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Public Health, Technology, and Human Rights: Lessons Learned from Digital Contact Tracing
(Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, 2021-09)
To mitigate inefficiencies in manual contact tracing processes, digital contact tracing and exposure notifications systems were developed for use as public-interest technologies during the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) global ...
Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Immigration
(Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, 2021-02-04)
The United States is a nation of immigrants. For centuries, waves of migrants and refugees have arrived in America seeking economic opportunity or religious freedom. While many have found what they desired, and assimilated ...
Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Disability Rights
(Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, 2021-01-21)
Nearly 61 million Americans have a disability, making the group the country’s largest minority. Individuals with disabilities cut across race, gender, and sexual orientation. Since people with disabilities are disproportionately ...
Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Gun Rights and Public Safety
(Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, 2021-02-12)
In March 2018, hundreds of thousands of young people walked out of school and marched on their local statehouses and on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., to advocate for stricter controls on gun sales and ownership. ...
Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
(Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, 2021-02-04)
Starting with the Nixon administration in the early 1970s, and gaining steam throughout the next decade, the prevailing view on criminal justice was that “tough on crime laws make crime rates go down.” That sentiment was ...
Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Freedom of Speech and Media
(Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, 2021-02-15)
The First Amendment guarantees some of the most fundamental rights provided to Americans under the Constitution. The right to free expression is a foundational tenet of American values. In fact, it was the First Amendment ...
Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Hate Crimes
(Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, 2021-02-22)
The Department of Justice began prosecuting federal hate crimes cases after the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Thus, the literature on hate crime is new, though rapidly growing. The first American use of the ...
Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Equal Access to Public Goods and Services
(Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, 2021-02-02)
A right of equal access to public goods and services is rooted in the rights to ‘Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.’ With these rights, the Declaration of Independence asserts the concept of equality as a founding ...
Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Religious Freedom
(Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, 2021-02-19)
The complicated relationship of religion and government predates the founding of the United States. The Founders grappled with this dilemma for years before compromising on the final language of the First Amendment. Even ...
Reimagining Rights and Responsibilities in the United States: Privacy, Personal Data, and Surveillance
(Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, 2021-02-26)
Privacy has always been one of the most precarious rights of American life because it lacks clear protections in the U.S. Constitution. The right to privacy is under attack in this moment in our history like no other ...