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Protecting freedom from domestic violence and the right to asylum

Open Global Rights

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.

Supreme Court upholds DACA

Tucson Sentinel

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.

Pacific Islanders Unite to Fight COVID Amidst Extreme Climate Change Events

Cultural Survival

UUSC Senior Partnership Officer Salote Soqo shares her perspective on returning home to Fiji to survey how Pacific Islanders are responding to the intersection of impacts from climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tribal nations demand response to climate relocation

High Country News

UUSC was proud to work with tribes in Alaska and Louisiana to help publicize their complaint to the UN Special Rapporteur about the U.S. government’s inaction on climate change.

We Have Been Here Since Time Immemorial: Demanding Climate Action

Cultural Survival

UUSC collaborated with our partner Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar of the Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe in coastal Louisiana to tell the story of her experience with her community in facing the climate crisis.

5 U.S. Native Tribes File A UN Climate Change Complaint

WBUR

UUSC was proud to work with tribes in Alaska and Louisiana to help publicize their complaint to the UN Special Rapporteur about the U.S. government’s inaction on climate change.

Louisiana, Alaskan tribes file UN climate change complaint

Associated Press

UUSC was proud to work with tribes in Alaska and Louisiana to help publicize their complaint to the UN Special Rapporteur about the U.S. government’s inaction on climate change.

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