were last year astray liz human rights commission conducted a nationwide survey it revealed that the number of students sexually assaulted each week in a university setting would fill this lecture theatre with thirty per day every day one in five of them were international students they considered to be soft targets and i think they considered to be soft targets because they don't know where to go to get. alison queller overseas an outreach program in melbourne to educate international students about sexual health she says after suffering sexual assault students would rarely go to the police. is just white report sexual assault in general i've never met one that is safe or reported. and i think number one fear is definitely the ramifications the court has on the face of. fear of the authorities language barriers and confusion about a strain is legal and medical services contribute to their continued silence. over several months allison has been helping me to build trust with a group of international students and former students who mentor them. today when meeting for a candid convers

so that support and the leadership by the human rights commission has been incredibly beneficial. >> i do not know all of the wonderful people putting time in. i know how grateful i am and i want to thank the human rights commission. without their calm to keep going to give us guidance but also encouragement, we wouldn't be as far as we are. >> thank you. for my part i would like to observe that in all of my years on the commission, i have always been impressed by the program and the incredible work that you have been doing, but i have never been more impressed than i am tonight in listening plan, and hearing you describe all of the work that went into it and what your hopes are for it. i want to congratulate you all on the new initiative and say, and i know my colleagues are looking forward to following its implementation. commissioner. >> i had the chance to attend in 1991 the first national people of color leadership summit in d.c. where we live, work and play instead of something to beacon served. it is a testament to the power of social movements intersecting with government that

>> we do, denise, the first is matthew of the san francisco human rights commission. >> co-chair senhaux: thank you. my apologies. go ahead. >> thank you, council members. i'm here from the san francisco human rights commission. and i'm here to let people know about an event we're having next month on thursday, may 24, from 3-5 p.m. and it's going to be a public training and information workshop on the subject of service animals in private businesses and public places. it's going to be held at the san francisco public library main branch coreet audience tore yum. that is -- space is limited for the event, so we're asking people to rsvp. there is a link on our website at sf -- hrcor g/animals. and you can use the link there to rsvp for the event. to request an accommodation or interpretation for this event, you may call 415-252-2500 or visit the human rights commission at 25 van ness avenue on the 8th floor during business hours. and we ask that all requests be made no later than monday, may 21. this event will be in partnership with disability rights california and canine companions for

so the last time i was in this room to receive an award, it was from the human rights commission. i was excited to receive it, but it suddenly became an extremely humbling experience. many of my coawardis were killed by san francisco police officers. they refused their awards saying they didn't want an award. they wanted justice. san francisco is yet to provide that justice. with conversations about providing tasers to police officers and broadening the armed scope of our probation department, we're not moving towards real solutions, but opting for the appearance of safety while putting our most vulnerable residences in harm's way. i moved here in 1972 seeking and finding greater diversity and inclusion. we seem to have lost our way. i look to all of you to help us get on a path that honors all of us. so thank you, i really am honored, and i have to be who i am. so thanks. [ applause ] >> thank you for your words and your service. we will have our last commendation for the day. it will be given by supervisor peskin. >> thank you, madam president. last but not least on the occasion

i see a lot of different dates, beginning july 1, 2019, human rights commission, august 6, 2019. >> so the first report for the period from july 1st through december 31st, 2018 will be may 7th, 2019. >> supervisor safai: you guys based on what you guys have put up on the screen, will you be able to meet that? >> we believe so. >> supervisor safai: okay. that's it. that was my only question. >> to clarify your earlier question about the august 7, 2018, that's for the -- this is for the current report for 96(a), so the current data that we're collecting will expire after our last quarterly report for our local level august 7, 2018. >> supervisor safai: great. okay. thank you. if we have any other questions, we'll call you back up. any members of the public wishing to comment on this item, please come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed. members of the committee have any questions or comments? seeing none, can we entertain a motion? >> supervisor yee: i'll go ahead and make this a motion to pass this on with a positive recommendation to the full board. you know, when i first re

. >> good afternoon supervisors, paul [inaudible] with the human rights commission. the human rights commission is proud to support this legislation on eliminating fees associated with our criminal justice system. the vast majority of our criminal defendants are deemed indigent, criminal fees at times amounting to thousands in debt weigh people down at precisely the moment they need to be lifted up. they restrict economic mobility and contribute to unemployment. although fees are used to fund important government programs it is immoral and counter productive to fund those programs to what may amount to a regressive tax on low income people and people of color. the human rights commission is proud to support this legislation and looks forward to work with government leaders to change this high pain, low gain aspect of our criminal justice system. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, my

nonsense. the life i am now leading. are now a role model for other countries. there's a human rights commission nationalist party... yeah. she said is no longer fit for purpose. yeah. that's not the way politics in a more mature society should work. we need those institutions. relationships were improved, it would be much better. of martin mcguinness came together, those institutions worked. promised and people didn't live up to those commitments. so we have to get back round the table. i've been round that table many, many times before. i believe that those negotiations can come out the other end. i believe those governance arrangements will go back up. what do you think is the alternative? it is going to be about power—sharing. in fact there's no majorities any more. so what do you do? you form coalitions. we're not the only country. — angela merkel has a coalition. make it work. and the republic of ireland. how big a factor is that, do you believe? huge, and it's — you've put yourfinger on it, it's unknown. that we did not need to go back into. now how are they going to do that? those consti

i'm a human rights organizer at the commission of homelessness. i can tell you the population that your officers are encountering varies. i meet the 70-year-old white woman homeless and i see the homeless honduran and now we're giving them more tools and we have to be cautious as to how civil rights and we have to raise the standard of how we're interacting with the public. i think it's very important we remove the use of discretion of high-risk folks. we have to acknowledge they're weapons. and i'm not implying that's what's going to happen but we need to push to have higher standards. i'm going to reiterate this the department needs to consider a taser review board. and we need to understand how the weapons are being used. and i'll be asking we make sure it's only when the subject faces immediate harm. thank you very much. >> commissioner marshall: thank you very much. >> thank you commissioners for your time. my name is kevin ortiz. i wanted to thank you guys for clarifying on calling tasers weapons. that's what they are. the compliance mode sa

the equality and human rights commission are worried about this and they have written to david liddington at the cabinet office and said, we think this would disproportionately affect people and they are suggesting here, there could be a bit of a racism row coming from it. i do think, it is a trial and it is a trial at the local elections next month and i think it is worth giving it a go. it seems that there have been too many exa m ples of that there have been too many examples of electoral fraud, it is not a widespread thing, but the idea of proving your identity when you arrive at the polling station does not sound like such a bad idea. lot of people would scream it they do not have that kind of thing. postal vote is too late for these elections. presumably, one would hope although no guarantee, but one would hope that in the areas where it is going to be trialled, that people will have been told. as a principle, it does not seem to be a bad idea. the suggestion here is that it would be a number of those ethnic minority groups who might not have the right kind of id and might then feel

the equality and human rights commission are worried about this and they have written to david liddingtonthis would disproportionately affect people and they are suggesting here, there could be a bit of a racism row coming from it. i do think, it is a trial and it is a trial at the local elections next month and i think it is worth giving it a go. it seems that there have been too many exa m ples of that there have been too many examples of electoral fraud, it is not a widespread thing, but the idea of proving your identity when you arrive

. >> good evening i am from the san francisco human rights commission. i want to congratulate you not just for the careful considering of the resolution, but also for the stellar staff that you have. as mentioned before, we have -- now we have 55 city employees with two cohorts. they went through year one last year with about 20 of therapies. this year we have therapies from the work force development, arts commission, the whole range of departments. this year we are adding the department of human resources, library, and a whole orange of departments we are -- other range of departments we are excited about. the peer to peer learns is why we do that. we have departments doing in various stages what the department of environment has done. we have departments starting department wide training to figure out how to on board the contempt for the employees in a way relevant to the work they do. whether they are doing energy and water as the public utilities commission or managing over 6,000 employees thinking how each of those employees are going to implement

so this is a really important resolution, and the human rights commission is really excited that the board has taken it up. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you, noah. so at this time, i'd like to open it up for board members to make any comments. commissioner walton? >> one, you know, i want to thank commissioner -- or president mendoza and president cooke for bringing the resolution forward. this is a conversation that we've been having for a while in community and with the board of education and with the district, so it is long overdue. but i also think this represents the commitment of this board to make sure that we provide specific and static opportunities for the groups that have the biggest gaps in the district. so i'm excited to see us continue with the specificity like we do for our black learners, like we do for our minority learners, and as noah mentioned, actually carving out our nhpi community. that's important. and just the last thing that i want to say as i talked at about last week's meeting, it's important that you leverage what's out there. i always want to say on r

general but now also be reported to the mayor and board of supervisors, to the police and human rights commissions. >> supervisor cohen. >> yes. thank you. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. i want to thank you all for hearing this item today. starting in july of 2018, is assembly bill 593 will require law enforcement agencies throughout california to collect stop data. this was a bill that was introduced by assembly come shirley weber which represents a district down in san diego. the state mandated data collection requirements for stops substantially duplicates chapter 96a, which is i piece of legislation i offered and got passed several years ago. however, the state report will be issued annually. so the legislation before you today accomplishes two very simple things. first, it reconciles the differences between state and local law for stop collection data. second, it includes amendments that require more freak reporting of stop data collection than required by the state law. now, in order to provide sfpd with time to build this new reporting system, the first two reports being semiannual.

we had the equality and human rights commission brought in this legislation that companies with overtheir gender pay data. we saw lots of it come out in drips and trance with lots of stories coming out but still 1500 companies out of 10,000 that should have reported that haven't done it. the powers to enforce are a bit sketchy they can obtain. sums court orders —— they can obtain some court orders —— they can obtain some court order. maria miller who chairs the parliament select committee on this issue have said there should be much harsher punishment and they need to ensure it should happen. it is amazing. they knew about this deadline for a long time and they have failed to act. it is one of those things where you will get some useful data out of it and one of the most interesting things in this story is that the gender pay gap in the private sector is much better than the public sector. that is not something you would automatically assume. there is a lot of criticism into what this data is measuring, not like for like jobs. there is a worry that it will skew statistics if you have

at city's human rights commission i work with some of the most vulnerable individuals in the city, many of whom face barriers to accessing resources and support. it's chilling to think of the members of this community attempting to navigate sfpd special victims unit. [reading] i've done my best to advocate for myself and others while trying not to alienate those in law enforcement responsible for the fate of my case. imagine this happened to you. what would you do? i wrote to the head of the sexual assault response team, dr. botchelari about my experience and how cracks in the system could be filled. she graciously met with me and discussed each of my concerns. when captain bali became head of the special victims unit i wrote to her as well and the head of the civil rights commission. i wrote to supervisor campos. he and now supervisor hillary ronen have been supportive through this nightmare. supervisor breed i wrote to as well, she is my district representative. i asked her for help. it was disappointing to simply be referred to a non-profit in response. i have met with advocates in n

the equality and human rights commission has written to ministers about the trials. at id requirements will have a disproportionate impact on ethnic minority communities, older people, trans people who may not have id in the right gender or name, and people with disabilities, and that some voters will be disenfranchised as a result. the windrush scandal has demonstrated it is difficult for some communities to provide official papers, which could prevent legitimate voters from taking part in our democratic process, which we all value. it's the same hostile environment that shuts fellow citizens out of public life. this voter id pilot is nothing more than an expansion of a hostile environment, it is windrush part two. the commission on human rights have said this will affect people with protected characteristics disproportionately. it will affetc older people, transgender people, people with disabilities both physical and non—physical disabilities, and ethnic minorities. this is an absolutely ridiculous situation and we have a sledgehammer from the government to crack a

announce to that the youth commission's power point and letters from the city administrator and human rights commission will be available tomorrow, thursday, online, as it was not made available to the commission prior to the start of the meeting. hard copies will be available at the commission office. >> question for the city attorney, in light of that, is this still remain an action item? >> yes. >> commissioners, yes, you may have action on the resolution itself. it's just alerting the public that there are two pieces of items not available to the commission office prior to today, and they're being distributed tomorrow. >> great. thank you very much, deputy city attorney herrera. i'm going to turn this over to commissioner da jesus who has been walking us through the process. it's all yours, commissioner. >> all right. i believe this is a resolution that the commission has been working on, so i'm going to hand it to you and explain to the fellow commissioner rs and the public what this is about. >> so we have a presentation ready for you as well to discuss what our resolution is about. so my name is

human rights. >> the human rights commission. thank you. veep of the expansion of the seven within the actual policy still in dispute. additionally to the commission. commissioners, this is how we will conduct te review. i'm review the seven items outstanding. at the each of each outstanding item, i will not take a poll, i will take a straw poll as to each position on each item. and then we'll do the same for the appendix. at the end of that, we will then take public comment on the actual items and then we will vote on the policy based upon concerning the winner of each point straw poll into the policy. is that clear? so let's begin, members, with the first item in the policy. department general order, 5.02, which is use of electronic control devices. our first issue is the term electronic control devices. it is the view by certain organizations, the dpa, coalition on homelessness, bar association and aclu the preferred term should be weapon not device. their position is tasers use the term weapon. weapons convey more gravity a stronger sen

political editor norman smith spoke to trevor phillips, the former chair of the equality and human rights commissione of these latest revelations regarding these destroyed documents. i hate this response, this is the response what we passed the 2010 equality act we put in it that every public body did not inadvertently create a situation where groups could be discriminated against on the grounds of race, gender or sexual orientation. the way to do that was to create an impact assessment. what impact would it have on different groups? they did one for the 2016 legislation and it was absolutely clear in the home office's own words that there would be a large group of people, particularly older non—eu migrants who would have difficulty finding documents and home office actually says that some of these documents will probably have been destroyed. the point of impact assessment was to the government, if this legislation will create this kind of problem, don't pass it, or if you feel you have to pass it, find some mitigating measures and the critical thing here is that the impact assessment must be run by

other let's discuss this story now with my suit should jory who's the chair of the islamic human rights commission and with richard millet is a british blogger about events in israel gentlemen good evening to you both if i could start with you richard. the books teaching martyrdom could they influence the israeli palestine conflict. well yes of course it's a huge tragedy the hardworking british taxpayer is funding and subsidizing palestinian terrorism huge amounts of the money from the produce taxpayer unfortunately goes in to inciting violence against innocent israelis much of the funding not only funds this kind of examples that you just cited also if you kill an israeli or you go to prison in the you go to an israeli prison if you're palestinian in an israeli prison for trying to kill an israeli or killing one or all trying to kill one you'll see thirty thousand pounds a year far higher than the average wage in this country so if you're a palestinian terrorist you're on to a huge winner you just have to look at gaza all the funding in gaza. we see deaths of palestinians because hamas refuses to