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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Aug 4, 2020
In Pompeo’s New Hierarchy of Rights, Religion and Property, Not Humans, Are at the Top
Jan 28, 2020
Asylum-Seekers Are Being Abandoned in Guatemala in a New Policy Officials Call a “Total Disaster”
Jul 12, 2019
Pompeo’s New 'Human Rights' Commission is Up To No Good
Sep 24, 2018
Five Ways the Trump Administration Has Attacked the U.N. and International Human Rights Bodies
Sep 20, 2018
How the ‘War on Terror’ Corrupted America
Sep 11, 2018
Trump Administration Threatens International Criminal Court Judges and Prosecutors for Doing Their Jobs
Jul 13, 2018
The Shadow of Torture Behind Trump’s Britain Visit
Dec 11, 2017
Hurricane Maria Exposed the U.S.’s Long Neglect of Puerto Rico