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Update in ACLU Torture FOIA Lawsuit (08/19/2005)
Following a two-hour closed hearing in New York on August 15, a federal judge ordered the government to reveal blacked-out portions of its legal papers arguing against the release of images depicting abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib.

Diplomats Should Keep their Own Houses in Order, Advocates for Domestic Workers Say (04/07/2005)
GENEVA -- Andolan, Global Rights and the American Civil Liberties Union are convening a panel in Geneva today to address specific concerns about migrant domestic workers employed by international organizations, including the United Nations and the broader diplomatic community.

Global Lens Focused on U.S. Torture and Detention Policies (04/04/2005)
GENEVA - The American Civil Liberties Union today called for immediate action by the U.N. Commission on Human Rights to address the abuse and torture of prisoners by the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq, and at other U.S.-controlled detention centers.

ACLU Calls for United States to Respect Universal Human Rights at Home and Abroad (04/01/2005)
GENEVA -- A delegation of attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union arrived in Geneva this morning to attend the 61st meeting of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. The delegation seeks to bring issues of torture and detention, racial profiling and the exploitation of migrant domestic workers in the U.S. to the Commission's attention.

Citing Growing Abuses, ACLU Intensifies International Human Rights Advocacy in the United States (12/06/2004)
NEW YORK - Intensifying its efforts to hold the United States government accountable under universally recognized human rights principles, the American Civil Liberties Union today announced that it has hired three full-time advocates to apply human rights strategies to the ACLU's work on national security issues, immigrants' rights, women's rights, and criminal justice.

Federal Government Turns Over Thousands of Torture Documents to ACLU (10/21/2004)
NEW YORK-The American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union today said that they have received from the federal government nearly 6,000 pages of documents related to the abuse of prisoners at overseas detention facilities, including almost all of the annexes to the Taguba report concerning abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

ACLU Convenes First National Conference On the Use of International Human Rights Law in the U.S. Justice System (10/08/2003)
NEW YORK - In a new campaign to bring internationally recognized human rights law to the American justice system, the American Civil Liberties Union is convening a national conference, October 9-11 at the Carter Center, in Atlanta. The conference, Human Rights at Home: International Law in U.S. Courts, combines an overview of international laws with practical workshops to help lawyers and others develop legal and organizing strategies for enforcing human rights in specific areas, including criminal justice, economic justice, the rights of non-citizens and women's rights.

Rights Groups Ask Government For Proof That Detainees in U.S. Custody Are Not Being Tortured (10/07/2003)
WASHINGTON - Citing news reports that the United States government may have tortured detainees or subjected them to "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment," the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Constitutional Rights and medical and veterans' groups today asked Department of Defense and other agency officials for proof that that the U.S. is honoring its obligations under domestic and international law.

ACLU Criticizes U.S. Withdrawal from Anti-Racism Conference; Says America Has Responsibility to Speak Out in South Africa (09/04/2001)
WASHINGTON --The American Civil Liberties Union today joined other leading civil and human rights organizations in condemning the Bush Administration's decision to back out of the United Nations' World Conference Against Racism currently being held in Durban, South Africa. 

ACLU Joins Civil and Human Rights Leaders in Urging the Bush Administration To Participate Fully in Anti-Racism Conference in South Africa (08/29/2001)
WASHINGTON -- The American Civil Liberties Union today joined a diverse array of civil and human rights leaders attending the World Conference Against Racism in urging the U.S. government to participate fully in the symposium set to open Friday in Durban, South Africa. 

ACLU Joins International Protest Against Global Internet Censorship Plans (09/09/1999)
MUNICH, GERMANY-- The American Civil Liberties Union today joined rights groups from around the world in denouncing a proposed international Internet rating system that could provide governments with a blueprint for censorship.