UUSC Vice President and Chief Program Officer Rachel Gore Freed penned this op-ed looking at the recent military coup in Burma/Myanmar and how the military must be held accountable for human rights abuses.
UUSC Public Policy and Communications Strategist Josh Leach looks at how the incoming Biden Administration must undo the damage of the Title 42 public health law that the Trump Administration has used during the COVID-19 pandemic to unlawfully expel asylum-seekers from the United States.
UUSC Researcher Leonardo Valenzuela Pérez spoke to Donatila Girón Calix, leader of the Lenca Indigenous Movement of La Paz Honduras (MILPAH) and president of the Indigenous Caucus of the United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights 2019-2020, to discuss Indigenous resistance to corporate extractivism projects in Honduras.
UUSC Policy Analyst Josh Leach examines the harsh anti-protest laws being pushed by corporate-backed politicians to criminalize dissent, particularly in climate change-related protests against corporate development, that would result in people losing their right to vote if convicted of felonies.
After Border Patrol brutally raided a No More Deaths aid camp for the second time in three months in Aravaca, Arizona, detaining volunteers and taking migrants into custody, UUSC President & CEO Rev. Mary Katherine Morn, and VP and Chief Program Officer Rachel Gore Freed, were interviewed and quoted in this media piece.
UUSC Researcher Leonardo Valenzuela Pérez is quoted in this piece about UUSC partners Living Hope Wheelchair Association and their work as members of the undocumented and disabled communities in Houston, Texas.
UUSC Researcher Leonardo Valenzuela Pérez interviewed six Indigenous leaders from around the world about how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting their ways of life and their hopes for global climate action.
UUSC’s statement condemning Border Patrol’s August 2020 raid on No More Deaths’ humanitarian aid stations is quoted in this piece, another incident after the case involving Dr. Scott Warren over the past few years.
UUSC Chief Program Officer & VP Rachel Gore Freed and Policy Analyst Josh Leach co-authored this piece looking at how strategic litigation has helped survivors of domestic violence seek asylum in the United States, despite the Trump Administration’s hostile policies.
UUSC President & CEO Rev. Mary Katherine Morn is quoted in this piece which examined responses from justice advocates to the Supreme Court’s ruling that the Trump Administration acted unconstitutionally in ending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
