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June 29: GHI Associate Director Lori DiPrete Brown, MSPH, MTS, moderates a panel that will explore a new model for sustainable development that integrates human rights, gender equity and Indigenous and local knowledge.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out whats clicking on Foxnews.com. Black Lives Matter cofounder Patrisse Cullors called for the end of Israel in 2015 during a panel at the Harvard Law School.  "Palestine is our generation’s South Africa. If we don’t step up boldly and courageously to end the imperialist project that’s called Israel, we’re doomed," Cullors said.  The Human Rights Program at Harvard law hosted Cullors and several other activists in April of 2015 for a panel...

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors called for an end to Israel, which she called an imperialist project, at a 2015 panel discussion at Harvard Law School.

For Capitalist Marxist BLM co-founder, Patrisse Cullors, it’s a White Privilege life all the way, Patrisse Cullors resigned from the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation after weeks of criticism surrounding her million dollar real estate purchases

Law enforcement kills nearly 1,000 civilians each year in the United States. And in more than 98 percent of those deadly encounters, the officers

Published May 18. 2021 8:24PM  Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut President and CEO Maryam Elahi received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Eastern Connecticut State University on Saturday. Elahi has served as the director of the International Women’s Program at the Open Society Foundations in New York City, the founding director of the Human Rights Program at Trinity College in Hartford, and the Advocacy Director on the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe for Amnes...

Federal Militarization of Law Enforcement Must End The federal government arms local police forces in the United States with weapons of war. A program called “1033,” for the section of the act that created it, allows the Department of Defense to give state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies military hardware. Since its inception in 1996, nearly 10,000 jurisdictions have received more than $7 billion of equipment. This includes combat vehicles, rifles, military helmets, and mislead...

Colin KalmbacherMay 10th, 2021, 4:37 pm A coalition led by the nation’s foremost civil liberties organization and nearly 200 families of people who say they’ve been victimized by law enforcement over the course of several decades have filed a request with the United Nations (UN) asking for the launch of a formal human rights inquiry into police violence and systemic racism throughout the United States. Addressed to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet, the 13-page reque...

Letter Asks UN Human Rights Council to Investigate U.S. Police Brutality Against Black Americans On 5/10/21 at 10:01 AM EDT Nearly a year after George Floyds death inspired protests in the U.S. and around the world, families of Black Americans who died after encounters with law enforcement are calling upon the United Nations (U.N.) Human Rights Council (HRC) to launch an independent commission of inquiry into police violence against the countrys Black citizens. This isnt the first time the U.N....

Families of George Floyd, Daunte Wright, and ACLU Call for United Nations Inquiry into Alleged Racism, U.S. Police Brutality Colin Kalmbacher © Provided by Law & Crime Painting of George Floyd A coalition led by the nation’s foremost civil liberties organization and nearly 200 families of people who say they’ve been victimized by law enforcement over the course of several decades have filed a request with the United Nations (UN) asking for the launch of a formal human rig...