PEN American Center
To protect writers around the world from intolerance, censorship, and human rights violations, and to establish and emergency fund for threatened writers.
To protect writers around the world from intolerance, censorship, and human rights violations, and to establish and emergency fund for threatened writers.
To apply forensic sciences in investigations of human rights violations around the world.
To conduct research and public education in support of a ban on the production and use of landmines.
To provide press and public relations services to the environmental community and, in particular, to respond rapidly to misinformation and inaccuracies that environmental opponents propagate.
To support litigation and public education programs that have a domestic focus.
To help start operations aimed at assisting African human rights organizations in preparing cases for submission to the African Commission for Peoples and Human Rights.
To support the Opposition Research Project.
To educate the public about the damage that air pollution from power plants causes to ecosystems and wildlife, by involving the scientific community.
To conduct litigation under provisions of the Clean Air Act in order to accelerate reductions of emissions from power plants.
To create a matching opportunity for other foundations to support the Campus Campaign for Choice, a national program that creates curricular and extracurricular activities for college students who want to become involved in reproductive rights and health issues.