July 20, 2011 - The Advocates for Human Rights

Minneapolis – The Advocates for Human Rights and The Family Partnership welcome today’s enactment of a new approach to protecting children from sexual exploitation. As part of the negotiated budget agreement, Governor Dayton today signed into law provisions which take significant steps toward building a victim-centered model for protecting children exploited through prostitution.  

May 24, 2011 - The Advocates for Human Rights

The Advocates for Human Rights welcomes Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton's vetos of an array of budget bills passed by the Minnesota Legislature. The bills threatened to seriously erode human rights protections in Minnesota. In his veto letters, Governor Dayton cited concerns over many human rights issues raised by the legislation, including due process and non-discrimination. 

May 5, 2011 - Fox 21 News

DULUTH - 100,000 children are sexually exploited each year in the U.S according to conservative estimates from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

They say it is because of human trafficking.

On Thursday local authorities met to announce they back a new strategy to drastically cut those numbers down.

March 7, 2011 - The Advocates for Human Rights, Energy of a Nation

Arizona's sweeping immigration enforcement law, with its purpose of "enforcement through attrition," intentionally creates a climate hostile to immigrants in an effort to get them to leave the state. This session, piecemeal legislation threatens to bring "enforcement through attrition" to Minnesota.

January 5, 2011 - The Star Tribune

Fearing for his life and still mourning his murdered family, Liban Hussein fled Mogadishu in 2009 and eventually found refuge a world away in the Twin Cities.

But Hussein didn't follow the route of most Somali refugees, who live in overcrowded camps in Kenya or other neighboring countries and wait months, even years, for a travel visa.

June 13, 2011 - The Advocates for Human Rights

The Advocates for Human Rights announces the release of a new resource for practitioners seeking to monitor, document and advocate for human rights in the United States. A Practitioner’s Guide to Human Rights Monitoring, Documentation and Advocacy, provides guidance on how to use a human rights framework to work for social change in the United States.

December, 2010 - The Advocates for Human Rights

This month, Minnesota's Human Trafficking Task Force voted to endorse our legislation to combat child sexual exploitation. The Advocates' Safe Harbors bill won the endorsement of the Human Trafficking Task Force.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

October 16, 2010 - TC Daily Planet

Four times a year, MCHR member organization The Advocates for Human Rights writes and produces a newsletter designed to encourage and support human rights educators.