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Chair and Commissioner

Our Team

Commissioners

Memoranda of Understanding

Language Access Plan

Our Commitment to New Yorkers

Website Accessibility Statement

Disability Access at Commission Facilities

Land Acknowledgment

Doing Business with the Commission

U&T Visa Certifications

Commissioner Meetings

Commission's History

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8-502(c) Upload Page

May 2021 Agency Return to Office Plan


CCHR Land Acknowledgement

The New York City Commission on Human Rights (“Commission”) acknowledges the land politically designated as New York City to be the homeland of the Lenape (Lenapehoking) who were violently displaced as a result of European settler colonialism over the course of 400 years. The Lenape are a diasporic people that remain closely connected with this land and are its rightful stewards. We also recognize that New York City has one of the largest urban Native American / Indigenous populations in the United States.

The Commission acknowledges its role in not centering Native American / Indigenous voices in our work in the past, and as a result has not appropriately addressed the needs of the communities and their experiences with discrimination. This dynamic exists within the broader context of ruptured relationships between Native American / Indigenous communities and municipal governments, resulting from centuries of state-sanctioned genocide.

The Commission is committed to forging a new trajectory for our agency by building sustainable relationships with Lenape and other Native American / Indigenous peoples. We are actively engaging Native American / Indigenous leaders as equal partners in collaboration, fostering a space that prioritizes their voices to direct our services in ways that best serve citizens of these nations / members of these communities.