UNA Human Rights Affinity Group

UNA Human Rights Affinity Group is an initiative to share and strategize around United Nations human rights instruments and institutions important to UNA-USA members. It is also a national discussion and dialogue about bringing human rights home — where human rights matter most. We advocate for advancement of human rights in our community, country and around the world. If you’re already a member, join UNA Human Rights here. 

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“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerned citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.”

THE LATEST

Sign-on Letter: Rejecting the Report of the Commission on Unalienable Rights

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Sign on Letter: Ratify ILO C190

From the Executive Director's Desk

Sign on Letter: Calling for a Human Rights Council Special Session on Police Violence

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UNA-USA Members Discuss Gender Equality During COVID-19 on Global Dispatches Podcast

From the Executive Director's Desk

NGO Letter: Rohingya Response and COVID-19

From the Executive Director's Desk

Letter to U.S. State Department Commission on Unalienable Rights from UNA-USA Executive Director Rachel Bowen Pittman

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UNA-USA Launches New UPR Digital Toolkit

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UNA Members are Championing Human Rights