U.S. Leads in Income Inequality and Moving ‘Full Steam Ahead to Make Itself More Unequal’
Reprinted with permission from the Human Rights at Home Blog. For two weeks at the end of last year, Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty crisscrossed the United States, speaking to communities in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Lowndes…
The Right to Family in the Era of the “Zero Tolerance” Immigration Policy
On May 7, 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new iteration of the Trump administration’s draconian stance on immigration: the “zero tolerance” policy. In short, the “zero tolerance” policy directs prosecutors to charge as many people crossing the border…
Woodhull Joins 156 Civil and Human Rights Groups in Call for Stronger Response to Hate Incidents
This is a press release from The Leadership Conference. Please find the original post here. WASHINGTON –The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and 155 civil and human rights groups today called upon the Executive Branch to respond more…
Woodhull joins civil society organizations in call for IACHR emergency hearing re: “Muslim Ban”
This January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,” known commonly as the “Muslim Ban.” Although the 9th Circuit Court has upheld the illegality of this order, there’s no…
USHRN’s Statement on the State of Emergency of Anti-Trans Hate Violence
The US Human Rights Network (of which Woodhull is a member and, with SisterSong, chairs the Social Rights and Gender Justice Working Group) Coordinating Center extends our thoughts and prayers to the families and loved ones of the 18 transgender…
Dehumanization In A Nutshell: “We Work With The Garbage Of New York”
-Sikkim Assing, Retired corrections officer, on why she and others carry concealed weapons, and feel entitled to use them. Those words - "We work with the garbage of New York" - are attributed to retired corrections officer Sikkim Assing in…
Nothing About Youth Without Youth
“Nothing about us without us!” That’s an organizing principle that I first learned when I started doing sex worker rights advocacy years ago. Then, last week, at the Detroit Youth Passages Youth Sexuality Media Forum, I was invited think about…
64 Days for Human Rights: Defending Immigrant, Migrant, Border, Refugee, and Asylum Seekers’ Rights
Woodhull is a proud member of the US Human Rights Network where we Chair the Sexual Rights and Gender Justice Working Group. This campaign is shared here and on the US Human Rights Network website – a treasure trove of human rights…