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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Statement Against The Criminalization of Solidarity

Partners for Dignity & Rights stands in solidarity with the organizers and community members in Atlanta who have resisted the construction of a $90 million police training facility being planned just outside Atlanta. A broad coalition of residents in neighboring …
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Article: The Dirty Little Secret—Rising Property Values Are Incompatible with Affordability

Read this new article by Peter Sabonis, the Human Rights Development Program Director at Partners for Dignity & Rights, in Shelterforce Magazine. It’s time for some straight talk about rising property values. Yes, they help amass equity for homeowners, provide …
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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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