The National Association of Human Rights Workers (NAHRW) is an organization of individuals committed to providing education, training, research, networking, and professional development to its members in order to enable them to foster equality within a diverse society.
2009 IAOHRA-NAHRW Joint Conference
Request for Proposals
Training proposals are due by July 11, 2009 to Delilah Donaldson at
Ddonaldson1@nc.rr.com.
On behalf of the International Association of Official Human Rights
Agencies and the National Association of Human Rights Workers, we ask
that you please distribute this to your network of potential trainers
specializing in civil rights, human relations, EEO and diversity
training.
Robin S. Toma, the Executive Director of the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission, has broad experience in the field of human relations. He was appointed by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in 2000 after working five years with the Commission. He was invited to be a member of the US Delegation to the 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism, held in South Africa, Japanese American Leadership Delegation to Japan in 2003, and the Climate of Trust Delegation to Russia in 2005. He is co-author of the manual: “Day Laborer Hiring Sites: Constructive Approaches to Community Conflict,” and authored “A Primer on Managing Intergroup Conflict in a Multicultural Workplace."
Toma was lead attorney in seeking redress for over 2,200 Japanese Latin Americans who were forcibly brought to the U.S. and imprisoned by the US government during World War II. He is also part of an ongoing gathering of leaders known as the Executive Session on Criminal Justice and Human Rights organized by Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Previously, he served as staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Southern California for nearly 7 years, promoting human rights and building multi-ethnic coalitions to bring about institutional change. A native of Los Angeles, Toma received his Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology and Economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and his Master’s degree in Urban Planning and his Juris Doctorate from UCLA. He completed a three-year Kellogg National Fellowship/Leadership Program studying how genuine democracies can be built in culturally diverse societies around the globe. Toma lived two years in Barcelona, Spain and is fully fluent in Spanish.
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The NAHRW Annual Training Conference is the nation's leading human and civil rights workers conference. The conference is known for delivering the latest, most useful and easily implemented strategies for ridding our nation of unlawful discrimination.
Annual IAOHRA & NAHRW Conference for Civil and Human Rights Professionals partners:
Who Would Benefit:
International, Federal, State, County and Local Agencies, Executive Directors, Managers, Commissioners, General Counsel, Attorneys, Civil and Human Rights Professionals,
Advocacy Organizations, Community-Based Organizations,
Policy Development Organizations, Employers, Housing Providers, Operators of Places of Public Accommodation,
Human Resources Professionals, Interested Members of the Public
Dear Friends,
The Harvard Kennedy School Executive Session on Human Rights Commissions and Criminal Justice recently added a new paper to its website titled Strengthening Relations Between Local Police and Immigrant Communities: The Role for Human Rights Commissions. As national pressure builds to crack down on illegal immigration, those working at the local level know that strained relationships between police and immigrant communities can be counterproductive to achieving public safety goals. With their experience working to minimize intergroup conflict and to eliminate discrimination, human rights and human relations organizations are equipped to partner with law enforcement officials to encourage effective working relationships between immigrant communities and police. The paper sets out ways in which human rights organizations can work with police departments to address community tensions surrounding day laborer hiring sites, gang violence, and ethnic and racial profiling.
You can download a copy of the paper here: http://www.hrccj.org/hrccj/pdfs/police_and_immigration.pdf
In case you don't know about it, the Executive Session convenes human rights, civil rights and police leaders from across the United States at Harvard University in a series of discussions and experiments about how to expand the role of human rights commissions in addressing issues of discrimination in U.S. criminal justice systems. Please visit the website for more information on the project:http://www.hrccj.org/hrccj/index.aspx
Warm regards,
Marea Beeman