Educate your Rep!

Community Resolutions

An important project of the Economic Human Rights: The Time Has Come! campaign is a collaboration with community-based groups to pass resolutions to ratify and pledge support for the rights described by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Through the Human Rights Resolutions, the campaign contributes to building a broad-based coalition and national mobilization to press the US Senate to ratify the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

Already San Francisco, Chicago, Berkeley, Oakland, Arcata and New Orleans have declared themselves Human Rights Communities and Massachusetts has amended the General Laws of the Commonwealth with a human rights resolution. Although not legally binding, the resolutions have been used effectively in campaigns for social and economic justice. In San Francisco, for example, the Economic Human Rights resolution was used in a campaign against legislation banning sleeping and camping in Hallidie Plaza, Union Square and the United Nations Plaza. The San Francisco resolution has recently been used in a fight against implementation of the Quality Housing Work Responsibility Act (QHWRA) which would add restrictions damaging to immigrants and low-income people who use public housing.

• Read sample Human Rights Resolutions...