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ACLU Joins Lawsuit Challenging Trafficking Of Indian Guestworkers
Workers trafficked to the U.S. from India to work in shipyards after Hurricane Katrina were lured here with dishonest assurances of becoming lawful permanent U.S. residents. More >>
Domestic Violence Survivor Goes Before International Tribunal
In the first case brought by a survivor of domestic violence against the U.S. before an international human rights tribunal, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights heard testimony on October 22, 2008, by Jessica Lenahan (formerly Gonzales), whose three daughters were abducted by her estranged husband and killed after the Colorado police refused to enforce a restraining order against him. In 2005, Lenahan’s domestic violence protection claims were rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.
> Blog: Protection from Domestic Violence Is a Human Right (10/22/2008)
> Learn More: Jessica Gonzales v. United States of America
> Watch Jessica's testimony before the IACHR: English | En Español (Launches Windows Media Player)
> Colorado Domestic Violence Survivor Seeks Justice In International Tribunal (10/22/2008)
The Right to Fair Trial — Guantánamo Military Commissions
Jamil Dakwar, Director of the ACLU's Human Rights Program, delivered a statement to the Organization for Security and Co-operation of Europe's (OSCE) Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in Warsaw, Poland, on September 29, 2008. The Human Dimension Implementation Meeting of the OSCE is one of the most significant human rights conferences in Europe.
Read the Statement >>
> Jamil Dakwar Discusses Novel My Guantánamo Diary with the Book's Author, Mahvish Rukhsana Khan
U.S.: End Beating of Children in Public Schools
In a new report, the ACLU and Human Rights Watch found that more than 200,000 U.S. public school students were punished by beatings during the 2006–2007 school year. In the 13 states that corporally punished more than 1,000 students per year, African-American girls were twice as likely to be beaten as their white counterparts. More >>
> U.S.: End Beating of Children in Public Schools (8/20/2008)
> Report: A Violent Education: Corporal Punishment of Children in U.S. Public Schools
As Guantánamo Video Is Made Public, ACLU Calls On Government To Release Wrongfully Withheld Documentation Of Detainee Abuse
Despite vigorous attempts by the Bush administration to block the release of footage showing the policies inside Guantánamo, lawyers made public a video today documenting the interrogation of Omar Khadr, a Canadian captured in Afghanistan in 2002 when he was 15 years old. More >>
> Video of Khadr's Interrogation
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions Visits the U.S.
Special Rapporteur Philip Alston's mission includes reporting on alleged killings in the U.S. and overseas for which U.S. government and military officials may be responsible, and the failure to prosecute and punish those responsible.
> ACLU Calls For Greater Accountability For Unlawful Deaths In U.S. Custody (6/30/2008)
> ACLU Welcomes U.N. Independent Expert On Extrajudicial Executions To U.S. (6/16/2008)
ACLU Continues to Monitor Guantánamo Military Commissions
The ACLU has been present as an independent observer at every commission hearing since 2004, and continues to see no indication that the proceedings are fair, impartial or in accordance with constitutional principles. ACLU attorneys have continuously blogged from the hearings—all of their dispatches from Guantánamo can be found on the ACLU's Blog of Rights.
> ACLU Monitoring Unconstitutional Guantánamo Military Commissions This Week (6/18/2008)
New ACLU Report Charges Military Recruitment Practices Violate International Standards
The United States is shirking its commitments under an international agreement and failing to protect the rights of vulnerable young people. In a report to the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child, the ACLU charges that the U.S. isn't upholding its obligations under the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict that it ratified in 2002. The report focuses on the U.S. military's recruiting tactics that target youth under 17 and low-income youth and students of color, and the U.S. government's failure to protect the rights of foreign child soldiers such as Guantánamo detainees Omar Khadr and Mohammed Jawad.
> Military Recruitment Practices Violate International Standards, Says ACLU (5/13/2008)
> Report: Soldiers of Misfortune
ACLU Petitions International Tribunal on Behalf of Khaled El-Masri
On April 9, 2008, the ACLU filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on behalf of Khaled El-Masri, an innocent victim of the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear El-Masri's case in October 2007.
> Innocent Victim Of CIA Extraordinary Rendition Program Takes Case To International Tribunal (4/9/2008)
> Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Alleging Violations of the Human Rights of Khaled El-Masri by the United States of America
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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 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 Report Reveals Arrests At Hartford-Area Schools On Rise (11/17/2008)
HARTFORD, CT – Police arrests of students at Hartford-area schools are on the rise, according to a new American Civil Liberties Union report released today, a trend that disproportionately impacts children of color.
UN Torture Expert Should Investigate Brutal Force-Feeding Of Connecticut Inmate, Says ACLU (10/27/2008)
HARTFORD, Conn. – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture (UNSR) should review the force-feeding of inmate Bill Coleman by the Connecticut Department of Corrections (DOC), according to a letter filed today by the American Civil Liberties Union under the U.N. Urgent Appeal procedure.
As Declaration Of Human Rights Approaches 60, ACLU Announces New Campaign And Contest (10/6/2008)
NEW YORK – In anticipation of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the American Civil Liberties Union today announced the launch of "Dignity Begins at Home," a new campaign to celebrate the document that is the cornerstone of the modern human rights system. Despite the United States' involvement in drafting the UDHR and supposed support of the document, it has failed to honor its commitments under the UDHR, especially within U.S. borders.
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