Human Rights | Othering & Belonging Institute

Publication
October 1, 2019

Consequences of Islamophobia on Civil Liberties and Rights in the United States

This report was submitted on October 1, 2019 to the United Nations Human Rights Council in regards to the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the United States of America, 36th Session.

Publication
April 26, 2019

Structural Racism and Disparate Impacts in the United States

The report was submitted on April 26, 2019 to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD).

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Publication
January 15, 2019

Legalizing Xenophobia and Islamophobia in the United States

Click to download a PDF of this report. The report was submitted January 15, 2019 to the UN Human Rights Committee List of Issues Prior to Reporting on the 5th Periodic Review of the United States Government regarding the International Covenant on...

Video
October 26, 2018

Video: Family Separations

In October, the Haas Institute and the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine co-organized a five-person panel discussion on family separations prompted by the federal government’s separations of immigrant children from their caregivers along the US-Mexico border this past summer.

Publication

Moving Targets: An Analysis of Global Forced Migration

Moving Targets: An Analysis of Global Forced Migration investigates the historical and contemporary causes of forced migration as well as both the challenges and capacities of national and international refugee protections and resettlement efforts.

Blog
January 12, 2015

Food is a human right not a commodity, experts say

East Bay chapter of the United Nations Association discusses challenges to eliminating hunger and opportunities to eliminate corporate control of agriculture