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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE*
*November 18, 2011**
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* U.S. Human Rights Network Holds National Conference in Los Angeles*
*Contacts:*
*Serena Garcia, 404.756.2680
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*ser...@sistersong.net *
*Kali Akuno, 510.593.3956*
*kak...@ushrnetwork.org *
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*Group affirms that sexual rights are human rights*
*Atlanta**, **GA** *The United States Human Rights Network (USHRN), an
Atlanta-based coalition of more than 300 organizations from around the
country, will hold its National Conference and Membership Meeting in Los
Angeles during Human Rights Weekend, Dec. 9-11, 2011, at the Radisson
Hotel at LAX, 6225 W. Century Blvd., Los Angeles 90045. As part of its
agenda the Network plans to provide space for critical discussions in the
areas of gender and sexuality via workshops coordinated through its Sexual
Rights and Gender Justice Working Group.
According to Serena Garcia, chair of the Working Group, among its many
purposes are to meaningfully and consistently integrate sexual rights and
gender justice into the broader agenda of the domestic human rights
movement in the United States; to increase the membership and participation
of groups working on gender justice and sexual rights within the US Human
Rights Network; and to develop the capacity of LGBT, reproductive justice,
sexual freedom, sex worker and other groups/activists to effectively use
human rights language, standards and strategies in their domestic advocacy
and organizing.
Kali Akuno, the interim co-director of the Network, states that, the work
of extending the notion of rights and protections for women and expanding
the notion of gender and sexuality is crucial, and its part of the ongoing
work to define who is human, who is deserving of human rights.
The US Human Rights Network sees this front of struggle as being one of
the primary fronts on the immediate horizon, which is why we're giving it
priority in our work, Akuno said. We see it as requiring long-term,
systemic change, long-term cultural change, not just a few policy changes
here and there.
Originally scheduled for its headquarters of Atlanta, the group decided in
August to move its biannual conference out of Georgia due to passage of
that states controversial anti-immigration bill, HB 87. Similar to
Arizonas SB 1070, HB 87 would criminalize Georgians who interact with
undocumented individuals; authorize police to demand papers demonstrating
citizenship or immigration status during routine encounters; and deny
individuals without specific identification access to state facilities and
services. The change of conference location is in support of a general
economic boycott of the state and in accordance with the organizations
principles.
*The primary goal of the **United States** Human Rights Network is to
increase the visibility of the **US** human rights movement and link
U.S.-based human rights activists with the global human rights movement. **
** **Some of the Networks core Principles of Unity are: **Human Rights
are interdependent, inalienable and universal; they include Civil,
Political, Economic, Social, Cultural, Environmental and Sexual Rights; and
they are protected through building social movements. For more information
on the **US** Human Rights Network and its activities, please visit
www.ushrnetwork.org.*
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