the Nazis tried to keep operation of the camps secret, the scale of the killing made this virtually impossible. Eyewitnesses brought reports of Nazi atrocities in Poland to the Allied governments, who were harshly criticized after the war for their failure to respond, or to publicize news of the mass slaughter.

This lack of action was likely mostly due to the Allied focus on winning the war at hand, but was also partly a result of the general incomprehension with which news of the Holocaust was met and the denial and disbelief that such atrocities could be occurring on such a scale.

'Angel of Death'

At Auschwitz alone, more than 2 million people were murdered in a process resembling a large-scale industrial operation. A large population of Jewish and non-Jewish inmates worked in the labor camp there; though only Jews were gassed, thousands of others died of starvation or disease.

In 1943, eugenics advocate Josef Mengele arrived in Auschwitz to begin his infamous experiments on Jewish prisoners. His special area of focus was conducting medical experiments on twins, injecting them with everything from petrol to chloroform under the guise of giving them medical treatment. His actions earned him the nickname "the Angel of Death."

Nazi Rule Ends

By the spring of 1945, German leadership was dissolving amid internal dissent, with Goering and Himmler both seeking to distance themselves from Hitler and take power.

In his last will and political testament, dictated in a German bunker that April 29, Hitler blamed the war on "International Jewry and its helpers" and urged the German leaders and people to follow "the strict observance of the racial laws and with merciless resistance against the universal poisoners of all peoples"-the Jews.

The following day, Hitler died by suicide. Germany's formal surrender in World War II came barely a week later, on May 8, 1945.

German forces had begun evacuating many of the death camps in the fall of 1944, sending inmates under guard to march further from the advancing enemy's front line. These so-called "death marches" continued all the way up to the German surrender, resulting in the deaths of some 250,000 to 375,000 people.

In his classic book Survival in Auschwitz, the Italian-Jewish author Primo Levi described his own state of mind, as well as that of his fellow inmates in Auschwitz on the day before Soviet troops liberated the camp in January 1945: "We lay in a world of death and phantoms. The last trace of civilization had vanished around and inside us. The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to conclusion by the Germans in defeat."

Legacy of the Holocaust

The wounds of the Holocaust-known in Hebrew as "Shoah," or catastrophe-were slow to heal. Survivors of the camps found it nearly impossible to return home, as in many cases they had lost their entire family and been denounced by their non-Jewish neighbors. As a result, the late 1940s saw an unprecedented number of refugees, POWs and other displaced populations moving across Europe.

In an effort to punish the villains of the Holocaust, the Allies held the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-46, which brought Nazi atrocities to horrifying light. Increasing pressure on the Allied powers to create a homeland for Jewish survivors of the Holocaust would lead to a mandate for the creation of Israel in 1948.

Over the decades that followed, ordinary Germans struggled with the Holocaust's bitter legacy, as survivors and the families of victims sought restitution of wealth and property confiscated during the Nazi years.

Beginning in 1953, the German government made payments to individual Jews and to the Jewish people as a way of acknowledging the German people's responsibility for the crimes committed in their name.
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Red Nose Day is a fundraising campaign to end the cycle of child poverty and ensure a healthy future for all children. Campaign Update: Together with your support, we have raised over $46M this year and counting. The campaign continues, as does our mission to end the cycle of child poverty in the US and around the world.

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School on Wheels provides tutoring, school supplies, & other educational assistance to thousands of children experiencing homelessness in Southern California.

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Whose Problem Is Poverty?

James Coleman's (1966) conclusion that schools could have only a limited effect on students who live in poverty began a debate that has continued for decades. In an article published in Educational Leadership (April 2008), Richard Rothstein, research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, asked the question, "Whose problem is poverty?" He suggests that schools can have only a limited influence on closing the achievement gap between students who live in poverty and their more affluent peers unless school improvement is combined with broader social and economic reforms. Without such a combined effort, he claims, the mandate for schools to "fully close achievement gaps not only will remain unfulfilled, but also will cause us to foolishly and unfairly condemn our schools and teachers" (p.8). He is not alone in this logic. David Berliner (2007, as cited in Rodriguez & Fabionar, 2010) argues, "Without careful attention to the social conditions beyond schools, we will continue to encounter limitations in advancing educational equity and high achievement among diverse student populations within schools" (pp.58-59). (See also Anyon, 2005.)

Others assert that schools can, and do, make a significant difference in the lives and the academic outcomes of students who live in poverty (Barr & Parrett, 2007; McGee, 2004). Kati Haycock contends, "It is very clear to me that even as we work to improve the conditions of families in this country, we can in fact get even the poorest children to high standards of achievement if we really focus in our schools on that goal" (in Holland, 2007, p.56).

What Can Schools Do to Address Poverty?

Eliminating poverty is a both/and proposition -- reforms must occur in both the broader society and in schools -- and schools do make a considerable difference. We encourage educators, and particularly educational leaders, to both become knowledgeable about issues related to eliminating poverty, joining forces with others who advocate for social and economic reforms, and summon the courage to do the much-needed work closer to home -- in their own schools and communities. Successfully educating all students to high standards is critical to ultimately eliminating poverty. If, as educators, we feel powerless to address bigger issues such as living-wage jobs and health care reform, Gorski (2008) proposes that we ask ourselves, "Are we willing, at the very least, to tackle the classism in our own schools and classrooms?" Gorski (2007, p.35) provides the following ten suggestions as a starting point:

Assign work requiring a computer and internet access or other costly resources only when we can provide in-school time and materials for such work to be completed.

Work with our schools to make parent involvement affordable and convenient by providing transportation, on-site childcare, and time flexibility.

Give students from poverty access to the same high-level curricular and pedagogical opportunities and high expectations as their wealthy peers.

Teach about classism, consumer culture, the dissolution of labor unions, environmental pollution, and other injustices disproportionately affecting the poor, preparing new generations of students to make a more equitable world.

Keep stocks of school supplies, snacks, clothes, and other basic necessities handy for students who may need them, but find quiet ways to distribute these resources to avoid singling anyone out.

Develop curricula that are relevant and meaningful to our students' lives and draw on their experiences and surroundings.

Fight to get our students into gifted and talented programs, to give them other opportunities usually reserved for economically advantaged students, and to keep them from being assigned unjustly to special education.

Continue to reach out to parents even when we feel they are being unresponsive; this is one way to establish trust.

Challenge our colleagues when they stigmatize poor students and their parents, reminding them of the inequitable conditions in our schools and classrooms.

Challenge ourselves, our biases, and our prejudices by educating ourselves about the cycle of poverty and classism in and out of U.S. schools.

(Reprinted with permission of Teaching Tolerance © 2007. All rights reserved.)
The need for broader social and economic changes in our country does not provide an excuse for maintaining the status quo in schools. Three decades of research have demonstrated that schools can improve academic outcomes and other measures of success for children who live in poverty (Barr & Parrett, 2007; Education Trust, 2002; Teddlie & Stringfield, 1993). As Horace Mann asserted, public education is the most universal of institutions, and it can shape young minds and hearts. It is still our best hope. Although improvements in public education alone will not eliminate poverty, such improvements are an important part of the solution. The question is not whether too much is being asked of public schools, but rather, have we held up our end of the bargain?

Notes

Anyon, J. (2005). "What 'counts' as educational policy? Notes toward a new paradigm." Harvard Educational Review, 75(1), pp.65-88.

Barr, R.D. & Parrett, W. (2007). The kids left behind: Catching children of poverty. Bloomington, Indiana: Solution Tree.

Chau, M., Thampi, K. & Wight, V. (2009). Basic facts about low-income children, 2009: Children under age 18. New York: National Center for Children in Poverty.

Coleman, J.S. (1966). Equality of educational opportunity. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Education Trust. (2002). Dispelling the myth . . . over time. Washington, DC: Author.

Gorski, P.C. (2007, Spring). "The question of class." Teaching Tolerance, 31, pp.26-29.

Gorski, P. (2008). "The myth of the culture of poverty." Educational Leadership, 65(7), pp.32-36.

Haycock, K. (2010, November). Taking charge of change: Effective practices to close achievement gaps and raise achievement [keynote address]. Taking Charge of Change conference, The Education Trust, Arlington, Virginia.

Holland, H. (2007). "Can educators close the achievement gap? An interview with Richard Rothstein and Kati Haycock." Journal of Staff Development, 28(1), pp.54-58.

McGee, G.W. (2004). "Closing the achievement gap: Lessons from Illinois' gold spike high-poverty, high-performing schools." Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 9(2), pp.97-125.

Rodriguez, G.M. & Fabionar, J. (2010). "The impact of poverty on students and schools: Exploring the social justice leadership implications." In C. Marshall & M. Oliva (Eds.), Leadership for social justice (pp.55-73). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson.

Rothstein, R. (2008, April). "Whose problem is poverty?" Educational Leadership, 65(7), pp.8-13.

Teddlie, C. & Stringfield, S. (1993). Schools make a difference: Lessons learned from a 10-year study of school effects. New York: Teachers College Press.

U.S. Census Bureau. (2014). Income and Poverty in the United States: 2014.

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James Coleman's (1966) conclusion that schools could have only a limited effect on students who live in poverty began a debate that has continued for decades. In an article published in Educational Leadership (April 2008), Richard Rothstein, research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, asked the question, "Whose problem is poverty?"

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Two hurricanes - Fiona and Ian - inflicted massive damage on Puerto Rico and Florida in September 2022, but the federal nutrition program responses have differed significantly. As a federal entitlement program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is designed to respond quickly and effectively to changes in need, whether due to economic downturns or natural disasters. It is available in all states, the District of Columbia, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Puerto Rico's counterpart program, the Nutrition Assistance Program (NAP), however, is a block grant with fixed funding that hampers its ability to fully meet needs, including in disasters. It is long past the time for our nation to correct this inequity and provide Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands with pathways to the SNAP entitlement that serves other Americans.

October 10-14 is National School Lunch Week, an annual event celebrating the critical role that school lunch plays in providing children with the nutrition they need to learn and thrive both in and out of the classroom, as well as the tireless work of school nutrition departments across the country in connecting children to the nutrition they need to learn and thrive.
This year's celebration comes on the heels of the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health and its landmark National Strategy, which sets an ambitious but achievable goal of ending hunger by 2030. A key part of this strategy is advancing a pathway to Healthy School Meals for All, which acknowledges that school meals are just as important to students' academic success as textbooks or transportation.

With wildfires ravaging communities on the West Coast and hurricane season well underway on the East Coast, school districts and other operators of Child Nutrition Programs can work with their state child nutrition agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to provide critical nutrition support to students and their families.

When a major disaster declaration is issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), USDA has the authority to waive program requirements that limit access to meals in situations resulting from damage or disruptions due to natural or human-made disasters, or other exceptional emergency situations. These include, but are not limited to, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, and floods. School districts and other entities that operate Child Nutrition Programs can work with their state child nutrition agency and USDA to apply for waivers from program requirements that would otherwise limit children's access to meals.

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State Anti-Hunger Organizations - Food Research & Action Center

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Two hurricanes - Fiona and Ian - inflicted massive damage on Puerto Rico and Florida in September 2022, but the federal nutrition program responses have differed significantly. As a federal entitlement program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is designed to respond quickly and effectively to changes in need, whether due to economic downturns or natural disasters.

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U.S. Hunger Relief Organization | Feeding America

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Feeding America is a nonprofit network of 200 food banks leading the fight against hunger in the United States. Learn how you can help end hunger in America.

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No Kid Hungry is working to end child hunger in America today by ensuring that all children get the healthy food they need every day to thrive.

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American Psychological Association

Washington, District of Columbia 20002

Toll-Free: (800) 374-2721

The American Psychological Association (APA), based in Washington, DC, is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States. APA's mission is to advance creation, dissemination and application of psychological knowledge and practice to benefit society and improves people's lives. The APA Violence Prevention Office (VPO) coordinates APA's activities related to violence and injury prevention, and treatment on topics associated with child maltreatment, trauma, media violence, and youth violence. The office collaborates with other national associations, national collaboratives, and federal agencies to promote the contributions of psychology and psychologists to the understanding and prevention of violence.

AVANCE's mission is to provide support and education services that will strengthen low-income families. AVANCE's focus is on community-based intervention that is family-centered, preventive, comprehensive, and continuous through the integration and collaboration of services. The AVANCE Family Support and Education Program is an example of one of AVANCE's programs: Targeted primarily at Hispanic at-risk parents with young children, the program aims to strengthen parent-child relationships and the parental role of advocate for the child.

Bikers Against Child Abuse International

La Crosse, Wisconsin 54602

Toll-Free: (866) 712-2873

Bikers Against Child Abuse, Inc. (BACA) is dedicated to creating a safer environment for abused children. BACA works with local and State officials to protect and empower children to not feel afraid of the word in which they live.

Child Molestation Research & Prevention Institute

The Child Molestation Research & Prevention Institute is a national science-based nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing child sexual abuse through research, education, and family support. Its focus is on providing information to professionals and to families about the early warning signs of a problem, as well as the availability of early diagnosis and effective treatment.

Toll-Free: (800) 4AC-HILD

Childhelp is dedicated to helping victims of child abuse and neglect. Childhelp's approach focuses on prevention, intervention and treatment. The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline, 1-800-4-A-CHILD, operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and receives calls from throughout the United States, Canada, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and Guam. Childhelp's programs and services also include residential treatment services; children's advocacy centers; therapeutic foster care; group homes; child abuse prevention, education and training; and the National Day of Hope, part of National Child Abuse Prevention Month every April.

Children Without a Voice USA

Alpharetta, Georgia 30023

The mission of Children Without a Voice USA (CWAV) is to raise awareness and to prevent crimes against children and child abuse and neglect through advocacy and education.

The Children's Bureau, the oldest Federal agency for children and families, is located within the Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families. The Bureau is responsible for assisting States in the delivery of child welfare services designed to protect children and to strengthen families. The Bureau provides grants to States, Tribes, and communities to operate a range of child welfare services including child protective services, family preservation and support, foster care, adoption, and independent living.

The mission of the Circle of Parents is to prevent child abuse and neglect and to strengthen families through friendly, supportive, mutual self-help parent support groups and children's programs.

Currently the Circle of Parents national network represents a partnership of parent leaders and 26 statewide organizations in 25 States and Puerto Rico. The organization was formed after a successful collaborative project of Prevent Child Abuse America and the National Family Support Roundtable, which was made possible by the Children's Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The Circle of Parents website provides links to information about the program model, its state network member organizations, training and technical assistance to its membership, parenting resources, and more.

Toll-Free: (866) FOR-LIGH T8663675444

Darkness to Light is a primary prevention program whose mission is to engage adults in the prevention of child sexual abuse; to reduce the incidence of child sexual abuse nationally through education and public awareness aimed at adults; and to provide adults with information to recognize and react responsibly to child sexual abuse.

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

650 Fifth Avenue, 19th Floor

The mission of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Child Abuse Prevention Program is to protect children from abuse and neglect in order to promote their healthy development.

The program awards grants to organizations to improve parent-child interactions and to increase parent's access to information and services that help prevent child maltreatment before it occurs.

Families & Communities Rising

Families & Communities Rising, formerly Chapel Hill Training Outreach Project, is a Durham, North Carolina based nonprofit organization with locations in Durham, Orange and Chatham Counties of NC and programs that reach nationwide. FCR is a national provider of training and technical assistance services, audiovisual and print materials, and offers direct services to children, families and communities.

Family Life Development Center

The mission of the Family Life Development Center is to improve professional and public efforts to understand and act upon risk and protective factors in the lives of children, youth, families, and communities that affect family strengths, child well-being, and youth development. The FLDC accomplishes its mission through research, training, outreach, education, and program development and implementation.

Current areas of special interest include childhood violence prevention and evaluation of programs designed to prevent abuse and neglect. The FLDC operates the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN), which promotes scholarly exchange among researchers and makes original data available for secondary analysis.

Fight Crime: Invest in Kids

Fight Crime: Invest in Kids is dedicated to reviewing research about what really works and what does not work to keep children from becoming criminals.

Fight Crime: Invest in Kids strives to educate policymakers, the mass media, and the public through briefings about effective crime prevention programs while also serving as an information clearinghouse for journalists, policymakers, and the public. Major topics of interest include child abuse and neglect prevention, prevention programs for prekindergartners, bullying prevention, and more.

International Center for Assault Prevention

Blackwood, New Jersey 08012

Toll-Free: (800) 258-3189

General Scope: The International Center for Assault Prevention, ICAP, is an international prevention program that works with individuals, groups, and communities who desire to advocate and protect children by starting a CAP project in their town.

Training Specific: Training programs for various age groups, from preschool through the teens years, as well as training for adults, is available.

International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect

The International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) is the only multidisciplinary international organization that brings together a global cross-section of committed professionals to work towards the prevention and treatment of child abuse, neglect, and exploitation.

ISPCAN's mission is to prevent cruelty to children in every nation, in every form: physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, street children, child fatalities, child prostitution, children of war, emotional abuse, and child labor.

Jacob Wetterling Resource Center

Toll-Free: (800) 325-HOPE

With a vision that every child grows up in a healthy, safe world free from exploitation and/or abduction, the Jacob Wetterling Resource Center (JWRC) focuses it commitment to educating families and communities to prevent the exploitation of children.

The JAWRC is a program of the National Child Protection Training Center http://www.ncptc.org/.

Kempe Foundation for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect

General Scope: The Kempe Children's Center is a clinically based resource providing training, consultation, program development and evaluation, and research in child abuse and neglect. The Center is committed to multidisciplinary approaches to the prevention, identification, and treatment of all forms of abuse and neglect.Training Specific: Kempe provides advanced training for front-line professionals who will subsequently become child abuse and neglect experts in their communities. Examples of trainings offered include: *Training Opportunities through the Colorado Department of Human Services; *Perpetration Prevention Training;*Treatment of Sexually Abusive Youth: A Goal Oriented Approach.

Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower International (Kidpower)

Santa Cruz, California 95061

Toll-Free: (800) 467-6997

Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower International is a global nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting people of all ages and abilities from bullying, violence, and abuse by empowering them with awareness, knowledge, and skills.

Kidpower provides access to information and resources on bullying and child abuse prevention skills through its workshops, free online library, consultation, and publications. It also trains leaders in schools and other youth-serving organizations in how to incorporate Kidpower into their daily activities.

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

Toll-Free: 1-800-843-5678

General Scope: The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children provides assistance to parents, children, law enforcement, schools, and the community in recovering missing children and raising public awareness about ways to help prevent child abduction, molestation, and sexual exploitation. The Center sponsors the CyberTipline for online reporting of the sexual exploitation or molesting of children.

National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome

General Scope: The National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome (NCSBS) offers information on shaken baby syndrome, shaken baby syndrome prevention programs, and training for professionals and parents nationwide.

Training Specific: The Online Training Center offers, among others, three training modules: the Period of PURPLE Crying program overview, Basic Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS/AHT) education, and Childcare Providers Intro to SBS/AHT.

National Child Protection Training Center

175 W Mark St.

Winona State University Campus

Toll-Free: (800) 342-5978

The National Child Protection Training Center (NCPTC) strives to reduce and seek an end to child abuse, neglect and all other forms of child maltreatment through education, training, awareness, prevention, advocacy.

The Center promotes reformation of current training practices by providing an educational curriculum to current and future front-line child protection professionals around the nation so that they will be prepared to recognize and report the abuse of a child.

National Children's Advocacy Center

General Scope: The National Children's Advocacy Center provides prevention, intervention, and treatment services to physically and sexually abused children and their families with a child-focused team approach. NCAC also operates the Southern Regional Children's Advocacy Center, which provides education and training to support the development of Children's Advocacy Centers nationwide.

Training Specific: The NCAC is one of the providers of training for professionals working with abused children and their families. These trainings are both multidisciplinary and discipline-specific. See list of trainings and training opportunities .

National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation

The mission of the National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation is, through a unified effort of national cross-disciplinary organizations and experts, to promote the healthy development of children and youth, and prevent and end their sexual abuse and exploitation.

National Home Visiting Resource Center (NHVRC)

The NHVRC provides comprehensive information about early childhood home visiting to support sound decision-making in policy and practice. This includes research examining home visitingâ€™s impact on child maltreatment.

National Indian Child Welfare Association

The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) functions as the only Native American organization focused specifically on issues of child abuse and neglect and tribal capacity to prevent and respond effectively to these problems. NICWAprovide workshops and training programs, using culturally appropriate NICWA developed resources, including training materials, curricula, and books. NICWA also offers technical assistance and training on child care, family preservation, and substance abuse.

Training Specific: NICWA has developed trainings on a variety of topics related to American Indian child welfare that are available via on-site training, training institutes, or ICWA online training courses. For more information, please see http://www.nicwa.org/training/.

National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV)

Phone: (858) 527-1860 ext. 4140

The National Partnership to End Interpersonal Violence Across the Lifespan (NPEIV) embraces a national, multi-disciplinary, and multicultural commitment to the prevention of all forms of interpersonal violence. NPEIV believes it is a basic human right to be safe at home, safe at school, safe in the community, and safe when interacting with the institutions of our society. It is NPEIV's mission to work towards eliminating all forms of interpersonal violence, for all people, in all communities, at all stages of life. Please refer to NPEIV's website at: https://www.npeiv.org/. for more information on NPEIV and its activities.

Parents for Megan's Law and the Crime Victims Center

Ronkonkoma, New York 11779

Parents for Megan's Law and the Crime Victims Center (PFML/CVC) provide national Helpline community support and assistance on issues related to Megan's Law, sex offender management, and sexual assault prevention.

PFML/CVC is funded by the U.S. Justice Department to staff the National Megan's Law Helpline to support the community when sex offender notifications are implemented and to provide appropriate law enforcement referrals when registrants are failing to comply with registration requirements or are in positions of trust which may pose a risk to public safety.

Safer Society Foundation, Inc.

Brandon, Vermont 05733-0340

General Scope: The Safer Society Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit agency, is a national research, advocacy, and referral center on the prevention and treatment of sexual abuse. The Foundation provides training and consultation, research, sex offender treatment referrals, a computerized program network, and a resource library. It also publishes materials for the prevention and treatment of sexual abuse.

Training Specific: The Safer Society will help individuals, agencies, states, and organizations develop specialized training institutes on current and emerging topics related to sexual abuse prevention and treatment. To identify professional trainers or to set up a training event, please call for further information.

Saint Francis Ministries is a non-profit, faith-based organization dedicated to the protection, nurturing, and healing of children and families in body, mind, and spirit. Services offered encompass family preservation, foster care, therapeutic foster care, adoption, residential care, international ministries, and community outreach services.

General Scope: Formed by the union of The Alliance for Strong Families and Communities and the Council on Accreditation, Social Current brings together a network of human/social service organizations and partners. Leveraging the collective experience of the field and research, the newly created organization focuses on amplifying the work of the social sector through collaboration, innovation, policy, and practice excellence. Social Current offers access to intellectual capital of thousands of professionals within their network through peer groups, learning opportunities, collective advocacy, individualized consultation, tools, and resources that address the sector's most critical challenges.
Online Trainings: Social Current also offers a compilation of live webinars and self-paced and instructor-led courses that address issues related to organizational excellence, advancing equity, and population health and well-being. While most of the courses are free, some involve a cost.

Toll-Free: (888) 773-8368

Stop It Now! prevents the sexual abuse of children by mobilizing adults, families and communities to take action before a child is harmed. Stop It Now! provides support, information and resources for adults to take responsibility for creating safer communities.

Visit the Online Help Center at StopItNow.org for guidance and resources to prevent child sexual abuse.

Stop the Silence: Stop Child Sexual Abuse

The mission of Stop the Silence is to increase awareness about and conduct programming to address the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse (CSA), and to address the relationships between this issue and the broader issues of overall family and community violence.

The Joshua Center on Child Sexual Abuse Prevention

Seattle, Washington 98105

The Joshua Center on Child Sexual Abuse Prevention works to eradicate the sexual abuse of youth aged 12 to 17 by identifying, evaluating, conducting, and disseminating the latest research, information, and proven prevention practices.

UNICEF (UN Children's Agency) Social Norms and Protection of Children from Violence, Child Protection, Programme Division. UNICEF is the driving force that helps build a world where the rights of every child are realized. UNICEF promotes the strengthening of all components of child protection systems - human resources, finances, laws, standards, governance, monitoring and services.

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Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Organizations

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American Psychological Association Washington, District of Columbia 20002 Toll-Free: (800) 374-2721 The American Psychological Association (APA), based in Washington, DC, is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States. APA's mission is to advance creation, dissemination and application of psychological knowledge and practice to benefit society and improves people's lives.

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Prevent Child Abuse America is the nation's oldest and largest organization committed to preventing child abuse and neglect before it happens. We promote programs and resources informed by science that enable kids, families, and entire communities to thrive-today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. ​

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ABOUT THE COALITION

Formed in 1981, the National Child Abuse Coalition has become the foremost resource on federal policy issues related to the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect. The Coalition embodies a commitment to coordinate advocacy efforts by providing a forum for robust policy conversations and consensus building, as well as a central point of contact for policymakers and their staff who wish to engage in child abuse and neglect issues.

OUR MISSION

The Coalition seeks to reform federal policies that prevent child welfare system involvement by supporting families and communities. We also work to support children and families that do come to the attention of child welfare by improving the systems that respond to abuse and neglect.

We educate Members of Congress and the Administration on the science of prevention and approaches that strengthen families, prevent child abuse and neglect, and support children and families who touch the child welfare system. We advocate for federal legislation, programs and policies such as the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (also known as CAPTA), Title IV-B and Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, and home visiting programs (MIECHV). We also lend our support on upstream prevention programs that strengthen families and prevent child maltreatment such as the child tax credit, paid leave, and child care.

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Advocating for federal policies that Prevent and Address Child Abuse and neglect Learn More

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Since 1959 Childhelp has existed to meet the physical, emotional, educational and spiritual needs of abused, neglected and at-risk children.

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Stop Bullying on the Spot

When adults respond quickly and consistently to bullying behavior they send the message that it is not acceptable. Research shows this can stop bullying behavior over time.

Parents, school staff, and other adults in the community can help kids prevent bullying by talking about it, building a safe school environment, and creating a community-wide bullying prevention strategy.

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StopBullying.gov provides information from various government agencies on bullying, cyberbullying, prevention and response.

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Studies show bullying is reduced by over 50% on campuses where students begin anti-bullying clubs. Find out how you can start a C2BK chapter at your school.

Bullying affects children of all races, ethnicities, religions, national origins, gender identities, income levels, disability statuses, and sexual orientations. Read about current bullying events and stories around the world.

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If you or anyone you know is in need of anti-bullying services, please contact us at the email address below.

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If you, your child, or someone you know is being bullied, we want to help.

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As a non-profit organization, we rely directly on the contributions of individuals to support our services.

If you are open to contributing some of your time, expertise, or funding for the health of our children, please join us!

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NAPAB advocates on behalf of bullied children and their families, providing education and support to parents, educators, children, and the community at large. Driven by Daniel's story, we exist solely for the purpose of providing social service to our communities.

Celebrating 10 years of Anti-Bullying Campaigns

NAPAB advocates on behalf of bullied children and their families.  Our goal is to bring about positive resolution between parties involved. We help schools across the country begin their own Cool 2 Be Kind Chapters.  We also provide education and support to parents, educators, children and the community at large in order to promote a harassment free society.  Learn more under About Us by clicking on the picture below.

“If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.” -Mahatma Gandhi

Studies show bullying is reduced by over 50% on campuses where students begin anti-bullying clubs. Find out how you can start a C2BK chapter at your school.

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National Association of People Against Bullying - NAPAB

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The National Association for People Against Bullying (NAPAB) offers direct help to students, parents, and educators to support the anti-movement. Motivated by the death of Daniel Mendez and other victims of bullying, we provide direct anti-bullying services. If you or someone you know needs direct h

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effective solutions on STOMP Out Bullying® is the leading national nonprofit dedicated to changing the culture for all students. It works to reduce and prevent bullying, cyberbullying and other digital abuse, educates against homophobia, LGBTQ+ discrimination, racism and hatred, and deters violence in schools, online and in communities across the country. STOMP Out Bullying promotes civility, diversity, inclusion, equity and equality. It teaches how to respond to all forms of bullying, as well as educating kids and teens in school and online. It provides help for those in need and at risk of suicide, and raises awareness through peer mentoring programs in schools, public service announcements by noted celebrities, and social media campaigns.

A pioneer on the issue, STOMP Out Bullying® is recognized as
the most influential anti-bullying and cyberbullying organization in America and beyond.

Our Story

In 2005, STOMP Out Bullying was born with the passion and commitment to help all youths in need. Our founder and CEO, Ross Ellis, never wants to see another child in pain, and she never again wants to hear the words, "I want to die."

15 year-old David, was severely depressed due to being bullied. He had been called every possible name one could imagine. He didn't want to go to school, he quit extra-curricular sports. On the days that he did go to school he stayed in his room when he got home and shut his family and friends out. David was surfing the Web and found STOMP Out Bullying. He started reading our "Are You Being Bullied?" page and read about the comebacks. He learned to successfully use the comebacks which helped to make the bully stop victimizing him. Today, David is empowered and enjoys going to school. This is just one of millions of ways we have made an impact on the lives of America's students.

Our Impact

* Helping over 5.5 million students resolve Bullying and Cyberbullying situations

* Assisting over 100,000 students and saving over 2,000 lives through the STOMP Out Bullying HelpChat Crisis Line

* Through our various support networks we have saved a total of 6,000 lives. These numbers increase daily.

* Working with over 45,000 school partners to raise awareness and educate students

* Over 20 Youth Leaders working to change the culture in schools across the country

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We have always been an organization for kindness. The types of problems we tackle may have changed over the past decade,
But our passion has never wavered.
Ours is a higher purpose.
We work so that youth may stand tall and be respected. With our help, youth are kinder.
Schools are more inclusive.
Communities have more equality.
Society has more unity.
So that, a culture of cruelty can
become a culture of civility.
So we devote ourselves to breaking down barriers, we give voice to the voiceless.
We give belonging to those feeling left out.
We welcome diversity and inclusivity.
We work shoulder to shoulder in unity.
We empower the fearful to be fearless in this pursuit. And together we will find the answers, to change the culture, for good.

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At Equality Now, we believe in creating a just world for women and girls. Since 1992, our international network of lawyers, activists and supporters have tackled the most difficult issues, challenged ingrained cultural assumptions and called out inequality wherever we see it.

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WEDO is a global advocacy organization established in 1991 by former U.S. Congresswoman Bella Abzug (1920-1998) and feminist activist and journalist Mim Kelber (1922-2004). It grew out of an extraordinary group of women, including Bella and Gloria Steinem, who started Women USA in 1979, and became the organization it is today through the vision of WEDO pioneers, Wangari Maathai, Vandana Shiva, Thais Corral, and many others. In 2011, WEDO celebrated its official 20th anniversary!

WEDO has been a leader in organizing women for international conferences and actions, earning a reputation as a trailblazer in the international women's rights movement. Read more of our history on our website.

WEDO recognized that the hard-won policy commitments to women's rights that emerged from the major UN conferences of the 1990s were not enough to improve women's daily lives. WEDO has spent the last few years focused on deeper collaboration with Southern partners to increase the number of women leaders at all levels, to implement global policy gains at the national level, and to hold governments accountable to their commitments on women's rights.

Headquartered in New York, WEDO is a registered non-profit organization under Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of the United States and is an accredited non-governmental organization with the United Nations. WEDO programs receive financial support from government and UN donor agencies and partners, individual donors, and foundations.

In 2006 WEDO was awarded the Champion of the Earth award by UNEP, citing WEDO as "a champion in the field of women's economic, social and gender rights and a beacon for the empowerment of women across the environmental and development debate."

In 2010, WEDO was awarded by the National Council for Research on Women (NCRW) for outstanding advocacy to integrate a gender perspective into climate change arenas.

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According to the National Center on Elder Abuse, approximately one in six older adults is affected by elder abuse every year. Elder abuse can take many forms: physical, sexual, emotional and financial abuse, as well as neglect and abandonment.

The incidence of elder abuse in America is so pervasive that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now considers it a major public health problem. And experts believe that with the aging of the nation's largest generation-baby boomers-the incidence of elder abuse will likely increase as the population of older adults is projected to reach 80.8 million by 2040.

Since their inception, Area Agencies on Aging (AAAs) have played a significant role in detecting and preventing elder abuse. According to the 2020 National Survey of Area Agencies on Aging, 69 percent provide at least one service or program designed to address this serious problem. Providing community education and training, launching public awareness campaigns targeting older adults, participating in an elder abuse prevention coalition or multidisciplinary team, and utilizing case management strategies for at-risk or vulnerable older adults are among the most common AAA strategies to combat elder abuse.

Although most AAA elder justice programs address issues associated with elder abuse, AAAs also provide support on a range of other legal issues common among older adults. Legal issues related to guardianship, health and long-term care and public benefit programs are just a few of the many AAAs handle as part of their role in implementing legal services under Title III B of the Older Americans Act.

To elevate and provide a strategic focus for federal support for elder abuse protection, the Elder Justice Act (EJA) was enacted in 2010, after years of work by advocates including USAging and our members. The EJA was established to support the development and implementation of strategies to slow and reverse the rate of elder abuse, neglect and exploitation cases in the United States by strengthening the efforts of state and local agencies, including AAAs. Unfortunately, Congress has yet to fund the Act, making it impossible for systemic change to begin.

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Welcome to the National Center on Elder Abuse
The NCEA provides the latest information regarding research, training, best practices, news and resources on elder abuse, neglect and exploitation to professionals and the public. First established by the U.S. Administration on Aging (AoA) in 1988 as a national elder abuse resource center, the NCEA was granted a permanent home at AoA in the 1992 amendments made to Title II of the Older Americans Act.

The NCEA is one of 27 Administration on Aging-funded Resource Centers. Research shows that as many as two million elders are abused in the United States. The Administration on Aging recognizes that as a government, as a society and as individuals, we must increase our efforts to ensure that all older adults age with dignity and honor.

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Synthesize and disseminate high quality research on elder abuse to encourage the translation of research into practice.

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The World Food Programme (WFP) is one of the largest UN agencies helping 86.7 million people in around 83 countries every year, and delivering food assistance in places of emergencies, as well as working with communities to build resilience and improve nutrition. The WFP is an emergency-responder, with 5.600 trucks, 20 ships and 92 planes on the move every day, delivering food assistance to people struck by conflicts, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes and other natural disasters.

The organization implements projects focusing on nutrition while targeting mothers and children and malnutrition in developing countries. It also implements school feeding programs around the world and provides school meals to more than 16 million children in 60 countries. It provides cash-based transfers that allow people to shop and choose their own food locally. The WFP employs around 17.000 staff worldwide, of whom over 90 % are based in the countries that require assistance.

Care is a global organization dedicated to ending poverty and protecting dignity of people. It works around the world to save lives, defeat poverty and achieve social justice with a vision of "a world of hope, tolerance and social justice, where poverty has been overcome and all people live with dignity, where poverty has been overcome and all people live with dignity and security".

One of Care's goals is having 50 million poor and vulnerable people improve their nutrition and food security. Therefore, the organization's work is focused on responding to emergencies to enable fishers, small scale farmers, and pastoralists to increase their productivity, access markets, and ensure the nutrition of their families. The organization is particularly focused on the role of women as consumers and food producers through its program She Feeds the World, to strengthen women's voice, gender equality and inclusive governance.

The Hunger Project is an international non-profit organization with a vision of "a world where every woman, man and child lead a healthy, fulfilling life of self-reliance and dignity". The Hunger Projects implements programs in Asia, Africa and South America, that aim to mobilize rural communities to achieve sustainable progress in nutrition, family hunger, health and education.

The mission of the organization is to end hunger and poverty. It currently works in 16.075 communities and empowers women and men living in rural areas to overcome hunger and poverty by themselves. The three essential elements of this organization's work are: empowering women as key change agents, mobilizing communities for self-reliant action and fostering effective partnerships with local governments.

Bread for the World (Bread) is a collective Christian organization based in the US, working to end hunger at home and abroad. The organization advocates against policies and programs that allow hunger and poverty to persist and is vocal in the US Congress to change policies in its own countries and around the world to help people who struggle with hunger.

Bread equips people to meet with members of Congress, to write personal e-mails and letters, and to work together with others to end hunger. It works through campuses, churches, and other organizations to advocate for change. It organizes advocacy campaigns to pass or block laws that impact poverty and hunger and builds the political will to tackle deeply these two issues.

The Cleaning Cooking Alliance is a global organization working with a network of partners to build an inclusive industry that makes clean cooking accessible. According to the organization, three billion people around the world depend on open fires and inefficient stoves to cook their food, which directly impacts their health, as well as climate and the environment. Thus, achieving universal access to clean cooking solutions requires innovative technologies and business models.

The Cleaning Cooking Alliance's work evolves around three core pillars: first, driving consumer demand for cleaner and more modern stoves by awareness raising; second, mobilizing investment to build businesses capable of delivering and affordable and high-quality clean cooking products; and third, advocating for effective policies that address the issue. Clean cooking transforms lives by providing healthier nutrition to affected individuals.

Action Against Hunger is a global organization that works to end hunger around the world. The primary goal of the organization's primary goal is to create a better way to deal with hunger and malnutrition in nearly 50 countries. The organization employs around 7.500 field staff who assist more than 21 million people in emergencies caused by food crises, natural disasters and conflicts.

Action Against Hunger focuses on families with young children. Its goal is double the number of children who receive urgent hunger care, from three million to six million by 2020. The organization also deals with other issues evolving from hunger, such as nutrition and health, water and sanitation, emergency response, food security and livelihoods. Action Against Hunger saves lives of children and their families and enables them to provide for themselves. The organization constantly searches for innovative and effective solutions to push for long-term change and free world from hunger.

The Akshaya Patra is an Indian NGO established in 2000 with an aim to eliminate classroom hunger by implementing the Mid-Day Meal Scheme program in the government funded schools in India. Since then, this NGO has become the world's largest organization in this program, serving wholesome food to every school day to over 1.8 million children from 16.856 schools across twelve Indian states and two union territories in the country.

The core goal of the organization is to eliminate malnutrition amongst children and to support the right to education for children whose parents and families are unable to afford it. The organization partners up with the government of India, as well as several state governments, and enjoys support from corporations and individual donor to feed the children in schools, and to leverage technologies to multiply its reach.

Feeding America is the leading organization in the fight against hunger in the US. Its mission is "to feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage country in the fight to end hunger".

Feeding America is the largest network of food banks, meal programs and pantries in the US. It serves 46 million people through 200 food banks in almost every community in America. It was established 40 years ago and since then it has implemented innovative ways in combating food waste and providing fresh food to hungry people across the continent. The organization believes that everyone, including governments, charities, businesses, and individuals, play a role in ending hunger in the US.

Rise Against Hunger is a global organization the recognizes that ending hunger is more than just feeding people. The organization is driven by the vision of a world without hunger and its mission is to end hunger by providing food and aid to the most vulnerable people in the world.

The organization mobilizes a global network of the so-called hunger champions or meal packaging volunteers who produce millions of means each year that are, then, distributed to partners in countries across the world. The partners of the Rise Against Hunger locally distribute meals, using their knowledge and presents, while the Rise Against Hunger ensures that meals distributed as used as tools to promote education, improve health and nutrition, and stimulate economic growth. The organization also responds to emergencies and natural disasters and promotes programs of agricultural production to reduce hunger.

SPOON was established in 2007 with a vision of a world in which all children and nourished and valued. Since then, the SPOON has worked with leading experts in the fields of nutrition, pediatrics, orphan care, epidemiology, feeding, disability, child development and public health. SPOON's work is science-based, accompanies with strong evidence and results.

The organization advocates for policies for better nutrition and feeding for children with disabilities and children without family care. It works with policy makers to design guidelines and push for policies to ensure all children are nourished. Organization's program Count Me In is especially designed for children with disabilities and those living in institutions. Through this program, SPOON monitors children individually and offers recommendations to caregivers in a form of a care plan for every child. The program considers nutrition, growth, and feeding techniques, which, eventually results in better health and higher quality of life for children.

UNICEF is one of the largest UN agencies dedicated to helping children in need. It works around the world to help children survive and thrive. Amongst many programs, the UNICEF implements the nutrition program and is the part of the major global initiative called the Scaling Up Nutrition, which drives focus and investment for nutrition in many countries around the world.

UNICEF works in more than 190 countries worldwide saving lives of children. A key component of its work is nutrition, which is often implemented through an emergency feeding program during famine and disaster situations. The organization also established community clinics that offer nutrition education to young mothers. It is safe to say that today, UNICEF is the largest supplier of food for malnourished children in the world.

Meals on Wheels is one of the largest organizations in the US supporting more than 5.000 community programs that deal with addressing the issue of hunger and isolation of senior populations. The organization virtually serves every community in America and employs around two million staff and volunteers who deliver nutritious meals and pay friendly visits to seniors in America. This enables them to lead nourished lives and live in dignity.

The Meals on Wheels serves approximately one million meals a day using two methods of food distribution: through direct delivery of food to seniors and adults with disabilities at their home, or through serving of meals to groups of people in community centers or care facilities. The organization also implements programs that allow seniors to live in their own homes for as long as possible and avoid costly alternatives such as hospitals and nursing home care services.

Heifer International was established in 1944, and since then it has become a global non-profit organization on a mission to end hunger and poverty in a sustainable way by supporting and investing in local farmers and their communities. The organization works in 21 countries worldwide to build livelihoods for local farmers and strengthen local economies.

Heifer International works in partnership with the communities it serves and implements programs that support entrepreneurs. The organization donates livestock such as chickens, cows, and goats and provides mentorship to help local farmers build a business and gain access to market chains. In this way, families are able to earn for their livelihoods and increase their incomes which directly boosts security and nutrition and improves environmental sustainability. One such program is called Passing on the Gift, in which every farmer passes on their first animal female offspring, providing another family in need with an opportunity to improve their livelihood.

Mealshare is a non-profit organization located in the US and Canada, that is committed to ending hunger amongst youth. The organization allows all people to participate in achieving its mission without asking them to make changes in their own lives.

The organization works with charities worldwide and restaurants to provide food for children and youth worldwide. The Mealshare employs ''one for one'' model which enables people to select restaurants and other places and pay for the meal, which, later on, is distributed by the Mealshare team to a child in need.

Project Concern International (PCI) is a global development organization that uses innovation to end hunger, enhance health, overcome hardships and assist women and girls to achieve changes in their lives. PCI currently works across Asia, Africa and the America, transforming lives of nearly ten million people.

PCI implements the food security programs, while trying to identify the primary causes of this issue to ensure sustainable solutions. Through its work, it addresses food security pillars in its programs so that it can offer comprehensive, contextualized and integrated interventions. The organization uses integrated approach to prevent hunger and malnutrition through programming in climate smart and nutrition sensitive agriculture, livelihood security and strengthening access to markets, improving health, nutrition and hygiene practices, integrated food for education programs. These approaches are driven by strong community engagement and ownership and a commitment to working towards sustainability.

Penny Appeal USA is a non-profit development organization working to alleviate poverty through sustainable programs. The organization tackles the root causes of poverty and bridges the gap between funders and poor communities to achieve long-term solutions that can help intergenerational poverty.

The organization implements the Feed Our World Program to meet immediate hunger needs worldwide and domestically. It provides nutritious meals in more than 30 countries and current operates in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Kashmir, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Nepal, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestine, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania and Yemen. Through this program, the Penny Appeal USA helps people to lift themselves out of food poverty.

The Alliance to End Hunger was established in 2001 as a platform for both secular and faith-based organizations to join in fight against hunger. It has more than 90 members consisting of NGOs, faith-based organizations, corporations, individuals, healthcare providers, foundations, associations and universities.

The organization implements the program called The Hunger Free Communities Initiative, that brings together local stakeholders to work on ending hunger in their local communities and across the US. Additionally, through the National Alliance Partnership Program, the organization builds the capacity of civil societies in developing countries to engage in food security, agricultural and nutrition policy processes. Lastly, the Alliance to End Hunger advocates for ending hunger by bringing together policy makers to learn about the issue of hunger.

Feed the Children was founded in 1979 in the US as a non-profit organization focused on reducing childhood hunger. The organization is active in the US and a number of countries worldwide in which it implements a Child-Focused Community Development approach with programs related to food and nutrition, health and water, education, and livelihoods.

Feed the Children works with vulnerable children and local communities to improve their social, economic, cultural, and environmental conditions. The goal of the organization is to improve the security of mothers and children in the area of food and nutrition by providing them with necessary skills to achieve this. Feed the Children employs around 600 staff internationally, who work in close relations with other organizations and actors to achieve long-term sustainable changes.

Food for the Hungry is an international organization that seeks to end all forms of human poverty by assisting the most vulnerable people in over 20 countries around the world. The organization follows the Christian belief that every person has intrinsic value and that everyone should be assisted to regardless of their race, religion, or nationality.

Food for the Hungry provides life-changing resources such as food, clean water, medical aid, as well as education and vocational training. The organization actively works on improving livelihoods of communities by providing them with training in agricultural practices. By implementing new techniques, communities successfully grow enough food and raise enough livestock to feed their families and earn additional income by selling the excess of produce at the market.

Caritas International is a confederation of over 160 members working together in almost every country of the world-reaching out to the poor, vulnerable and excluded organizations regardless of their religion and races. The headquarters of the organization is placed in Rome, while all national Caritas organizations are members of regional Caritas networks and the international confederation.

Amongst other issues related to poverty, Caritas advocates for the right to food, where everyone receives adequate and nutritious food. The organization addresses the lack of food by working on the root causes of hunger. Thus, it actively promotes rural development and agriculture and addresses climate changes to ensure that communities are less vulnerable. Caritas teaches communities on importance of eating well and growing the right food. During emergencies, Caritas distributes food and provides supplementary feeding to the most vulnerable.

Seed Programs International is a global non-profit humanitarian organization with a vision ''of a world in which even the poorest, most disadvantaged people have access to viable seed and the knowledge to grow and utilize food''. The organization's mission is to provide good quality seed, expertise, and training materials to humanitarian organizations working around the world to end hunger and poverty.

The organization believes that providing people with good seed and training to grow food can help in reduction of hunger and improvement of nutrition. This is achieved by enabling people to grow vegetables which are rich in micronutrients usually missing from their diets and are often essential for health. These programs also improve people's livelihoods because it enables them to earn their income by selling excess produce and reduce their dependency on donated food.

AIARD is an association composed of international members who have devoted their careers to hunger alleviation and agricultural development. Members of AIARD are professionals from NGOs, universities, private sector companies and government agencies. The mission of the organization is to improve quality of life of all people by developing global capacities to respond to new challenges and helping to improve food security, eliminate poverty, and protect the environment to stimulate economic growth and sustainable development.

The Association mobilizes support for international agriculture and rural development by influencing policy makers, institutions and donors and informing them on effective strategies to advance these two issues in the global economy. AIARD also promotes interaction and cooperation amongst all organization involved in international development, as well as expands their abilities to implement development programs.

Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture (CNFA) was founded in 1985 as an international agricultural development organization that specializes in the design and implementation of sustainable, enterprise-based agricultural initiatives. CNFA's mission is to increase and sustain rural incomes in less developed areas of the world by assisting farmers and rural entrepreneurs, with a goal to build a world without hunger.

The organization works with communities, businesses, governments and foundations to meet growing demands for food around the world. The organization assists farmers by enabling agribusiness financing, improving marketing and strengthening the market linkages in Middle East, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Africa, the Caribbean and South and Central Asia.

Edesia is a non-profit organization with a mission to help treat and prevent malnutrition of most vulnerable populations in the world. Edesia is known for manufacturing specialized ready to use foods. Every year Edesia delivers millions of packets of food to malnourished children all over the world through a channel of humanitarian workers, working in the hardest to reach places. Currently, the organization employs around 100 people from 25 countries.

Edesia's approach in addressing malnutrition is global, including vulnerable groups such as young children, pregnant and breastfeeding mothers, people affected by AIDs and similar. Additionally, Edesia supplies products for organizations working in emergency situations along with the nutrition programming.

World Central Kitchen is an NGO that provides meals during disasters. It was founded by celebrity chef Jose Andres in 2010, as a response to earthquake disaster in Haiti. Since then, the organization has distributed meals in Cambodia, Peru, Cuba, Nicaragua, Zambia, Uganda, the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas.

One of the core activities of the organization is advancing the clean cooking sector by supporting institutional activities and programs in countries, to ensure that women from around the world have affordable access to cleaner cooking solutions in their homes. Last but not least, the World Central Kitchen conducts culinary programs to school cooks in underserved communities that are conducted by culinary professionals and deal with food safety and training.

WhyHunger is an NGO that works to address root causes of hunger, such as racism, poverty, sexism, classism, homophobia and other forms of oppression. The organization works with a vision of ''social justice in which all members are physically and psychologically safe and where everyone has access to resources they need to fully participate, thrive, and succeed''.

WhyHunger advocates for the right to food by acting in solidarity with social movements around the world. The organization also works to amplify community voices and produces stories and publications to share experiences of its partners as they work towards changing the broken food system. The core of WhyHunger's work is growing grassroots power by building and supporting movements, as well as allying with grassroots organizations and leaders.

Mercy Corps is an international organization that provides emergency relief during times of disasters and crisis, and helps communities build resilience to cope with future disasters by providing food security, agriculture education and medical services. Mercy Corps tackles hunger by addressing its causes and improving systems that enable access to food.

Mercy Corps connects farmers around the world to the people and resources to increase their production and feed their families, as well as helps communities to improve their crops and livestock production. During crisis, the organization provides food assistance when food supplies are short or unaffordable. So far, Mercy Corps has improved access to nutritious food for more than 30 million people around the world.

The Lunchbox Fund is a non-profit organization based in South Africa, working on lunch programs in early childhood development centers providing pre-school education, after school home assistance and skills development programs for orphaned children

One of the main activities of the organization is providing daily lunch at schools for children living in rural areas in South Africa. The school lunch is created from a box of products sent each month, with a food full of micronutrients to ensure that children receive up to 50% of their daily micronutrient needs. The organization monitors participating schools and collects data on the field to ensure the programs are conducted up to its standards. Support to schools is offered for a minimum of one year and sustained as long as school has a need.

Food for the Poor is one of the largest faith-based international development organizations in the US. The organization's work is motivated by faith in God and spreading of love to all people regardless of their race and origin. Food for the Poor currently operates in 17 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

Food for the Poor provides lifesaving food, secures housing, clean water, healthcare, emergency relief, micro-enterprise projects and education to the poor. The organization implements its activities on the ground through local churches, clergy and community leaders by empowering them and supplying them with goods. According to the organization's statement ''the poor in spirit are renewed by their relationship with and service to the poor through our direct ministry of teaching, encouragement and prayer''.

One Acre Fund is an NGO that works to end hunger by serving and supporting farmers in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Malawi. The organization provides seeds and fertilizers to farmers based on credit, that makes these supplies affordable and accessible. In 2017, the One Acre Fund served more than 500.000 farm families throughout East Africa and currently is on track to serve one million farmers by 2020.

Amongst other activities, the organization conducts agricultural trainings on improvement of harvests and helps farmers to build relationships with local traders and safely store their crops. This helps farmers improve their harvests and produce more food for their families and communities. One Acre Fund estimates that, by 2020, farmers who participate in its programs will produce a surplus of food to feed an additional five million neighbors.

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1. World Food Programme The World Food Programme (WFP) is one of the largest UN agencies helping 86.7 million people in around 83 countries every year, and delivering food assistance in places of emergencies, as well as working with communities to build resilience and improve nutrition.

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Accommodations

Click Here for a Full List of Accommodations

DOWNTOWN HOTELS - The conference will take place on the University of Manitoba campus. However, delegates may prefer to stay downtown, closer to amenities, and shuttle or bus to the conference.

Fort Garry Hotel

222 Broadway Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R3C 0R3
204-942-8251

Prices and Booking Code

$129.00/night (for Queen Room/ Double/Double, or King Room)
Booking code: quote

Description

The Fort Garry Hotel is a proclaimed national historic site. It is an iconic hotel, spa, and conference centre in the heart of downtown, just minutes away from most major Winnipeg attractions.

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Delta Winnipeg Hotel

350 St Mary Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R3C 3J2 ‎
204-942-0551

Prices and Booking Code

Delta Room: $145.00
Premier Room: $170.00
Signature Club: $220.00

(Rates are per room, per night, single or double occupancy and based on availability at time of reservation. A charge of $15.00 per additional adult will be added to the above rate, up to a maximum of four adults per room. Subject to applicable taxes)

Reservations can be made by calling the Reservations Department at 1-888-311-4990, by faxing to (204) 943-4627, or emailing their request to in.reservations@deltahotels.com. Requests must specifically include clarification of attendance of the International Association of Genocide Scholars to qualify for the rate. Confirmed reservations will be held until 4:00 p.m. on the scheduled arrival date unless designated as guaranteed, by an advance deposit or valid credit card number with expiration date. Each individual will be responsible for paying for his or her own room, room taxes and all incidental charges prior to departure.

Description

Delta Winnipeg will be completing a multi-million dollar renovation this fall introducing a redefined and redesigned guestroom and conference centre to the Winnipeg market. This hotel is conveniently connected via skywalk to the RBC Convention Centre Winnipeg, MTS Centre, cityplace, MTS Centre, Portage Place Shopping Centre and downtown business district.

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Inn at the Forks

75 Forks Market Road
Winnipeg, MB R3C 0A2
204- 942-6555

Prices and Booking Code

Standard Queen Guestroom - $159 per night plus taxes and incidentals
Standard Two Queen Guestroom - $164 per night plus taxes and incidentals
Superior King Guestroom - $154 per night plus taxes and incidentals
Deluxe Guestroom - $179 per night plus taxes and incidentals

(Based on single/double occupancy, plus applicable taxes, depending on availability, net non-commissionable rates, not a group block, individual reservations only)

Rates will be available until the day of arrival; and reservations will be based only on availability. Guests need to call the toll free number at 1-877-377-4100 to book and quote the International Association of Genocide Scholars Social Rate in order to receive the special rate that is offered.

Description

Located at The Forks; Manitoba's most popular tourist destination, Inn at the Forks places you within easy access of many attractions, shopping and dining.

Includes

Complimentary High Speed Internet

Complimentary local calling

Two dual line speaker phones

Alarm clock with iPod docking station

Coffee/Tea

Iron and ironing board

Portable hairdryer

"Green" hotel

HOTELS CLOSE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA - For those who prefer to be located with easy access to the conference site, we suggest the following hotels

Best Western Plus Pembina Inn & Suites

1714 Pembina Hwy
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2G2
Prices and Booking Code
Group rate at $125 per night. Cots are an additional charge of $12 per cot per night.

Call to make reservation and be sure to mention the International Association of Genocide Scholars corporate rate. The number is 204-269-8888.

Description

Just two kilometers from the University of Manitoba, this hotel in Winnipeg is the perfect accommodation for family, friends and business travelers visiting the campus.

Includes

Free deluxe hot breakfast

Free wireless high-speed internet

Free parking

2 wheelchair designated rooms with 36 inch doors.

Hairdryer

Fridges in all rooms

Coffee maker

Local calls free of charge

Voice mail

Soup and munchies Sunday through Thursday starting at 5pm

Salt water pool, waterslide and hot tub (7am-11pm)

Canad Inns Destination Centre: Fort Garry

1824 Pembina Hwy
Winnipeg, MB R3T 2G2
204-261-7450

Prices and Booking Code

Standard Room with 2 queen beds: $99.00
King Suites with a separate living room: $112.00

To reserve at the discounted rate, when you call to make reservation, simply quote the University of Manitoba Preferred Rate ($99.00 Standard, $112.00 King) and the hotel will honour it for both room types, based on availability.

Description

Canad Inns are "destination centres" that feature the finest in accommodations, food and beverage, entertainment, banquet and conference facilities, and so much more. Canad Inns is proud to be Manitoba owned and operated and that pride is reflected in our commitment to our employees, our guests and the city and province we call home. They are located minutes away from the University of Manitoba's campus, on Pembina Hwy, very close to Bishop Grandin.

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Comfort Inn South

3109 Pembina Hwy
Winnipeg, MB R3T 4R6
204-269-7390

Prices and Booking Code

Rate of $89.00 plus tax per night.

Follow this link to book with the discounted conference rate: U of M Rate for the Comfort Inn Winnipeg South

Description

This newly renovated hotel is minutes away from the University of Manitoba, the Investors Group Field, and the many other attractions in the South end of the city.

Includes

Recently renovated Full hot breakfast

Free Wireless high-speed internet

32" LCD flat screen television

Iron and ironing board

Coffee maker

Air conditioning

Free use of Business Centre and printer

Free parking

Pet-friendly

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Pembina Hall U of M Residence

101 Arthur V. Mauro Residence
120 Dafoe Road
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 6B3

Phone Toll-Free: 1-800-859-8737
Local: 204-474-9922

Prices and Booking Code

Single (1 bed), single occupancy only with private washroom: $69.00 per night (with taxes approximately $81.59 per night)

Booking Portal: http://starrez-app.cc.umanitoba.ca/StarRezPortalConference

* Rates are subject to 8% PST, 5% GST, and 5% AT** and 5% GST on the AT.
** City of Winnipeg Accommodation Tax (AT) is applied on rooms renting for more than $30 per night. Therefore it is not applicable to the Youth Rates in the Dormitory Residences.

Description

Pembina Hall Residence, the University's newest residence, opened on September 3, 2011. It houses 360 students in a contemporary, high-rise building situated above the existing Pembina Hall Building and Dining Room. All 360 units are single rooms with an exterior glass wall providing plenty of natural light and excellent views of the campus to the north and the Red River to the south.

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Top 10 Must Sees

Click Here for a Full List of Things to Do.

1. The Forks National Historic Site

www.theforks.com
www.parkscanada.gc.ca/forks

Discover an urban oasis in the heart of Winnipeg. As a historic meeting place, located at the junction of the Assiniboine and mighty Red River, the Forks is complete with skateboarding park, river walk, shops and green space. Winter, spring, summer or fall, The Forks is must for a stunning array of dining experiences, incomparable shopping, a constantly changing slate of entertainment and events, and many unique attractions that encompass the site's natural, historic and man-made features.

2. Winnipeg Art Gallery

Constructed of Manitoba Tyndall stone, Canada's oldest public gallery is home to the world's largest public collection of contemporary Inuit art, some of which is always on display. The Winnipeg Art Gallery (WAG) boasts a constantly changing exhibition schedule of national and international art, while showcasing the works of Manitoba artists. The gift shop carries unique jewellery, ceramics and glassware handcrafted by Canadian artists. The bright and airy Storm Bistro overlooks the rooftop sculpture garden and tables are set outside in summer months. The WAG is located within walking distance of all downtown hotels.

3. The Exchange District

www.exchangedistrict.org

The Exchange District National Historic Site is one of North America's most colourful and cosmopolitan neighbourhoods. The 30-block district showcases North America's most extensive collection of turnof-the-last-century architecture, and is home to the city's unrivalled arts community. In addition, the Exchange District is a must-stop for anyone looking for one-of-a-kind items by local designers, antiques and vintage furniture.

4. The Manitoba Museum

www.manitobamuseum.ca

The Manitoba Museum is an award-winning heritage and edutainment centre welcoming thousands of visitors each year. It features an ever-changing variety of touring and specialty exhibits in addition to its Planetarium, Science Gallery and nine spectacular permanent galleries. The museum offers a vivid portrayal of Manitoba's rich and colourful history and is home of one of Canada's most important historical collections: The Hudson's Bay Company Museum Collection.

5. St. Boniface / Winnipeg's French Quarter

www.tourismeriel.com

Pass over the spectacular Esplanade Riel Pedestrian Bridge and you'll find yourself in St. Boniface, home to one of the largest francophone communities west of the Great Lakes and the birthplace of Louis Riel, the Métis leader who founded Manitoba. St. Boniface is truly reflective of its French heritage. Here, you can stroll along Provencher Boulevard, while stopping at boutiques and quaint cafes along the way.

6. Wonders of Nature

Experience the great outdoors and the wonders of nature when you take the Bison Safari adventure at FortWhyte Alive. Winnipeg's award-winning 640-acre nature centre showcases a 30-head prairie bison herd, five lakes, seven km of trails and outdoor activities all year long, including fishing, canoeing, hiking, wildlife watching, snowshoeing, skating, cross-country skiing, and the super Richardson run toboggan slide. Then, see why Oak Hammock Marsh Interpretive Centre has been voted the world's "Best Environmental Experience." Under the guidance of friendly interpreters, you can trek nature trails, take a guided tour of the marsh, go canoeing, view wildlife, watch a film in the multimedia theatre, enjoy a meal in the café and check out the fun, interactive exhibits.

7. Assiniboine Park

www.assiniboinepark.ca

This stunning urban park is Winnipeg's oldest, welcoming visitors for more than 100 years. Bring little ones to Assiniboine Park Zoo and its whimsical Nature Playground or contemplate life in the tranquil setting of the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden. Stroll the treelined walkways or catch a game of lawn bowling as you enjoy the park's lush and verdant setting. Head to the Pavilion Art Gallery, fill up at one of two restaurants and then lay out a blanket and watch a performance beneath the stars at Lyric Theatre.

8. Cultural Experiences

Winnipeg is known as the cultural cradle of Canada and it's easy to see why with its dazzling performing arts scene alight with talent and star power. Take in the steps of Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet, the notes of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, the voices of Manitoba Opera or the performances of the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre. For something more avant garde, don't miss Winnipeg's Contemporary Dancers, the intimate setting of Prairie Theatre Exchange or Le Cercle Molière's theatre performed entirely in French.

9. Sports and Gaming

www.casinosofwinnipeg.com

For armchair athletes and dedicated fans, Winnipeg offers non-stop excitement for sports lovers. Don't miss the newly-minted Winnipeg Jets NHL team, the beloved Winnipeg Blue Bombers CFL team or the popular Winnipeg Goldeyes baseball team as they go for the win. When you're ready to get into the action yourself, the city offers dozens of manicured golf courses, endless running and ski trails, two stunning themed casinos-Club Regent and McPhillips Station-and Assiniboia Downs, a horse racing track.

10. Royal Canadian Mint

Get up close and personal with all that glitters at the Royal Canadian Mint, where every single Canadian circulation coin is produced-that's billions each year! When arriving, look for the beautiful 110-foot tall glass tower designed by local architect Étienne Gaboury and the display of 75 flags representing the additional countries that have coins produced right here in Winnipeg. Learn about the production of coins and explore the Interactive Coin Museum for a fun and creative experience, including the once-in-a-lifetime chance to lift and hold a 23-pound gold bar worth approximately $600,000.

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Protecting Our Right to Vote

States have introduced hundreds of measures to restrict the right to vote. Our democracy must meet these challenges by adopting reforms that promote safe and accessible elections.

Quality Care for Black Americans

Over 10 million people have lost their Medicaid health coverage, with communities of color bearing the brunt of the impact. The federal government has the power to provide incentives and urge these state leaders to take the actions necessary to pause unwinding, and create an automated renewal process.

Fighting for Good Jobs

The NAACP is proud to continue standing in solidarity with our fellow advocates in the labor movement. As we continuously engage in conversations with corporations and Congressional members, one thing is clear - enacting a living, minimum wage nationwide is imperative.

Protecting Our Right to Vote

States have introduced hundreds of measures to restrict the right to vote. Our democracy must meet these challenges by adopting reforms that promote safe and accessible elections.

Quality Care for Black Americans

Over 10 million people have lost their Medicaid health coverage, with communities of color bearing the brunt of the impact. The federal government has the power to provide incentives and urge these state leaders to take the actions necessary to pause unwinding, and create an automated renewal process.

Fighting for Good Jobs

The NAACP is proud to continue standing in solidarity with our fellow advocates in the labor movement. As we continuously engage in conversations with corporations and Congressional members, one thing is clear - enacting a living, minimum wage nationwide is imperative.

Putting Black America First

The future of our democracy lies in America's forgotten corners. That's why the NAACP is working hard to recruit 300K volunteers across the country ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
- Derrick Johnson, President and CEO, NAACP

Driving Quality of Life through Data

NAACP and Brookings have partnered on The Black Progress Index, a new analysis of the places where Black people are thriving most, as measured through their life expectancy. In the spirit of W.E.B. Du Bois, we're working to provide insight into the local civic actions that can improve life expectancy outcomes.

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American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
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Leadership Conference on Civil Rights/Leadership Conference Education Fund
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National Coalition on School Diversity
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The United Nations is the inter-governmental organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights worldwide. It is also where most of the international human rights standards to combat racism have been shaped and, because of it nature, it is an important space where civil society organizations working on combating racial discrimination can have their voices heard. The Human Rights Council is one of the most important political bodies within the UN system; it is responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe.

The Special Procedures is the name given to the mechanisms established by the Human Rights Council to address either specific country situations or thematic issues in the world. Two of the mandates that deal with racial discrimination are the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance and the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues.

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The mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues is another Special Procedure that promotes the implementation of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities. An important part of its mandate is the inclusion of the views of non-governmental organizations.

The UN has also created other institutions under the international human rights treaties. These bodies are made up of independent experts mandated to monitor States Parties' compliance with their treaty obligations. The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is the body that monitors the implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD). The States that have ratified the Convention must submit reports on the rights situtation in their country, including how rights are being secured and strengthened. After such reports are submitted, the Committee addresses its concerns and recommendations to the member state in its "concluding observations." The reports made by member states and the concluding observations of the Committee can be important advocacy tools for civil society organizations.

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The Institute conducts activities based on the mandates of various bodies to contact Afro-descendant organizations before conducting country visits, and promotes public events with our partners to publicize the conclusions and recommendations of relevant bodies so that these can become advocacy tools for civil society organizations in Latin America.

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The United Nations is the inter-governmental organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights worldwide. It is also where most of the international human rights standards to combat racism have been shaped and, because of it nature, it is an important space where civil society organizations working on combating racial discrimination can have their voices heard.

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ENAR's Equal@work Platform brings together businesses, social partners, NGOs, public authorities and academics committed to diversity and inclusion, to find solutions for the participation of ethnic minorities in the labour market.

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The European Network Against Racism (ENAR) is a network of member organisations across Europe. ENAR combats racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, promotes equality for all, and links local/regional/national initiatives with European Union initiatives.

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The National Organization for Women is the largest organization of feminist grassroots activists in the United States. NOW has hundreds of chapters and hundreds of thousands of members and activists in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Since our founding in 1966, NOW's purpose is to take action through intersectional grassroots activism to promote feminist ideals, lead societal change, eliminate discrimination, and achieve and protect the equal rights of all women and girls in all aspects of social, political, and economic life.

NOW activists use both traditional and nontraditional means to push for social change. NOW activists do extensive electoral and lobbying work and bring lawsuits. We also organize mass marches, rallies, pickets, non-violent civil disobedience and immediate, responsive "zap" actions. NOW re-instituted mass marches for women's rights in the face of conventional wisdom that marches went out with the 1960s. A NOW-organized march in support of the Equal Rights Amendment drew more than 100,000 people to Washington, D.C. in 1978. NOW's Marches for Women's Lives drew 500,000 reproductive rights supporters to Washington, D.C. in 1989 and 750,000 in 1992, for the largest women's rights demonstration ever. In 1995, NOW organized the first mass demonstration to focus on the issue of violence against women-and drew a quarter million people to the Mall. The 1996 March to Fight the Right in San Francisco drew more than 50,000 activists to kick off an electoral season focused on efforts to defend affirmative action. In 2004, the March for Women's Lives became the largest mass action of any kind in U.S. history, bringing a record 1.15 million people to Washington, DC to advocate for women's reproductive health options.

NOW's actions have established the organization as a major force in the sweeping changes that put more women in political posts; increased educational, employment and business opportunities for women; and enacted tougher laws against violence, harassment and discrimination.

NOW is an intersectional, multi-issue, multi-strategy organization that takes a holistic approach to women's rights. Our official priorities are winning economic equality and securing it with an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that will guarantee equal rights for women; championing abortion rights, reproductive justice along with other women's health issues; opposing racism; fighting discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in all areas, including employment, housing, health services, and child custody; and ending violence against all women, no matter race, age, or socio-economic class.

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Who We Are | National Organization for Women

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The National Organization for Women is the largest organization of feminist grassroots activists in the United States. NOW has hundreds of chapters and hundreds of thousands of members and activists in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

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Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

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Official U.S. Government website for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). Our mission is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation.

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n keeping with the President and First Lady's commitment to honor the sacrifices of all who serve - veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors - the League's POW/MIA flag was restored to its globally recognized position on top of the White House. This action reaffirms our Nation's commitment to account as fully as possible for American Prisoners-of-War and Missing-in-Action, as well as other US personnel still unaccounted-for from the Vietnam War and wars and conflicts further past, thus ending the uncertainty of their families.
National League of POW/MIA Families
6920 Braddock Road, Suite B213
Annandale, VA 22003
The Way Ahead

​Minister of Public Security General To Lam received a delegation of the US National League of Families of Prisoners of War and Missing in Action (POW/MIA), which was on a visit to Vietnam, on December 12, in Hanoi.

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​ Thousands of Men Have Come Home Because of Him

Johnie Webb has spent nearly half a century spearheading the search for those missing in action from America's wars. Now, he's finally getting his own homecoming..
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For nearly half a century, Johnie Webb has been the heart and soul of the Pentagon's effort to put the pieces back together for thousands of families whose loved ones were taken prisoner, killed in action, or buried in an unknown grave and never got their proper homecoming. He has navigated the fraught politics in the aftermath of an unpopular war, balancing the sometimes-competing interests of Congressional budgets with those of anguished family members who turned their grief into activism. Though approximately 80,000 U.S. service members are still unaccounted for, the team Webb built at what is now the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has located and identified and returned to their families for a proper burial the remains of more than 3,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines from far-flung battlefields as far back as World War II and as recent as Iraq. here!

Today, January 27th, we remember the 50th Anniversary of the signing in 1973 of the "Paris Peace Accords" that ended active US involvement in the Vietnam War. Families around the world, but mostly in America, breathlessly awaited word of as to whether their loved one would be coming home, and shortly thereafter, 591 POWs returned to national celebrations. Thankful for all who returned, Vietnam War POW/MIA families continue seeking answers, an end to uncertainty that we've pursued since before the end of that long-ago war...........YOU CAN HELP..........Please let President Biden know you are grateful that our POW/MIA flag flies over the White House......signaling worldwide our Nation's commitment to accounting as fully as possible for America's 1,581 unreturned Vietnam War Veterans. ​

Soldier Accounted For From
​Vietnam War (Green, T.)

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that U.S. Army Pfc. Thomas F. Green, 19, of Ramona, California, killed during the Vietnam War, was accounted for Aug. 23, 2022.

In October 1971, Green was assigned to the 68th Aviation Company, 52nd Aviation Battalion, 17th Aviation Group. On Oct. 26, Green was serving as the door gunner on a CH-47B Chinook helicopter when it went down over water in bad weather while flying from Tuy Hoa to Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam. Remains of four of the 10 Soldiers on board were recovered during search and rescue operations following the crash, but Green was not accounted for.

An unsuccessful recovery attempt was made in 1974 when divers from the Joint Casualty Resolution Center dove on what was believed to be the crash site. A number of investigation and recovery efforts took place between 1994 and 2021 with a June 2021 recovery mission finding possible human remains and material evidence.

To identify Green's remains, scientists from DPAA used anthropological analysis, as well as material and circumstantial evidence. Additionally, scientists from the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System used mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis.

Green's name is recorded on the National Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the American Battle Monuments Commission's Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, along with others who are unaccounted-for from the Vietnam War. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for.

Green's will be buried in Ramona, California on Feb. 23, 2023.
www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/News-Releases/PressReleaseArticleView/Article/3139077/soldier-accounted-for-from-vietnam-war-green-t/

Ann Mills-Griffiths, chairwoman of the board of directors of the National League of POW/MIA Families, praised Cambodia for being one the league's most supportive partners as it sought to repatriate the remains of American soldiers who went missing during the war.
Mills-Griffiths offered her thanks during a courtesy call with Minister of Interior Sar Kheng at the National Assembly on December 6.

"Despite the Covid-19 situation in Cambodia, the Kingdom has shown that there has been no slowdown in the search for the remains of missing American soldiers, and progress has been made. Cambodia has worked closely with its US partners," she said.
During the meeting, she told Sar Kheng that she has visited Cambodia many times, but this would likely be her last journey to the Kingdom. She extended her thanks to King Norodom Sihamoni, Prime Minister Hun Sen, Sar Kheng and all of the officials who had worked tirelessly to provide humanitarian assistance in helping search for the remains of missing Americans.
​ www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-powmia-chair-praises-kingdom

Ann Mills-Griffiths, Chairman of the Board/CEO, National League of POW/MIA Families Visits The Queen Mother Library of the Documentation Center of Cambodia
PLEASE GIVE! HELP BRING HOME AMERICA'S POW/MIA,
OUR UNRETURNED VIETNAM WAR VETERANS!
Though names of Vietnam War missing seldom appear in recent DPAA releases, the League is thankful that US personnel lost in WWII and the Korean War are being disinterred from US cemeteries worldwide and, in a few WWII cases, being recovered. These Americans are being identified and returned to their families for burial with full military honors. The League is grateful that our efforts since formation on May 28, 1970, are now bringing about long-overdue recognition, but remains hopeful that answers on our Vietnam War missing will soon increase and end the uncertainty of impacted families. Ann Mills-Griffiths, Chairman/CEO

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced four burial updates for service members who have been missing and unaccounted-for from World War II and Korea. Returning home for burial with full military honors are:

-- -- -- Read about Rotunno. Army Cpl. Tommie T. Hanks, 27, of Fort Worth, Texas, was assigned to Company E, 2nd Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. On Nov. 26, 1950, he was reported missing in action while his unit was attempting to withdraw from east Ch'ongch'on River near Anju, North Korea. Following the war, his remains could not be recovered and there is no evidence that he was a prisoner of war. Hanks will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on a date yet to be determined. Read about Hanks.
Army Pfc. Francis P. Martin, 25, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was assigned to Company D, 1st Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division. His unit was engaged in battle with German forces near Lichtenberg, France, when he was wounded and reported missing. With no body recovered and the Germans never reporting him as a prisoner of war, on Jan. 17, 1946, the War Department issued a finding of death. Martin will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on a date yet to be determined.
of Brooklyn, New York, was assigned to Company K, 3rd Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division. His unit was engaged in the Battle of Reipertswiller in France when it was surrounded by German forces. On Jan. 20, 1945, his unit and four other companies attempted a break-out through German lines. Rotunno was among those killed the following day and his body could not be recovered. He will be buried in Rutherford, New Jersey, on a date yet to be determined. Army Staff Sgt. James Rotunno, 27, Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Walter Nies, 23, of Eureka, South Dakota, was assigned to 96th Bombardment Squadron, 2nd Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force. On Jan. 24, 1944, the B-17F Flying Fortress bomber on which he was serving as a tail gunner was shot down by enemy fighters. The crew was captured by Germans, and Nies was among those sent to Stalag Luft 6 prisoner of war camp. Nies died on May 28, 1944,
-- after being shot. He will be buried in Eureka, South Dakota, on a date yet to be determined. Read about Nies.
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​POW-MIA Families Facebook page.
​RAF LAKENHEATH POW/MIA Activities.
Thank you, Mr. Bob Hale, Education Development Volunteer @ Bentwaters Cold War Museum (BCWM) and UK / European Coordinator for the National League of POW/MIA Families

The League is always seeking for photos of POW/MIA flag, monuments, Missing Man Honors Tables, and POW/MIA empty chairs from your community to feature on our social media pages and website.

​Sharing with us is easy, just message your photos to the League Facebook page or admin@pow-miafamiles.org with a brief description of when & where
the photo was taken.
​All proper credits will be given.

​Mark Stephensen (League Vice Chairman), Ann Mills-Griffiths (League Chairman of the Board/CEO), and Gene Peters
Accounting for all of the missing will never be possible, but working together, we can and will achieve the fullest possible accounting for America's Vietnam War POW/MIAs.
​This message reaches those serving today in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and at bases, posts and stations around the world. They NEED TO know if captured or missing while serving, our nation will be there for them.
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n keeping with the President and First Lady's commitment to honor the sacrifices of all who serve - veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors - the League's POW/MIA flag was restored to its globally recognized position on top of the White House.

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The National Alliance of Families for the Return of America's Missing Servicemen official statement regarding the dissolution of The National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia aka National League of POW/MIA Families​