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December 10, 1948
Press Release
Eleanor Roosevelt proclaims international Human Rights Day speaking mostly to the rest of the world, emerging from war, and facing human rights issues on every continent. At that moment, the US leads the world?s democracies by almost every measure. Now 65 years later, the blocks to our democracy are as glaring in the US as anywhere else.
Democracy that Works for All of Us: The Democracy Initiative
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December 2, 2013
One year ago, on Dec. 10, 2012, International Human Rights Day, CWA, Sierra Club, Greenpeace and NAACP launched the Democracy Initiative. Since then, other large membership organizations have signed on, representing 20 million activists. The Democracy Initiative is focused on three of our four democracy blocks: voting rights, money in politics, and Senate rules reform.