MCLI Proposes Resolution for 2011 NLG Convention
At the Philadelphia National Lawyers Guild Convention (NLG) this October, members will vote on a new resolution for human rights. The resolution calls on the NLG to: support MCLI in the distribution of the UN Human Rights Treaties Poster (below); support efforts to enforce ACR 129 and efforts to file local-level reports to the UN on treaty implementation; encourage trainings on human rights treaties and protocols and their use in litigation, in legislation, and in administration; and continue to make clear the relationship between civil and political rights and economic, social and cultural rights.
Click here to read the resolution.
The International Human Rights Poster is Here!
Inspired by the Labor Law posters that employers are required to post in the workplace, MCLI created a poster to educate the public on their rights under the three international human rights treaties that are the law in the U.S.*
Click here to order your copy today.
*(1)The International Covenenant on Civil and Political Rights
*(2) The International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
*(3) The International Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Fall 2011 Newsletter
Read it -- click here!Highlights
*The American Dream is the Law in the U.S. Today (p.1)
*Pelican Bay Hunger Strike: A Message from the Inside (p.1)
*Barriers to Challenging Torture (p.1)
*Book Review: Attica Justice (p.4)
*Human Rights Internships (p.4)
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute (MCLI) uses Human Rights and Constitutional Law to promote fundamental human rights within the United States, including the right to jobs, food, and housing.
CA Votes for Human Rights!
August 27 — Sacramento, CA: the California Senate took the historic step of voting 22-11 that California should become 
the first state in the US to agree to publicize the text of three UN Human Rights treaties ratified by the US! The State Assembly had already voted 52-11 to pass ACR129, introduced by Assembly Member Bill Monning (27th AD–Monterey/Santa Cruz), proposed by Ann Fagan Ginger for MCLI. Read the resolution here.
Board President Daniel Buford and ED Emeritus Ann Ginger, were joined by MCLI interns and supporters of Human Rights on two occasions as they testified in front of the Judiciary and Appropriations committees in support of ACR 129.
You can read Ann's testimony [here].