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** ==[[U.S. Human Rights Network UDHR Campaign|U.S. Human Rights Network]]==
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** ==[http://web.law.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/microsites/human-rights-institute/files/Bringing%20Human%20Rights%20Home.pdf Bringing Human Rights Home: How Local Governments Can Use Human Rights to Advance Policy]==
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** [http://web.law.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/microsites/human-rights-institute/files/Bringing%20Human%20Rights%20Home.pdf Bringing Human Rights Home: How Local Governments Can Use Human Rights to Advance Policy]
 
** <span style="background: white">'''<span style="color: #000000">Amnesty International Netherlands: </span>'''[http://www.amnesty.nl/sites/default/files/public/the_future_of_human_rights_in_an_urban_world_0.pdf **The Future of Human Rights in an Urban World**]'''<span style="color: #000000">--</span>'''<span style="color: black">this report discusses how the global economy has contributed to more concentration of urban populations, militarization of cities, and new kinds of threats to basic rights such as housing. But cities are also responsible for delivering basic services, and they are led by representatives who most closely represent residents. This study explores opportunities for communities to unite for human rights, considering the Human Rights Cities initiative as an opportunity to make cities the "glocal defenders of human rights."</span></span>
 
** <span style="background: white">'''<span style="color: #000000">Amnesty International Netherlands: </span>'''[http://www.amnesty.nl/sites/default/files/public/the_future_of_human_rights_in_an_urban_world_0.pdf **The Future of Human Rights in an Urban World**]'''<span style="color: #000000">--</span>'''<span style="color: black">this report discusses how the global economy has contributed to more concentration of urban populations, militarization of cities, and new kinds of threats to basic rights such as housing. But cities are also responsible for delivering basic services, and they are led by representatives who most closely represent residents. This study explores opportunities for communities to unite for human rights, considering the Human Rights Cities initiative as an opportunity to make cities the "glocal defenders of human rights."</span></span>
 
** <span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #000000"> [http://www.cesr.org/downloads/cesr_20years_escr.pdf Center for Economic and Social Rights--Report ]on human rights progress (and obstacles) over the past 20 years.</span>
 
** <span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #000000"> [http://www.cesr.org/downloads/cesr_20years_escr.pdf Center for Economic and Social Rights--Report ]on human rights progress (and obstacles) over the past 20 years.</span>
** <span style="display: block; text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">[[file/view/Human Rights Cities2.pptx/490240184/Human Rights Cities2.pptx|Power point: ]]</span><span style="color: #ff0000">[[file/view/Human Rights Cities2.pptx/490240184/Human Rights Cities2.pptx|Human Rights Cities Around the World ]]</span><br /> </span>
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** <span style="display: block; text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">[[:file:Human_Rights_Cities2.odp|Power point: ]]</span><span style="color: #ff0000">[[:file:Human_Rights_Cities2.odp|Human Rights Cities Around the World ]]</span><br /> </span>
 
** Ideas from one of the first [http://www.humanrightscity.com U.S. Human Rights Cities]- Eugene Oregon
 
** Ideas from one of the first [http://www.humanrightscity.com U.S. Human Rights Cities]- Eugene Oregon
 
** <span style="font-size: 120%">[http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ Universal Declaration of Human Rights]</span>
 
** <span style="font-size: 120%">[http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/ Universal Declaration of Human Rights]</span>
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** '''''How International Human Rights Treaties matter:''''' http://www.northeastern.edu/law/pdfs/academics/phrge/davis-aba-1.29.16.pdf
 
** '''''How International Human Rights Treaties matter:''''' http://www.northeastern.edu/law/pdfs/academics/phrge/davis-aba-1.29.16.pdf
 
** '''''<span style="font-size: 16px">Freedom from Domestic Violence as a Fundamental Human Right</span>'''''''<span style="font-size: 16px">'''-''' Resolutions, </span>''''<span style="font-size: 16px">Presidential Proclamations, and Other Statements of Principle Resolutions by County, Town, and Municipal Governments</span>''<span style="font-size: 16px">[http://www.northeastern.edu/law/pdfs/academics/phrge/davis-aba-1.29.16.pdf <nowiki> [[http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/womenandjustice/DV-Resolutions.cfm</nowiki>] ]]</span>
 
** '''''<span style="font-size: 16px">Freedom from Domestic Violence as a Fundamental Human Right</span>'''''''<span style="font-size: 16px">'''-''' Resolutions, </span>''''<span style="font-size: 16px">Presidential Proclamations, and Other Statements of Principle Resolutions by County, Town, and Municipal Governments</span>''<span style="font-size: 16px">[http://www.northeastern.edu/law/pdfs/academics/phrge/davis-aba-1.29.16.pdf <nowiki> [[http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/womenandjustice/DV-Resolutions.cfm</nowiki>] ]]</span>
<span style="display: block; text-align: center"><br /> </span><span style="display: block; text-align: center"><br /> </span><span style="display: block; text-align: center"><span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<span style="font-size: 16px">S</span>''''''<span style="font-size: 16px">e</span>''''''<span style="font-size: 16px">lected Human Rights Organizing Resources</span>'''</span><br /> </span><br /> Resources for fighting white supremacy<br /> <br /> '''<u><span style="font-size: 16px">T</span></u>''''''<u><span style="font-size: 16px">oolkits and Organizing Templates</span></u>'''<br /> <span style="font-size: 16px"> American Friends Service Committee's [http://www.afsc.org/sites/afsc.civicactions.net/files/documents/Just!Us!%20Curriculum_v5.pdf Just Us! Human Rights-based curriculum for youth].</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 16px"> </span><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px">[http://www.unitedworkers.org/fair_development_recovery_plan Baltimore's United Workers Fair Development Recovery Plan]</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 16px"> [http://www.eccar.info/10-point-plan-action European Coalition of Cities Against Racism 10-point action plan]</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 16px"> </span><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px">[http://www.uclg-cisdp.org/en/right-to-the-city/european-charter European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City]</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: 16px"> [http://www.urbanreinventors.net/3/wsf.pdf World Charter on the Right to the City]</span><br /> <br /> <br />  
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''<span style="font-size: 16px">Selected Human Rights Organizing Resources</span>'''</span><br /> </span><br /> Resources for fighting white supremacy<br /> <br /> '''<u><span style="font-size: 16px">Toolkits and Organizing Templates</span></u>'''<br /> <span style="font-size: 16px"> American Friends Service Committee's [http://www.afsc.org/sites/afsc.civicactions.net/files/documents/Just!Us!%20Curriculum_v5.pdf Just Us! Human Rights-based curriculum for youth].</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 16px"> </span><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px">[http://www.unitedworkers.org/fair_development_recovery_plan Baltimore's United Workers Fair Development Recovery Plan]</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 16px"> [http://www.eccar.info/10-point-plan-action European Coalition of Cities Against Racism 10-point action plan]</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 16px"> </span><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px">[http://www.uclg-cisdp.org/en/right-to-the-city/european-charter European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City]</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: 16px"> [http://www.urbanreinventors.net/3/wsf.pdf World Charter on the Right to the City]</span><br /> <br /> <br />  
  
 
* <span style="font-size: 16px">[http://www.hic-gs.org/content/Mexico_Charter_R2C_2010.pdf Mexico City Charter on the Right to the City]</span>
 
* <span style="font-size: 16px">[http://www.hic-gs.org/content/Mexico_Charter_R2C_2010.pdf Mexico City Charter on the Right to the City]</span>
<br /> <span style="font-size: 16px"> </span><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px">[http://unesco.ca/%7E/media/unesco/sciences%20sociale/ccmard%20toolkit%20web-en.pdf?mw=1382 Anti-Racism Toolkit-]</span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none">b</span><span style="font-size: 16px">y the Canadian Coalition of Municipalities Against Racism and Discrimination</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 16px"> </span><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px">[http://www.uclg-cisdp.org/en/right-to-the-city/world-charter-agenda Global Charter Safeguarding Human Rights in the City]</span><br />  *[http://www.charter-equality.eu%20 Observatory of the European Charter for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life]<br />  *[http://www.includegender.org/ Toolkit for addressing gender equity]<br /> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px"> [http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/fight-against-discrimination/coalition-of-cities/ International Coalition of Cities Against Racism]</span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none">[http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/fight-against-discrimination/coalition-of-cities/ -]</span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px">This UNESCO initiative brings together international and municipal leaders to share experiences and develop [http://www.eccar.info/10-point-plan-action action plans for fighting discrimination in cities]. The </span><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px">[http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/fight-against-discrimination/coalition-of-cities/united-states-of-america/ U.S. Coalition of Cities Against Racism and Discrimination]</span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px"> was formed in 2013 in Birmingham, Alabama.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 16px"> National Economic and Social Rights Initiative two-pager on </span><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px">[[file/view/NESRI%20Human%20rights%20narrative%20June%202015.pdf/555030575/NESRI%20Human%20rights%20narrative%20June%202015.pdf|using human rights ]][[file/view/NESRI%20Human%20rights%20narrative%20June%202015.pdf/555030575/NESRI%20Human%20rights%20narrative%20June%202015.pdf|narrative for organizing]]</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 16px"> National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) [http://www.nesri.org/programs/what-is-the-human-right-to-health-and-health-care Health Care is a Human Right Campaign Collaborative]</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 16px"> [http://www.eugene-or.gov/HRC Eugene Oregon Human Rights Commission]</span><br />  
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<br /> <span style="font-size: 16px"> </span><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px">[http://unesco.ca/%7E/media/unesco/sciences%20sociale/ccmard%20toolkit%20web-en.pdf?mw=1382 Anti-Racism Toolkit-]</span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none">b</span><span style="font-size: 16px">y the Canadian Coalition of Municipalities Against Racism and Discrimination</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 16px"> </span><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px">[http://www.uclg-cisdp.org/en/right-to-the-city/world-charter-agenda Global Charter Safeguarding Human Rights in the City]</span><br />  *[http://www.charter-equality.eu%20 Observatory of the European Charter for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life]<br />  *[http://www.includegender.org/ Toolkit for addressing gender equity]<br /> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px"> [http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/fight-against-discrimination/coalition-of-cities/ International Coalition of Cities Against Racism]</span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none">[http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/fight-against-discrimination/coalition-of-cities/ -]</span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px">This UNESCO initiative brings together international and municipal leaders to share experiences and develop [http://www.eccar.info/10-point-plan-action action plans for fighting discrimination in cities]. The </span><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px">[http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/fight-against-discrimination/coalition-of-cities/united-states-of-america/ U.S. Coalition of Cities Against Racism and Discrimination]</span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px"> was formed in 2013 in Birmingham, Alabama.</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 16px"> National Economic and Social Rights Initiative two-pager on </span><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px">[[:file:NESRI_Human_rights_narrative_June_2015.pdf|using human rights organizing ]]</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 16px"> National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) [http://www.nesri.org/programs/what-is-the-human-right-to-health-and-health-care Health Care is a Human Right Campaign Collaborative]</span><br /> <span style="font-size: 16px"> [http://www.eugene-or.gov/HRC Eugene Oregon Human Rights Commission]</span><br />  
  
 
* <span style="font-size: 16px">[https://www.eugene-or.gov/index.aspx?NID=512 Triple Bottom Line-analysis tool for implementing human rights in city programs]</span>
 
* <span style="font-size: 16px">[https://www.eugene-or.gov/index.aspx?NID=512 Triple Bottom Line-analysis tool for implementing human rights in city programs]</span>
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* <span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px">PuttingPeople First</span><span style="font-size: 16px">!Pennsylvania</span></span>
 
* <span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px">PuttingPeople First</span><span style="font-size: 16px">!Pennsylvania</span></span>
* <span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px">National Economic and Social Rights Initiative(NESRI)[https://youtu.be/paK8Yl029p8 People'sBudgetvideo]</span><span style="font-size: 16px">with a </span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px">[http://www.nesri.org/sites/default/files/People%27s_Budget_Campaign.pdf slideshowpresentation]</span></span>
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* <span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px">National Economic and Social Rights Initiative(NESRI)[https://youtu.be/paK8Yl029p8 People's Budget video]</span><span style="font-size: 16px">with a </span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px">[http://www.nesri.org/sites/default/files/People%27s_Budget_Campaign.pdf slideshowpresentation]</span></span>
* <span style="font-size: 16px">National Economic andSocial RightsInitiative</span><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px">More than [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paK8Yl029p8 a Roof]</span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paK8Yl029p8 initiativeon]housing [http://www.nesri.org/sites/default/files/PB%203rdConference.pdf rights//(40 min.video)//]</span>
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* <span style="font-size: 16px">National Economic andSocial RightsInitiative</span><span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 16px">More than [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paK8Yl029p8 a Roof]</span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px">housing [http://www.nesri.org/sites/default/files/PB%203rdConference.pdf rights] //(40 min.video)// </span>
* <span style="font-size: 16px">FILM[https://vimeo.com/26627365 : KellyAnderson “My Brooklyn,]</span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px">a perspectiveon ˜gentrification from the viewpoint of displacedresidents.</span>
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* <span style="font-size: 16px">FILM[https://vimeo.com/26627365 : KellyAnderson “My Brooklyn,]</span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px">a perspectiveon ˜gentrification from the viewpoint of displacedresidents.
<br /> <br /> '''<span style="font-size: 16px">Research Articles and Reports</span>'''<br /> <span style="font-size: 16px"> Mac Naughton and McGill, "[http://nulj.org/sites/default/files/files/NULJ-ESC-MacNaughton-McGill.pdf Economic and Social Rights: Implementation without Ratification]"--</span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px">an article that discusses both the Vermont "Health Care is a Human Right" campaign and the Eugene, Oregon </span><span style="font-size: 16px">[http://www.humanrightscity.com/ Human Rights City Project]</span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px">. </span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: 16px"> Open SocietyFoundation research on inclusion, democracy,anti-discrimination in EU Cities:</span><br />  
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*[https://laane.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Unmasking-the-Hidden-Power-of-Cities.pdf “Unmasking the hidden power of cities”]. (LA-A New Economy for All LAANE, Partnership for Working Families, In the Public Interest) June 2018. 
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*Mac Naughton and McGill, "[http://nulj.org/sites/default/files/files/NULJ-ESC-MacNaughton-McGill.pdf Economic and Social Rights: Implementation without Ratification]"--</span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px">an article that discusses both the Vermont "Health Care is a Human Right" campaign and the Eugene, Oregon </span><span style="font-size: 16px">[http://www.humanrightscity.com/ Human Rights City Project]</span><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 16px">. </span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: 16px"> Open SocietyFoundation research on inclusion, democracy,anti-discrimination in EU Cities:</span><br />  
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* <span style="color: #0000ff">[http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/reports/living-together-projects-promoting-inclusion-11-eu-cities http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/reports/living-together-projects-promoting-inclusion-11-][http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/reports/living-together-projects-promoting-inclusion-11-eu-cities eu-cities]</span>
 
* <span style="color: #0000ff">[http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/reports/living-together-projects-promoting-inclusion-11-eu-cities http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/reports/living-together-projects-promoting-inclusion-11-][http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/reports/living-together-projects-promoting-inclusion-11-eu-cities eu-cities]</span>
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* [http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/2013/12/calling-less-disposable-way-holding-accountable/ Calling IN: A Less Disposable Way of Holding Each Other Accountable] ''by Ngọc Loan Trần''
 
* [http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/2013/12/calling-less-disposable-way-holding-accountable/ Calling IN: A Less Disposable Way of Holding Each Other Accountable] ''by Ngọc Loan Trần''
 
* [http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/11-things-white-people-can-do-be-real-anti-racist-allies 11 Things White People Can do to Be Real Anti-racist Allies and Accomplices]''Alternet''
 
* [http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/11-things-white-people-can-do-be-real-anti-racist-allies 11 Things White People Can do to Be Real Anti-racist Allies and Accomplices]''Alternet''
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/12AfmfqmKJqJL_XuYFg-QBZ8jUjNMT4_LgQTAr1tBgHc/edit "How to become an Ally"] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #404040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">Excerpt from Becoming an Ally Breaking the Cycle of Oppression by Anne Bishop. Published by Fernwood Publishing, Halifax</span>
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* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/12AfmfqmKJqJL_XuYFg-QBZ8jUjNMT4_LgQTAr1tBgHc/edit "How to become an Ally"] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #404040; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline">Excerpt from Becoming an Ally Breaking the Cycle of Oppression by Anne Bishop. Published by Fernwood Publishing, Halifax
<br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif; font-size: 32px">Around the Nation & World:</span>'''<br /> <span style="color: #0f0f0f">The Human Rights City Alliance is part of the '''''National Network of Human Rights Cities,''''' which connects us to the US Human Rights Network, the leading human rights organization in the U.S. working with grassroots, low-income communities and communities of color who are most affected by the denials of human rights. USHRN connects human rights activists in this country with UN human rights bodies and international movements. </span>[http://www.ushrnetwork.org/our-work/project/national-human-rights-city-network Learn more about this work here.]<br /> <br /> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif; font-size: 16px">[http://commondreams.org/news/2015/07/23/new-bills-would-bring-sweeping-vital-lgbtq-protections Federal Equality Act introduced in U.S. Congress]</span><span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif; font-size: 16px"> This bill offers protections against discrimination in housing, federal funding, jury service, legal protections, and credit based on sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity. It also prevents the use of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to defend discrimination against LGBT people.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial&#39;,sans-serif; font-size: 16px">The United States is currently undergoing the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in the United Nations. As part of this review process, the U.S. Human Rights Network has compiled this report on the state of human rights in the United States: </span><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: &#39;Arial&#39;,sans-serif; font-size: 16px">[http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=6MyY%2BXUE%2FyLXWsaRjw3butvImAJZqZGo Testimonies of Human Rights at Home: Documenting Injustice in the United States]</span><span style="font-family: &#39;Arial&#39;,sans-serif; font-size: 16px">.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[http://pwccc.wordpress.com/programa/ International Call for a Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth]</span><br /> <br /> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[http://therightsofnature.org/call-for-action-2014/ Call for Action for the Rights of Mother Earth]</span><br />  
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*The Human Rights City Alliance is part of the '''''National Network of Human Rights Cities,''''' which connects us to the US Human Rights Network, the leading human rights organization in the U.S. working with grassroots, low-income communities and communities of color who are most affected by the denials of human rights. USHRN connects human rights activists in this country with UN human rights bodies and international movements. </span>[http://www.ushrnetwork.org/our-work/project/national-human-rights-city-network Learn more about this work here.]<br /> <br /> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif; font-size: 16px">[http://commondreams.org/news/2015/07/23/new-bills-would-bring-sweeping-vital-lgbtq-protections Federal Equality Act introduced in U.S. Congress]</span><span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif; font-size: 16px"> This bill offers protections against discrimination in housing, federal funding, jury service, legal protections, and credit based on sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity. It also prevents the use of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act to defend discrimination against LGBT people.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: &#39;Arial&#39;,sans-serif; font-size: 16px">The United States is currently undergoing the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in the United Nations. As part of this review process, the U.S. Human Rights Network has compiled this report on the state of human rights in the United States: </span><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: &#39;Arial&#39;,sans-serif; font-size: 16px">[http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=6MyY%2BXUE%2FyLXWsaRjw3butvImAJZqZGo Testimonies of Human Rights at Home: Documenting Injustice in the United States]</span><span style="font-family: &#39;Arial&#39;,sans-serif; font-size: 16px">.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[http://pwccc.wordpress.com/programa/ International Call for a Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth]</span><br /> <br /> <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif">[http://therightsofnature.org/call-for-action-2014/ Call for Action for the Rights of Mother Earth]</span><br />  
  
 
* <span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif; font-size: 16px"> This is a proposal put forward from the </span><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif; font-size: 16px">[http://pwccc.wordpress.com/ World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth]</span><span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif; font-size: 16px"> ''(held in 2010 in Cochabamba, Bolivia) that urges local and national governments and the United Nations to formally recognize legal rights for the Earth and all its inhabitants.''</span>
 
* <span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif; font-size: 16px"> This is a proposal put forward from the </span><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif; font-size: 16px">[http://pwccc.wordpress.com/ World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth]</span><span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,serif; font-size: 16px"> ''(held in 2010 in Cochabamba, Bolivia) that urges local and national governments and the United Nations to formally recognize legal rights for the Earth and all its inhabitants.''</span>
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Selected Human Rights Organizing Resources'

Resources for fighting white supremacy

Toolkits and Organizing Templates
American Friends Service Committee's Just Us! Human Rights-based curriculum for youth.
Baltimore's United Workers Fair Development Recovery Plan
European Coalition of Cities Against Racism 10-point action plan
European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City

World Charter on the Right to the City



Anti-Racism Toolkit-by the Canadian Coalition of Municipalities Against Racism and Discrimination
Global Charter Safeguarding Human Rights in the City
*Observatory of the European Charter for Equality of Women and Men in Local Life
*Toolkit for addressing gender equity
International Coalition of Cities Against Racism-This UNESCO initiative brings together international and municipal leaders to share experiences and develop action plans for fighting discrimination in cities. The U.S. Coalition of Cities Against Racism and Discrimination was formed in 2013 in Birmingham, Alabama.
National Economic and Social Rights Initiative two-pager on using human rights organizing
National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) Health Care is a Human Right Campaign Collaborative
Eugene Oregon Human Rights Commission

Rights respecting schools program-to advance the Convention on the Rights of the Child ”promote restorative justice, inclusion/diversity, diffusion of human rights principles throughout staff (see also UNICEF-UK Rights Respecting Schools program)

Films
"Dakota 38"-- film on the efforts of Dakota people to resist the erasure of a massacre against Indigenous people by marking its anniversary with a ride from South Dakota to Minnesota. The film is offered as a gift to bring healing through truth-telling.

Human Rights Education



Organizations and outreach resources

Research Articles and Reports



Fighting White Supremacy
Ending White Supremacy --is hard work. It requires constant effort to re-educate ourselves and our communities. Here are some reflections from anti-racist activists that can help guide our work together.

Around the Nation & World


National & International Campaigns and Initiatives




Amnesty International Netherlands: **The Future of Human Rights in an Urban World**--this report discusses how the global economy has contributed to more concentration of urban populations, militarization of cities, and new kinds of threats to basic rights such as housing. But cities are also responsible for delivering basic services, and they are led by representatives who most closely represent residents. This study explores opportunities for communities to unite for human rights, considering the Human Rights Cities initiative as an opportunity to make cities the "glocal defenders of human rights."