US Human Rights Network
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The US Human Rights Network was formed to promote US accountability to universal human rights standards by building linkages between organizations and individuals. The Network strives to build a human rights culture in the United States that puts those directly affected by human rights violations, with a special emphasis on grassroots organizations and social movements, in a central leadership role.
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New Orleans Housing Protests Confront the City
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Protesters in New Orleans Meet with HUD
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Human Rights Fight in New Orleans
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HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS CALL DESTRUCTION OF LOW INCOME HOUSING PROJECTS IN NEW ORLEANS ACT OF RACIAL CLEANSING
Today, the US Human Rights Network (USHRN), a nationwide human rights coalition comprised of over 250 groups, and Advocates for Environmental Human Rights (AEHR), a New Orleans based public interest law group, condemned the imminent destruction of 4,600 low-income housing units in New Orleans that people were ordered out of after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city. On Saturday, the federal housing authority plan to begin the process by demolishing 723 apartments in the CJ Peete projects. All the residents in the projects were poor and black.
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