Dream Defender Ahmad Abuznaid Jets to Geneva: Jump for Justice in America

Ahmad Abuznaid, lawyer and founding member of the Dream Defenders, will present a report later in October to the United Nations Human Rights Committee. He wrote the report with the NAACP, other DDs, and the Community Justice Project of Florida Legal Services. He will present this report:

United States’ Compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

Written Statement on Stand Your Ground Laws

Submitted by Dream Defenders, Community Justice Project of Florida Legal Services, Inc.

and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

109th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Committee

13-31 October 2013

Lets meet the man who will be traveling to Geneva on behalf of the Dream Defenders:

Beyond excited that our Legal & Policy Director, Ahmad Abuznaid, has been granted a scholarship to present our Stand Your Ground report to the United Nations in Geneva next month, as part of the UN's review of the United States' commitment to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

This young attorney will represent not just the Dream Defenders, but also the Community Justice Project of Florida Legal Services, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and many Americans that are denied justice at the 109th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Committee that is taking place from October 13th through 31st.

The U.N. Human Rights Committee’s placed “stand your ground” on the list of issues it wishes the United States to respond to.

The U.S. will be under review on Oct. 18. as one of the signatories of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights treaty. The U.S. signed the treaty in 1976 along with 73 other countries to ensure individual freedoms and citizen equality.
 

So how did an immigrant kid who was born in Palestine, grew up for the most part in Fort Lauderdale, attended Fort Lauderdale High School, and went to college at Florida State University end up getting selected to represent such an important topic before the UN in Geneva? We will look more in depth at Ahmad Abuznaid, how he got involved with the Dream Defenders, and his upcoming presentation in Geneva denouncing the injustice of Stand Your Ground laws - specifically in Florida. Follow us below over the jump for more justice in America.