Category: Human Rights

• Support CEDAW- Call Senator Durbin

  

  The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law, chaired by Senator Durbin (D-Ill), will hold a hearing on CEDAW  November 18th, 2010This is the first hearing on CEDAW since 2002, and the first-ever hearing on the ratification of a human rights treaty in the Senate Judiciary Committee. The hearing will focus on the…

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  November 18, 2010

  Action Alerts, Criminal Justice (Prisoners Rights, Juvenile Rights), Economic Justice, Equal Opportunity, Human Rights, LGBTQ Rights, Uncategorized, Voting Rights, Women’s/Children’s Rights

  anti-violence, discrimination, equality, feminism, gender equity, women’s rights

• Drop the I-word

  

  Definition of Illegal(s): a damaging word that divides and dehumanizes communities and is used to discriminate against immigrants and people of color. The I-Word is shorthand for illegal alien, illegal immigrant and other harmful racially charged terms. About the I-Word Campaign The I-Word Campaign represents a broad spectrum of individuals and communities from across the…

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  November 11, 2010

  Action Alerts, Human Rights, Immigrants Rights, Race, Racial Justice

  campaign, human rights, immigrants, immigration, nativism, Race, racism