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This Week in Human Rights News: Movement Building, Sequestration, Climate Change, Prisoner Rights

Over 200 people and 40 organizations came together in Jacksonville, Florida, from April 26-28, to build the South to South Southern Freedom Movement. Read a report back and view photos . Tim Murphy at Mother Jones reviews the 2011 Budget Control Act (better known as sequestration) and how it affects...
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Watch Radhika Balakrishnan on MSNBC

MSNBC's All In Discussion: What Obama’s budget doesn't get: growth and austerity cannot co-exist . Austerity is now in full swing in the United States. MSNBC's Chris Hayes discusses the politics of austerity with Radhika Balakrishnan, Chrystia Freeland, and former Greek prime minister George Papandreou. Balakrishnan is former chair of...
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ICCPR List of Issues Submissions Compiled by the US Human Rights Network

On December 28, 2012, the USHRN compiled and submitted 29 reports from 47 member and partner organizations to the UN Human Rights Committee.
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CRR and CCR Launch New "Defending the Defenders" Campaign

The campaign is aimed at strengthening local and national protections for human rights defenders in the United States working on a range of human rights issues.
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Voter ID Plunges Forward in Pennsylvania, Mississippi and Alaska

Brentin Mock with Voting Rights Watch 2012 writes, "If you thought the voter ID saga was over, you’re unfortunately mistaken. The states that have been trying to push photo voter...
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USHRN Board Member Bill Quigley asks the President to Remember All the Children

Remember All the Children, Mr. President By Bill Quigley. Bill is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola University New Orleans and Associate Director of the Center for...
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