Border Human Rights Working Group

The Border Human Rights Working Group ("BHRWG") is a collaborative network of legal service providers, community based organizations and interfaith groups along the US-Mexico border. All BHRWG members have committed to share ideas, information and strategies to combat border violence and anti-immigrant vigilantism. Click on the links below to find out more about members and conferences.

Border Human Rights Working Group Conference Schedule
July 12, 2006 – Tucson, Arizona (meeting summary)
October 2-3, 2006 – Tucson, Arizona
November 28-29, 2006 – Tucson, Arizona
February 12-13, 2006 – Tentative Conference Date –San Antonio, Texas

Border Human Rights Working Group Members

Litigation Groups
American Civil Liberties Union; ACLU San Diego, CA; ACLU Phoenix, AZ;
ACLU Albuquerque, NM; ACLU El Paso & Austin
Center for Human Rights & Constitutional Law (Los Angeles, CA)
Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund (Los Angeles, CA)
Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, AL)

Legal Service Providers and Community Based Organizations
American Friends Service Committee US-Mexico Border Program (San Diego, CA); (Tucson, AZ)
Asociacion Por Servicios Sociales, Inc. (Laredo, TX)
Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition (San Diego, CA)
Border Action Network (Tucson / Nogales / Douglas, AZ)
Border Angels / Gente Unida (San Diego, CA)
Border Links (Tucson, AZ)
Border Network for Human Rights (El Paso, TX)
Casa Familiar (San Diego, CA)
Centro Mujeres de la Esperanza (El Paso, TX)
Centro Por La Justicia (Washington, D.C.)
Chicanos Por La Causa (Yuma, AZ)
    Citizens for Border Solutions (Tucson, AZ)
Colonias Development Council in Las Cruces (Las Cruces, NM)
Coalicion de Derechos Humanos (Tucson, AZ)
Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
Diocesan Migrant and Refugee Services (El Paso,TX)
El Concilio del Condado de Ventura (Ventura, CA)
El Paso Del Norte Civil Rights Project (Austin, TX)
    Healing Our Borders (Tucson, AZ)
Humane Borders (Tucson, AZ)
Las Americas (El Paso, TX)
Liberty & Justice For All (Washington, D.C.)
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (Oakland, CA)
Neighborhood House of Calexico (Calexico, CA)
No More Deaths (Tucson, AZ)
South Texas Civil Rights Project (McAllen, TX)
South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation (Harlingen, TX)
    Southern Texas Immigration Rights Council (El Paso, TX)
Southwest Workers Union (San Antonio, TX)
    Texas Criminal Justice Coalition (Austin, TX)
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (Del Rio, TX); (Edinburg, TX); (El Paso, TX)
    Vista Human Rights Committee (Vista, CA)

Interfaith Groups
Catholic Charities, Cabrini Center for Legal Immigrant Assistance (Houston, TX)
Catholic Diocese of El Paso (El Paso, TX)
Church World Service Immigration & Refugee Program (Washington, D.C.)
Episcopal Migration Ministries (New York, NY)
Lutheran Border Ministry
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (Washington, D.C.)
Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson (Tucson, AZ)
Survivors of Torture, International (San Diego, CA)
Transformational World Opportunities (San Diego, CA)
    Immigration Border Concerns Ministry Team (San Diego, CA)
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

*If you or your organization is interested in joining the Border Human Rights Working Group, contact Peter Schey at 213-388-8693 x104 or pschey@centerforhumanrights.org.

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