RACE MATTERS
There have been numerous debates about rising authoritarianism and its impact on democracy and human rights. As a human rights funder whose central goal is to strengthen the resilience of the human rights movement, employing a racial justice lens to all our work is critical, now more than ever. Some...
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Associação Direitos Humanos em Rede
2018-12-01
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| author | Mariana Berbec-Rostas Soheila Comninos Mary Miller Flowers Sue Gunawardena-Vaughn Michael Heflin Nina Madsen |
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| description | There have been numerous debates about rising authoritarianism and its impact on democracy and human rights. As a human rights funder whose central goal is to strengthen the resilience of the human rights movement, employing a racial justice lens to all our work is critical, now more than ever. Some have argued that highlighting structural racism and discrimination has shifted the focus away from economic inequality and undermined some of the relevance of the contemporary human rights movement. We contend, however, that deep economic inequality is frequently a reflection of deep inequality in the underlying power structures that govern societies. Employing a racial justice lens offers us the opportunity to deconstruct structures that contribute to a host of rights violations and allows us to gain a deeper understanding of how oppressive structures intersect. This essay is a reflection on some of our learning to date. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-24102d145aa749dab4ae4ba2fc35cbb72022-12-21T20:19:10ZengAssociação Direitos Humanos em RedeSur: International Journal on Human Rights1806-64451983-33422018-12-011528105112RACE MATTERSMariana Berbec-Rostas0Soheila Comninos1Mary Miller Flowers2Sue Gunawardena-Vaughn3Michael Heflin4Nina Madsen5Mariana Berbec-Rostas is a Vienna-based program officer who works on equality, advancing the rights of ethnic and religious minorities, and supporting equality movements in Europe and globally.Soheila Comninos is a Washington DC-based program officer whose work focuses on criminal justice issues and the right to libertyMary Miller Flowers is a Washington DC-based associate director for justice and manages a global grant-making portfolio focused on supporting civil society to combat the overuse of pretrial detention and increase access to legal aid for indigent criminal defendants.Sue Gunawardena-Vaughn is a Washington DC-based associate director for campaigns. Her work centers around equality and non discrimination issues with a specific focus on advancing racial and ethnic justice.Michael Heflin is a Washington DC-based director of equality who oversees portfolios on LGBTIQ, disability rights, intersectional women’s rights, and racial and ethnic justice.Nina Madsen is a Washington DC-based program officer who manages a portfolio that centers on intersectionality and women’s rights. She is a feminist and human rights activist from Brazil.There have been numerous debates about rising authoritarianism and its impact on democracy and human rights. As a human rights funder whose central goal is to strengthen the resilience of the human rights movement, employing a racial justice lens to all our work is critical, now more than ever. Some have argued that highlighting structural racism and discrimination has shifted the focus away from economic inequality and undermined some of the relevance of the contemporary human rights movement. We contend, however, that deep economic inequality is frequently a reflection of deep inequality in the underlying power structures that govern societies. Employing a racial justice lens offers us the opportunity to deconstruct structures that contribute to a host of rights violations and allows us to gain a deeper understanding of how oppressive structures intersect. This essay is a reflection on some of our learning to date.https://sur.conectas.org/en/race-matters/human rightsintersectionalityhuman rights movementpowerstructural racismimplicit biasracial equityracial justicesocial privilege |
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