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ACLU to Mark 60th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights
To celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Univeral Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the ACLU will be engaging in an advocacy campaign to raise awareness of U.S. obligations and shortcomings under international human rights law. This campaign will culminate with day of action events throughout the country on December 10, 2008, the day when the UDHR was adopted by the Member States of the United Nations General Assembly. Learn More >>
> Blog: Respecting Human Rights...at Home (6/18/2008)
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 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 Hosts Police Brutality and Human Rights Workshop
The ACLU Human Rights Program and the ACLU of Puerto Rico presented a two-day workshop for social justice advocates interested in developing human rights strategies to end police brutality and human rights violations. Through identifying shared advocacy goals, we worked to develop concrete strategies for using human rights standards and mechanisms to expose and end police brutality, and to bring justice to victims of police abuse. The workshop used a human rights lens to tackle a range of issues.
> Fourth Annual ACLU Congress On Civil Liberties In Puerto Rico Begins Today (5/1/2008)
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 Calls For Greater Accountability For Unlawful Deaths In US Custody (6/30/2008)
NEW YORK - The American Civil Liberties Union today urged the United States government to heed the concerns of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions. Special Rapporteur Philip Alston, whose 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, announced his preliminary findings after touring the U.S. at the invitation of the U.S. government.
On International Day To End Torture, ACLU Renews Call For Independent Prosecutor (6/26/2008)
NEW YORK - On the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, the American Civil Liberties Union calls on the United States government to appoint an independent prosecutor for U.S. torture crimes, to put an end to practices that involve torture and abuse and to fulfill its obligations under the Convention Against Torture (CAT). The CAT, ratified by the U.S. in 1994, forbids governments from deliberately inflicting severe physical or mental pain or suffering upon those under their control, prohibits the use of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and bars the transfer or the rendition of persons to countries where they could be at risk of being tortured.
ACLU Welcomes UN Independent Expert On Extrajudicial Executions To US (6/16/2008)
NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union today welcomed a fact-finding mission to the U.S. by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions. 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. The ACLU calls on the U.S., state and local governments to fully cooperate with the special rapporteur.
UN Committee Decries Military Treatment Of Youth At Home And Abroad (6/6/2008)
GENEVA – A United Nations committee of human rights experts today issued a strongly worded critique of the United States' record on the detention and treatment of youth in U.S. military custody abroad. The committee also urged the U.S. to make sweeping policy changes regarding domestic military recruitment practices that target juveniles. The committee reviewed reports and testimony from the U.S. government as well as "shadow reports" by the American Civil Liberties Union and other non-governmental organizations before issuing the report.
UN Independent Expert On Racism Begins Fact-Finding Mission In US (5/19/2008)
WASHINGTON - Several national civil liberties and human rights groups today welcomed a fact-finding mission to the U.S. by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. The American Civil Liberties Union, Global Rights, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law, the U.S. Human Rights Network, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Rights Working Group and the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty call on the U.S., state and local governments to fully cooperate with the special rapporteur
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