Policy, Legislation, & Governance (PLuG)

Policy, Legislation, you, and Governance (PLuG) Working Group (The “u” is YOU)

This working group will develop proposals for implementing human rights legislation at the City and, later, County levels. We hope to devise a Blueprint for making Pittsburgh a human rights city in a meaningful way and a scorecard for holding city government accountable. This work involves creativity, research, outreach, and determination! Together we want to put teeth into Pittsburgh’s commitment to human rights to help leverage change in all policy areas and in city government operations. Meanwhile, we recommend you have a look at Mayor Gainey’s Transition Report and at the PGH HRCA response. You might also check out this document on Bringing Human Rights Home. Also check out these resources on cities and human rights from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Human Rights Go Local publications of UNESCO.

Meetings TBD. (Please contact Michael Goodhart for more information: goodhart@pitt.edu.)