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and Updates [past media and Updates] May 7, 2008, As a founding member of the Dignity in Schools Campaign, NESRI is proud to announce the launch of the Campaign’s new website to challenge pushout in U.S. schools! This new website was created to share information on the problem of pushout and to promote human rights based alternatives to a culture of zero-tolerance, punishment and removal in our schools. April 24, 2008, A new report is released by the Commonwealth Fund, "Identifying and Evaluating Equity Provisions in State Health Care Reform." The report evaluates practices by states to advance equity in health care and also identifies additional steps states can take to increase equity in their health care systems. >>> April 22, 2008, The Vermont Workers Center - Jobs with Justice has an opening for a full-time organizer to coordinate their new "Healthcare Is A Human Right" grassroots organizing project. The position will be focused on building a statewide action network of Vermonters in working class communities and organized labor to fundamentally change the politics of healthcare reform. Applicants should have experience in union and/or grassroots community organizing, strong written and oral communication skills, computer skills, drivers' license/vehicle and strong work ethic. Excellent benefits and the salary. For a detailed job description contact, info@workerscenter.org April 16, 2008, PRESS RELEASE, Human Rights and Housing Rights Groups Urge New York City Council to Vote Against the Rezoning of Harlem’s 125th Street >>> To see the international solidarity letter >>> April 11, 2008, PRESS RELEASE, The International Alliance of Inhabitants and NESRI Decry the Demolition of Public Housing in New Orleans >>> and NESRI makes submission to the UN Advisory Group on Forced Evictions regarding the demolitions of public housing in Post Katrina New Orleans >>> March 13, 2008, Tiffany Gardner, NESRI Director for the Legal Program and Special Project on Hurricane Katrina, participated in the Harvard Human Rights Journal's annual conference >>> March 4, 2008, NESRI Board Member Lisa Crooms writes "What Malcolm X, Dubois and Robeson would have told the State of the Black Union" >>> March 3, 2008, The Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign is organizing a March for September 2 in St. Paul, MN during the RNC. See the flyer >>> March 1, 2008, Tour for neglected Alabama Katrina Survivors from North Mobile to the Coastal Bayou communities >>> February 29, 2008, NESRI releases a statement, United Nations Experts Recognize Rights of Public Housing Katrina Survivors >>> February 22, 2008, NESRI Health Program Director Anja Rudiger was interviewed in Montana about access to health care as a human right >>> February 17, 2008, The New York Daily News published an article about race realities in New York >>> February 11, 2008, NESRI Education Director Liz Sullivan wrote a feature article for the Gotham Gazette about positive alternatives to the current discipline policy in New York City >>> February 1, 2008, The Center for Social Inclusion released a new report, Growing Together: Thriving People for a Thriving Columbia, which shows that the Columbia, SC region can be a vibrant metropolitan region, but only if it invests in all its people, including its most marginalized. The report finds that the region must invest strategically in essential public infrastructure, including water and sewer in rural Black communities, and adopt appropriate growth policies that enrich the entire region. For the report, visit >>> and there is a toolkit at >>> January 29, 2008, NESRI sent a letter to the editor of the Daily News about the five year-old kindergarten student who was handcuffed earlier in January >>> January 29, 2008, The Drum Major Institute released their analysis of the State of the Union, for the full report go to >>> January 28, 2008, NESRI is mentioned in an article about our work with the Student Safety Act >>> January 25, 2008, NESRI releases a statement about a five year-old kindergarten student in Queens being handcuffed by school safety agents and sent to a psychiatric ward for evaluation after throwing a tantrum and shoving items off of his principal’s desk. For the original Daily News article >>> or go to the statement >>> January 24, 2008, NESRI Board Member Lisa Crooms is an author of the newly released, "Women and the Law, 4th Edition" >>> January 18, 2008, NESRI and NHeLP release Pursuing A New Vision for Health Care: A Human Rights Assessment of the Presidential Candidates' Proposals. To view the Press Release, >>> or go directly to the Human Rights Assessment >>> January 17, 2008, Walter Kälin, the Representative of the UN Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons, began a U.S. visit on January 14, 2008 in Washington DC. Mr. Kälin's visit is in conjunction with the release of the Institute for Southern Studies publication entitled Hurricane Katrina and the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement: A Global Human Rights Perspective on a National Disaster. The study focuses on the government's response to those displaced by Hurricane Katrina through the lens of international standards, specifically the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement. He also participated in a panel discussion with Ajamu Baraka and Monique Harden that took place at the Brookings Institute and was carried live by C-SPAN. >>> January 8, 2008, "Unequal Health Outcomes in the United States: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care Treatment and Access, The Role of Social and Environmental Determinants of Health, And The Responsibility of the State" This report was submitted to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. >>> January 7, 2007, Eugene, Oregon is a Human Rights City! Mayor Kitty Piercy endorses these efforts in her State of the City address. >>>
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