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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 Alice Farmer (11/07/2008)

Biography of Aadika Singh (11/07/2008)

Jessica Gonzales v. USA - Amicus Briefs Submitted for October 2008 Merits Hearing (10/21/2008)

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.

ACLU Statement to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Human Dimension Implementation Meeting on Unfair Trials at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba (09/29/2008)
Statement delivered by Jamil Dakwar, Director, ACLU Human Rights Program, in Warsaw, Poland, on September 29, 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)

Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (03/07/2008)

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