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Making Rights Real:
A Workbook for Local Implementation

is a step-by-step guide on how to impact public policy using a human rights framework at the local level. This workbook focuses on the United Nations Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) as a mechanism for ensuring dignity and equity for all the members of your community.

Making Rights Real provides concrete strategies for implementing CEDAW whether you are a student, a teacher, a government official, or a community organization.

Though the workbook focuses on addressing gender-based discrimination, it is based on an intersectionality model that recognizes the specific ways that gender intersects with race, economic status, age, and the full spectrum of identities.

Strategies include:
• Assessing community needs
• Building a coalition
• Human rights training activities
• Developing a human rights-based campaign
• Building a media agenda

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Making the Connections: Human Rights in the United States
A report of the meeting in Mill Valley, California, July 7-10, 1999

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As the United States domestic human rights movement continues to grow, this reports explores the need for a more expansive vision, an integrated advocacy strategy and a global framework. Taking into account the various communities and organizations doing work at the local and national level, the report also sets forth strategies including education, organizing, documentation, theory, legal reform, public policy and litigation. Included are case studies, links between the local and global, and a series of short and long term assessments.

Criminalized: Youth and Race in the United States

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Submitted by WILD for Human Rights to the United Nations Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerances, this paper addresses the criminalization of youth in the United States including domestic militarization in the neighborhoods of people of color and immigrants, public policies targeting and impacting youth and the expansion of the prison industrial complex. The paper also sets forth recommendations for public policy and law that include minimum standards through the use of a human rights framework.

All of Our Families Deserve Human Rights

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This statement outlines the ways that limiting who is legally recognized as a family violates the right to found a family and restricts access to the right to health, right to housing, economic and property rights that depend on legalized family ties. It also outlines how basic human rights must be upheld through international law for our dignity, well-being, and humanity.

The Treatment of Women Of Color Under U.S. Law
A Report on U.S. Government Compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

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Presented at the 2001 meeting of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, this shadow report to the U.S. Government report, addresses "the disadvantages, obstacles and difficulties that women [in the United States] face in the full exercise and enjoyment of their civil, political, economic social and cultural rights on grounds of race, color, descent and national or ethnic origin." In particular, how the laws and policies in the U.S. fail to address the unique forms of discrimination faced by women and girls of color who often experience intersectional discrimination based on race and gender. The key areas outlined include economics, violence, health and asylum.

 

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