Bringing home human rights


Published/Last Modified on Thursday, December 11, 2008 3:06 PM MST


Protesters marched from Pirtleville to Castro Park Wednesday to commemorate  the 60th anniversary of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  Border and immigrant communities and local community groups, youth, and religious leaders from southern Arizona, participated in “Bringing Home Human Rights” walks in Douglas and Tucson. As part of celebrating this sixty year anniversary, participants will call for an end to the enforcement only approach to border and immigration policy that imposes dire social, human, and environmental costs across the border region. Border Action Network and their supporters will be taking 100 steps and more to ensure that president-elect Obama and his new administration remain focused on their promise of immigration reform in the first 100 days of office and are properly equipped with clear and sensible recommendations from those that live day to day with their policy decisions.



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