The federal policy work by the Southern Poverty Law Center includes administrative and legislative advocacy aimed at improving the lives of people in the South in the area of decriminalizing and decarcerating Black and Brown people. Below are letters, comments, testimony, reports and other SPLC Action Fund resources:

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As the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights has observed, all human rights are indivisible and interdependent. One set of rights can’t be fully enjoyed when other rights are denied. The SPLC is working to address violations of human rights that intersect with our core impact issues.

Other Human Rights Issues:

• Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on education in preparation for US country visit — March 2, 2024
• Submission to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on protecting youth from online threats — Feb. 16, 2024
• Submission to the UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity on protecting LGBTQ persons from violence and discrimination — Jan. 16, 2024
• Submission to 139th Session of Human Rights Committee: US Compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights — Sept. 12, 2023
• Response to Call for Input to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Racism– Online Hate Speech — June 23, 2023
• Submission to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Racism on combatting hate and extremism
• Submission to the U.N. Expert Mechanism on Advancing Racial Justice and Equity in Law Enforcement (EMLER) on hate and extremism in law enforcement — Feb. 23, 2023
• Submission to the U.N. Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity — Feb. 8, 2023
• Letter calling for creation of a federal commission to study establishing a national human rights institution — Dec. 15, 2022
• SPLC Report to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination — July 15, 2022
• Report to the Organization of American States Committee on Immigration Affairs — July 14, 2022
• Response to Call for Input to U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights — Feb. 7, 2022
• Response to Call for Input to U.N. Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity — Feb. 7, 2022
• Response to Call for Input to U.N. Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity — Feb. 7, 2022

Click on any of our other core areas of work to find the SPLC’s submissions to international human rights bodies.

The federal policy work by the Southern Poverty Law Center includes administrative and legislative advocacy aimed at improving the lives of people in the South. Below are letters, comments, testimony, reports and other SPLC Action Fund resources: