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Andrea Silva - National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
By: Hub Intern
Posted: May 23 08
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Regions: United States
Issues: Justice, Minorities, Refugees
Tags: Andrea Silva, discrimination, immigrant, interview, National Network, refugee, Rights
This interview was conducted by a fellow participant at the US
Human Rights Network National conference in Chicago April 17th-20th, 2008.
Andrea Silva discusses her work for the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.
The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (NNIRR) is a national organization composed of local coalitions and immigrant, refugee, community, religious, civil rights and labor organizations and activists. It serves as a forum to share information and analysis, to educate communities and the general public, and to develop and coordinate plans of action on important immigrant and refugee issues. We work to promote a just immigration and refugee policy in the United States and to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants and refugees, regardless of immigration status.
The National Network bases its efforts in the principles of equality and justice, and seeks the enfranchisement of all immigrant and refugee communities in the United States through organizing and advocating for their full labor, environmental, civil and human rights. We further recognize the unparalleled change in global political and economic structures which has exacerbated regional, national and international patterns of migration and emphasize the need to build international support and cooperation to strengthen the rights, welfare and safety of migrants and refugees.
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