US Law & Security
After September 11th, 2001
America has much to mourn. Individual
families will mourn the loss of loved ones, and the country,
as a national family, will mourn the tragic loss of life.
The United States will also grieve another collective loss:
the loss of invulnerability - or the idea that America
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| Asylum in the United States
The U.S. Asylum Program is committed to
advancing the rights of refugees in the United States. To
achieve this objective, the Program strives to win asylum
for individual refugees through pro bono work, by ensuring
access to asylum, by advocating for asylum procedures and
by pressing for U.S. compliance with international refugee
and human rights law...
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| Human Rights Defenders Lawyers,
activists and organizations working to defend human rights
around the world are often the targets of threats, harassment
and attack. In many cases human rights defenders are persecuted
by state officials or institutions, or by individuals acting
with state complicity. In cases of violent attacks or threats,
a culture of impunity often protects the perpetrators from
being held criminally accountable. Such impunity in any society
implicitly sanctions the targeting of human rights defenders
and weakens the rule of law...
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| International Justice & The ICC
The Lawyers Committee’s commitment
to establishing an effective international justice system
goes back to the early 1990’s when we played a critical
role in establishing the criminal tribunals for the former
Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Ever since then we have been a leading
player in laying the foundations for a permanent international
justice system...
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| International Refugee Policy
The International Refugee Program works
to monitor the standard of refugee protection accorded by
national and international institutions and organizations,
to contribute to the development of enhanced legal mechanisms
and practices in order to more effectively tackle new protection
challenges, and to work with local and international non-governmental
organizations to strengthen regional and institutional capacity
to address refugee protection concerns...
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| Workers Rights In
the last decade the global expansion of the market economy
has produced what some call a “world without walls”.
In the rush to find cheaper and quicker ways to produce shoes,
apparel, and other labor-intensive goods for the global marketplace,
multinational corporations are moving much of their manufacturing
to countries where basic legal protections for workers are
non-existent and union organizing is prohibited or discouraged.
Workers drive the new international economy, yet millions
of them—typically women and children—daily endure
substandard working conditions ranging from inadequate wages
to inhumane hours to life-threatening hazards in the workplace...
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