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Causes: Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy, Crime & Law, Human Service Organizations, Human Services, International, International Human Rights, Public Interest Law
Mission: Freedom now is a u. S based non-profit, non-governmental, and non-partisan organization that works to free individual prisoners of conscience through focused legal, political relations advocacy efforts. Prisoners of conscience are persons detained for their political, religious, or other beliefs or because of their ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, color, language, national or social origin, economic status, birth or other status who have not used or advocated violence.
Programs: Legal and political advocacy on behalf of individuals who have been arbitrarily detained for exercising fundamental rights. The organization works on behalf of individuals, their families and communities. Activities include petitions to the united nations and coordinating the efforts of policy makers, officials and ngos.