{"id":266,"date":"2017-03-15T21:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T01:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nlg.org\/guild-notes\/?post_type=article&p=266"},"modified":"2017-03-16T12:29:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T16:29:41","slug":"our-100-human-rights-how-we-can-exercise-them-and-get-them-enforced","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.nlg.org\/guild-notes\/article\/our-100-human-rights-how-we-can-exercise-them-and-get-them-enforced\/","title":{"rendered":"Our 100 Human Rights: How We Can Exercise Them and Get Them Enforced"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ann Fagan Ginger, NLG member since 1946<\/strong><\/p>\n

After being asked by several Bay Area law schools, colleges, and NGOs to present summaries of current U.S. human rights law, I decided to prepare a book describing all of the human rights of everyone in the U.S. today. Several NLG members have helped me. Publication date: May Day 2017.<\/p>\n

The unique feature of the book: for each human right \u2014 from HR 1 The right to life: not to be shot by the police, to HR 100 The right to exercise our rights using new tactics when possible \u2014 there is a description of someone exercising the right, the U.S. law in the Bill of Rights, U.S. statutes and court opinions, AND the law in the U.N. Charter and in three U.N. human rights treaties the U.S. has ratified, in the ratified Organization of American States treaty, and in three U.N. treaties the U.S. has signed but not yet ratified.<\/p>\n

Guild lawyers, law professors, and law students will find it very helpful to cite the language in these treaties that are \u201cthe supreme law of the land,\u201d to be enforced by every U.S. government body \u2014 local, state, and federal, although few judges know this until you cite Fil\u00e1rtiga v. Pe\u00f1a-Irala<\/em>, 630 F.2d 876 (2d Cir.<\/a> 1980), explicitly upholding this.<\/p>\n

It turns out many lawyers have won some points in their cases by citing the U.N. Charter, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Convention against Torture, which are much more specific than the first Ten Amendments.<\/p>\n

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Sections of the book include:<\/p>\n