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The ACLU Human Rights Program works to ensure that the U.S. government complies with universal human rights principles in addition to the U.S. Constitution. The Program uses human rights strategies to complement existing ACLU advocacy on national security, immigrants' rights, women's rights and racial justice. Learn more about the Human Rights Program.


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Biography of Benjamin Smyser (11/07/2008)

Biography of Nahal Zamani (11/07/2008)

Biography of Aadika Singh (11/07/2008)

Biography of Alice Farmer (11/07/2008)

ACLU Statement on Capital Punishment in the United States to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (10/01/2008)
Statement delivered by Jamil Dakwar, Director, ACLU Human Rights Program, in Warsaw, Poland, on October 1, 2008.

A Violent Education: Corporal Punishment of Children in U.S. Public Schools (08/19/2008)
A report by Human Rights Watch and the ACLU.

Biography of Doudou Diène, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (05/15/2008)

Biography of Jennifer Turner (03/19/2008)

Statement by Jamil Dakwar on Behalf of the ACLU to the Human Rights Council 6th Session (12/12/2007)

Protecting the Most Vulnerable: A Call to Action on Behalf of Detained Children (11/20/2007)

About the ACLU's Human Rights Program (07/18/2007)

Biography of Ashwini Hardikar (07/18/2007)

Biography of Jamil Dakwar (07/18/2007)

Biography of Chandra Bhatnagar (07/18/2007)

Biography of Frank Knaack (07/12/2007)

Briefing Materials Submitted to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants (04/02/2007)
Briefing Materials Submitted to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants by the Detention and Deportation Working Group

Witness: Jessica Gonzales - Victim of Police Negligence (07/14/2006)

Witness: Father Roy Bourgeois - Victim of FBI Spying (07/14/2006)

Witness: Khaled El-Masri - Victim of Extraordinary Rendition (07/14/2006)

Dimming the Beacon of Freedom: U.S. Violations of the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights - Table of Contents (06/20/2006)

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