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
This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
Verite News: Louisiana immigration lockup fails to provide translation services for detainees, complaint alleges
This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
This Week’s Spotlight on Human Rights
New report highlights shocking abuses faced by migrants in ICE detention centers in Louisiana
Inside the Black Hole: Systemic Human Rights Abuses Against Immigrants Detained & Disappeared in Louisiana
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