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GRITtv: Human Rights For All--Reporting on the U.S.
The Obama administration submitted its first report on its own human rights record to the United Nations Human Rights Council, becoming the first U.S. administration to do so--the Bush administration declined to join the council. The report for the first time showed the government admitting to its own failings, particularly in the area of economic and social rights. Barbara Crossette, the U.N. reporter for The Nation, covered the story for the magazine and she joins us in studio, along with Anja Rudiger of the National Economic & Social Rights Initiative to discuss the report, next steps, and what all this means for the state of human rights in this country. Are we moving forward? How far do we have to go? And will we be able to acknowledge social and economic rights as fundamental human rights?
Email this pageSourceCode: New Orleans: Civil Rights from Ruin
They're not refugees, the more 300,000 people of New Orleans who were driven from their homes by Hurricane Katrina, and prevented from returning by their city, state and federal governments. They are citizens, and their civil and human rights have been trampled by an unjust system that is becoming LESS just with each passing day. The people of New Orleans are now threatened with losing their VOTES, and they are responding with community involvement that's spilling out from courtrooms and into the streets, the same streets that volunteers are trying to rebuild.
