New York City Human Rights Initiative

HRP is the lead coordinating organization of the New York City Human Rights Initiative (NYCHRI), a citywide coalition of over 100 community-based organizations, service providers, advocacy groups, policymakers, labor unions and human rights activists and educators working to strengthen the use of human rights standards in tackling systemic problems of inequality in New York City. NYCHRI is currently working on a ground-breaking legislation entitled the Human Rights in Government Operations Audit Law (or Human Rights GOAL) that draws from human rights principles of non-discrimination, participation, accountability and transparency, as well as from the two key international treaties addressing gender and race discrimination -- CEDAW (the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women) and CERD (the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination), to provide a foundation for ensuring comprehensive protection against, and pro-active measures to prevent, all forms of unlawful discrimination. Human Rights GOAL would facilitate better public participation in the formulation of government policies and more transparency in policymaking.

To learn more about NYCHRI, visit their website at www.nychri.org.

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