UUSC focuses on four major program areas to carry out our efforts to advance human rights and social justice. We work in partnership with local grassroots organizations in the United States and around the world, standing with these communities as they confront unjust power structures and challenge oppressive policies. In each program area, we focus especially on issues of race, class, and gender and their roles in perpetuating injustice and human rights abuses.

• Advancing economic justice. UUSC addresses the issues of globalization and privatization, with a focus on defending workers’ rights and supporting living wage campaigns.



• Defending civil liberties and access to democratic processes. UUSC partners with civil liberties organizations and civil society groups working to defend freedom and rights by strengthening individual liberty and democratic processes in the Global War on Terror.
  
  
• Promoting environmental justice. UUSC’s primary focus in this area is promoting and defending the human right to water (pdf), especially in communities facing water-service privatization and resource depletion.
  
  
• Protecting rights in humanitarian crises. UUSC responds strategically to disasters, whether natural or man-made, focusing especially on defending the rights of marginalized and oppressed populations.

Experiential learning
UUSC provides unique opportunities for social justice activists to translate their values into action by participating in on-the-ground projects that involve issues such as race, class, and gender.

JustWorks camps are short-term experiential learning projects that help volunteers examine and understand the causes and damaging effects of injustice. Participants work directly with people in the communities they serve, experiencing social justice struggles firsthand.

JustJourneys are unique educational travel experiences that focus on human rights and social justice issues. Participants will come into direct contact with UUSC program partners and other human rights defenders.