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New Government Report Reveals 2,500 Youths Held In Military Custody Abroad (05/14/2008)
NEW YORK - In a supplemental report to the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) made public today, the U.S. government revealed that it has no comprehensive policy in place for dealing with youth detained by the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan, including nearly 2,500 youths under the age of 18 that have been held in U.S.-run facilities overseas to date. In a separate report, the American Civil Liberties Union charged that the lack of safeguards in place for the treatment of youth under the age of 18 in U.S. military custody violates internationally accepted standards.

Military Recruitment Practices Violate International Standards, Says ACLU (05/13/2008)
NEW YORK – The United States has failed to uphold its commitments to safeguard the rights of youth under 18 from military recruitment and to guarantee basic protections to foreign former child soldiers, according to an American Civil Liberties Union report released today. The report, "Soldiers of Misfortune," charges that U.S. military recruiting practices that target children as young as 11, the lack of protections for alleged foreign child soldiers in U.S. military custody, and the denial of protection to former child soldiers from other countries seeking asylum violate the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict that the U.S. ratified in 2002.

Fourth Annual ACLU Congress On Civil Liberties In Puerto Rico Begins Today (05/01/2008)
MIRAMAR, PR – Victims of some of the worst cases of police brutality in United States history will join the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Puerto Rico to address issues of police brutality and racial discrimination at the Fourth Annual Congress on Civil Liberties in Puerto Rico beginning today.

Glaring Omissions In U.S. Testimony On Racial And Ethnic Discrimination, Says ACLU (02/22/2008)
NEW YORK - The U.S. government failed to adequately address problems of widespread racial and ethnic discrimination in America at hearings before the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in Geneva that ended today, despite testimony from the American Civil Liberties Union and dozens of human rights groups highlighting the existence of pervasive racism in this country. While the government delegation pointed to existing laws designed to protect civil rights, the committee noted that the U.S. often adopts narrow legal interpretations that prevent their enforcement.

ACLU In Geneva To Testify On Ongoing Racial And Ethnic Injustice (02/18/2008)
NEW YORK - The American Civil Liberties Union will be in Geneva this week to testify before the United Nations’ Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on the contents of a flawed U.S. government report that underreported the state of racial discrimination in the United States. In December 2007, the ACLU released a responsive independent shadow report highlighting the pervasive institutional, systemic and structural racism in America. The U.N. committee reviewed the ACLU and other NGOs’ reports before determining what questions it will ask the U.S. government at this week’s hearings.

Soldiers of Misfortune (05/13/2008)

Brief and Initial Analysis of the United States Report to the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (06/12/2007)

Dimming the Beacon of Freedom: U.S. Violations of the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights (06/20/2006)
A Shadow Report by the American Civil Liberties Union prepared for the United Nations Human Rights Committee on the occasion of its review of The United States of America’s Second and Third Periodic Report to the Committee on Human Rights

Out of Step With the World (05/25/2006)
First comprehensive international and comparative analysis of felony disfranchisement policies, examining other western democracies' policies, practices and legal precedents.

Enduring Abuse: Torture and Cruel Treatment by the United States at Home and Abroad (04/27/2006)

Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (09/13/2006)
Petition alleging violations of the human rights of the New Jersey State Conference NAACP, the Latino Leadership Alliance of New Jersey, Councilwoman Patricia Perkins-Auguste, Councilman Carlose J. Alma, Stacey Kindt, Michael Mackason, Charles Thomas, and Dana Thompson, By the USA and the State of New Jersey, with request for an investigation and hearing on the merits.

El-Masri v. Tenet - Porter Goss Declaration (05/11/2006)

El-Masri v. Tenet - Memorandum in Opposition to Motion to Dismiss (05/11/2006)

El-Masri v. Tenet - Declaration of Steven Watt (05/11/2006)

El-Masri v. Tenet - Declaration of Khaled El-Masri (05/11/2006)

Statement by ACLU to 87th Session of United Nations Human Rights Committee (07/10/2006)
Statement by ACLU to 87th Session of United Nations Human Rights Committee

Limited Communication for Terrorist Inmates (06/02/2006)
On April 3, 2006, the Bureau of Prisons proposed a new regulation imposing severe restrictions on the ability of persons in Bureau custody to communicate with the outside world. Although the regulation is titled “Limited Communication for Terrorist Inmates,” the regulation can be applied to persons who have not been convicted, or even charged, with any act of terrorism, or indeed with any crime at all.

Statement by the American Civil Liberties Union to the 85th Session of the U.N. Human Rights Committee (03/13/2006)
Statement by the American Civil Liberties Union to the 85th Session of the U.N. Human Rights Committee regarding the U.S. government compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

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)

Biography of Chandra Bhatnagar (07/18/2007)

FAQ - The Covenant on Civil & Political Rights (ICCPR) (06/20/2006)

FAQ - The Convention Against Torture (04/27/2006)