Civil rights and human rights have always been intertwined. At the heart of the civil rights movement is the basic human dignity of all people and their right to live in freedom and with justice and equal opportunity.
President
Obama this week released a
groundbreaking new plan and issued an executive
order to increase U.S. support for strengthening the participation of women
around the world in ending conflict and securing peace.
November 3, 2011 - Posted by The Leadership Conference
A Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee hearing this week on the role of women in the Arab Spring movement drew attention to the need for the United States to join with 187 other countries that have committed to advance and protect the rights of women by ratifying the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
In a
straight party-line vote of 23-15, Republican members of the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs this week passed H.R. 2829, the U.N. Transparency,
Accountability, and Reform Act of 2011. Among other things, the legislation seeks to withhold funding for
several important U.N. programs and activities and restrict U.S. participation
in the Human Rights Council.
The tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is
a moment to honor and remember the nearly 3,000 victims who were killed
on that day and to reaffirm a commitment to basic civil and human
rights that stands against hatred and intolerance. In this spirit, The Leadership Conference Education Fund has
partnered with USA Network in a public service campaign around the
premiere of The Space Between, airing on Sunday, September 11 at 9 p.m Eastern/8
p.m. Central.
On the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania, representatives from more than 70 national civil rights, human
rights, civil liberties, Muslim, Jewish, and South Asian groups have signed a shared statement of principles that they say must guide responses to such horrendous and terrifying acts.
A
recently enacted anti-immigration
law in Alabama is unconstitutional and opens the door to racial profiling,
according to a lawsuit filed this week by the American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU) and a coalition of civil and human rights groups.
On Tuesday, February 8, 2011, Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and Luis CdeBaca, ambassador-at-large to monitor and combat trafficking in persons, will hold a conversation on U.S. efforts to monitor and combat modern slavery, which will be streamed live on DipNote, the Department of State's official blog, at 3:30 p.m. ET.
February 10, 2011 - Posted by The Leadership Conference
Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, spoke Tuesday at the State Department with Luis CdeBaca, ambassador-at-large to monitor and combat trafficking in persons, on ways of combating human trafficking and modern day slavery. The discussion was part of an ongoing video program by the Bureau of Public Affairs entitled "Conversations with America,” which aims to provide insight into how the leaders of national nongovernmental organizations engage with senior State Department officials around foreign policy and global issues.
President Obama recently nominated Roberta Achtenberg and Marty Castro to serve on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, an independent advisory commission charged with investigating and reporting on all levels of government to ensure all citizens' civil rights were protected.
