U.S. Advocacy and Litigation
The U.S. Advocacy and Litigation program partners with grassroots human rights defenders to reduce the size, scope, and power of mass incarceration in American society. We fight for structural changes in the criminal and immigration systems that will guarantee respect for everyone’s human rights.
Our Issues
Racial Discrimination
In the United States, racial minorities are disproportionately targeted for arrest, imprisonment, and police violence. We defend the human right to freedom from racial discrimination.
Torture
Solitary confinement, official misconduct, and deplorable conditions subject people to cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment in United States prisons and detention centers. We fight to end prison torture.
Extrajudicial Killings
Police and prison violence in the United States kills over a thousand people each year. We seek accountability for extrajudicial police and prison killings.
Our Work
Litigate
We go to court with human rights defenders pursuing systemic change.
Expose
We uncover wrongdoing in human rights reports, agency complaints, and public hearings.
Educate
We inform the public and policymakers about systemic human rights abuses and how to stop them.
Read the Latest
Human Rights and Immigrants’ Rights Organizations Sue ICE And GEO Group For Physically Assaulting and Abusing Immigrant While Detained
Behind The Headlines: Proposed Rollbacks Of Criminal Legal Reforms Disconnected From Reality
Dispatches from Detention: Detaining the Mentally Incompetent
Complaint issued alleging abuse of detainees at Winn Correctional Center
Human Rights and Immigrants’ Rights Groups Submit Federal Civil Rights Complaint After ICE Facility in Louisiana Pepper Sprays 200 Protesting Individuals in Retaliatory Attack
Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Announces Arely Westley as the 2024 Human Rights Award Laureate
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