Member organizations are linked through various member structures. Member Initiated Action Teams, Member Committees, and Taskforces of USHRN allow members to collaborate within and across issue areas.
The Convention Against Torture (CAT) Taskforce guides the USHRN CAT project, coordinating both a civil society response to the United States government report on compliance with the ratified CAT treaty...
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) Taskforce guides the USHRN CERD project. CERD Taskforce members include: Ejim Dike /US Human Rights Network (co-chair) Marcia...
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) Taskforce guides the USHRN ICCPR Project. The ICCPR Taskforce members are: Jamil Dakwar /American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) (co-chair) Nasrina Bargzie...
The International Mechanisms Coordinating Committee (IMCC) is the overarching body guiding the USHRN’s work with human rights mechanisms. USHRN works to engage our membership and the broader social justice community...
Land and Housing Action Group (Take Back the Land Movement Coordinating Committee) fights for the human right to housing. It aims to challenge the housing crisis in the United States...
The Sexual Rights and Gender Justice Working Group aims to meaningfully and consistently integrate sexual rights and gender justice into the broader agenda of the domestic human rights movement in...
The U.S. Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry is composed of People who Use, Used and Survived Psychiatric Treatment. A user or survivor of psychiatry is self-defined as a...
Workers Uniting for Human Rights and Worker Empowerment with an emphasis on the Southeast and Southwest, is made up of public and private sector unions, worker organizations and worker centers...
