Using the Law

Human Rights Reporting Project

• About the Project

Local & State

See Index of Local & State publications for a complete list

Highlights:

• Proposed Local Resolutions for U.N. Human Rights Reporting Committees
  Interest in MCLI's 3-Treaties Reporting Project is steadily growing, with backers for local implementation in several American cities. There is a need for compliance laws to be written and implemented, aligning local laws with UN treaties regarding civil and political rights, racism, and discrimination against women. Brave activists in such places as Marin County, CA, San Francisco, Eugene, OR, Milwaukee, WI and the state of Colorado are bringing these laws to the attention of their lawmakers- are you ready to make the commitment?
  MCLI Submits Supplemental CERD Report to UN
  In February 2008, MCLI submitted a report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Hon. Claudia Morcom traveled to Geneva, Switzerland to submit the report on behalf of Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute and the National Lawyers Guild, under the auspices of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers.
  View official US Report
  View MCLI's Press Release
  
  Human Rights Reporting Project is Working
  The 2007 report to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination from the City of Berkeley, CA is available here!
  Download Berkeley Report
  
  Find out how to convince your city, county, or state to file reports to the U.N. Committees enforcing Human Rights Treaties here:
  Download 3-Treaty Flyer

• One City's Commissions Made Required Reports to Department of State
  The Miami police department received federal funding to quell demonstrators expected at rallies against the Free Trade in America Agreement (FTAA). The Miami city officials made the request in advance and made a report afterward to the federal government on how the money was spent - on riot gear, pepper spray, rubber bullets, extra police forces, etc.
• Four laws for civil and political rights and against discrimination and police misconduct in the United States.
  Steps to take to file a report on a violation of human rights or peace law.
• Enforcing and Implementing UN Treaties at the State and Local Levels.
  Getting A City To Live by UN Human Rights Treaties, by Ann Fagan Ginger
• Take the Profit Out of War and War will End Sooner
  The Berkeley City Council passed this resolution unanimously (9-0) on April 8, 2003.

Federal

See Index of Federal publications for a complete list.

Highlights:

• Four laws for civil and political rights and against discrimination and police misconduct in the United States.
  Steps to take to file a report on a violation of human rights or peace law.
• Preemptive War/Preventive War Both Are Against The Law of the United States. by Ann Fagan Ginger.

International

See Index of International publications for a complete list.

Highlights:

• Four laws for civil and political rights and against discrimination and police misconduct in the United States.
  Steps to take to file a report on a violation of human rights or peace law.

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