Past Working Group Activities and Reports

2021-2022 Activities

• Center for Civil Rights and Racial Justice -American Apartheid City Series

• In this article in the University Times, “American Apartheid: From diagnosis to treatment and prevention” Jackie Smith & Noble Maseru introduce the series and discuss connections to social science and public health research

• Transforming systemic racism: Historical truth telling & reparations working group

• Summary: Conversations on the state of reparations organizing in Pittsburgh with local leaders Randall Taylor, Khalid Raheem, and Rev. Dale Snyder (Bethel AME Church), Nov. 16, 2022.

• ’’’Global Human Rights Expert/Advocate Visits Pittsburgh, Meets City Leaders and Residents’’’-In early April, together with the City’s Commission on Human Relations, and Pitt’s Global Studies Center (among other co-sponsors) we welcomed global housing expert, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Adequate Housing, Leilani Farha to meet with Pittsburgh public officials, housing advocates, students and other residents. We compiled this report on the visit, highlighting insights and recommendations from our discussions with Ms. Farha, who now leads global housing rights organization, The Shift.

2019-2020

• Learning from COVID-19: Shaping a Health and Human Rights Agenda for our Region Community forum series.
  • Letter to Mayor Peduto & County Executive Fitzgerald calling for a COVID-19 Social Equity Task Force

2018-2019

• Human Rights in Pittsburgh and the World: Dialogue Series Honoring the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Report on Activities: Fall 2018
• Human Rights Working Group Annual Report 2017-2018