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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 >>
 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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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.
ACLU Welcomes Child Soldiers Accountability Act (10/3/2008)
WASHINGTON, DC – The American Civil Liberties Union applauds President Bush and both chambers of Congress for enacting the Child Soldiers Accountability Act law today. The Act criminalizes the recruitment and use of child soldiers and gives the United States the authority to deport or to deny entry to individuals for such activities.
ACLU Applauds Senate Judiciary Committee for Reauthorizing and Expanding Deaths in Custody Reporting Act (9/25/2008)
Washington, DC – Today the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to reauthorize and expand a Bureau of Justice Statistics program that will require the Attorney General and encourage states to report information regarding the deaths of individuals in the custody of federal, state, and local law enforcement.
ACLU Welcomes Child Soldiers Accountability Act (9/9/2008)
WASHINGTON, DC – The American Civil Liberties Union was pleased with the unanimous passage of the Child Soldiers Accountability Act yesterday by the House of Representatives. The legislation criminalizes the recruitment and use of child soldiers and gives the United States the authority to deny admission or to deport individuals for such activities.
US End Beating of Children in Public Schools (8/20/2008)
DALLAS – More than 200,000 U.S. public school students were punished by beatings during the 2006-2007 school year, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union said in a joint report released today. 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.
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