Partners for Dignity & Rights

We envision a just world where everyone is treated with dignity, everyone’s human needs are met, and everyone can thrive and reach their full potential.

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Our History

Over our history, Partners for Dignity & Rights (formerly known as National Economic and Social Rights Initiative) has worked deeply in partnership with community organizations across the country.

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Affordable for Whom

Affordable for Whom?

As a human right, housing must be habitable, accessible, culturally adequate, healthy, proximate to what we need, secure from forced eviction and affordable. Partners for Dignity & Rights with over 200 activists from across the country called out those programs in the first “Affordable for Whom?” national conference.

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Watch: Governing Power: Movement Strategies in the US and the Global South

Our most recent webinar looks at global strategies of liberation. Around the world, people pushed to the margins are organizing together to win power in government and the economic institutions that shape our lives. Communities are building frameworks and models …
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Hiring: Interim Communications Consultant for Dignity in Schools Campaign

We’re excited to announce that we’re hiring for a temporary position at the Dignity in Schools Campaign (DSC), because our Communications Coordinator will be going on paternity leave starting in September or early October. This Communications Consultant position will work …
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Co-Governing Toward Multiracial Democracy

All over the country, communities are shifting decision-making power to neighborhood residents, students and teachers, workers and tenants, and introducing real accountability to make sure that governing institutions uphold everyone’s fundamental human rights. Partners for Dignity & Rights and Race …
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New Social Contract in the Time of COVID-19

A New Social Contract in the Time of COVID-19

COVID-19 has helped clarify what is essential. Read news and analysis from our work to address the systemic issues behind this crisis.

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