Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
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Advancing human rights & social justice for 80+ years with UU principles. Partnering with grassroots organizations to dismantle oppression & amplify marginalized voices.
We recently hosted our #PacificRising convening, where Pacific partners shared what climate loss truly means: loss of memory, culture, and place.
Climate justice must center their leadership and lived experience.
Learn more with Climate Justice Resilience Fund's spotlight of our collective:
Climate justice must center their leadership and lived experience.
Learn more with Climate Justice Resilience Fund's spotlight of our collective:
Culture as Resilience: Pacific Voices on Unmeasurable Loss and Self-Determined Solutions -- Climate Justice Resilience Fund
As the climate crisis intensifies, communities across the Pacific continue to experience devastating losses that cannot be measured solely in monetary terms: losses of culture, identity, land, and ways of life. These profound, non-monetary impacts are w...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
We recently hosted our #PacificRising convening, where Pacific partners shared what climate loss truly means: loss of memory, culture, and place.
Climate justice must center their leadership and lived experience.
Learn more with Climate Justice Resilience Fund's spotlight of our collective:
Climate justice must center their leadership and lived experience.
Learn more with Climate Justice Resilience Fund's spotlight of our collective:
In Sudan, communities are keeping each other alive through Emergency Response Rooms: networks rooted in nafeer, the call to care for your neighbors.
Alongside our partners in the Coalition for Mutual Aid in Sudan, recognized by the Clinton Global Initiative, we are mobilizing direct support.
Alongside our partners in the Coalition for Mutual Aid in Sudan, recognized by the Clinton Global Initiative, we are mobilizing direct support.
Solidarity with Sudan – UUSC
In Sudan grassroots networks known as Emergency Response Rooms are saving lives. Learn how UUSC is mobilizing resources through mutual aid.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:56 PM
In Sudan, communities are keeping each other alive through Emergency Response Rooms: networks rooted in nafeer, the call to care for your neighbors.
Alongside our partners in the Coalition for Mutual Aid in Sudan, recognized by the Clinton Global Initiative, we are mobilizing direct support.
Alongside our partners in the Coalition for Mutual Aid in Sudan, recognized by the Clinton Global Initiative, we are mobilizing direct support.
Today marks the first official day of #COP30, the global UN climate conference, and we are on the ground with our partners in Belém, Brazil.
Learn more about our demands and send messages of solidarity to our partners: https://www.uusc.org/issues/climate-justice/cop/
Learn more about our demands and send messages of solidarity to our partners: https://www.uusc.org/issues/climate-justice/cop/
UUSC at COP – Advancing Climate Justice at the Global Stage
UUSC attends COP annually to amplify the voices of its partners who are experiencing the earliest and most devastating effects of climate change.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Today marks the first official day of #COP30, the global UN climate conference, and we are on the ground with our partners in Belém, Brazil.
Learn more about our demands and send messages of solidarity to our partners: https://www.uusc.org/issues/climate-justice/cop/
Learn more about our demands and send messages of solidarity to our partners: https://www.uusc.org/issues/climate-justice/cop/
This November, our partners are heading to Belém for #COP30 to advocate for climate justice and Non-Economic Loss and Damage. Share your support today!
https://www.uusc.org/champion-the-future-support-cop30/
https://www.uusc.org/champion-the-future-support-cop30/
Champion the Future: Support COP30 – UUSC
UUSC proudly supports eight grassroots partners at COP30 to advance climate justice and Non-Economic Loss and Damage.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This November, our partners are heading to Belém for #COP30 to advocate for climate justice and Non-Economic Loss and Damage. Share your support today!
https://www.uusc.org/champion-the-future-support-cop30/
https://www.uusc.org/champion-the-future-support-cop30/
Hurricane Melissa devastated parts of the Caribbean this week. In Haiti, partners report flooding, displacement, and farms lost. UUSC’s allies are already responding with food, shelter, and protection. Join us in solidarity: https://www.uusc.org/press/responding-to-impact-of-hurricane-melissa/
October 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Hurricane Melissa devastated parts of the Caribbean this week. In Haiti, partners report flooding, displacement, and farms lost. UUSC’s allies are already responding with food, shelter, and protection. Join us in solidarity: https://www.uusc.org/press/responding-to-impact-of-hurricane-melissa/
Typhoon Halong shows us why resilience funding matters. Recently the EPA canceled grants meant to protect Alaska Native villages like Kwigillingok and Kipnuk.
Help us urge the EPA to restore the funds now. Take action: https://uusc.quorum.us/EPA-action/
Help us urge the EPA to restore the funds now. Take action: https://uusc.quorum.us/EPA-action/
Join the UUSC Resistance Network – Mobilizing for Human Rights & Democracy
The struggle for human rights has never been more urgent. Join UUSC’s Resistance Network—a hub for action, learning, and solidarity. Stay informed, take action, and build collective power to defend de...
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October 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Typhoon Halong shows us why resilience funding matters. Recently the EPA canceled grants meant to protect Alaska Native villages like Kwigillingok and Kipnuk.
Help us urge the EPA to restore the funds now. Take action: https://uusc.quorum.us/EPA-action/
Help us urge the EPA to restore the funds now. Take action: https://uusc.quorum.us/EPA-action/
“We are not drowning, we are fighting.”
Our Director of Advocacy Salote Solo reflects on this year’s #PacificRising, UUSC’s annual convening in Fiji, and why Non-Economic Loss and Damage (NELD) must be centered as we head toward #COP30.
Our Director of Advocacy Salote Solo reflects on this year’s #PacificRising, UUSC’s annual convening in Fiji, and why Non-Economic Loss and Damage (NELD) must be centered as we head toward #COP30.
Diligent Hope: From the Pacific Islands to New York – UUSC
UUSC partners from the Pacific champion climate justice and Non-Economic Loss and Damage, calling for accountability ahead of COP30.
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October 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
“We are not drowning, we are fighting.”
Our Director of Advocacy Salote Solo reflects on this year’s #PacificRising, UUSC’s annual convening in Fiji, and why Non-Economic Loss and Damage (NELD) must be centered as we head toward #COP30.
Our Director of Advocacy Salote Solo reflects on this year’s #PacificRising, UUSC’s annual convening in Fiji, and why Non-Economic Loss and Damage (NELD) must be centered as we head toward #COP30.
New video series launching 🎥: Hear from UUSC Board Member Sukyi Naing and President Mary Katherine Morn on why grassroots partnership and global solidarity are at the heart of our work.
These reflections from our 2025 Stewardship Circle remind us: we are stronger together. More voices soon!
These reflections from our 2025 Stewardship Circle remind us: we are stronger together. More voices soon!
Mary Katherine Morn: How Global Partners Give Us Courage | UUSC Stewardship Circle 2025
Reflecting from the 2025 Stewardship Circle retreat, UUSC President Mary Katherine Morn shares how partnership with global allies transforms and strengthens our organization's work.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
New video series launching 🎥: Hear from UUSC Board Member Sukyi Naing and President Mary Katherine Morn on why grassroots partnership and global solidarity are at the heart of our work.
These reflections from our 2025 Stewardship Circle remind us: we are stronger together. More voices soon!
These reflections from our 2025 Stewardship Circle remind us: we are stronger together. More voices soon!
BHRN’s new report, years in the making, shows how fear and discrimination are used to target Rohingya and other Muslims in Myanmar. Timely as leaders meet on the Rohingya crisis.
We encourage you to read and share!
We encourage you to read and share!
“You Will Have to draw picture to describe us”: The Genocidal Process and The Plight of Myanmar's Muslims - Burma Human Rights Network - BHRN
Burma Human Rights Network (BHRN) is working for human rights, minority rights and religious freedom in Burma.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
BHRN’s new report, years in the making, shows how fear and discrimination are used to target Rohingya and other Muslims in Myanmar. Timely as leaders meet on the Rohingya crisis.
We encourage you to read and share!
We encourage you to read and share!
Asylum Pride House centers community care so LGBTQI+ people in migration can rebuild with dignity. Be part of it through #GuestAtYourTable.
https://www.uusc.org/community-care-the-true-measure-of-success/
#MigrationSolidarity #LGBTQI #CommunityCare
https://www.uusc.org/community-care-the-true-measure-of-success/
#MigrationSolidarity #LGBTQI #CommunityCare
October 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Asylum Pride House centers community care so LGBTQI+ people in migration can rebuild with dignity. Be part of it through #GuestAtYourTable.
https://www.uusc.org/community-care-the-true-measure-of-success/
#MigrationSolidarity #LGBTQI #CommunityCare
https://www.uusc.org/community-care-the-true-measure-of-success/
#MigrationSolidarity #LGBTQI #CommunityCare
The new Loss and Damage Collaboration report, created with project leaders and funded by the Scottish Government, shows what effective support can look like.
Join us next Thursday at noon for the virtual launch event!
https://bit.ly/47CZj8M
Join us next Thursday at noon for the virtual launch event!
https://bit.ly/47CZj8M
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Learning from the Frontlines: Reflections on Scotland’s Support for Loss and Damage.
Loss and damage is a daily reality for communities across the world. Over the past five years, the Scottish Government has acted in solidarity with frontline communities in the Global South on Loss an...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The new Loss and Damage Collaboration report, created with project leaders and funded by the Scottish Government, shows what effective support can look like.
Join us next Thursday at noon for the virtual launch event!
https://bit.ly/47CZj8M
Join us next Thursday at noon for the virtual launch event!
https://bit.ly/47CZj8M
By withdrawing from the UN’s Universal Periodic Review, the U.S. is dodging scrutiny of its human rights record. Rather than engage in dialogue and model transparency, it weakens a system meant to protect us all.
Learn more about New York event + livestream:
Learn more about New York event + livestream:
October 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
By withdrawing from the UN’s Universal Periodic Review, the U.S. is dodging scrutiny of its human rights record. Rather than engage in dialogue and model transparency, it weakens a system meant to protect us all.
Learn more about New York event + livestream:
Learn more about New York event + livestream:
Justice takes root in small acts of courage. 🌱
Our 2025–2026 Guest at Your Table theme, Planting Seeds of Justice, honors partners building liberation from the ground up: from El Salvador to Haiti, Honduras to Philadelphia.
Check out our new worship and education materials.
Our 2025–2026 Guest at Your Table theme, Planting Seeds of Justice, honors partners building liberation from the ground up: from El Salvador to Haiti, Honduras to Philadelphia.
Check out our new worship and education materials.
UUSC's Guest at Your Table – Faith Rooted Action
Guest at Your Table invites your congregation to learn from UUSC partners and join in advancing equity, dignity, and global justice.
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October 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Justice takes root in small acts of courage. 🌱
Our 2025–2026 Guest at Your Table theme, Planting Seeds of Justice, honors partners building liberation from the ground up: from El Salvador to Haiti, Honduras to Philadelphia.
Check out our new worship and education materials.
Our 2025–2026 Guest at Your Table theme, Planting Seeds of Justice, honors partners building liberation from the ground up: from El Salvador to Haiti, Honduras to Philadelphia.
Check out our new worship and education materials.
When fear takes root in sacred spaces, communities of conscience rise together.
Across the country, people of faith are defending freedom of worship and choosing love over fear.
Read more in Salon: https://www.salon.com/2025/10/16/religious-liberty-trump-is-obstructing-freedom-of-worship/
Across the country, people of faith are defending freedom of worship and choosing love over fear.
Read more in Salon: https://www.salon.com/2025/10/16/religious-liberty-trump-is-obstructing-freedom-of-worship/
Religious liberty? Trump is obstructing freedom of worship
The president's anti-immigration agenda is driving fear into America's houses of worship
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October 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
When fear takes root in sacred spaces, communities of conscience rise together.
Across the country, people of faith are defending freedom of worship and choosing love over fear.
Read more in Salon: https://www.salon.com/2025/10/16/religious-liberty-trump-is-obstructing-freedom-of-worship/
Across the country, people of faith are defending freedom of worship and choosing love over fear.
Read more in Salon: https://www.salon.com/2025/10/16/religious-liberty-trump-is-obstructing-freedom-of-worship/
Proud to see our movement partners PISFCC and Emergency Response Rooms honored with the 2025 Right Livelihood Award.
From the Pacific to Sudan to Burma, they are showing the world that solidarity is action.✊🏽
https://www.dw.com/en/alternative-nobel-prize-goes-to-pacific-climate-activists/a-74194841
From the Pacific to Sudan to Burma, they are showing the world that solidarity is action.✊🏽
https://www.dw.com/en/alternative-nobel-prize-goes-to-pacific-climate-activists/a-74194841
'Alternative Nobel Prize' goes to Pacific climate activists – DW – 10/01/2025
A student group that took the issue of climate justice to the world's top court has received a prestigious award for its work. Activists from Myanmar, Sudan and Taiwan were also honored with the Right Livelihood prize.
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October 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Proud to see our movement partners PISFCC and Emergency Response Rooms honored with the 2025 Right Livelihood Award.
From the Pacific to Sudan to Burma, they are showing the world that solidarity is action.✊🏽
https://www.dw.com/en/alternative-nobel-prize-goes-to-pacific-climate-activists/a-74194841
From the Pacific to Sudan to Burma, they are showing the world that solidarity is action.✊🏽
https://www.dw.com/en/alternative-nobel-prize-goes-to-pacific-climate-activists/a-74194841
UUSC is in contact with partners in Western Alaska after Typhoon Halong caused catastrophic flooding and displacement in Alaska Native communities.
This devastation reflects the growing impacts of climate change on Indigenous Peoples.
This devastation reflects the growing impacts of climate change on Indigenous Peoples.
UUSC's Press Releases – Latest Human Rights Updates
Typhoon Halong brings catastrophic flooding to Alaska. UUSC responds with communities facing climate-forced displacement.
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October 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
UUSC is in contact with partners in Western Alaska after Typhoon Halong caused catastrophic flooding and displacement in Alaska Native communities.
This devastation reflects the growing impacts of climate change on Indigenous Peoples.
This devastation reflects the growing impacts of climate change on Indigenous Peoples.
This Saturday: Oregon UUs gather for justice!
Heather Vickery (UUSC) joins Pablo DeJesús (UUSJ) at the Annual Conference of Oregon UU Voices for Justice in Salem! Join us for connection and community.
Heather Vickery (UUSC) joins Pablo DeJesús (UUSJ) at the Annual Conference of Oregon UU Voices for Justice in Salem! Join us for connection and community.
ANNUAL CONFERENCE - Join Us, Together We Can!
Oregon UU Voices for Justice (OUUfJ). In-person Speaker: Pablo DeJesús, Exec. Director of UU for Social Justice (UUSJ). In person/ online.
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October 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This Saturday: Oregon UUs gather for justice!
Heather Vickery (UUSC) joins Pablo DeJesús (UUSJ) at the Annual Conference of Oregon UU Voices for Justice in Salem! Join us for connection and community.
Heather Vickery (UUSC) joins Pablo DeJesús (UUSJ) at the Annual Conference of Oregon UU Voices for Justice in Salem! Join us for connection and community.
We are grateful to see our partner Cristosal receive Human Right First's 2025 William D. Zabel Human Rights Award.
Even after being forced into exile from El Salvador, Cristosal continues its vital work across Central America. Solidarity today and always!
Even after being forced into exile from El Salvador, Cristosal continues its vital work across Central America. Solidarity today and always!
October 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
We are grateful to see our partner Cristosal receive Human Right First's 2025 William D. Zabel Human Rights Award.
Even after being forced into exile from El Salvador, Cristosal continues its vital work across Central America. Solidarity today and always!
Even after being forced into exile from El Salvador, Cristosal continues its vital work across Central America. Solidarity today and always!
🏳️🌈 Safe housing is justice.
At Asylum Pride House, Victoria is helping LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers find stability, care, and a sense of community. This is what planting seeds of justice looks like.
🎥 Watch the full GAYT 2025 video: https://youtu.be/x7AGXQhyDM8
#GuestAtYourTable #PlantSeedsOfJustice
At Asylum Pride House, Victoria is helping LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers find stability, care, and a sense of community. This is what planting seeds of justice looks like.
🎥 Watch the full GAYT 2025 video: https://youtu.be/x7AGXQhyDM8
#GuestAtYourTable #PlantSeedsOfJustice
GAYT 2025 Stories of Hope: A Safe Home for LGBTQIA+ Asylum Seekers in Philadelphia
YouTube video by Unitarian Universalist Service Committee [UUSC]
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October 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
🏳️🌈 Safe housing is justice.
At Asylum Pride House, Victoria is helping LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers find stability, care, and a sense of community. This is what planting seeds of justice looks like.
🎥 Watch the full GAYT 2025 video: https://youtu.be/x7AGXQhyDM8
#GuestAtYourTable #PlantSeedsOfJustice
At Asylum Pride House, Victoria is helping LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers find stability, care, and a sense of community. This is what planting seeds of justice looks like.
🎥 Watch the full GAYT 2025 video: https://youtu.be/x7AGXQhyDM8
#GuestAtYourTable #PlantSeedsOfJustice
Oregon UU Voices for Justice is gathering on Oct 18 in Salem/Zoom. Our own Heather Vickery will be there with Pablo DeJesús of UUSJ. Join us for ways congregations can take action! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/annual-conference-join-us-together-we-can-registration-1661309935739?aff=oddtdtcreator
October 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Oregon UU Voices for Justice is gathering on Oct 18 in Salem/Zoom. Our own Heather Vickery will be there with Pablo DeJesús of UUSJ. Join us for ways congregations can take action! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/annual-conference-join-us-together-we-can-registration-1661309935739?aff=oddtdtcreator
The Universal Periodic Review is a vital tool for accountability. UUSC joins allies urging the Human Rights Council President and member states to protect the process and for the United States to participate fully. Learn more: https://www.theadvocatesforhumanrights.org/News/A/Index?id=594
The Advocates Calls on Trump Administration to Participate in Human Rights Review - The Advocates for Human Rights
News The Advocates Calls on Trump Administration to Participate in Human Rights Review The Advocates Calls on Trump Administration to Participate in Human Rights Review August 13, 2025 The United Nations The United Nations Minneapolis, MN -- The Advocat...
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October 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The Universal Periodic Review is a vital tool for accountability. UUSC joins allies urging the Human Rights Council President and member states to protect the process and for the United States to participate fully. Learn more: https://www.theadvocatesforhumanrights.org/News/A/Index?id=594
UUSC rejects efforts to limit philanthropic freedom under the guise of counterterrorism. We have joined a coalition letter to defend the rights to speak, give, and organize.
Read our full statement: https://www.uusc.org/press/defending-philanthropic-freedom-from-escalating-attacks/
Read our full statement: https://www.uusc.org/press/defending-philanthropic-freedom-from-escalating-attacks/
September 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
UUSC rejects efforts to limit philanthropic freedom under the guise of counterterrorism. We have joined a coalition letter to defend the rights to speak, give, and organize.
Read our full statement: https://www.uusc.org/press/defending-philanthropic-freedom-from-escalating-attacks/
Read our full statement: https://www.uusc.org/press/defending-philanthropic-freedom-from-escalating-attacks/
Burma’s Muslim minorities face alarming risks.
Join us alongside the Burma Human Rights Network and the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK for the launch of a new genocide risk assessment report.
📅 October 2, 12 PM EDT
🔗 RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/BHRNReport
Join us alongside the Burma Human Rights Network and the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK for the launch of a new genocide risk assessment report.
📅 October 2, 12 PM EDT
🔗 RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/BHRNReport
September 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Burma’s Muslim minorities face alarming risks.
Join us alongside the Burma Human Rights Network and the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK for the launch of a new genocide risk assessment report.
📅 October 2, 12 PM EDT
🔗 RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/BHRNReport
Join us alongside the Burma Human Rights Network and the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK for the launch of a new genocide risk assessment report.
📅 October 2, 12 PM EDT
🔗 RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/BHRNReport
Dreams are not illegal,” states a mural on the wall of Casa Tochán. At UUSC, we agree- dreams of safety, education, employment, and community are not illegal. Beyond that, these dreams are part of a fundamental human right: People have the right to migrate. 👇 www.uusc.org/casa-tochan-...
September 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Dreams are not illegal,” states a mural on the wall of Casa Tochán. At UUSC, we agree- dreams of safety, education, employment, and community are not illegal. Beyond that, these dreams are part of a fundamental human right: People have the right to migrate. 👇 www.uusc.org/casa-tochan-...
For years, Rachel Gore Freed, UUSC’s Vice President and Chief Program Officer, has brought her leadership and vision to the Board of the Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN).
HRFN’s latest briefing, Funding at a Crossroads, underscores just how urgent this moment is: www.hrfn.org/foreign-aid-...
HRFN’s latest briefing, Funding at a Crossroads, underscores just how urgent this moment is: www.hrfn.org/foreign-aid-...
September 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
For years, Rachel Gore Freed, UUSC’s Vice President and Chief Program Officer, has brought her leadership and vision to the Board of the Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN).
HRFN’s latest briefing, Funding at a Crossroads, underscores just how urgent this moment is: www.hrfn.org/foreign-aid-...
HRFN’s latest briefing, Funding at a Crossroads, underscores just how urgent this moment is: www.hrfn.org/foreign-aid-...