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WASHINGTON — Representatives of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and The Leadership Conference Education Fund are in Geneva, Switzerland, this week as a U.N. committee reviews the United States’ compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD).
WASHINGTON – Lena Zwarensteyn, senior director of the fair courts program at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement after the Senate confirmed Roopali Desai to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit:
WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, joined by 32 national civil and human rights organizations, called on federal agencies to ensure the health, safety, and well-being of students in schools through the implementation of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.
WASHINGTON – Lena Zwarensteyn, senior director of the fair courts program at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement after the Senate confirmed Judge Elizabeth Hanes to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
WASHINGTON—Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement on President Biden's Safer America Plan:
WASHINGTON – Maya Wiley, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement on Meta’s plan to determine whether its product works fairly across racial lines by surveying its Instagram users to voluntarily provide their race:
WASHINGTON – Lena Zwarensteyn, senior director of the fair courts program at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, released the following statement after the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Brad Garcia for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
WASHINGTON — Leading civil rights organizations released the following joint statement urging Congress to fully address the assault on our democracy, including urgent threats to voting rights for people of color: