We Need Your Help to Document Economic Human Rights Violations

A major part of the Economic Human Rights Campaign is documenting economic human rights abuses across the United States. This evidence has been taken to the United Nations and other international bodies, where we have officially presented our grievances on behalf of poor people in this country.

The stories of people struggling for survival in this country have been silenced - many people in other countries do not believe that poverty really exists in the United States! By bringing these stories to the international level, we intend to let the truth be known to the whole world.

Faces of the Fallen:

This project aims to highlight the millions of Americans who have not fared well in the last four years - those who have been laid off, denied healthcare, lived in shelters and went without food for their families.

What can you do:

This project essentially has two parts: documenting the faces and stories of economic human rights violations experienced by poor and working Americans; and telling those stories and showing those faces in every arena we can.

We need all the help we can get in collecting this evidence.

We're asking everyone we know to get out into their community and conduct face to face interviews with people who are experiencing economic human rights violations. We need you to talk with people about what's going on in their lives and invite them to share their story with the world by including it in the Economic Human Rights Documentation Project.

Because economic human rights have been so silenced in this country, many people do not believe that they have the right to survive. Documenting human rights abuses can also be an opportunity for human rights education. Teaching people to see their struggles as part of a bigger fight for human rights rather than seeing only their individual faults and failings is an important part of the Campaign.