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12 Aug 2022, 11:43 am by Marwa Elessawy
Jamil Dakwar, director of ACLU’s Human Rights Program, and Stephanie Amiotte, legal director of the ACLU North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming, testified before the committee to underscore systemic police violence and the lack of U.S. education on Native American history in schools, respectively. [read post]
12 May 2021, 8:35 am by Charlotte Lawrence
The wars on drugs, crime, and terror are responsible for some of the most egregious violations of civil liberties, civil rights, and human rights of the past quarter century: mass incarceration, police killings, the forty-fifth president’s “Muslim ban,” in the U.S., as well as systematic torture, drone strikes, extraordinary renditions, and extralegal killings abroad. [read post]
21 Feb 2021, 3:15 pm by David Bernstein
" Jamil Dakwar, who runs the ACLU's "humans rights program," responded, "Watch how Israel's apologists will now accuse SNL of anti-Semitism. [read post]
24 Mar 2020, 1:16 pm by Stephanie Farrior
Panelists: Jamil Dakwar, Director of the Human Rights Program at the ACLU Phelim Kine, Director of Research and Investigations at Physicians for Human Rights Ram Raju, MD, Senior Vice President and Community Health Investment Officer, Northwell HealthModerators: Jessica Neuwirth, Rita E. [read post]
29 Nov 2018, 2:37 am by Human Rights at Home Blog
Jamil Dakwar, director of the ACLU's Human Rights program, has penned an important opinion piece for the Washington Post providing some perspective on the tear gas trained on migrants on the southern US border over the past weekend. [read post]
7 Nov 2016, 7:30 am
ACLU Human Rights Program Director Jamil Dakwar had a chance to ask him some questions about his incredible work (the answers have been edited for length and clarity). [read post]
4 Nov 2016, 2:15 pm
ACLU Human Rights Program Director Jamil Dakwar had a chance to ask him some questions about his incredible work (answers have been edited for length and clarity). [read post]
12 Dec 2014, 3:58 am by Human Rights at Home Blog
Jamil Dakwar, teaches a course entitled "Terror and Human Rights" in the Certificate Program on Terrorism in the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. [read post]
7 Mar 2013, 10:47 am by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
In Brussels yesterday, several members of the European Parliament (EP) hosted a first-ever briefing on the topic with the ACLU’s Hina Shamsi and Jamil Dakwar, and the U.N. [read post]
28 Feb 2013, 12:37 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Next week, the ACLU’s Hina Shamsi and Jamil Dakwar, together with the UN Special Rapporteur on counter-terrorism and human rights, Ben Emmerson, will be speaking at a briefing organized by members of the European Parliament on the human rights costs and consequences of the targeted killing program. [read post]
24 Jan 2013, 2:28 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
Jamil Dakwar, director of the ACLU’s Human Rights Program, added, “We hope the U.S. cooperates with the inquiry, and whether it does or not will show whether it holds itself to the same obligation to cooperate with U.N. human rights investigations that it urges on other countries. [read post]
14 May 2012, 9:39 am by Suzanne Ito
Wednesday, May 16 National Security/Torture/Detention: On May 16, ACLU Human Rights Program Director Jamil Dakwar will attend and live-tweet from a European Court of Human Rights hearing in El-Masri v. [read post]
29 Sep 2011, 12:51 pm by Avinash Samarth, Human Rights Program
Yesterday, in Warsaw, Poland, Jamil Dakwar of the ACLU Human Rights Program delivered a statement to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) addressing the continued use of capital punishment in the United States. [read post]
21 Sep 2011, 11:03 am by nflatow
By Jamil Dakwar, director of the ACLU's Human Rights Program. [read post]
10 May 2011, 10:44 am by Nathan Koppel
” “Barring courts from considering international law is not only constitutionally problematic but it is also unwise and counter-productive,” Jamil Dakwar, Director of the ACLU Human Rights Program, said in a statement. [read post]
28 Apr 2011, 10:54 am by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
This afternoon, Jamil Dakwar, Director of the ACLU's Human Rights Program, will speak on a panel about treaty ratification. [read post]
21 Jul 2010, 11:36 am by Aron Cobbs, Human Rights Program
 Jamil Dakwar, director of the ACLU Human Rights Program, is hopeful that “this process will help bring U.S. policies in line with international human rights standards by shining a light on domestic human rights issues and holding state, local and federal government accountable to our human rights obligations. [read post]
4 May 2010, 11:22 am by Cristina Finch
By Cristina Finch, Managing Director of Government Relations for Amnesty International USA and Jamil Dakwar, Director of the ACLU’s Human Rights Program. [read post]
4 May 2010, 8:42 am by Jamil Dakwar, Human Rights Program
— By Jamil Dakwar, Director, ACLU Human Rights Program, and Cristina Finch, Managing Director of Government Relations, Amnesty International USA [read post]
29 Jan 2010, 1:34 pm by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
Jamil Dakwar, Director of the ACLU's Human Rights Program, has observed some of Khadr's military commission proceedings at Guantánamo. [read post]