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Children In The Custody of The INS
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Argues that the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has a conflict of interest when it acts as both jailer and caretaker of children.
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Civilrights.org
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Resource for current news, events, reports and organizations. Also includes information on hate crimes and affirmative action.
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Death Penalty Focus
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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.
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Human Rights Watch: United States
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Reports and articles pertaining to rights of Americans. Features include surveys, archives, developments, and an email newsletter
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Know Your Civil Rights
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Fact Sheet - Know Your Civil Rights from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Locked Away
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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.
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National Center for Human Rights Education
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The first human rights education organization in the United States that focuses primarily on domestic human rights violations.
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Nowhere to Hide
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Retaliation against women prisoners who protest sexual abuse includes a range of further abuse including rape.
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Oromo American Citizens Council
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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.
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Police Brutality in the U.S.
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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.
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Save the Montagnard People, Inc. (STMP)
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Organization helping Montagnards of Vietnam's Central Highlands fight religious and political persecution and settle refugees.
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The Constitutional Defense web page
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Resources on constitutional rights.
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The Reality Zone
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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.
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United States: Punishment and Prejudice: Racial Disparities in the War on Drugs
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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.
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US Human Rights Reports
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Links to the most recent annual reports on human rights practices from the U.S. State Department, submitted to Congress according to law.
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When One Conviction May Mean Losing The Right To Vote Forever
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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.
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Women's Institute for Leadership Development for Human Rights
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Provides human rights education, engages in public advocacy, and collaborates on the adoption and implementation of international human rights standards in the United States.
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American Civil Liberties Union
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Litigates, lobbies, and educates the public regarding on a broad array of issues affecting individual freedom in the United States.
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Clarence Aaron
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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.
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Human Rights and the Drug War
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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.
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Incident Report: Teacher's Human Rights Violated?
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Disturbing incident befalls a teacher and the resulting fallout.
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Papers Please
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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.
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