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Austin mayor pro tem proclaims Human Rights Day; local leaders affirm abortion as health care and call for protections for immigrants, LGBTQ and unhoused people
Summary
Austin mayor pro tem Vanessa Fuentes presented a proclamation declaring Dec. 10, 2025, Human Rights Day; city leaders and advocates used the event to call for protections for reproductive rights, immigrants, LGBTQ people and those without housing.
Vanessa Fuentes, Austin's mayor pro tem and representative for District 2, presented a proclamation at City Hall declaring Dec. 10, 2025, Human Rights Day in Austin and framed the gathering as a municipal response to what she described as federal rollbacks of human-rights protections.
"We will not be silent," Fuentes said, urging local action after saying the federal government declined to participate in the United Nations' universal periodic review. She said Austin joins other U.S. cities in affirming that "abortion is health care and a human right." Representative Nikkimah Williams, Fuentes added, planned to present a related resolution on Capitol Hill on Dec. 10.
The proclamation reading referenced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and said the United States has ratified three…
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