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U.S. Human Rights Network
Category: Human Security
The U.S. Human Rights Network (USHRN) seeks to “promote accountability to universal human rights standards.” It specifically aims to empower social movements and grassroots organizations. Through its activities, the Network challenges the belief that the United States is an inherently superior country with nothing to gain from the application of human rights within its borders. USHRN members “believe that the U.S. government should no longer be allowed to shield itself from accountability to human rights norms.” USHRN promotes its ideas through a variety of means, including submitting “shadow” reports to international human rights treaty bodies with the goal of “fill[ing] in the gaps” of the official government reports.
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