New USHRF Report Documents Success Stories Across the U.S.
“What is the value of human rights in the United States? And what do you mean by human rights, anyway?”
These two compelling questions inspired a new report by the U.S. Human Rights Fund, “Perfecting Our Union: Human Rights Success Stories Across the United States,” which paints a vivid portrait of the challenges and victories of human rights activists around the country.
The report grew out of a call from social funders for concrete examples of how human rights values, standards and strategies have successfully been used in this country to advance policy, change conditions and improve lives. And that’s just what it does. From the victory of the Border Network for Human Rights to end law-enforcement abuses around El Paso, Texas, and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ fight for higher wages and better working conditions in Florida to the struggle for a living wage in Baltimore by the United Workers Association’s Camden Yards Campaign, these USHRF grantees collectively attest to the real and undeniable progress being made through activism, strategy and powerful alliance building in the area of human rights. Read the full report here. 
