Nominations are now being accepted for the 2010 International Human Rights Award.

The deadline is September 21, 2010.
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About Us

We are a coalition of statewide and local groups established in 1989. Our purposes are to enhance among citizens in our state the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of human rights as set forth in such documents as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution, and to support activities that accord with these human rights principles.


Two of the Coalition’s main activities are to foster the celebration of Human Rights Day/Week (December 10-16) and Bill of Rights Day (December 15) in communities throughout North Carolina and to sponsor a dinner (just prior to Human Rights Week) at which its International Human Rights Award is presented.


The Coalition is affiliated with the United States Human Rights Network, the Children’s Rights Network, the NGO Coalition for an International Criminal Court, Ratify Now (for the Convention on Rights of People with Disabilities) and with the North Carolina Committee for CEDAW/CSW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women/Commission on the Status of Women).


Click here for a list of supporting groups.

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“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home — so
close and so small that they
cannot be seen on any maps
of the world. Yet they are the
world of the individual person,
the neighborhood he lives in,
the school or college he attends,
the factory, farm or office where
he works. Such are the places where every man, woman and
child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity
without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning
anywhere. Without concerned citizen action to uphold them
close to home, we shall look in
vain for progress in the larger world.”

              — Eleanor Roosevelt