"From Attica to Abu Ghraib"

About IHRI

The International Human Rights Initiative (IHRI) is a broad based human rights coalition that is building an international campaign to hold the United States government and its surrogates accountable for their human rights abuses, violations, and crimes including torture, secret detention, and assassination.

The IHRI was initiated in early 2004 by a wide range of human rights activists, academics and lawyers from the Bay Area, Boston and New York City. The coalition seeks to develop links with grassroots activists, academics, research groups, legal groups, unions, and human rights organizations throughout the United States and the world to pursue three fundamental goals:

To initiate an international campaign to stop the US governments systematic use of torture, illegal detentions, grand juries, immigration raids and registrations, and other human rights violations that support its subjugation of people of color within and outside the U.S. and repress opposition to the same.

To support and defend the civil and human rights of Political Detainees, Political Prisoners, and Prisoners of War – those detained both before and after 9/11/01.

To indict the United States government for its systematic human rights abuses domestically and internationally. To develop documentation that will enable us to question the US government before the international community to hold it accountable for its human rights record and policies.

The IHRI is presently composed of the following organizations:

American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Black Radical Congress
Critical Resistance
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
GABRIELA Network
Global Exchange
Haiti Action Committee
Jericho Movement
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
Prison Activist Resource Center
SUSTAIN Bay Area

To launch the campaign work of the coalition, the IHRI is hosting a working human rights conference entitled: "Attica to Abu Ghraib: Human Rights, Torture, and Resistance".
This working conference is being held on Friday, April 22nd & Saturday, April 23rd, 2005 in Berkeley, CA

To join the IHRI organizations and individuals must agree to:

a) Support the fundamental goals and principles of the coalition.
b) Support the activities and campaigns of the coalition.

To join the IHRI please contact Kali Akuno:

info@attica2abughraib.com

Phone: (415) 273 - 4608