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Organization: Global Brigades Germany
Organization: Global Brigades in Canada
Organization: Global Brigades Ireland
Organization: Global Brigades Switzerland
Organization: Global Brigades United Kingdom
Organization: Global Brigades USA
Chapter: Business Brigades at Carnegie Mellon University
Chapter: Business Brigades at Penn State University
Chapter: Business Brigades at University of Pittsburgh
Chapter: Dental Brigades at Towson University
Chapter: Dental Brigades at University of Maryland Baltimore County
Chapter: Engineering Brigades at Johns Hopkins University
Chapter: Engineering Brigades at Pennsylvania State University
Chapter: Engineering Brigades at the University of Pittsburgh
Chapter: Environmental Brigades at Penn State University
Chapter: Environmental Brigades at University of Pittsburgh
Chapter: Graduate Engineering Brigades at Johns Hopkins University
Chapter: Human Rights Brigades at Pennsylvania State University
Chapter: Human Rights Brigades at University of Pittsburgh
Chapter: Medical Brigades at Carnegie Mellon University
Chapter: Medical Brigades at Explore
Chapter: Medical Brigades at Georgetown University
Chapter: Medical Brigades at Johns Hopkins University (UG)
Chapter: Medical Brigades at University of Maryland
Chapter: Medical Brigades at University of Pittsburgh
Chapter: Medical/Dental Brigades at Penn State University
Chapter: Medical/Public Health Brigades at University of Maryland Baltimore County
Chapter: Public Health Brigades at Carnegie Mellon University
Chapter: Public Health Brigades at Georgetown
Chapter: Public Health Brigades at Johns Hopkins University
Chapter: Public Health Brigades at Lehigh Valley
Chapter: University of Maryland Baltimore County Legal Empowerment Chapter
Chapter: Water Brigades at Carnegie Mellon University
Chapter: Water Brigades at Georgetown University
Chapter: Water Brigades at Lehigh University
Chapter: Water Brigades at Pennsylvania State University
Chapter: Water Brigades at University of Pittsburgh
Human Rights Brigades at Pennsylvania State University
Website: pennsylvania-state-university-human-rights-brigades-chapter

Phone: 1 206 489 4798

Organization: Global Brigades USA
Program: Human Rights Brigades

About Us

Pennsylvania State University is a chapter of Global Human Rights Brigades, an international movement of students and attorneys providing legal education and financial resources for vulnerable families to resolve legal challenges. We focus our work with women in remote, rural, and under resourced communities who would otherwise have limited to no access to legal resources. Volunteers facilitate legal clinics with lawyers to provide pro-bono consulting and the financial resources for community members to help resolve cases. nnIn conjunction with our Human Rights Program, Global Brigades also supports communities with healthcare, economic development, clean water and sanitation projects, and uniquely implements these programs in a holistic model to meet a community’s health and economic goals. Our model systematically builds community ownership and collaboratively executes programs with the end goal of sustainably evolving to a relationship of impact monitoring. To learn more, please visit www.globalbrigades.org.




Upcoming Initiatives

Pennsylvania State University Legal Empowerment Brigade May 2025 Honduras

 Global Brigades offers 7-day Legal Empowerment Brigades throughout the year in Honduras and Panama. Legal Empowerment Brigades primarily work with rural communities that are under-resourced and largely unaware of their own legal rights. Throughout the week, Legal Empowerment Brigades volunteers shadow Honduran lawyers to provide pro-bono legal consulting to rural communities. A free legal clinic provides opportunities for volunteers to not only receive experience with Honduran legal professionals but also experience first-hand the obstacles to justice and the culture of legal misinformation in rural communities. Volunteers also work to provide capacity building and education-based workshops on various legal concepts to empower communities through education. Additionally, volunteers continue shadowing Honduran lawyers while they gather important information to initiate the process of resolving family legal cases, many of which have been stalled in the Honduran legal system through institutional inefficiencies and the prohibitive high costs of legal services. Between brigades, Global Brigades’ in-country staff works to secure legal outcomes and provide follow-up to the community.