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1 Anniversary Update on Commission Activities Related to September 11 [i] (2002)

handle is hein.civil/uscdeg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Anniversary Update on Commission Activities Related to September 11 September 2002 The various reactions and responses to the events of September 11, 2001, have raised a number of civil rights issues. Violence, threats, and discrimination against Muslims, Arab Americans, and others perceived to be from these communities were the immediate issues arising from the attacks. The anthrax contaminations renewed concerns about disparities in our health care delivery systems and the subsequent adverse impact on communities of color and low-income people. Additionally, legislative responses to the war on terrorism, as well as other actions and proposals, have raised questions about their impact on civil rights and civil liberties. As the watchdog agency charged to monitor the enforcement of federal civil rights laws, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has given a high priority to addressing civil rights concerns that have been raised as result of the September 11 attacks. In the past year, the Commission has been at the forefront of highlighting civil rights issues stemming from the attacks, as well as developing various programs and services facilitating the identification and analysis of a broad range of substantive issues affected by post-September 11 civil rights concerns. Within days of the attacks, the Commission established and publicized a unique complaint hot line to solicit and catalogue discrimination complaints, helping to identify affected communities and discrimination and hate crime patterns. In the month following the attacks, the Commission held a briefing on U.S. immigration policies in the aftermath of the terrorist activities. The Commission continued to focus attention on post-September 11 civil rights issues throughout the year by holding a briefing on bioterrorism and health care disparities in March 2002 and facilitating a briefing presentation on civil rights issues facing the Muslim and Arab American communities in July 2002. The Commission also asked its State Advisory Committees (SACs) to organize efforts at promoting tolerance and investigating local civil rights conditions affected by September 11. Those committees responded with forums, briefings, and meetings with local community groups and leaders, which were held throughout the year and spread over 20 states and territories throughout the country. Both the Commission briefings and SAC initiatives provided important opportunities for experts, community leaders and advocates, and affected populations to present civil rights problems to their government and participate in the process of analyzing the issues and formulating recommended remedies. The Commission's efforts to analyze the potential civil rights problems posed by the war on terrorism over the past year led it to adopt a motion recommending that an Office of Rights and Liberties be established in the proposed Department of Homeland Security. A timeline of the Commission's activities follows. Downloaded from the Internet Archives, July 20, 2007. Not an official copy.

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