Message from Susan Belinda Christian, Chair 2014          

This Report provides an excellent overview of the broad array of work made possible in 2013 by an imaginative and talented staff working collaboratively with engaged members of San Francisco's diverse communities.  

As we are all too aware, despite the significant achievements of the last 50 years in establishing formal equality, and despite efforts like those described in this Report, persistent structural impediments and biases have frustrated efforts to establish true substantive equity in both opportunity and outcomes in our communities.

As we envision the next chapter of the HRC's work, it is my hope that, as a Commission and as a community which truly values its diversity and the potential of all of its members, we will together find effective ways to both defend and more fully realize the human rights principles and civil liberties established under law 50 years ago by the engaged, persistent people who, in pursuit of civil equality for African Americans, sacrificed their safety and comfort to push themselves as well as their communities, courts and elected representatives to do necessary and extraordinary things.

 

For a full copy of the 2013 HRC Annual Report, please click here.