April 11, 2008, NESRI makes submission to the UN Advisory Group on Forced Evictions regarding the demolitions of public housing in Post Katrina New Orleans >>>

NEW PUBLICATION
Our Special Project on the Human Rights of Hurricane Survivors releases an issue brief exposing the deprivations to the human right to health with the closing of Charity Hospital in New Orleans. >>>

Today in the US, the poor are increasingly denied resources for survival, and the middle class struggles ever more to meet basic needs. Under human rights standards, these growing trends represent violations for which the government is directly accountable.

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