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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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Soldiers of Misfortune (05/13/2008)

Race & Ethnicity in America: Turning a Blind Eye to Injustice (12/10/2007)

Resumen Ejecutivo: Raza y ethnicidad en Estados Unidos: Dando la espalda a la injustia (12/10/2007)
Spanish Translation "Race & Ethnicity: Turning a Blind Eye to Injustice" report executive summary

Executive Summary: Race & Ethnicity in America: Turning a Blind Eye to Injustice (12/10/2007)

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

Women's Rights Project: 2006 Project Report (02/21/2007)
In 2006, the ACLU Women's Rights Project advanced our core areas of focus and continued to play a unique role in the women's movement by bringing together four often-unrelated sectors of social justice advocacy -- employment, violence against women, criminal justice and education.

Custody and Control: Conditions of Confinement in New York’s Juvenile Prisons for Girls (09/25/2006)

Abandoned & Abused: Complete Report (08/09/2006)

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)

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

Human Rights Abuses Under the Material Witness Law Since Sept. 11, 2001 (06/27/2005)

2004 ACLU International Civil Liberties Report (12/10/2004)

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