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Articles & op-eds, Human Rights in the U.S. Reports, Human Rights School, Infrastructures of Empire, Special reports, publications & broadcasts, Uncategorized, United States

The criminalization of pregnancy: a miscarriage of justice

By Camille Landry (Program Coordinator) The United States of America is a nation – the first nation-state – that was founded on principles of genocide, racism, hatred and misogyny. Despite limited actions to recognize the basic human rights of Black, Brown, Indigenous, female and LGBTQI people, this nation persists in denying fundamental human rights to…

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Articles & op-eds, Human Rights in the U.S. Reports, Human Rights School, Infrastructures of Empire, Special reports, publications & broadcasts, Uncategorized, United States

The color of Covid: racial inequities in the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic 

“When white folks catch a cold, Black folks get pneumonia.” (My grandfather, George Robinson, Sr.) By Camille Landry (Program Coordinator) What color is Covid? Many people would say red and blue, citing the familiar graphic of a fuzzy red globe with blue spikes. Others might say that Covid has no color. But the Covid pandemic…

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