We are engaged in a vital struggle, in a brutal time. With authoritarianism and nativism rising, Council of Minorities always fighting to protect basic rights.

We are working with communities who have been vilified and excluded to secure the documents that prove their citizenship. We are challenging broken health systems and unlawful pollution.

We proved that community paralegals and their clients can take on some of the toughest forms of injustice and win. And we built the first global network dedicated to legal empowerment.

We are called in this moment to do much more. Our world is profoundly unequal. Authoritarians are responding to this inequality by scapegoating minorities and promising to turn systems upside down.

We have an alternative: deepening democracy rather than giving up on it. Transforming institutions rather than abandoning them. Succeeding in this struggle is going to require much more of us, from many more of us. I hope all of you will be a part of it.

With love and respect

Khalid Hussain