Mississippi Worker's Center for Human Rights
The Mississippi Workers Center for Human rights organizes and advocates for low-wage, non-union workers in Greenville Mississippi. Mrs. Jaribu Hill, a CUNY law graduate and civil rights veteran, began working in Mississippi in 1995 on voting initiatives with the Center for Constitutional Rights. While this experience was crucial for her, it did not address her concerns regarding economic justice for communities of color. This led her to found the Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights. Through organizing, litigation, public education, and leadership trainings the Center combats racism, sexism, homophobia and other forms of oppression in employment, housing and voting. The Center is a part of a larger struggle to unionize southern states that rely heavily on non-union and low wage labor. Mrs. Hill uses a human rights framework to situate the struggles of low-wage workers in the South with international struggles for human rights. In 1996 Mrs. Hill co-founded the Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference, which later became the Southern Human rights Organizers Network, where organizers and activists throughout the South come together to discuss their struggles, share strategies and build coalitions.
The 2012 delegation will be working on a housing as a human right campaign to pass of new Ordinance that would impose monetary sanctions on slumlords. We will also be working on a campaign to demand more worker compensation benefits for injured workers.
Visit the Center's website here.
The 2012 delegation will be working on a housing as a human right campaign to pass of new Ordinance that would impose monetary sanctions on slumlords. We will also be working on a campaign to demand more worker compensation benefits for injured workers.
Visit the Center's website here.