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July 21, 2021 News

Interview: Aluminum Is the Future for Electric Cars

But Mining and Refining the Metal Often Involves Human Rights Abuses

Sales of electric cars are surging – with sales predicted to rise from 2 million in 2018 to 12 million in 2025 – as people choose to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and better protect the environment. To keep electric cars lightweight and ensure…

March 11, 2021 News

Interview: The Law Putting Illinois' Young People at Risk

Forcing Parental Involvement in Abortion Violates Rights

A law in the US state of Illinois that forces people under 18 to involve an adult family member in their abortion decision is failing some of the state’s young people and violating their human rights. In a new joint report with the American Civil…

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April 16, 2020 News

Interview: Displaced and Destitute as Guinea Advances Dam Project with Help from China

How a Flawed Resettlement Process Is Robbing Thousands of Villagers of Their Livelihood

How has the construction of the dam affected people’s livelihood so far? The vast majority of people who are being resettled are farmers whose families have exploited the land in the area for generations. Most are extremely…

September 26, 2018 News

Interview: How Mothers Jailed in the US Lose Custody of Their Children

Tell me more about these women. In the US, about 80 percent of women in jail are mothers with young children. Many are single moms, providing primary care. Most are in jail charged with minor offenses and have not been convicted. Yet jailed moms can be…

January 21, 2016 News

Interview: Abusing the US Court System to Collect Credit Card Debts

Debt buying-companies, a huge US industry, purchase delinquent debts—mostly credit card debts -- that lenders have given up on collecting. Each year these companies sue hundreds of thousands of people in an effort to collect the debt and turn…

December 1, 2015 News

Interview: Torture and the CIA

It is now widely acknowledged that after the 9/11 attacks in the US, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) began a global detention and interrogation program through which it tortured and abused prisoners. Yet the US government has failed to hold…

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May 1, 2014 News

Joint Submission Re. National Security Surveillance and Human Rights in a Digital Age for the 2015 Universal Periodic Review of the United States of America

Introduction, Background, and Framework 1. The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law,[1] Access, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Center for Democracy and Technology, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Electronic Privacy Information Center (…

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