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Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks during the vice presidential debate in Salt Lake City, October\u00a07, 2020.\u00a0\u003C\/span\u003E\n \u003Cspan class=\u0022figure__credit\u0022\u003E\u00a9 2020 Justin Sullivan\/Pool via AP\u003C\/span\u003E\n \u003C\/figcaption\u003E\u003C\/figure\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n \u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMillions tuned into the US Vice Presidential debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Senator Kamala Harris on Wednesday night. The discussion of human rights ranged from reproductive justice to the police killing of Breonna Taylor.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EHere are three takeaways from the debate:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe US Government Response to Covid-19 Should Address Racial Disparities \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMuch of the debate centered around the Trump administration\u2019s response to the Covid-19 crisis and what Joe Biden would do differently. What wasn\u2019t discussed on Wednesday was the disproportionate impact that the pandemic is having on Black and Latinx people, who\u00a0\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/07\/05\/us\/coronavirus-latinos-african-americans-cdc-data.html?smtyp=cur\u0026amp;smid=tw-nytimes\u0022\u003Eare three times more likely\u003C\/a\u003E\u00a0than their white counterparts to contract the novel coronavirus and nearly twice as likely to die from it.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EUS policies have \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2020\/06\/10\/human-rights-watch-testimony-us-house-representatives-ways-and-means-committee\u0022\u003Edirectly contributed to racial disparities\u003C\/a\u003E in health, housing, and criminal law. Candidates should support federal relief packages that focus on helping those hit hardest by Covid-19, such as people of color living in poverty, and do not \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2020\/07\/24\/us-covid-19-relief-should-protect-immigrants\u0022\u003Eleave out segments of the population\u003C\/a\u003E, such as immigrants.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe US Needs a Plan to Reimagine Public Safety\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EWhile the candidates sparred about policing, the real focus should be on the structural changes needed to end the police violence and systemic racism that threaten Black and brown communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 lang=\u0022en\u0022 xml:lang=\u0022en\u0022 xml:lang=\u0022en\u0022\u003EBoth VP candidates want to increase funding for policing, but police contribute to widespread harm. What we constitute as real public safety needs to drastically shift. Limit the scope of police immediately \u0026amp; invest in communities. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VPDebate?src=hash\u0026amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u0022\u003E#VPDebate\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/t.co\/r0ZzelgkXS\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/t.co\/r0ZzelgkXS\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u2014 Dreisen Heath (@dreisenheath) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/dreisenheath\/status\/1314027780389171202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u0022\u003EOctober 8, 2020\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EHuman Rights Watch \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2020\/08\/12\/roadmap-re-imagining-public-safety-united-states#_Local,_state,_and\u0022\u003Erecommends\u003C\/a\u003E that reform efforts address three critical issues in order to be effective: reducing the role of police in addressing societal problems, redirecting funds to initiatives that support people and empower communities, and strengthening independent police oversight and accountability.\u00a0\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EReproductive Rights at Risk \u00a0\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe candidates were queried on the implications of a potential Supreme Court ruling overturning \u003Cem\u003ERoe v. Wade\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EReproductive freedom is \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2020\/09\/25\/key-rights-stake-us-supreme-court-pick\u0022\u003Eone of the rights\u003C\/a\u003E at stake following the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The Supreme Court with a new justice could eliminate constitutional protections for women\u2019s right to access abortion by upholding excessive regulation of abortion providers or by abandoning the \u003Cem\u003ERoe v. Wade\u003C\/em\u003E line of precedent, instead leaving it to individual states to determine access to legal abortion. If that happens, many states might criminalize abortion. At least four states already have \u201ctrigger laws\u201d on the books that automatically outlaw abortion if \u003Cem\u003ERoe\u003C\/em\u003E is overturned, and dozens of others have laws that put access to abortion at high risk.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ECandidates for elected office should back efforts to ensure women get the health care they need and oppose measures to limit treatment and\u00a0\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2018\/07\/23\/move-undermine-womens-reproductive-health\u0022\u003Eaccess to contraception\u003C\/a\u003E\u00a0and\u00a0\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2019\/05\/15\/alabamas-abortion-ban-dark-day-women\u0022\u003Eabortion\u003C\/a\u003E\u00a0care.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\n\u003Cp dir=\u0022ltr\u0022 lang=\u0022en\u0022 xml:lang=\u0022en\u0022 xml:lang=\u0022en\u0022\u003EElection officials need to ensure that every method of voting allowed in their state is easy to access and use for all voters, so that there can be a credible US general election on November 3, 2020. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VPDebate?src=hash\u0026amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u0022\u003E#VPDebate\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/t.co\/LAlSaxBzt6\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/t.co\/LAlSaxBzt6\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u2014 Neela Ghoshal (@NeelaGhoshal) \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/NeelaGhoshal\/status\/1314029494156615682?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\u0022\u003EOctober 8, 2020\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOther key human rights issues at stake in the 2020 US elections\u2014including LGBT rights, immigration, and foreign policy\u2014received no or insufficient airtime. Read Human Rights Watch\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2019\/11\/20\/voting-human-rights-guide-2020\u0022\u003Eguide to the 2020 US elections\u003C\/a\u003E to learn more about the questions you should ask of the candidates for local, state, and federal office who seek your vote in November.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe conduct of the election itself also implicates a fundamental human right: the right to vote.\u00a0 In September, Human Rights Watch released a report on the measures that election officials should take to protect voting rights amid the pandemic\u2014most importantly by ensuring all methods of voting allowable in each jurisdiction are genuinely accessible to all eligible voters. Read it \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2020\/09\/22\/what-democracy-looks\/protecting-voting-rights-us-during-covid-19-pandemic\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n","settings":null}]