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WASHINGTON, March 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United States Commission on Civil Rights announces that it will hold a briefing to examine recent legal developments concerning the intersection of non-discrimination principles with those of civil liberties. The briefing will take place on Friday, March 22, 2013 at 9:30 AM EDT in the Commission's new headquarters office at 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Suite 1150, Washington, DC 20425. The offices are accessed using the F...
BELLEVUE, Wash., June 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- When the People's Republic of China accused the United States of violating human rights because of our Second Amendment, they voluntarily became the world's laughing stock, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. China's State Council Information Office in Beijing criticized the United States' human rights record because of this country's high level of firearms ownership. In their report, the...
CHICAGO, Jan. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement of Colleen K. Connell, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois: Late last night, Jay Miller, the longest serving executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, passed away. Jay retired in 2000 after more than four decades of leadership to the ACLU in Illinois, Northern California and in the national offices in Washington, D.C. and New York City. During his...
Each Monday, this column turns a page in history to explore the discoveries, events and people that continue to affect the history being made today. It is crumbling, water-stained and written in Medieval Latin, but the Magna Carta has managed to remain relevant to the cause of human rights even today, 800 years after it was scrawled on parchment and affirmed with the sticky wax seal of the English king. England's "Great Charter" of 1215 was the first...
By Peter Graff LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's High Court ruled on Wednesday that "control orders" confining six terrorism suspects to partial house arrest breached their human rights, throwing out a key plank of Prime Minister Tony Blair's security policy. Under the orders, terrorism suspects who have not been charged with a crime have been electronically tagged, confined to their houses for most of the day and banned from using computers and telephones or meeting people without...
By Peter Graff LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's High Court ruled on Wednesday that "control orders" confining six terrorism suspects to partial house arrest breached their human rights, throwing out a key plank of Prime Minister Tony Blair's security policy. Under the orders, terrorism suspects who have not been charged with a crime have been electronically tagged, confined to their houses for most of the day and banned from using computers and phones or meeting people without permission....
By Caroline Drees, Security Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House's new civil liberties board is just getting to work more than a year after it was ordered by Congress, dogged by criticism that it must act more quickly and forcefully to protect Americans' rights in the war against terrorism. The nascent Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, whose members were picked by President George W. Bush a year ago, has held four formal meetings since being sworn in on...
By Caroline Drees, Security Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A furor over the trade-off between civil liberties and security in the fight against terrorism is raging in the U.S. Congress, think tanks and the media, but the heated debate leaves much of America cold. In Washington, attention was focused on Senate confirmation hearings of Gen. Michael Hayden, the nominee for CIA chief who ran a domestic spying program, and on a report last week that the government gathered phone...
