{"id":1111,"date":"2006-01-09T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/01\/09\/joint-letter-to-u-n-human-rights-committee-re-iccpr\/"},"modified":"2016-12-13T07:51:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T07:51:48","slug":"joint-letter-to-u-n-human-rights-committee-re-iccpr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2006\/01\/09\/joint-letter-to-u-n-human-rights-committee-re-iccpr\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Letter to U.N. Human Rights Committee re: ICCPR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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U.S. CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS SIGNING
THE 9 JANUARY 2006 MEMO
TO MEMBERS OF THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE
REGARDING U.S. COMPLIANCE WITH THE ICCPR <\/p>\n

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Organizations<\/strong> <\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

African American Human Rights Foundation
Dr. Keith Jennings, President <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

American Friends Service Committee, Immigrant Rights Program
New York Metropolitan Regional Office
Amy Gottlieb, Program Director <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

American Friends Service Committee, National Criminal Justice Program
Tonya McClary,Esq., National Director <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Breakthrough: Building Human Rights Culture
Mallika Dutt, Executive Director <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Center for Constitutional Rights
Maria LaHood, Staff Attorney <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Center for Victims of Torture
Douglas A. Johnson, Executive Director <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)
Bret Thiele, Coordinator of ESC Rights Litigation Programme <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Citizens Alert
Jean Maclean Snyder, Director <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Equal Justice Society
Eva Paterson, Executive Director <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Feminist Caucus of the American Humanist Association
Patricia Willis, Chair <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Global Rights – Partners for Justice
Margaret Huang, U.S. Program Director <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights
Sid Mohn, President <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Human Rights Advocates
Connie de la Vega <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Human Rights Project, Urban Justice Center
Ramona Ortega, Director <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Immigrant Law Center of MN
John C. Keller, Interim Executive Director of MN <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

International Women's Human Rights Law Clinic, City University of New York School of Law
Rhonda Copelon, Professor <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

International Women's Rights Action Watch
Marsha A. Freeman, Director <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Ipas
Patty Skuster, Policy Associate <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Barbara R. Arnwine, Executive Director <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Legal Momentum
Julie Kay, Staff Attorney
Maya Raghu, Staff Attorney <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic, Yale Law School
James J. Silk, Associate Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Michigan Association for Incarcerated Latinos (MAIL)
Maia Justine Storm, Esq., Executive Director, <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Midwest Immigrant & Human Rights Center
Mary Meg McCarthy, Director <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
Jennifer Prestholdt, Deputy Director <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The Multiracial Activist
James Landrith <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Prof. Speedy Rice, International Relations <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
Cathy Albisa, Executive Director
Elizabeth Sullivan, Human Right to Education Project Director <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

National Lawyers Guild, International Committee
Merrilyn Onisko <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Catherine Tactaquin, Executive Director <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Penal Reform International
Jenni Gainsborough, Director, Washington Office <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Poverty & Race Research Action Council
Philip Tegeler, Executive Director <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Rights Working Group
Paul M. Igasaki, Executive Director <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The Sentencing Project
Marc Mauer, Executive Director <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

US Human Rights Network
Ajamu Baraka, Executive Director <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Western Shoshone Defense Project
Julie Ann Fishel <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), US Section
Tamara James, Co-President <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

World Organization for Human Rights USA
Morton Sklar, Executive Director
Monique Beadle, Refugee Project Director <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Individuals signing in personal capacity (* Institutional affiliations are for identification purposes only)<\/strong> <\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jamie Brooks
Staff Attorney, National Health Law Program <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Hadar Harris
Executive Director, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
American University Washington College of Law <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Deena R. Hurwitz
Asst. Clinical Professor, University of Virginia School of Law <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Dr. Sharon Hutchinson
Professor of Anthropology and African Studies
University of Wisconsin-Madison <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Sarah Hymowitz
Human Rights Attorney <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Jeff Joseph
Immigration Attorney, Joseph Law Firm <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Deborah LaBelle, Esquire <\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

Noah Leavitt
Whitman College <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Bert Lockwood
Director, Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights
University of Cincinnati <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Tina Minkowitz
Joint Chairperson, World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Andrea J. Ritchie, Esq.
INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Abderrahim Sabir
Regional Director, Human Rights Education Associates <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Cynthia Soohoo
Director, Bringing Human Rights Home Project
Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Eric Tars
Human Rights Consultant <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Amy L. Weismann
Deputy Director, University of Iowa Center for Human Rights <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Deborah M. Weissman
Professor of Law and Director of Clinical Programs
University of North Carolina School of Law <\/p>\n

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