We Charge Genocide: Reckoning with Racial Violence in the United States

In response to the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, demonstrations against police violence have erupted in the United States. The NAACP has called on the UN to declare murders by police as human rights violations, but they are not the first to do so. In December 1951, a Detroit-based civil rights organization, the Civil Rights Congress, delivered an historic petition to the United Nations, charging the United States with genocide.

Nikki BambauerJune 2, 2020United States, United Nations, racism, racial discrimination, police violence

SCOTUS and Human Rights: July 2019

The Supreme Court of the United States recently handed down a number of decisions with implications for human rights in the US. In Woven Teaching’s latest blog post, we examine five of these cases.

NewsGuest UserJuly 3, 2019civil rights, SCOTUS, US Constitution, privacy, racial discrimination