Add to ORKGIn February 2008, over 120 members of US civil society representing a range of domestic non-governmental organizations attended a United Nations hearing regarding the US government\u27s compliance with the International Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Racial Discrimination. In this article, I analyze a distinct form of transnational activism that requires US racial justice activists to identify human rights standards and principles upon which to build their assertions of racial injustice, necessitating a fluency in the language of human rights and the ability to negotiate and lobby with members of a UN committee
This submission emphasizes the centrality of economic and social rights to human rights and highligh...
This Article argues that international human rights law, and the human rights movement more generall...
This Article critiques the U.S. government’s approach to human rights. In particular, it assesses U....
In February 2008, over 120 members of US civil society representing a range of domestic non-governme...
The history of government racism is part of the explanation of the limited contemporary use of human...
As demonstrations under the banner of #BlackLivesMatter continue to erupt around the United States a...
In December 2014, nearly four months after the shooting of Michael Brown, a delegation that included...
The United Nations (UN) has a multitude of global conventions and treaties in which its members stat...
The article reviews the three volumes of the book Bringing Human Rights Home, edited by Cynthia So...
In 1994, the United States ratified the United Nations’ core anti-racism treaty, ICERD. Although it ...
The United States has ratified international human rights treaties sparingly. Where it has ratified,...
A review of: Breaking Silence: The Case that Changed the Face of Human Rights by Richard Alan White....
This paper discusses the US history of discrimination against blacks which should be understood by s...
International human rights law seeks to eliminate racial discrimination in the world through treatie...
Adoption of the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights created a new international...
This submission emphasizes the centrality of economic and social rights to human rights and highligh...
This Article argues that international human rights law, and the human rights movement more generall...
This Article critiques the U.S. government’s approach to human rights. In particular, it assesses U....
In February 2008, over 120 members of US civil society representing a range of domestic non-governme...
The history of government racism is part of the explanation of the limited contemporary use of human...
As demonstrations under the banner of #BlackLivesMatter continue to erupt around the United States a...
In December 2014, nearly four months after the shooting of Michael Brown, a delegation that included...
The United Nations (UN) has a multitude of global conventions and treaties in which its members stat...
The article reviews the three volumes of the book Bringing Human Rights Home, edited by Cynthia So...
In 1994, the United States ratified the United Nations’ core anti-racism treaty, ICERD. Although it ...
The United States has ratified international human rights treaties sparingly. Where it has ratified,...
A review of: Breaking Silence: The Case that Changed the Face of Human Rights by Richard Alan White....
This paper discusses the US history of discrimination against blacks which should be understood by s...
International human rights law seeks to eliminate racial discrimination in the world through treatie...
Adoption of the UN Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights created a new international...
This submission emphasizes the centrality of economic and social rights to human rights and highligh...
This Article argues that international human rights law, and the human rights movement more generall...
This Article critiques the U.S. government’s approach to human rights. In particular, it assesses U....