Us Human Rights Network Podcast

The United States is one of five countries responsible for 90% of death sentences in the entire world. As the rest of the world has abolished or is abolishing the death penalty, the US still has a long way to go. In this episode Rick Halprin, anti-death penalty activist and scholar talks about why the death penalty is not only a criminal justice issues but a human rights one. Troy Davis' case is merely one example of how human rights violations are allowed by the state. www.troyanthonydavis.org www.amnesty.org and www.ushrnetwork.org

Featuring Martina Carrera, National Steering Committee Chair for Amnesty International's Death Penalty Program; she is also Anti-death penalty coordinator for the state of Georgia and sister of Troy Davis. Troy Anthony Davis is currently on death row in the state of Georgia. His story has garnered international support in acquittal and the call for a re-trail. In the United States it is not unconstitutional to sentence an innocent man to death if he has been convicted of a crime, regardless of whether the prosecution presented inadequate evidence. Please visit www.troyanthonydavis.org and take action now to end the death penalty.

Intersectional framework and its relationship to human rights, Priscilla Huang from the Asian Pacific American Women's Forum on human rights and intersectionality, Thandabantu Iverson professor at Indiana University and Radhika Balakrishna Professor of Economics and International Studies at Marymount Manhattan College the human rights implications of the recent financial bailout.

Today on the anniversary of the infamous attack on the twin towers in New York city, we are going to take this occasion to look at some if the human rights issues that have emerged in the US and with US policies in aftermath of that attack. We are going to talk with Vince Warren the director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, an organization that has been in the forefront of attempting to cure some of the practices which have been criticized by many in this country and around the world as excessive to the degree of being outside the bounds of law. We are also going to talk with Cheri Honkala, the National Organizer of the Poor people’s Economic human rights campaign who just returned from the RNC in Minnesota, where she will share her organizations work and concerns regarding the post 9/11 political environment for oppositional activists in the country. We hope that you will enjoy the first of hopefully many informative and provocative programs that will be brought to you every two weeks as part o

This is a recording of a membership conference call that took place October 18, 2007. Hosted by the US Human Rights Network Coordinating Center, if you would like more information please visit our website www.ushrnetwork.org Facilitators: Facilitated by: Tina Minkowitz co-chair of the World Networks of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP) & Daniel Hazen human rights activist and advocate with The Mental Patients Liberation Alliance and representative for the Criminal Punishment Working Group of the US Human Rights Network The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will have some of its greatest impact in the lives of users and survivors of psychiatry (people who have experienced madness and/or mental health problems, or who have used or survived the mental health system). For the first time, our rights are guaranteed on an equal basis with others, without any exceptions or limitations. These rights include liberty, free and informed consent in health care, right to live in the co