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Vision in Action

Vision in Action is a training ground and think tank for the development of human rights and social change methodology, analysis and education, and leadership techniques and skills to build the capacity of women from marginalized communities to exercise their power and rights to be healthy, have real access to decision-making and leadership positions, and to protect their dignity and quality of life. Vision in Action includes the following:

• Yuri Kochiyama Leadership Initiative
• One-Week Human Rights Intensive
• Ongoing Trainings for Community Leaders

In addition to trainings, WILD produces a Human Rights Tool Kit to assist communities in analyzing, documenting and implementing human rights standards and further develop existing human rights strategies to remain relevant to women, including young women, in the rapidly changing political and economic climate.

Policy Initiatives

One of our long-term goals is the advancement of human rights in order to end identity-based discrimination in the United States through increased government accountability on local levels. Towards this end, WILD is launching a three-year campaign in Fall 2004 to pass two U.N. Treaties in San Francisco that the United States has yet to adopt as law, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the International Convention on the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). This policy initiative builds upon WILD’s past success model of passing the UN Convention to Eliminate Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in San Francisco in 1996, which resulted in the city’s creation of a CEDAW Task Force to monitor the city’s gender practices, a gender lens for budget application and the allocation of significant funds to implement the new human rights legislation. The United States also has yet to pass CEDAW as a nation. To learn more about WILD’s policy initiatives click on the following:
Treaty Implementation of CEDAW in San Francisco.
San Francisco Human Rights Ordinance Campaign.

WILD Wire

WILD Wire is a quarterly e-bulletin which presents members with the latest and greatest in human rights analysis of current policy, new initiatives and opportunities for you to get involved in bringing human rights home.

• Human rights advocacy and implementation initiatives around the U.S.  
• Human rights perspectives on selected national, state and local policy and legislation
• Opportunities for action and becoming involved in human rights work  
• WILD initiatives