i serve as the director of the human rights commission here in san francisco. the human rights commission is tasked with identifying and disrupting racism and discrimination trends in government and private business practices here in san francisco. i want to thank mayor breed and dr. colfax for the information they've shared today, this afternoon. nationally, this virus has woven an exceptionally cruel path through our most vulnerable populations. we are working to ensure that this health emergency does not further exacerbate the existing health disparities we struggled to address before the coronavirus appeared. to also make the connection that these public health disparities are connected to economic and poverty and to homelessness and to geographic areas where people are living in difficult situations. we knew this would be a challenge long before we had any data. they have been addressing these things long before we had the data. people in these areas experience structural racism in ways that are affecting their health and their income, which makes contracti

i serve as the director of the human rights commission here in san francisco. the human rights commission is tasked with identifying and disrupting racism and discrimination trends in government and private business practices here in san francisco. i want to thank mayor breed and dr. colfax for the information they've shared today, this afternoon. nationally, this virus has woven an exceptionally cruel path through our most vulnerable populations. we are working to ensure that this health emergency does not further exacerbate the existing health disparities we struggled to address before the coronavirus appeared. to also make the connection that these public health disparities are connected to economic and poverty and to homelessness and to geographic areas where people are living in difficult situations. we knew this would be a challenge long before we had any data. they have been addressing these things long before we had the data. people in these areas experience structural racism in ways that are affecting their health and their income, which makes contracti

equality and human rights commission, trevor phillipsm equality and human rights commission, trevor phillipsd have known all about this a month ago. we are at least a month behind where we need to be. simply because people have been too squeamish to collect data about ethnicity. other families like charlies who are in emotional limbo, more clarity is needed. we need to know if our father died of covid—19. we need answers, we need him tested. women are reporting that uncertainty surrounding maternity services during lockdown is making a stressful situation harder. the bbc has found policies vary depending where you live — some nhs trusts aren't currently allowing a home birth for example, or letting a partner onto the ward once the baby is born, while others are. 0ur correspondent anna collinson has been talking to new and expectant mothers about how covid—19 has disrupted their plans. nadia hussain is more than a week overdue. she is prepared but the coronavirus means her birthing plan is no longer possible and she's anxious her husband can only stay with her for a short time following the b

our civil rights division at the human rights commission is continuing to process complaints of discrimination and manage inquiries that people may have about what their rights are during this time. we were grateful to work with the emergency operations center and to be able to embed an equity officer at the emergency operations center, focusing on ensuring our disaster response is intersectional and doesn't exacerbate pre-existing structural issues. at the human rights commission we have allocated nearly $1 million for emergency funding and to address many of the needs that have been identified earlier. we are working with our lgbtq2 communities around housing and food security. we are working with our non-profits, and again to thank the non-profits who have been leading that work to provide housing, food security, and to provide gift cards. and to think about our youth and transitional age group, they are concerned with what happens through this process. as we are thinking about employment and economic recovery, a lot of our young people are very concerned. they have been contributing throug

i serve as the director of the human rights commission here in san francisco. he human rights commission is tasked with identifying and disrupting racism and discrimination trends in government and private business practices here in san francisco. i want to thank mayor breed and dr. colfax for the information they've shared today, this afternoon. nationally, this virus has woven an exceptionally cruel path through our most vulnerable populations. we are working to ensure that this health emergency does not further exacerbate the existing health disparities we struggled to address before the coronavirus appeared. to also make the connection that these public health disparities are connected to economic and poverty and to homelessness and to geographic areas where people are living in difficult situations. we knew this would be a challenge long before we had any data. they have been addressing these things long before we had the data. people in these areas experience structural racism in ways that are affecting their health and their income, which makes contractin

i want to provide an update and say we've been working closely with the leadership of the human rights commission as well as with the mayor's office and we're going to be providing relief for this population working without doing this the legislative process. so i think it's appropriate items 1, 2 and 3. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, supervisor. so we have a motion to file items 1, 2 and 3. before we do that, let's open up for public comment. madame clerk, can you call for public comment? >> yes. madame chair, checking to see if there are any calls in the queue. operations, please let us know if there are any callers that are ready? >> madame chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. >> supervisor fewer: public comment is now closed. there is a motion to file this item and could we have a roll call vote, please? >> on the motion to file items 1, 2 and 3, supervisor walton aye. mandelman aye. fewer aye. there are three ayes. >> supervisor fewer: congratulations, supervisor walt walton. can you call items 4 and 5 together? >> item 4, resolution retroactively authorizing the departme

i want to provide an update and say we've been working closely with the leadership of the human rights commission as well as with the mayor's office and we're going to be providing relief for this population working without doing this the legislative process. so i think it's appropriate items 1, 2 and 3. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, supervisor. so we have a motion to file items 1, 2 and 3. before we do that, let's open up for public comment. madame clerk, can you call for public comment? >> yes. madame chair, checking to see if there are any calls in the queue. operations, please let us know if there are any callers that are ready? >> madame chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. >> supervisor fewer: public comment is now closed. there is a motion to file this item and could we have a roll call vote, please? >> on the motion to file items 1, 2 and 3, supervisor walton aye. mandelman aye. fewer aye. there are three ayes. >> supervisor fewer: congratulations, supervisor walt walton. can you call items 4 and 5 together? >> item 4, resolution retroactively authorizing the departme

human rights commission and secretary general the un special rapporteur on the right to food warned sanctions of putting people at risk of starvation and singled out syria venezuela and iran as being in grave danger she told r.t. that if the restrictions continue to be enforced it could amount to criminal activity. there are many countries already picked from the church and most of them are equivalent actions and usually it's very severe right now in houses that chariot inc and puts is the mill butyrate area back when your students good example was in china and. when is germany is on its tear its economy ignited because of her. right there by ovations of other reasons while the violation of the right on the sanction building more serious down there and you. know it will be kind o. ur even criminal act will hopefully this to get to you general call will make. him pegged on the us government. sanction it please the period of the coroner wives. venza people confined to their homes to run for entertainment has never been higher and theatres and operas of been moving online some are streaming the

queues of human rights violations against citizens while enforcing the law down according to nigeria's national human rights commission. people have been killed by security. that's almost the same. self here in beijing life here is quite normal and at the same time it feels like you're stuck in a big fortress normal because you can go on about your daily life you can go to a barber shop and cut your hair you go to a restaurant you can go shopping this all comes with restrictions and for example when i enter a supermarket there's always a camera that scans my body temperature and also i have to show is q.r. code for my smartphone to prove that i'm healthy the big prescription however counts when you leave beijing because once you return you have to parenting for 14 days no matter what however the chinese are really disciplined when it comes to complying with the restrictions and i really respect them for that. some sports news now the president of world athletics sebastian coe has told the double that athletes who would have missed of tokyo lympics this year because of doping bans shouldn't be allowed to compete next y

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know what is going on, you don't know why the un no longer works, you don't know why the human rights commissionas a bunch of human rights violators and it comes down to payments behind-the-scenes. we don't know what exactly he has gotten from the chinese communist party but we do know that he has acted in a biased way and i think he should step down and we should defund the who until it is cleaned up. shannon: jill lockhart, long time democrat operative and strategist says in a tweet today's new enemy is the world health organization. we pay for a lot of it so they should always agree with us, trump's worldview. they call it wrong. month earlier, unbelievable projection they raised the alarm, trump chose to belittle them. it is all on tape. he is saying suggesting the president is now laying the blame elsewhere that should lie with the white house. >> i gave you the timeline when the who knew there was human to human transfer they didn't do anything in the president did. the president acted like the who should have in the first place. not sure what he is talking about. shannon: i want to read s

but a national human rights commission here says security forces have killed more people than coronaviruse lockdowns. and now to nairobi, with more on the planned roll—out of weekly stipends for the poor in kenya. thank you. in kenya, the president announced an additional $18 million for the poor and the needy under the cash transfer programme. he also announced that families in nairobi have already been identified and will start receiving weekly stipends. it is likely they will get direct cash transfers, as a minister pointed out that some of the agencies supposed to be distributed these government reliefs have been pocketing at least half of the funds. in uganda, there has been widespread outrage after members of parliament awarded themselves about $3 million for this provision for covid—19. at least one member of parliament criticised that move as "selfish and insensitive", and promised a wire that money back as soon as he gets it. when the coronavirus first started spreading in asia, the use of facemasks rocketed, with people forming long queues outside stores to buy up supplies. but

it's also possible that this might be an important topic to bring up with the human rights commission. so, and we may be able to give advice or guidance to the human rights commission from the perspective of the small business community. i really appreciate you bringing that up. that's -- you know, it's hard to keep track of everything that is happening and everything that needs to be done. and the only way we're going get there is is with all of us firing on all of our cylinders all the time. so that is like really salient and important topic to bring up. i absolutely think that that is something that we should be digging our teeth into and doing our best to advocate for those folks. thank you, commissioner huey. >> could i just give a quick shout-out to supervisor peskin for what he's done for the flower market? he pretty much single handedly got it re-opened with all the -- all the restrictions and that is applying at least 350 people getting their jobs back. >> absolutely. you know, generally i would say that i think the city leadership has done a great job and doing their best fo

the people we are working with is human rights commission under the leadership of executive director sheryl davis. the h.r.c. is providing community stakeholders with face coverings thanks to the mayor's gift to s.f. campaign. we are out with commissioner davis and community stakeholders issuing face coverings today as we speak. we were out in the bayview community yesterday. we want people to know we understand how difficult this is and there are people in our city who are having a very difficult time -- most people are having a difficult time through this. there are people who don't have access to face coverings. we want to do everything we can as a city to help those who need help. that's why we're out helping, to make sure people have what they need to stay safe and healthy. this is enabling the city to help those vulnerable populations and will go a long way towards preventing the spread of covid-19. we see today is a beautiful day and the weather is nice and we expect that to continue into the weekend. we know there are people who want to exercise and get fresh air and enjoy th

mosques farms bridges factories when to turn chicken centers coalition air strikes the un human rights commission said in 2017 coalition airstrikes continue to be the leading cause of child casualties as well as overall civilian casualties so he didn't know what he was talking about as much luck we you i said national for human rights they have no idea what they're saying is that happen and i told you before but you have to believe a penalty more than this you have to be clear on the report now it's a policy of you can't using civilian infrastructure other pilots so incompetent that they can't tell the difference to muffle up in a man with. f. it happens then we can then that we would continue years later that if you are half your life you will point out for what they are doing we need to make peace we don't want to continue this war and we have to do it a few just weeks ago a few days ago they destructed hospitals it's not right but we don't want just to dwell on it we want to know what is now required to make peace and i know what is required to make peace we need to crack the illusions talk th

human rights commission has a bunch of human rights violators.t it comes down to is these payments behind the scenes. now, we don't know what exactly tedros has gotten from the chinese communist party but i do know that he's acted in a biased way. i think you should step down and we should defund of the w.h.o. until it's cleaned up. >> shannon: okay. jill lockhart, our audience will know is a longtime democratic operative and strategist says this in a tweet. today's new enemy is the world health organization and we paid for a lot of it, they should always agree with us. if trump's worldview. they called it wrong. months earlier, unbelievable projections. it's all on tape. it seems that he's suggesting that the president is now laying blame elsewhere when it should lie with the white house. >> so i gave you the timeline. when the w.h.o. knew there was human to human transfer, they didn't do anything at the president did. so the president acted like that w.h.o. should have in the first place. so i'm not sure what he's talking about. >> shannon: i w

in the last six months, i have attended several san francisco human rights commission meetings that address transit equity. i hope to continue to work with the human rights commission, and the willingness to partner with sfmta on the critically important access issues. currently serve as the chair of the sfmta board's policy and governance committee, that meets monthly to look at the strategic plan goals and how the agency is meeting or missing key performance metrics. i hope that we can take this unique opportunity and time to examine our expectation work as a whole and come out of this with a better, more equitable system. and to me that would be better prioritizing our transit, pedestrians and cyclists. i look forward to working with the other directors. another thing i have advocated for is expanding the accessibility of emergeing mobility like car share. to me the mode shift goals we need the options to be accessible to as many people as possible, including populations that have historically been excluded from such options. one initiative is the bike share pilot that sfmta ran last fal

in the last six months, i have attended several san francisco human rights commission meetings that address transit equity. i hope to continue to work with the human rights commission, and the willingness to partner with sfmta on the critically important access issues. currently serve as the chair of the sfmta board's policy and governance committee, that meets monthly to look at the strategic plan goals and how the agency is meeting or missing key performance metrics. i hope that we can take this unique opportunity and time to examine our expectation work as a whole and come out of this with a better, more equitable system. and to me that would be better prioritizing our transit, pedestrians and cyclists. i look forward to working with the other directors. another thing i have advocated for is expanding the accessibility of emergeing mobility like car share. to me the mode shift goals we need the options to be accessible to as many people as possible, including populations that have historically been excluded from such options. one initiative is the bike share pilot that sfmta ran last fal

meeting our city's equity efforts, director davis of the san francisco human rights commission, has established community roundtable weekly meetings. the roundtable is a dynamic group of community stakeholders who elevate concerns about the city's response and communication with communities of color, low-income people and the lgbtqi community, specifically around covid-19. we would like to thank director davis for her leadership. with this corroboration, we can and are taking action on issues based on community input and practices. some of these issues include food insecurity, discrimination, appropriate culturally-focused outreach, financial resources and improved communication and support. san francisco is also one of the few counties in the country that has an equity officer embedded in its emergency operations centerrer. the goal of this team is to mitigate inequity it is in the citywide response to coronavirus for our communities of concern including latinx, black african-american, asian-pacific islander and lgbtqi communities. we will continue to listen to community partners, improve our

it's also possible that this might be an important topic to bring up with the human rights commission so, and we may be able to give advice or guidance to the human rights commission from the perspective of the small business community. i really appreciate you bringing that up. that's -- you know, it's hard to keep track of everything that is happening and everything that needs to be done. and the only way we're going get there is is with all of us firing on all of our cylinders all the time. so that is like really salient and important topic to bring up. i absolutely think that that is something that we should be digging our teeth into and doing our best to advocate for those folks. thank you, commissioner huey. >> could i just give a quick shout-out to supervisor peskin for what he's done for the flower market? he pretty much single handedly got it re-opened with all the -- all the restrictions and that is applying at least 350 people getting their jobs back. >> absolutely. you know, generally i would say that i think the city leadership has done a great job and doing their best for

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i want to provide an update and say we've been working closely with the leadership of the human rights commissionwell as with the mayor's office and we're going to be providing relief for this population working without doing this the legislative process. so i think it's appropriate items 1, 2 and 3. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, supervisor. so we have a motion to file items 1, 2 and 3. before we do that, let's open up for public comment. madame clerk, can you call for public comment? >> yes. madame chair, checking to see if there are any calls in the queue. operations, please let us know if there are any callers that are ready? >> madame chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. >> supervisor fewer: public comment is now closed. there is a motion to file this item and could we have a roll call vote, please? >> on the motion to file items 1, 2 and 3, supervisor walton aye. mandelman aye. fewer aye. there are three ayes. >> supervisor fewer: congratulations, supervisor walt walton. can you call items 4 and 5 together? >> item 4, resolution retroactively authorizing the department o

there's just -- there's no outreach, no website, there's no information on the human rights' commission rights commission's website. the one complaint that they did issue was because the survivor came to our service and we passed them onto the s.h.a.r.p. office. this lej this legislation was passed several years ago when rape survivors stated their situations to the city. i am specifically requesting the presence of a leader who can answer all of our questions about the hiring process from the department of human resources, preferably, the director of that department, the director of the human rights commission, and the director of s.h.a.r.p. final finally, today, i'm proposing changes to existing u.s. border policies. residents of san francisco deserve to live in safety and thriving communities where everyone is treated with respect, but because a city is located within 100 miles of a coastal border, san francisco is considered a border city. that means that families in san francisco are subjected to inhuman rights and make every person a recipient of the widespread corruption of the b

the former chairman of the equality and human rights commission trevor phillips is leading the review month ago. we are at least a month behind where we need to be. simply because people have been too squeamish to collect data about ethnicity. for other families like charlie's who are in emotional limbo, more clarity is needed. we need to know if our father died of covid—19. we need answers, we need him tested. we will turn our attentions to parliament, virtually because we willdip into parliament, virtually because we will dip into the commons. the science and technology committee is sitting. we have been hearing from greg clark, the chair of the committee and today the chief medical advisor to the government, professor chris whitty will be giving evidence this. this is doctor michael mcbride who is just this is doctor michael mcbride who isjust addressing the this is doctor michael mcbride who is just addressing the committee right now. let's listen and adhere some of this. and, you know, that has stood the test of time. i suppose i am probably the last survivor from the last pandem

meeting our city's equity efforts, director davis of the san francisco human rights commission, has established community roundtable weekly meetings. the roundtable is a dynamic group of community stakeholders who elevate concerns about the city's response and communication with communities of color, low-income people and the lgbtqi community, specifically around covid-19. we would like to thank director davis for her leadership. with this corroboration, we can and are taking action on issues based on community input and practices. some of these issues include food insecurity, discrimination, appropriate culturally-focused outreach, financial resources and improved communication and support. san francisco is also one of the few counties in the country that has an equity officer embedded in its emergency operations centerrer. the goal of this team is to mitigate inequity it is in the citywide response to coronavirus for our communities of concern including latinx, black african-american, asian-pacific islander and lgbtqi communities. we will continue to listen to community partners, improve our

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taxi commission, though, the director was a servant of the city having formally been on the human right's commission which i found quite surprising to know. he has a distinction of being the longest serving director since the mta was established in 2000 and so joining in 2008 with and the time with the taxi commission before that. he's been so critical, as you all know, we just celebrated when we were able to be together, the car-free market street and malcolm has been a true leader on this issue and it was just so fitting to have him be about that on that momentous day and even throw out new streets with his quite a extreme seat when we think how easy it was to make the decision when the decision was in flux for so long. so thank you to him for that leadership. he's also been actsly doinged dn improving the subway and improving the approach. there was the key portal specifically and we all know that the west portal cross-over is really the heineke cross-over which we will be honoring in his name with a proclamation and a plaque coming at a time when we all can be together in the future. but more th

we are focused on if anything sure and director davis from the human rights commission will talk moreut some of the incredible things they are doing to help underserved communities in san francisco. some of the simple things, providing gift cards to families with food, providing help for filling out unemployment insurance applications. providing assistance and understanding of some of the laws and things we've implemented in the city and making sure people are connected, informed, and supported through basic services. it's really key to supporting all of our residents and we have been doing this since day one. i want to take this opportunity to thank the non-profit organizations and our faith leaders, because they are on the frontlines, communicating with their congregations, providing support and delivery services informally and on the ground doing everything they can to support their residents. i want to express my appreciation to so many community members who have taken it on themselves to ask community members who they may need, especially the people we know who are in isolation,

i want to provide an update and say we've been working closely with the leadership of the human rights commission as well as with the mayor's office and we're going to be providing relief for this population working without doing this the legislative process. so i think it's appropriate items 1, 2 and 3. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, supervisor. so we have a motion to file items 1, 2 and 3. before we do that, let's open up for public comment. madame clerk, can you call for public comment? >> yes. madame chair, checking to see if there are any calls in the queue. operations, please let us know if there are any callers that are ready? >> madame chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. >> supervisor fewer: public comment is now closed. there is a motion to file this item and could we have a roll call vote, please? >> on the motion to file items 1, 2 and 3, supervisor walton aye. mandelman aye. fewer aye. there are three ayes. >> supervisor fewer: congratulations, supervisor walt walton. can you call items 4 and 5 together? >> item 4, resolution retroactively authorizing the departme

the people we are working with is human rights commission under the leadership of executive directordavis. the h.r.c. is providing community stakeholders with face coverings thanks to the mayor's gift to s.f. campaign. we are out with commissioner davis and community stakeholders issuing face coverings today as we speak. we were out in the bayview community yesterday. we want people to know we understand how difficult this is and there are people in our city who are having a very difficult time -- most people are having a difficult time through this. there are people who don't have access to face coverings. we want to do everything we can as a city to help those who need help. that's why we're out helping, to make sure people have what they need to stay safe and healthy. this is enabling the city to help those vulnerable populations and will go a long way towards preventing the spread of covid-19. we see today is a beautiful day and the weather is nice and we expect that to continue into the weekend. we know there are people who want to exercise and get fresh air and enjoy the nice w