Cathy Albisa is the Director and co-founder of the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) in the US. She is chair of the Board of the Center for Constitutional Rights. She was previously associate director of the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School; co-director of the International Women's Human Rights Clinic at CUNY Law School; and staff attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights and the ACLU.
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Published in: 50.50Human rights, social justice, and US exceptionalism
American politicians often talk as if human rights were only relevant in other countries, but grassroots...