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U.S. Human Rights Fund Releases Human Rights Case Studies
 Sue Simon - US Human Rights Fund
April 23, 2010
| This new report from the U.S. Human Rights Fund provides concrete examples of how human rights values, standards and strategies have been successfully used in advancing social justice policy and practice in the United States.
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The U.S. Human Rights Fund is pleased to share this report which illustrates how human rights can furnish greater protections than civil rights alone and mobilize affected communities to define and lead their own struggles. Examples include:
• Activists gained recognition of prisoner rape as a violation of human dignity and secured bipartisan passage of legislation demanding that government officials take action.
• A coalition of agricultural workers and their allies won an agreement for higher wages and better working conditions from some of the largest food corporations in America by appealing to basic principles of worker rights.
• Using human rights participatory documentation methods, an immigrant rights network reduced complaints of Border Patrol harassment by more than 70% along the Texas/Mexico border.
The USHRF is a partnership of donors who provide field-building support to social justice organizations engaged in human rights work within the U.S. Launched in 2005, the USHRF arose from a shared belief that human rights benefit the cause of progressive social justice. It has raised more than $16 million dollars from 16 donors, and currently supports almost 50 organizations working on issues including labor rights, environmental rights, the right to healthcare, ending juvenile life without parole sentences, and the right to housing.
We congratulate the brave advocates and survivors of human rights violations whose efforts are profiled in this report. Not only is the number of domestic advocates using human rights values, standards and strategies growing, the influence and impact of their work is expanding. While dignity, equality and opportunity for all people in the U.S. has yet to be fully achieved, the call for government accountability to human rights at home grows louder every day.
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