At the latest City Council meeting, Mayor Bruce Teague declared Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020, to be Human Rights Day in Iowa City.
“Recover Better: Stand Up for Human Rights,” the United Nations’ theme for recognizing Human Rights Day in 2020, reflects the need to center human rights in recovery efforts. COVID-19 has functioned as yet another lens through which entrenched systemic inequalities, exclusion, and discrimination are exposed. Human Rights Day is an opportunity to reaffirm the importance of transformative action in building a world that fosters more humane, resilient and just...