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Users and Survivors of Psychiatry and Allies - Implications of the Convention...

This is a recording of a membership conference call that took place October 18, 2007. Hosted by the US Human Rights Network Coordinating Center, if you would like more information please visit our...

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Episode 1: 9/11The war on terror and Human Rights in the US

Today on the anniversary of the infamous attack on the twin towers in New York city, we are going to take this occasion to look at some if the human rights issues that have emerged in the US and with...

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Episode 2 Intersectionality & Human Rights & the Financial Meltdown

Intersectional framework and its relationship to human rights, Priscilla Huang from the Asian Pacific American Women's Forum on human rights and intersectionality, Thandabantu Iverson professor at...

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Episode 3: Death Penalty & Human Rights Troy Anthony Davis Case

Featuring Martina Carrera, National Steering Committee Chair for Amnesty International's Death Penalty Program; she is also Anti-death penalty coordinator for the state of Georgia and sister of Troy...

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Episode 4: Reframing the Death Penalty as a Human Rights Issue

The United States is one of five countries responsible for 90% of death sentences in the entire world. As the rest of the world has abolished or is abolishing the death penalty, the US still has a long...

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Episode 5: Human Rights and the New Administration

Human Rights scholar Catherine Powell talks about the importance of the new administration to make a commitment to addressing human rights abuses at home. The document "Human Rights at Home: A Domestic...

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Episode 6: Human Rights at Home a Critical Perspective

Bernadine Dohrn talks about the United State's role as a pervader of violence aroudn the world in this audio clip from the USHRN's first bi-annual conference in 2005 at the inception of the war in...

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Episode 7: International Migrants day and Human Rights in the United States

December 18th Marks International Migrants Day. The United States has yet to ratify the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and their Families. In this...

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Episode 9 International Women’s Day and Month

This episode is dedicated to all the past, present, and future women warriors. In the United States, March is Women’s Herstory month. March 8, International Women’s Day, is a global day of recognition...

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Episode 10: Expanding Human Rights: LGBT Inclusion and The Struggle to...

As we transition from March to April, this episode focuses on two topics related to internationally observed days in March; International Women’s Day and The International Day for the Elimination of...

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Episode 11: Voices from The Durban Review Conference on Racism

The United Nation’s Durban Review Conference took place last week from April 20th to the 24th in Geneva, Switzerland. It was a follow up to the 2001 World Conference Against Racism in Durban South...

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Episode 12: The Shifa Sadequee Case & The U.S’s Election to The UN Human...

We continue an examination of the US so-called war on terrorism by looking at the case of Ehsanul Sadequee, an American born Muslim charged with conspiracy to provide material support for terrorism. In...

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Human Rights Analysis of US Debt Debates

This podcast examines the human rights implications of the recent federal debates about U.S. government debt and the debt ceiling. James Heintz Associate Director and Associate Research Professor at...

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Frontlines of Struggle: Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign

Frontlines of Struggle is a podcast of the US Human Rights Network (USHRN) that highlights the activities and initiatives of member organizations engaged in campaigns to realize the full implementation...

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Frontlines of Struggle: Community United for Change in New Orleans

Frontlines of Struggle is a podcast of the US Human Rights Network (USHRN) that highlights the activities and initiatives of member organizations engaged in campaigns to realize the full implementation...

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A Call for a National Dialogue on Black Left Participation in the OWS Movement

A Call for a National Dialogue on Black Left Participation in the OWS Movement By The Black Left Unity Network and USHRN Labor Working Group Over the last two years, the Black left unity network (BLUN)...

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10th Commemoration of the World Conference Against Racism held in Durban,...

This podcast examines the 10th Commemoration of the World Conference Against Racism held in Durban, South Africa and the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action. It features two members of the...

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Report Back on the First National Dialogue with Black Left Unity Network...

Report Back on the First National Dialogue with the Black Left Unity Network (BLUN) and USHRN November 3, 2011 The need for a national call was rooted in the following assumption: With the emergence of...

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Mumia Abu-Jamal Address to USHRN 2011 Conference

USHRN 2011 National Human Rights Conference

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Frontlines of Struggle: Million Worker March Movement and Occupy Oakland

Frontlines of Struggle is a podcast of the US Human Rights Network (USHRN) that highlights the activities and initiatives of member organizations engaged in campaigns to realize the full implementation...

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Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win: TONATIERRA and The Catalyst Project

This podcast highlights the work of two organizations as we speak with Tupac Enrique Acosta about TONATIERRA in Phoenix, Arizona and Chris Crass about the Catalyst Project in San Francisco, California....

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Dare to Stuggle, Dare to Win: International Women's Day!

For this month’s podcast we celebrate International women’s day by highlighting the work of two organizations, The Center for Women’s Global Leadership and SPARK, Reproductive Justice Now! The...

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USHRN March Education Call

Connecting the Dots: the Occupy Movement and the Struggle for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights The Occupy Movement, which burst on the scene in September 2011, and quickly spread throughout the...

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Frontlines of Struggle: Malcolm Suber on Police Murders in New Orleans

Malcolm Suber, with United New Orleans Front, speaks on the recent murders of Black youth in New Orleans, Louisiana in February and March of 2012 and what the United New Orleans Front is doing and...

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Dare to Stuggle, Dare to Win: April Podcast

In this month’s podcast, The US Human Rights Network’s Sacajawea Hall speaks with Andrea Carmen of the International Indian Treaty Council about the upcoming visit of the UN expert on the Rights of...

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Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win: May Podcast

In this month's podcast, we speak to Andrea Carmen of the International Indian Treaty Council and Tupac Enrique Acosta of TONATIERRA about Indigenous Rights, the Doctrine of Discovery, The UN Special...

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Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win June 2012 Podcast: Climate Change, Human Rights...

In our June podcast we discuss Rio +20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. Monique Harden, Co-executive Director of the Advocates for Environmental Human Rights and Andrea...

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USHRN Education Call: Supreme Court's Ruling and the Human Right to Healthcare

On June 28, 2012 the Supreme Court issued its decision upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act! This decision means that millions of people in the United States, many who were...

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Human Rights Radio Webinar Audio

The US Human Rights Network hosted a webinar in partnership with Prometheus Radio Project on August 21, 2012 to share information about how community groups can start their own low power FM community...

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Policing, Prisons and Human Rights

In this episode of our podcast we have a report on the recent hunger strike by solitary confinement inmates in Georgia. Azadeh Shashahani, the National Security and Immigrants' Rights Project Director...

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Worker's Rights Assembly and Caravan for Peace

In this month’s podcast we speak with Saladin Muhammad about the Southern Worker’s Assembly, a gathering to advance a social justice labor movement in the south. We also speak with Adrian Bernal about...

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ICCPR Webinar: Engaging with the ICCPR Review 10-24-12

The US Human Rights Network and the ICCPR Task Force hosted a webinar on October 24th on how social justice groups can engage the ICCPR review process of the United States. Patrick Mutzenberg, director...

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Upholding Human Rights in President Obama's Second Administrations

On January 21st, President Barack Obama was inaugurated for his second term. In this podcast we look at human rights in the United States, and what human rights defenders are calling for in President...

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ICCPR Webinar: Utilizing the ICCPR Review Process

The US Human Rights Network and the ICCPR Taskforce hosted a webinar on March 7th, 2013, to discuss advocacy strategy for the March Human Rights Committee session and beyond. This was an open webinar...

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Report Back and Next Steps in the ICCPR Review Process, May 8, 2013

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Report Back and Next Steps in the ICCPR Review Process, May 8, 2013

On May 8, we held an informational call in which the ICCPR Delegation reported back on their trip to Geneva and we discussed the next steps to take in the ICCPR review process.

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Introduction to Shadow Reporting: June 6, 2013

This is a training call held by the ICCPR Taskforce as an introduction to shadow reporting. Presenters include: Katrina Anderson, Nasrina Bargzie, Marcia Johnson-Blanco, and Standish E. Willis. The...

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Civil and Political Rights in the U.S.

The US Human Rights Network is working to promote full implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) by educating the public about the U.S. Government obligations...

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ICCPR Training Call: How to Write and Effective Shadow Report

The ICCPR Taskforce wants to take the anxiety out of creating this important advocacy tool by providing a detailed walk-through of how to write a report, how to frame your issue, and where to gather...

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Training Call: How to Write an Effective Shadow Report

This is a selection from a training call presented by the ICCPR Taskforce. This part of the recording goes through the steps of how to write an effective shadow report. It can be applied to the shadow...

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USHRN Conference Presenters Call

Call to discuss general conference information, overall goals and expectations for workshops, and questions presenters may have.

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Going Ditigal: How to Use Social Media to Expand your Human Rights Advocacy

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To Geneva and Back

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USHRN January 2015 Quarterly Member Call

Learn about the exciting work of USHRN members and partners.

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October 2014 Quarterly Member Call

Learn about the exciting work of USHRN members and partners.

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