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Closing The Gap: The Federal Role In Respecting & Ensuring Human Rights At The State And Local Level, Human Rights Institute, International Association Of Official Human Rights Agencies (Iaohra)
Closing The Gap: The Federal Role In Respecting & Ensuring Human Rights At The State And Local Level, Human Rights Institute, International Association Of Official Human Rights Agencies (Iaohra)
Human Rights Institute
This report offers an overview of the domestic landscape for human rights implementation and recommends action the United States must take to respect and ensure Covenant rights at the state and local level. This information responds directly to questions posed by the Human Rights Committee as part of the fourth periodic review of the United States, and offers a more complete picture of how the lack of institutionalized support impacts state and local governments. The report further describes a number of promising state and local human rights initiatives and details the myriad barriers that impede more comprehensive and effective state …
The Court's Denial Of Racial Societal Debt, Kimberlé W. Crenshaw
The Court's Denial Of Racial Societal Debt, Kimberlé W. Crenshaw
Faculty Scholarship
In this year of civil rights anniversaries, the narrative of racial progress has been tempered by the Supreme Court’s game-changing decisions this past summer. The notion that “we’ve come a long way and we have much more work to do” sounds ever more like wishful thinking in the face of a Supreme Court that is no longer an active contributor to the cause. Having abandoned its unprecedented insistence that white supremacy be upended root and branch, the current Court’s boldness is measured by its audacious efforts to reverse engineer the transformative mechanisms these anniversaries celebrate.