American Civil Liberties Union

Today, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released its final regulations implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. The landmark statute mandating “reasonable accommodation�...

https://www.aclu.org/news/womens-rights/final-pregnant-workers-fairness-act-regulations-were-released-and-its-great-news-for-women

Every year, thousands of asylum seekers from diverse corners of the world seek refuge in the United States. Many — like Indigenous people from Latin America and Africa — are fleeing persecuti...

https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/the-government-denies-people-access-to-asylum-because-of-language-barriers-were-fighting-back

For decades, the ACLU has fought against the war on drugs. The criminalization of cannabis has led to far too many unjust incarcerations, which waste critical resources and billions of dollars. A...

https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/our-new-4-20-merch-and-ongoing-fight-for-legalization

My job is to sue prisons, and I love my work. My colleagues and I work to ensure the basic human dignity to people our society has locked up. But it is, more often than not, extraordinarily frust...

https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/one-year-later-hope-for-humanity-in-arizona-prisons

The CIA is so known for its unabashed secrecy that, when it joined Twitter in 2014, its first tweet was: “We can neither confirm nor deny that this is our first tweet.” This non-response res...

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/the-cias-long-and-dangerous-history-of-refusing-to-answer-absurdly-obvious-questions

Cities all across the United States have been increasingly passing laws that punish people who are forced to sleep outside each night due a lack of available shelter and extreme housing shortages...

https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/the-supreme-court-will-soon-determine-whether-cities-can-punish-people-for-sleeping-in-public-when-they-have-nowhere-else-to-go

State legislation can have an immense impact on your civil rights, for better or for worse. And even though state lawmakers are tasked with determining which bills get turned into laws, you hold ...

https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/quiz-state-legislation-and-the-part-you-play

Across the country, our affiliates are challenging discriminatory policies and practices that disproportionately affect women, and particularly women of color. From housing discrimination in Illi...

https://www.aclu.org/news/womens-rights/how-were-fighting-for-gender-equity-nationwide

State legislation is crucially connected to our civil liberties, and can either expand our rights or chip away at them. These bills touch nearly every aspect of our lives. From Roe v. Wade and th...

https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/state-legislative-sessions-how-they-impact-your-rights

For more than 100 years the American Civil Liberties Union has defended the right to free speech – no matter the speaker, and regardless of whether we agree with their views. The defense and ...

https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/why-is-the-aclu-representing-the-nra-before-the-us-supreme-court