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To Encourage Long-Term Disaster Recovery Policies that Respect Human Rights
Date this position was adopted by UUSC:
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Economic Justice/Environmental Justice/Rights in Humanitarian
Crises
UUSC signed on to a letter to Housing and Urban Development
(HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary
Janet Napolitano as the chairs of the Inter-Agency Long Term Disaster Recovery
Working Group.
This group, formed in October 2009, is tasked with making
recommendations to President Obama on ways to improve long-term disaster
recovery with a particular focus on catastrophic disasters.
The purpose of this action was to raise concerns that the working group's initial stakeholder meetings in the Gulf Coast did not include adequate consultation with the most vulnerable populations — residents with disabilities, elderly, low-income, minority, and immigrant communities. The letter asks the working group to look to the Gulf Coast Civic Works Act as a policy embraced by a growing bipartisan coalition of grassroots and elected leaders for how the federal government can partner with disaster survivors in empowering human-rights-based recovery. The letter uses International Human Rights Day as the frame for making the ask.
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