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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 Amnesty International in Washington, D.C., and has taught international human rights law. She spoke at th...

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 misleadingly named “non-” or less-lethal weapons, some of which have featured in police raids and polic...

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 request calls for “effective accountability and follow-up” after an already-in-progress report on exc...

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 Floyd's 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 country's Black citizens. This isn't the first time the U.N.'s HRC has been presented with such a request—in fact, it received a similar one last June in t...

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 rights inquiry into police violence and systemic racism throughout the United States. Addressed to UN H...