Hilary Shelton, the NAACP’s senior vice president for policy and advocacy and director of the organization’s Washington bureau. The NAACP said Thursday that it will send a delegation to the meeting of the United Nations for the review of the United States’s role in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and that it will highlight troubles with voting rights and civil rights issues in America. In the meeting, which will take place next week in Geneva, NAACP representatives will discuss issues such as Florida’s controversial Stand Your Ground law as well as the increased in laws enacted in several states to adopt voter identification requirements for people to cast ballots. We’re convinced that the advent of photo ID laws have a disproportionate impact on racial minorities in terms of voting, said Hilary Shelton, the NAACP’s senior vice president for policy and advocacy and director of the organization’s Washington bureau.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 10:41:57 +0000
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