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ACLU Marks 60th Anniversary Of Landmark Human Rights Document (12/10/2008)
NEW YORK – On the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the American Civil Liberties Union is calling on the incoming Obama administration to recommit to the rights and principles laid out in the document and use it as a guidepost for setting policy at home and abroad. The UDHR was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948 to codify the basic human rights of all people, and is widely considered to be the founding document of the modern human rights movement.

ACLU Joins Lawsuit Challenging Trafficking Of Indian Guestworkers (11/17/2008)
NEW ORLEANS - The American Civil Liberties Union today charged that workers brought to the United States from India to work in shipyards after Hurricane Katrina were misleadingly recruited, exploited and mistreated. The ACLU and the law firm of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP joined a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of over 500 guestworkers charging the workers were trafficked into the U.S. through the federal government's H-2B guestworker program with dishonest assurances of becoming lawful permanent U.S. residents and subjected to squalid living conditions, fraudulent payment practices and threats of serious harm upon their arrival.

ACLU Applauds Senate Judiciary Committee for Reauthorizing and Expanding Deaths in Custody Reporting Act (09/25/2008)
Washington, DC – Today the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to reauthorize and expand a Bureau of Justice Statistics program that will require the Attorney General and encourage states to report information regarding the deaths of individuals in the custody of federal, state, and local law enforcement.

Treatment Of Immigrants In U.S. Violates International Standards, NYCLU And Human Rights Groups Tell U.N. (05/11/2007)
NEW YORK - The New York Civil Liberties Union will join community organizations, immigrant rights groups and officials tomorrow in a public hearing on the occasion of the visit by Jorge Bustamante, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants, to the New York area.

U.N. Independent Expert Denied Access to Hutto Detention Center (05/04/2007)
NEW YORK - The American Civil Liberties Union today called on the U.S. government to explain why it is denying a United Nations independent expert access to the Hutto immigrant detention facility in Taylor, Texas.

Human Rights Abuses Under the Material Witness Law Since Sept. 11, 2001 (06/27/2005)

Worlds Apart: How Deporting Immigrants After 9/11 Tore Families Apart and Shattered Communities (12/08/2004)

America's Disappeared: Seeking International Justice for Immigrants Detained after September 11 (01/26/2004)

David, et al. v. Signal International, LLC, et al. - First Amended Complaint (04/29/2008)
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, over 500 Indian men were trafficked into the U.S. through the federal government's H-2B guestworker program to provide labor and services to Signal International, LLC. Recruited to perform marine fabrication work, the men were subjected to forced labor and other serious abuses.

Khouzam v Hogan Indefinite Stay (06/15/2007)
Khouzam v Hogan Indefinite Stay

Petition Before the Inter-American Commission Alleging Violations of the Human Rights of Undocumented Workers (11/01/2006)
Petition Before the Inter-American Commission Alleging Violations of the Human Rights of Undocumented Workers

Brief of Amicus Curiae in Qassim et al v. Bush (02/23/2006)

Public Version of Government Brief on Photos and Videos (07/29/2005)