Press Release
Contact: Salvador Reza (602)
446-9928
Date: Thursday January 30,
2014
Los Comités de Defensa del Barrio
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
PRESS CONFERENCE
PRESS CONFERENCE
Location: Arizona State Capitol
Date: Friday January 31, 2014
Time: 11:00 AM
Date: Friday January 31, 2014
Time: 11:00 AM
In
the shadow of the state legislature of the State of Arizona, where AZ SB1070
was concocted out of racial animus and blatant anti-Mexican prejudice, the Human Rights Commission of Los Comités de
Defensa del Barrio will hold a press conference on Friday to support the
call to repeal AZ SB1070, and to further demand that the State of Arizona
recognize and respect the basic Human Rights of all Migrant Workers and their Families.
In
particular, the Comités de Defensa del Barrio will demand respect for the Human
Rights of Indigenous Peoples as articulated in the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) and in
affirmation of the Article 23 of the
United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states:
Article 23. (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
Article 23. (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
The
mandate of priority for the CDB Human
Rights Commission is to define and denounce the systematic violation of Human Rights of Migrant Workers and their Families in Arizona that has been institutionalized by AZ SB1070 resulting
in blatant racial profiling and discriminatory policing across the state. As mechanism of accountability, the CDB Human
Rights Commission will institute the United
Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the General
Assembly on December 10, 1948 as the standard
for addressing and defining the human rights issues of priority concern for the
Comités de Defensa del Barrio.
“We have emerged from the era of Civil Rights to the era of Human
Rights.”
Reverend Martin Luther
King, Jr.
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