Press Releases | American Civil Liberties Union

Oct 04, 2023

ACLU Responds to United Nations Reports on Policing and Racial Justice

GENEVA — Two United Nations reports detailing the ways in which systemic racism infects every facet of our criminal legal system in the United States will be presented before the...

Issue Areas: Human Rights Criminal Law Reform

May 08, 2023

United Nations Experts Urge Officials to Confront Institutional Racism After First U.S. Fact-Finding Visit Since Murder of George Floyd

NEW YORK — At the end of a 12-day-long fact-finding visit to the United States, two United Nations experts on racial justice concluded that authorities must adopt a human right...

Issue Areas: Human Rights

Mar 28, 2023

Members of Congress Join Rights Groups in Urging White House to Study Creating National Human Rights Institution

Second Summit for Democracy Provides Venue for Promoting Human Rights at Home, Groups Say

Issue Areas: Human Rights

Mar 22, 2023

As Tear Gas Injures More Than 119,000 People, Researchers Call for Crowd-Control Weapons Regulations: Report

The most comprehensive study on crowd-control weapons to date documents severe harms to health and human rights resulting from protest abuses by law enforcement

Issue Areas: Human Rights

Dec 15, 2022

Broad Coalition of Civil Society Organizations Calls on the Biden Administration to Launch Effort to Explore Establishing a National Human Rights Body

NEW YORK — A coalition of civil and human rights and social justice groups and academic partners called on the Biden administration today to establish a presidential commission t...

Issue Areas: Human Rights

Dec 05, 2022

ACLU Statement on United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent

GENEVA — The following statement is from Jamil Dakwar, director of the ACLU’s Human Rights Program, on the first session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent: �...

Issue Areas: Human Rights

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