Together, we’ve invested $1 million to keep our communities free and safe from the harms of cash bail.
With more than 1.1 million members, 500 staff attorneys, thousands of volunteer attorneys, and offices throughout the nation, the ACLU fights government abuse and vigorously defends individual freedoms including speech and religion, a woman’s right to choose, the right to due process, citizens’ rights to privacy and much more.
After the successful adaptation, implantation, and launch of RFK Human Rights’ Speak Truth to Power human rights education program several years prior, RFK Spain was officially created in 2018. Principal partners in the early years included the International Studies Foundation at the College for International Studies (CIS), the Gregorio Peces-Barba Foundation, Fulbright Spain, and the…
After Rwanda dismantled one of the country’s few independent human rights organizations, we teamed up to challenge human rights violations of the organization’s ousted president before the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights.
We partnered to seek justice for Latin American journalists whose murders or disappearances have been mired in impunity, such as Nelson Carvajal v. Colombia, Alfredo Jiménez Mota v. Mexico, and Guillermo Cano v. Colombia.
Partnered with RFK Human Rights on a series of workshops focused on mobilizing college students to become “election advocates” through actions that promoted voting by mail.
Following a sham election, we partnered to file the first-ever case before the African Commission to examine voting rights and establish a continent-wide rights-based approach to free and fair elections.
Partnered with RFK Human Rights for the Titan Generator at SXSW in 2019.
We partnered to file a petition before the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention on behalf of 19 LGBTQ+ Ugandans, who were arrested and detained after authorities falsely claimed they were violating COVID-19 stay-at-home orders.
We partnered to file a petition on behalf of Rekia Boyd’s family seeking justice for her murder at the hands of an off-duty police officer before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
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