Where do human rights begin? Many would say they begin right here at home. Closing Guantanamo is a start but the fight for Human Rights goes much deeper.

Catherine Powell, the author of Human Rights at Home: A Domestic Policy Blueprint for the New Administration and an associate professor of Law at Fordham Law School says that human rights should include access to health care, equal opportunity for education, a living wage, and the elimination of racial and ethnic discrimination in U.S. prisons. And Barack Obama can initiate a process of human rights reform through his appointments to domestic agencies, the Justice Department and by reestablishing the Interagency Working Group on Human Rights created under Clinton and abolished by George W. Bush.