Today is Internation Human Rights Day.

In support - here's my favorite Human Rights Cause:

Invisible Children

      You may have noticed me swooning over their awesomeness on twitter lately. The best way to introduce them is through their videos, but I can attempt to summarize the whole thing as well. It started out as the friends going to Africa to film some of the stuff going on in Darfur. By a bizarre twist of fate (seriously almost seems like some kind of destiny, if you remotely believe in destiny,) they ended up in Northern Uganda where they saw thousands of kids night commuting, walking miles from their homes to sleep in abandoned buildings and people living in displacement camps - all in an effort to stay safe from the L.R.A. or Lord's Resistance Army. The L.R.A. used to be a resistance movement against the current Ugandan government, but over the years their tactics fell out of favor with the public - and to keep the movement going, the leader Joseph Kony started kidnapping kids and forcing them to find child soldiers. This shocked the filmmakers. Here's an entire section of the world, where people are being forced into displacement camps, where there's no food, work, clean water or access to education. And children are forced to walk away from their homes at night, to sleep in the streets of a city, to avoid being kidnapped. And hardly anyone knows about it. No one is doing anything to stop it. That was 2003.

     When the filmmakers came home, the started telling this story - they released a rough cut of the film they made, and started a non-profit to help the kids they'd met in Northern Uganda. Today they've got several programs to help the people of Northern Uganda
Visible Child Scholarship Program - Puts driven kids in back in School, and will pay for their University - they also get mentors
Schools for Schools - Students at Schools in the U.S. and Canada raise money for partner schools in Uganda. You can literally see where the money is going in real time. It's also a competition,  a student from each of the schools that raise the most money in each cluster will win a trip to Uganda to see the change all their fundraising has brought.
The Bracelet Program - IC provides employs adults in the displacement camps to make bracelets, which are sold on IC's website, the profits then go to fund scholarships for kids. The bracelet makers also receive training on managing money and some even start their own businesses after leaving the program. (And when you buy a bracelet you get a DVD with a short film about a child in Uganda.)
Mend - The newest program, and one of the coolest in my opinion - former child soldier make reall kick ass bags in Northern Uganda and when you buy one, not only are you supporting the woman who made you bag, but her name is stiched into the bag, and you can go to IC's website and watch a video about her.
Citizens Arrest Warrant - There's been legislation introduced into Congress (our congress) called the LRA Disarmament and Northern Uganda Recovery Act - it would require the U.S. to lend intelligence resources to help capture Joseph Kony and to take interest in the recovery of Northern Uganda. The Citizens Arrest Warrant is a petition that will be delivered to Obama this December, urging him to sign on to the bill.

There's a ton more stuff, which you can discover on Invisible Children's website. (Be sure to watch some of the videos - they're the most powerful/inspiring/awesome part.)