Human Rights and Liberties

Non-profit organization dedicated to the abolition of capital punishment through grassroots organizing, research, and the dissemination of information. Features articles, opportunities for action, membership information and events.

Resource for current news, events, reports and organizations. Also includes information on hate crimes and affirmative action.

Retaliation against women prisoners who protest sexual abuse includes a range of further abuse including rape.

Although variable throughout the U.S., reported human rights violations knows no bounds as far as urban / rural, rich / poor areas. Human Rights Org's details on major U.S. cities.

Increasing numbers of immigrants are being incarcerated as the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) attempts to fulfill the provisions of the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and immigrant Responsibility Act.

Losing the Vote, produced in collaboration between Human Rights Watch and The Sentencing Project, presents the first fifty-state survey of the effect of laws taking away the right to vote from people convicted of a felony.

Argues that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has a conflict of interest when it acts as both jailer and caretaker of children.

Litigates, lobbies, and educates the public regarding on a broad array of issues affecting individual freedom in the United States.

Provides human rights education, engages in public advocacy, and collaborates on the adoption and implementation of international human rights standards in the United States.

Organization helping Montagnards of Vietnam's Central Highlands fight religious and political persecution and settle refugees.

Resources on constitutional rights.

This 23-year-old college student received three life sentences in a drug conspiracy trial based on the testimony of informants and no other evidence.

Information about state and local organizations and resources for the transgender community.

The U.S. war on drugs has been waged overwhelmingly against black Americans, Human Rights Watch charges in this report which includes the first state-by-state analysis of the role of race and drugs in prison admissions.

Fact Sheet - Know Your Civil Rights from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Reports and articles pertaining to rights of Americans. Features include surveys, archives, developments, and an email newsletter

Dudley Hiibel was jailed and fined for not showing ID to a police officer; he is appealing his conviction. Details, video, and transcript of the incident, court documents, amicus curiae briefs, and US Supreme Court docket.

An information center for Oromos to promote racial and economic justice and also to influence American public and foreign policy towards East Africa, especially Ethiopia.

Shows the actual photos of people in American prisons today and the case histories of selected inmates whose sentences illustrate the often harsh and arbitrary policies imposed on first-time, non-violent drug offenders.

Disturbing incident befalls a teacher and the resulting fallout.

A collection of quotes and links to articles that argue there has been a steady decline of liberty, freedom, privacy and justice in the United States.

Detailed list of links to important modern and historic civil rights and civil liberties legislation.

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