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Grassroots Globalism: Human Rights Cities And Local Human Rights Implementation, Jackie Smith
Grassroots Globalism: Human Rights Cities And Local Human Rights Implementation, Jackie Smith
Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights
This presentation reports on how local human rights activists are mobilizing around the United States's 2019-2020 Universal Periodic Review process in the UN Human Rights Council. Organizers with the US Human Rights Cities Alliance have been promoting "UPR Cities" to engage local activists in work to document local human rights conditions and develop recommendations for a national civil society stakeholder report that will be submitted to the UN Human Rights Council. The UPR Cities serves three key purposes: First, it helps inform and inspire local and trans-local mobilization and alliance building around a human rights framework, advancing analyses of the …