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The US Program leads with the principle of racial justice and equity as a fundamental human right providing the foundational, over-arching, and unifying theme for all our work. Our strategic priorities focus on immigration and border rights, criminal justice, and democracy research and advocacy, each operationalized by our theory of change that centers our partners and the most impacted people. Our broader racial justice and equity work focuses on reparative and economic justice, and we advocate for the US to meet its international human rights obligation to end all forms of racial discrimination.
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