September 22, 2010
Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights member Picture the Homeless continues their fight to pass Intro 48 next week with a press conference at City Hall. Intro 48 would force the city to conduct an annual census of all vacant properties, an important step in the fight to open up these...
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September 21, 2010
Members of the Campaign to Restore National Housing Rights (CRNHR) attended the Congressional Black Caucus Conference on Thursday and Friday, September 16 - 17. The CRNHR was in attendance to screen and speak about Coming Home: The Dry Storm, a documentary about the human right...
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September 17, 2010
As part of its submission to the United Nation’s human rights review of the United States, scheduled for November 5 in Geneva, Switzerland, NESRI releases a series of fact sheets outlining three main reasons why the United States fails to ensure economic and social rights. The fact sheets...
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September 10, 2010
Yesterday Anja Rudiger, the Human Right to Health Program Director at NESRI, appeared on GRITtv with the show's host Laura Flanders and Barbara Crossette, the U.N. reporter for The Nation, in a segment called Human Rights For All – Reporting on the U.S.
On August 20th, the Obama...
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September 9, 2010
NESRI released a statement criticizing Ahold, owner of supermarkets Stop and Shop and Giant, for the company’s refusal to cooperate with groups working to protect the human rights of workers in the Florida tomato industry. Since 2007, the Coalition for Immokalee Workers...
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September 7, 2010
NESRI and the Vermont Workers’ Center are preparing a comprehensive People’s Budget Report, which will audit the state budget from a human rights perspective and collect people’s experiences of the human rights impact of recent budget cuts. Vermonters are asked to complete a...
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