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</div><span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center">Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance<span style="display: block; text-align: center">Dignity & Justice for All of us</span></span><span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center">''<span style="display: block; text-align: center">"Human rights don't trickle down...they RISE UP!"</span>''<br /> </span><br />  
 
</div><span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center">Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance<span style="display: block; text-align: center">Dignity & Justice for All of us</span></span><span style="display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center">''<span style="display: block; text-align: center">"Human rights don't trickle down...they RISE UP!"</span>''<br /> </span><br />  
 
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<div style="text-align: center"><big>'''''Racism is a Health Emergency! And [[Health is a Human Right]]!'''''<br /><br />
<div style="text-align: center"><big>'''''Racism is a Health Emergency! And [[Health is a Human Right]]!'''''</big>
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'''International Human Rights Day 2020 Public/Media Statement:'''<br />
 
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[http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/images/7/71/Human_Rights_Day_2020_Public_Media_Advisory_Final.pdf '''''Pittsburgh Joins Global Efforts to Target Systemic Racism, Bring Human Rights Home '''''] [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/images/e/eb/Human_Rights_Day_2021_General_Layout.pdf (General layout version)]</big>
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*<big>'''Community Forum:''' '''[http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Learning_from_COVID-19:Shaping_a_Health_and_Human_Rights_Agenda_for_our_Region Learning from COVID-19: Shaping a Health and Human Rights Agenda for our Region]''' [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Learning_from_COVID-19:Shaping_a_Health_and_Human_Rights_Agenda_for_our_Region See recordings and resources]
 
*<big>'''Community Forum:''' '''[http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Learning_from_COVID-19:Shaping_a_Health_and_Human_Rights_Agenda_for_our_Region Learning from COVID-19: Shaping a Health and Human Rights Agenda for our Region]''' [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Learning_from_COVID-19:Shaping_a_Health_and_Human_Rights_Agenda_for_our_Region See recordings and resources]
 
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==October Updates/Actions==
 
*'''Housing, Health and Human Rights: [[Zero Evictions Days 2020]]'''
 
:*'''October 24-November 5 (Extended dates!)''': Film Screening, ''Push'': [https://watch.eventive.org/argot/play/5f8e3f07d22f3c010b0765c3 screen the film] online. ''We still have some free passes: Contact pghrights [at] riseup [dot] net for details.
 
:*'''Thursday October 29''' 7:00pm Webinar Part 1: '''Building a Global Movement to Protect the Right to Housing--Dialogue featuring Leilani Farha—former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Adequate Housing,''' joined by housing and human rights leaders from Atlanta, Pittsburgh, and New York '''[https://pitt.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=5b09c2ec-e1ff-4781-a4c0-ac64001187ce view recording here.''']
 
:*'''Thursday November 5- 7:00PM –Webinar Part 2: Movement building for the Human Right to Housing:''' Local organizers from Philadelphia, Atlanta and Pittsburgh discuss ideas for building a powerful cross-city movement for the human right to housing and an end to evictions.  [https://pitt.zoom.us/j/95879516551 Register and attend via the Zoom meeting link] For more details and speakers see:  [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Zero_Evictions_Days_2020 Zero Evictions Days 2020]
 
 
 
*'''[http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Indigenous_Peoples_Day_in_Pittsburgh Recognizing Indigenous Peoples Day]: Historical Truth-Telling, Reconciliation, and Healing''' (Archive). Student human rights leaders compiled the following [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Indigenous_Peoples_Day_in_Pittsburgh list of films, podcasts, and short articles and reports] to further learning that acknowledges past harms and furthers a process of truth-telling and racial healing. We hope you will explore these and share with others!'' These readings informed a [https://pitt.box.com/s/zr5zvj5gu66vfm3xillufevqhxfercnq '''Community Dialogue: Indigenous Peoples Day: Deconstructing white supremacy and celebrating Indigenous Peoples' history'''] Featured speakers, Miguel Sague, Jr. Member of the Board of Directors of the Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center & Dr. Michael Murphy, assistant professor of sociology. [https://pitt.box.com/s/zr5zvj5gu66vfm3xillufevqhxfercnq (View recording here)]. [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Indigenous_Peoples_Day_in_Pittsburgh More Indigenous Peoples Day Resources]
 
 
 
 
<big>'''*The World is Watching! Global movements support human rights and anti-racism in the U.S.'''</big>
 
:*[https://ushrnetwork.org/uploads/images/sliders/Final%20adopted%20resolution%206.19.20.pdf?emci=9b4ca895-48b2-ea11-9b05-00155d039e74&emdi=1e7859ab-4bb2-ea11-9b05-00155d039e74&ceid=6687194 UN Human Rights Council Strongly Condemns US Racial Violence]: The United Nations responded to a call from Family members of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, and Philando Castile to take action in response to racially-motivated violence in the U.S., in an unprecedented Urgent Debate in the UN Human Rights Council June 19.
 
:*'''New study shows [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/22/us-police-human-rights-standards-report US police fail to meet basic human rights standards]'''. Not one police department in the 20 largest American cities are compliant with international rights laws [https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=ihrc study from the University of Chicago] has found.
 
:* '''[http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/images/b/b8/HRCA-Policing-Briefing-Seth-Kornbau_Fin.pdf Recommendations to Align Pittsburgh’s Policing Practices with International Human Rights Law & Standards]''' Pitt student, Seth Kornbau, worked this summer to review Pittsburgh's policing policies and relate them to this analysis of international legal obligations. He prepared this brief to inform the Mayor's task force on police reform.
 
 
 
 
  
 
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*[http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/images/0/09/2020_Virtual_Cookout_Notes_and_Links.pdf 6th Annual Human Rights Cookout Goes Virtual!--Here are notes and updates from community organizations] inviting volunteers to help build our human rights city!
 
*[http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/images/0/09/2020_Virtual_Cookout_Notes_and_Links.pdf 6th Annual Human Rights Cookout Goes Virtual!--Here are notes and updates from community organizations] inviting volunteers to help build our human rights city!
  
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*Thurs. Oct. 22: *'''Community Dialogue: Indigenous Peoples Day: Deconstructing white supremacy and celebrating the people’s history''': Thursday, October 22, 7:00PM. Traditionally, “Columbus Day” has been celebrated in October as a day of patriotism and freedom, while in reality this narrative celebrates the exploitation, oppression, and genocide of indigenous people in our country. Indigenous Peoples Day is a day to recognize and remember the cultures that have survived, despite overwhelming violence and erasure through western narratives and other aspects of white supremacy. The Human Rights City Alliance is providing a short list of learning resources on this issue to draw attention to Indigenous Peoples Day and its significance, and is holding an online panel discussion to lift up the many issues indigenous people are facing in our country and opportunities for human rights learning in our city. Featured speakers, Miguel Sague, Jr. Member of the Board of Directors of the Council of Three Rivers American Indian Center & Dr. Michael Murphy, assistant professor of sociology. (Zoom Link) Meeting ID: 990 4736 9509. Facebook event page
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==Current Projects==
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*'''Housing, Health and Human Rights''': '''''January 24-Feb. 6: Housing is Healthcare! Let's Demand the Human Right to Housing!''''': ''[https://www.pushthefilm.com/ Push]''
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::*Watch the film online: January 24-February 6. [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf6tsjJJ8J6TBHe-y71CssyLWtKo6YoAHlloYS66mn3S8GTSw/viewform Sign up here to receive a link to view Push]
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::*Join our multi-city dialogue with organizers from Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and New York- Monday February 1, at 7:00PM [https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kf-Grqj8jHdXwheJWuUUdxm6qIQwZCk3i Register to attend Feb. 1 webinar].
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:(For more information:[http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Zero_Evictions_Days_2020 Zero Evictions Days Resource page and webinar recordings] Featuring dialogues with Leilani Farha, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Adequate Housing.)
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*'''Historical Truth-Telling: Key to Human Rights & Racial Healing Today''': Student human rights leaders compiled the following [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Indigenous_Peoples_Day_in_Pittsburgh list of films, podcasts, and short articles and reports] to inspire learning that acknowledges past harms and furthers a process of truth-telling and racial healing. [https://pitt.box.com/s/zr5zvj5gu66vfm3xillufevqhxfercnq Recording: '''Community Dialogue: Indigenous Peoples Day: Deconstructing white supremacy and celebrating Indigenous Peoples' history''']  [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Indigenous_Peoples_Day_in_Pittsburgh More Resources on Indigenous peoples and human rights]
  
'''*Housing, Health and Human Rights: [https://www.habitants.org/zero_evictions_campaign/zero_evictions_for_coronavirus/international_call_zero_evictions_for_coronavirus Zero Evictions for Coronavirus]''' --''Pittsburgh joins the International Alliance of Inhabitants’ [https://www.habitants.org/zero_evictions_campaign Zero Evictions Days] (October 2020)-International solidarity to achieve dignity and security in housing'' 
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<big>'''*The World is Watching! Global movements support human rights and anti-racism in the U.S.'''</big>
:*'''October 24-November 1''', 2020: [http://www.pushthefilm.com/ Push Film Screening] (online-Link TBA)
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:*[https://ushrnetwork.org/uploads/images/sliders/Final%20adopted%20resolution%206.19.20.pdf?emci=9b4ca895-48b2-ea11-9b05-00155d039e74&emdi=1e7859ab-4bb2-ea11-9b05-00155d039e74&ceid=6687194 UN Human Rights Council Strongly Condemns US Racial Violence]: The United Nations responded to a call from Family members of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Michael Brown, and Philando Castile to take action in response to racially-motivated violence in the U.S., in an unprecedented Urgent Debate in the UN Human Rights Council June 19.
:*'''Thursday October 29,''' 2020 7:00pm Webinar: Featuring Leilani Farha, Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Housing: Explore the lessons behind the film and the work to build a global housing rights movement.
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:*'''New study shows [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/22/us-police-human-rights-standards-report US police fail to meet basic human rights standards]'''. Not one police department in the 20 largest American cities are compliant with international rights laws [https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=ihrc study from the University of Chicago] has found.
:*'''Thursday November 5,''' 2020 7:00PM –Webinar: Pennsylvania housing advocates and public health leaders discuss their work and perspectives on Push and October 29 panel. (for more details [http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Learning_from_COVID-19:Shaping_a_Health_and_Human_Rights_Agenda_for_our_Region click here])
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:* '''[http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/images/b/b8/HRCA-Policing-Briefing-Seth-Kornbau_Fin.pdf Recommendations to Align Pittsburgh’s Policing Practices with International Human Rights Law & Standards]''' Pitt student, Seth Kornbau, worked this summer to review Pittsburgh's policing policies and relate them to this analysis of international legal obligations. He prepared this brief to inform the Mayor's task force on police reform.
  
*Fri. Oct. 30: '''Reparations and Restorative Justice for the Enslavement and Dispossession of Black Americans: A Moral Imperative Whose Time Has Come''' Dr. Joyce Hope Scott, Clinical Professor of African American Studies, Boston University Friday, October 30th | 12-1:30pm  [https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAoc-iqqTMjH9epObYTOdA_4GKX5qt2kGFA Click here to register]. ''We are living in a transformative moment in history where we are confronted with simultaneous pandemics each “lethal and devastating in their own way.” One is a deadly biological foe, the other, social upheaval born of America’s original sin--slavery. While the “Great Sanitizing” of the story of American slavery and Jim Crow Segregation has made it convenient for this society and other nations that benefited from the enslavement of Africans to bask in a comfortable amnesia, ongoing calls for redress and restitution for crimes against black humanity have continued. Indeed, in 2015 the UN General Assembly proclaimed 2015-2024 as the International Decade for People of African Descent (resolution 68/237). With these exigencies in mind, this presentation will address the issue of restorative justice, highlighting the fact that the movement for reparations today is not only a national one but rather a global, pan-Africanist activity.''[https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAoc-iqqTMjH9epObYTOdA_4GKX5qt2kGFA Click here to register].
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*'''January 22-23, 2021 [http://pittsburghracialjusticesummit.org/ Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit]''' Register at: [http://pittsburghracialjusticesummit.org/ http://pittsburghracialjusticesummit.org/]
*January 22-23, 2021 [http://pittsburghracialjusticesummit.org/ Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit]
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:Saturday, January 23, 10:45AM-12:15PM-- Human Rights City Alliance Session: '''''Building Movements for Health, human Rights & Racial Justice'''''  
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This panel explores how human rights can offer a framework for intersectional coalition building that promotes racial equity, justice and human rights. We center the need to re-orient policymaking and culture to prioritize human rights, dignity and well-being for all—including future generations. Recognizing that this work requires long-term movement-building, breakout sessions will consider strategies for advancing racial equity and prioritizing health, housing, and restorative justice. Ideas developed in this Racial Justice Summit session will shape a follow-up (online) meeting on Feb. 5-6 that will continue a process of building connections, planning joint actions, and deepening our analyses of the intersections of various human rights and racial equity/justice. '''Co-organizers''': Monica Ruiz, Executive Director, Casa San Jose; Benjamin Gutschow, Casa San Jose, Future Latinx Youth (FLY); Randall Taylor, Penn Plaza Support and Action Coalition; Marcia Bandes, Pittsburgh for CEDAW Coalition; Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance; Student Human Rights Task Force. [https://fb.me/e/26c9JUbX7 see Facebook event]
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:[http://pittsburghracialjusticesummit.org/ Click here to register for the Racial Justice Summit & view full schedule details/links]  
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*'''January 24-Feb. 6: Housing is Healthcare! Let's Demand the Human Right to Housing!''': [https://www.pushthefilm.com/ Push] Film screening and online discussions
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Global finance is profiting handsomely from the pandemic while growing numbers are facing housing insecurity, threats of eviction, and houselessness. Join us in watching the documentary film, [https://www.pushthefilm.com/ Push], which tells the story of how global banks and investment firms are turning our communities into sources of private profit, taking control of residential housing around the world and pushing out low-income residents. The film tells another story too: residents and city officials are coming together to demand that housing be protected as a human right. <br>
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:'''Watch the film: January 24-February 6.''' Watch the film online. [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf6tsjJJ8J6TBHe-y71CssyLWtKo6YoAHlloYS66mn3S8GTSw/viewform Sign up to receive a link to view ''Push''] <br>
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:[https://www.facebook.com/events/759119964697778/?notif_id=1611020895829112&notif_t=plan_edited&ref=notif More details at Facebook Event link]
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:Join our multi-city conversation with organizers from Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and New York- '''Monday February 1, at 7:00PM''' [https://pitt.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kf-Grqj8jHdXwheJWuUUdxm6qIQwZCk3i Register to attend Feb. 1 cross-city dialogue].
  
RECORDINGS: *'''Summer Webinar Series[http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Learning_from_COVID-19:Shaping_a_Health_and_Human_Rights_Agenda_for_our_Region View details and recordings of past forums here]
 
  
 
====Other meetings==== [MOST NOW ONLINE DUE TO COVID19]
 
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Pittsburgh Human Rights City AllianceDignity & Justice for All of us"Human rights don't trickle down...they RISE UP!"

Racism is a Health Emergency! And Health is a Human Right!

International Human Rights Day 2020 Public/Media Statement:
Pittsburgh Joins Global Efforts to Target Systemic Racism, Bring Human Rights Home (General layout version)


Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance works to bring together diverse groups and individuals to help envision and realize a city that maximizes human rights and dignity for all people who live in our region (See Human Rights Cities Principles). We work with local struggles to implement people-centered human rights in Pittsburgh.

Current Projects

  • Housing, Health and Human Rights: January 24-Feb. 6: Housing is Healthcare! Let's Demand the Human Right to Housing!: Push
(For more information:Zero Evictions Days Resource page and webinar recordings Featuring dialogues with Leilani Farha, former UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Adequate Housing.)

*The World is Watching! Global movements support human rights and anti-racism in the U.S.

Calendar

Saturday, January 23, 10:45AM-12:15PM-- Human Rights City Alliance Session: Building Movements for Health, human Rights & Racial Justice

This panel explores how human rights can offer a framework for intersectional coalition building that promotes racial equity, justice and human rights. We center the need to re-orient policymaking and culture to prioritize human rights, dignity and well-being for all—including future generations. Recognizing that this work requires long-term movement-building, breakout sessions will consider strategies for advancing racial equity and prioritizing health, housing, and restorative justice. Ideas developed in this Racial Justice Summit session will shape a follow-up (online) meeting on Feb. 5-6 that will continue a process of building connections, planning joint actions, and deepening our analyses of the intersections of various human rights and racial equity/justice. Co-organizers: Monica Ruiz, Executive Director, Casa San Jose; Benjamin Gutschow, Casa San Jose, Future Latinx Youth (FLY); Randall Taylor, Penn Plaza Support and Action Coalition; Marcia Bandes, Pittsburgh for CEDAW Coalition; Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance; Student Human Rights Task Force. see Facebook event

Click here to register for the Racial Justice Summit & view full schedule details/links


  • January 24-Feb. 6: Housing is Healthcare! Let's Demand the Human Right to Housing!: Push Film screening and online discussions

Global finance is profiting handsomely from the pandemic while growing numbers are facing housing insecurity, threats of eviction, and houselessness. Join us in watching the documentary film, Push, which tells the story of how global banks and investment firms are turning our communities into sources of private profit, taking control of residential housing around the world and pushing out low-income residents. The film tells another story too: residents and city officials are coming together to demand that housing be protected as a human right.

Watch the film: January 24-February 6. Watch the film online. Sign up to receive a link to view Push
More details at Facebook Event link
Join our multi-city conversation with organizers from Pittsburgh, Atlanta, and New York- Monday February 1, at 7:00PM Register to attend Feb. 1 cross-city dialogue.


====Other meetings==== [MOST NOW ONLINE DUE TO COVID19]

Updates & Current Activities

Learning from COVID-19:Shaping a Health and Human Rights Agenda for our Region
We can’t return to status quo if we are to prevent the multiple breakdowns and failures we’re now seeing with COVID-19. Resilience and long-term, community well-being requires dramatic improvements to public infrastructure and support for housing, food, & health security. We're working with diverse groups in the community to host this forum series and build a strong people’s movement to help us realize a society that prioritizes equity and the human right to health, so that every member of our community can live dignified lives. Click here for details, recordings and summaries of past discussions

Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance Steering Committee Members named to Mayor’s Community Task Force on Police Reform Community leaders Brandi Fisher, President and CEO of the Alliance for Police Accountability and Monica Ruiz, Executive Director of Casa San Jose, have been tasked with helping our city develop a plan to review existing policing practices and policies and make recommendations. Here is the outline of the City’s Agenda for Police Reform.


Bringing Human Rights Home

*UPR Pittsburgh Bringing Global Human Rights Home: Pittsburgh's Human Rights Assessment & the United Nations Together with human rights defenders around the country, Pittsburgh residents are working to bring the stories and accounts of human rights conditions in our region to the United Nations through the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process. Over 2019-2020, the United States human rights record will be reviewed by international representatives and human rights experts, and the UN will issue a formal report with recommendations to the US government for improving respect for the country's international human rights obligations. A key to the UPR's effectiveness is engagement from civil society, and we're working to provide opportunities for residents to learn about human rights and the UPR process as we generate ideas for how we can make Pittsburgh and Southwest PA places where human rights thrive.


Pittsburgh Activists File Report to UN on State of Human Rights in Region

Pittsburgh City Council Passes Zero Evictions Proclamation in Solidarity with Global Movement for Housing Justice


Housing Justice

  • Housing is a Human Right-Letter to Officials The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Adequate Housing, Leilani Farha, recently directed letters to governments and corporate leaders around the world, pointing out how prevailing policies violate international human rights obligations. This page has details and a template for contacting your local leaders to remind them of their international legal obligations.
  • Housing Justice Pittsburgh Building community power to fight displacement and promote our "Right to the City."
  • Housing Summit 2018 Area organizations are working together to build a broad alliance for affordable housing in our region. Mark your calendars for our November 10, 2018 Housing Summit, and watch for a series of events and activities aimed to develop new strategies for addressing Pittsburgh's housing crisis.
  • Housing is a Human Right: Slideshow on international treaties and opportunities to promote the human right to housing

Learn more about how Amazon's bid to move to Pittsburgh would affect human rights here. Resources, data, and recordings of community forums.


International Human Rights Monitoring

This page links to work by national and international human rights organizers to use international treaties and United Nations human rights review processes to hold local and national officials in the United States accountable to our international human rights obligations.


News & Updates


Human Rights Budgeting-Ideas and Resources for transforming how our city plans: This page shares links and background resources about how activists around the world are working to change the scripts of local politics to prioritize human rights over economic measures of progress. We believe that urban planning and development should be explicit in its attention to human rights and equity. More democratic budgeting processes are key to making this happen, and that means we all need to learn more about how city budgeting works and how it could be re-organized to engage more of the people who live in our region.

Take Action:



Regularly scheduled meetings/ Local Human Rights Groups



Alerts & Updates

  • Campaign to Stop Plan to Increase Policing on Public Transit-- This campaign led by the Alliance for Police Accountability, Casa San Jose, Pittsburghers for Public Transit, and the Thomas Merton Center warns that the Port Authority's planned fare enforcement policy will unfairly impact communities of color, increase the problematic trend of criminalizing young people, and threaten immigrant residents.The campaign is calling for civilian fare enforcers rather than armed Port Authority Police and a citation process rather than a criminal process to deal with fare evasion (See FAQs for more information). Community organizations and individuals are asked to write letters to the Port Authority in support of this campaign (see sample letter).
  • PIttsburgh Public Schools Passes Sanctuary Resolution
  • Pittsburgh becomes 6th US City for CEDAW A broad coalition of human rights advocates helped advance a new ordinance enacting the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women in our City, December 6, 2016. Stay involved in the work to carry out this commitment to better address needs of women and girls, families and communities in our city! www.pgh4cedaw.org


University-Based Projects

  • Pittsburgh area university faculty, staff, and graduate students are invited to join the University Human Rights Network. We invite volunteers from different campuses to help support work on your campus and coordinate with other campuses.
  • Pitt Human Rights Initiative
  • Campus worker organizing: Pitt faculty, graduate student workers, and other workers are organizing for their rights and to support and protect the right to education. Keep informed about the campaign on their website and Facebook page


How to get involved

Please get in touch if you're interested in some of these ongoing projects or in efforts to follow-up some of these past initiatives. We are an all-volunteer group and are working to create spaces for residents to work together to envision and build a different kind of city and region. pghrights [at] riseup [dot] net.




NEW Research on Pittsburgh and Human Rights Organizing:
Responding to Globalization and Urban Conflict: Human Rights City Initiatives Studies in Social Justice

Dangerous Times: Defending Human Rights
Values are fragile. Because the values of human rights depend foremost on the ability to empathize with others”to recognize the importance of treating others the way we would want to be treated ”they are especially vulnerable to the demagogue's exclusionary appeal. A society's culture of respect for human rights needs regular tending, lest the fears of the moment sweep away the wisdom that built democratic rule. Human Rights Watch "World Report 2017: Demagogues Threaten Human Rights-Trump, European Populists Foster Bigotry, Discrimination."


Defend Pittsburghers' Right to Stay in their City! Housing Justice
**Affordable Housing Initiative:** **Pittsburgh Housing Summit** (Resources and links to recordings of plenary sessions) "Don't evict Pittsburgh!" Housing is a human right! The essence of our city is people and communities--not buildings, businesses, and tourist attractions.Homes for All Pittsburgh

*The Human Rights City Alliance works to promote and support activities of all human rights advocates around the region. Please contact us about relevant events/activities to share: pghrigts [at] riseup.net .

About the Human Rights City Alliance

How to Get Involved


Resources

Link to more resources--toolkits, reports, and organizations supporting local human rights work

People-Centered Human Rights: Analyses from Around the Nation and World


OSHER Lifelong Learning Institute-Human Rights in Pittsburgh and Beyond, Resource Page

Past events

World Food Day 2015: Watch video recording of October 2015 panel on the Right to Food
International Workers Day March for Immigrant Rights 2016 Statement of Unity and Solidarity


Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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#pghrights
e-mail: pghrights [at] riseup.net

Universal Declaration of Human Rights booklet with Pittsburgh's Human Rights City Proclamation

YWCA Pledge Stand against racism


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