March, 2010

• International Women’s Day (March 8)

• U.N. Report Spotlights Need for Campaign to Tackle Housing Inequities in U.S.

• US: Housing rights violations staggering, says UN envoy

• U.N. Report Spotlights Need for Campaign to Tackle Housing Inequities in U.S.

February, 2010

• Haiti: Under Pretense of Disaster Relief, U.S. Running a Military Occupation 

• Haiti: The Politics of Rebuilding

• HUMAN RIGHTS: Miami Beach Passes New Law

• WAR CRIMES: Spanish Inquiry of Alleged Bush-era Actions

• REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: Inequality is Key in Abortion Rates (PDF)

• ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: $70M Transit Breakthrough in Restoring Civil Rights Title VI

September, 2009

• US  Supreme Court decision on Child Offenders Doesn’t Cleanse Death Penalty System
• Tookie  Williams Execution Underscores Moral Hypocrisy of Death Penalty System in the  U.S.

June 26, 2009

• Obama Meets Uribe: Emergency rally for human rights in Colombia

June 15, 2009

• LABOR: Human Rights Activists Protest NBA-Linked Sweatshops 

• JUAREZ: Military Surge Has Many Feeling No Safer

• REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: Threats, Violence Seen Eroding Abortion Rights

• NIGERIA: Shell to Pay Out $15.5 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over Death of Nigerian Activist

• HAITI: UN Expert on Slavery Expresses Concern Over "Restavek" System

• HOUSING: Foreclosure Fuel Political Activism

June 11, 2009

June 1, 2009

•  Second Round Of Homelessness For Katrina Victims

May 12, 2009

• US Gains Seat on United Nations Human Rights Council

April 22, 2009

• Statement by US Human Rights Network Executive Director, Ajamu  Baraka 

• Us Human Rights Network Urges Obama Administration To Participate In Durban Review Conference On Racism (April 20, 2009)

• Press Statement on U.S. and Durban Review Conference (April 20, 2009)

April 13 2009

• Us Human Rights Network Urges Obama Administration To Participate In Durban Review Conference On Racism

 

January 2009

• Human Rights Groups Decry Bush Administration’s Whitewash Report On Racial Discrimination In United States



• US Human Rights Network calls for protection of Palestinian civilians

December 18, 2008

• Human Rights of Migrants and Their Families--Protection, Not Violation

October 2008

• Former Chicago Police Arrested on Charges of Torture on over 100 African Americans

• Human Rights and Social Justice Advocates Announce Launch of Human Rights Atlanta
  Kick-off Event will be on Friday, October 10th, at 6 p.m., at the Georgia Hill Community Center

• Gulf Coast Human Rights Monitoring and Documentation Project US Human Rights Network

• Preliminary Report on Hurricane Gustav and the Inadequacies of US Policy

• Human Rights Violations Recur in Response to Hurricane Gustav;US Human Rights Network to Document Failures

• Atlanta Human Rights Advocates Announce KickOff “Human Rights/Immigrants’ Rights Conversation Series.” October 14, 10AM Cobb County Jail

September 26, 2008

• Guantánamo Detainees To Be Heard Before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

September 17, 2008

• ACLU Praises House Passage of Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008

September 02, 2008

• Evacuation of Gulf Coast Not Good Enough

August 29, 2008

• USHRN decries lack of progress for Gulf Coast hurricane victims

August 25, 2008

• US Human Rights Network calls for halt of ICE raids in Mississippi

August 21, 2008

• The National Economic and Social Rights Initiative and the National Health Law Program, releases a human rights assessment of the presidential nominees’ health care plans entitled, Human Right to Health Care: Nominees' Plans Lag Behind Public Demands.

August 19, 2008

• PsychRights' Launches Pro Bono Recruitment Effort

August 14, 2008

• California becomes first state to condemn use of torture on the 'War on Terror'

August 6, 2008

• Hamdan: Unfair trial compounds injustice of unlawful detention

July 21, 2008

• ACLU Challenges Alabama Voter Disenfranchisement Laws In Court

July 15, 2008

• Bipartisan Commission Launched to Investigate Housing Discrimination in America

July 11, 2008

• WE THE PEOPLE Call for an End of Abuse, Torture, and Neglect at Kings County Hospital Center's Psychiatric Emergency Room.

July 7, 2007

• International Drug Policy Up For Debate At Landmark U.N. Forum (ALCU)

July 3, 2008

• Immigrant Communities Impacted by Legislature's Final State Budget for FY 2009
• 60th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights

June 30, 2008

• UN Special Rapporteur Calls on the U.S. to Take Steps to Avoid Unlawful killings

June 24, 2008

• ACLU Urges Congress to do the Right Thing for Young Americans

June 23, 2008

• Chicago Human Rights Defenders Oppose Olympics in Chicago because of city's legacy of Torture

• Supreme Court: Bail Hearing Triggers Right To Lawyer; Unasked, Federal Appeals Court Wrongfully Increased Defendant’s Sentence

June 21, 2008

• Thousands March to Support Atlantic City Casino Workers (UAW)

June 12, 2008

• ACLU Challenges Solitary Confinement And Unwarranted Strip Searches Of Girls Held In Texas Youth Prison

• Supreme Court Restores Rule Of Law To Guantánamo

• AI Hails U.S. Supreme Court Decision Recognizing Habeas Corpus and Striking Down Combatant Status Review System Human Rights Organization Remains Concerned About Possible Detainee Transfer to Other Governments with Poor Human Rights Practices

June 11, 2008

• As NYPD Arms More Officers With TASERs, AI Urges Restraint Given Serious Safety Concerns

June 2, 2008

• Thousands of El Paso/Southern New Mexico Sign Petition Against Border Wall

May 23, 2008

• Burger King campaign has come to a successful close with a historic press conference & signing ceremony held today at the US Capitol!

May 19, 2008

• U.N. Independent Expert On Racism Begins Fact-Finding Mission In U.S.

April 18, 2008

• On April 19, the Latin American and Caribbean Community Center (LACCC) and Cidadao Global (CG) hosted its first in a series of US-based Durban Process meetings as part of the World Conference Against Racism Review (WCAR 2009).