URGENT HELP NEEDED: Families in Gaza are facing increasing food shortages as winter approaches. Your gift can help provide food and lifesaving supplies.

DONATE NOW
AFSC

Quaker action for a just world

EN
ES
  • Our Work
    • Strategic Goals
    • Programs
    • Issues
      Economic Justice Global Peace Migration & Immigrant Rights Prisons & Policing
  • About
    • Team
    • Careers
    • History
    • Archives
    • Reports & Financials
    • Office directory
  • News
    • Press Releases
    • Topics
      Detention and Deportation Crisis in Gaza Climate Justice Iran Youth Organizing
  • Get Involved
    • Take Action
    • Events
    • Friends Engage
    • Subscribe
Donate
  • More ways to give
Our Work
Strategic Goals Programs
Issues
Economic Justice Global Peace Migration & Immigrant Rights Prisons & Policing
About
Team Careers History Archives Reports & Financials Office directory
News
Press Releases
Topics
Detention and Deportation Crisis in Gaza Climate Justice Iran Youth Organizing
Get Involved
Take Action Events Friends Engage Subscribe
Donate
More ways to give
EN
ES
  • Read more about Congressional State of Play and #CitizenshipForAll
  • Read more about 110+ Orgs to Biden: End U.S. Program of Lethal Strikes Abroad
  • Read more about U.S. Border Patrol chief ousted from position by Biden administration
  • Read more about Hundreds protest state budget, police called
  • Read more about New Jersey Consortium for Immigrant Children and Members Hail Nationally Pathbreaking $3 Million Program for New Jersey’s Unaccompanied Minors and Other Immigrant Youth
  • Read more about NJ Immigrant Families, Advocates Celebrate A5207/S3361 Passage in Senate, Call for Anti-Detention Bill to Become Law During Immigrant Heritage Month
  • Read more about Protesters at San Diego’s Chicano Park say, “Free Leonard Peltier!”
  • Read more about Meet our interns!
  • Read more about Join our call to #FreeThemAll

 

Everyone deserves dignity and justice. But in the United States, 2.3 million people are locked away in prisons, jails, and detention centers, where they are subject to civil and human rights violations and a lack of access to adequate health care. 

The COVID-19 pandemic has only multiplied the dangers of incarceration exponentially, making every cell and cage a potential death chamber.

  • Read more about Protesters rally at State House against budget as lawmakers pass it
… 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 …
Subscribe to
AFSC White Logo

The AFSC newsletter connects activism to the issues that matter. Join us today.

American Friends Service Committee
1501 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102
215-241-7000

  • Our Work
  • Our Approach
  • All Programs
  • About AFSC
  • History
  • News
  • Get Involved
  • AFSC Store
  • Careers
  • Contact Us

©AFSC 2026

Creative Commons License | Privacy policy | Terms and Conditions | Sites Credit
Top Rated
BBB
Candid Gold Transparency badge for 2025