All 193 UN member states submit reports on their human rights records every 4.5 to 5 years. The reports are reviewed by other member states, which provide non-binding recommendations based on “constructive dialogue”. The US won’t participate in the UPR mechanism or submit its report in November, when it’s due to be reviewed. The US is now on course to be the first country to not deliver a report to the UPR [in response, some US state legislators and local elected officials sent a letter to the Presidency of the HRC to reaffirm the importance of the mechanism.
Movement Law Lab’s Director of Movement Partnerships Joey Mogul and Associate Director Ruby-Beth Buitekant joined with scores of lawyers and legal workers to provide legal support to thousands of protestors who demonstrated at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago August 2024.
When building organizing campaigns, we often focus on mapping power within particular state or local bounds in the United States — that is to say, our analysis of political decision-making, the interests at stake, flows of capital, the applicable law and forums for action rarely goes beyond the U.S.
We are inviting you to bravely step into an arc of work upon which all of our other work depends. At a minimum, each of us must deepen the connections between the work we’re already doing and the collective task of defending, building. and strengthening a multiracial democracy.
