News & Commentary about Human Rights
The ACLU Human Rights Program (HRP) is dedicated to holding the United States accountable to international human rights laws and standards as well as the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.
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Jan 30, 2009
Pursuing Real Transparency and Humane Treatment At Guantánamo
Jan 16, 2009
International Intervention Needed on Behalf of Obama's Child Soldiers
Jan 16, 2009
Achieving the Ideal: Celebrating Religious Freedom Day
Jan 15, 2009
Far Too Little, Much Too Late
Jan 9, 2009
End the Inhumane Force-Feeding Of Guantánamo Prisoners
Dec 19, 2008
A Call to Action for Women of All Beliefs
Dec 18, 2008
International Migrants Day - "Best Kept Secret" in the USA
Dec 16, 2008
End Abusive, Discriminatory Discipline in Schools: Give All Students a Chance to Thrive
Dec 12, 2008
U.S. Complicit in American’s Detention and Torture in the U.A.E.
Dec 11, 2008
Hope in Hope: Domestic Implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights