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Jul 3, 2025 - ICCL has been at the forefront of every major rights advance in Irish society for over 40 years: we helped legalise homosexuality, divorce, contraception, and...

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Jun 12, 2025 - BCCLA’s Annual Report shares highlights of our legislative, legal, and advocacy work that our supporters made possible.

Aug 25, 2021

Of all 50 states, Florida ranks 47th in percentage of its eligible citizens who are registered to vote. Yet, in May 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed...

Apr 3, 2024 - In partnership with We Testify, we are launching a storytelling series to spotlight abortion stories from five storytellers who share one thing in common: the...

Nov 10, 2025 - This Veterans Day, we renew our commitment to ensuring that the rights of those who serve are honored and protected.

Jun 30, 2025 - Reno v. ACLU (1997) said the Communications Decency Act, which regulated Internet speech, were too restrictive and violated the First Amendment.

In November 2022, thousands of Pennsylvania voters were denied the right to vote based on a meaningless paperwork error. They filled out their mail ballots,...

Nov 13, 2025 - ICE and CBP are smashing their way not only through car windows but also through any constraints on the use of face recognition

Feb 27, 2023

Jul 29, 2025 - Library of major reports & submissions from the Irish Council for Civil Liberties

Defending civil liberties in the digital age

The latest on Reforming Police

More than forty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson described affirmative action as a vital tool in the struggle to provide all Americans with equal...

Sep 30, 2025 - How one West Virginia teenager could shape the future of Title IX and civil rights protections for transgender youth.

Data by Freedom House. The score captures the extent of freedom of expression and association, the rule of law, and personal autonomy. Higher scores indicate...

As classroom censorship and book ban attacks unfold nationwide, join the fight back to protect students' First Amendment right to learn. Take the pledge.

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Nov 20, 2024 - Our recommendations to von der Leyen published by her CDU Party's think tank: how to streamline Europe's digital toolkit, and enforce for growth.

Across the world, public health authorities are working to contain the spread of COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019). In pursuit of this urgent and necessary...

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May 31, 2023 - Five years after the GDPR, Europe remains unable to police how Big Tech uses our data.

Oct 28, 2024

Sep 5, 2024 - A new report from ICCL and CAJ on the experiences of protestors with police and Gardaí in Ireland, North and South.

See where local candidates land on civil liberties and civil rights.

1971 -- The U.S. Supreme Court for the first time invalidated a state law which discriminated on the basis of sex.1973 -- The U.S. Supreme Court declared that...

An Act to make further provision for the purpose of preventing violence or disorder at or in connection with association football matches; and for connected...

Apr 16, 2025 - President Donald Trump's use of the military domestically is dangerous and deeply misguided.

Efforts by Gov. Jan Brewer to Have Law Struck Down Is Attempt to Prevent Sick Arizonans From Accessing Needed Medicine...

Dec 13, 2024 - FOSTA is bad, but holding online platforms liable for crimes they know nothing about won’t solve any problems FOSTA, a law addressing sex trafficking on...

Dec 23, 2025

As wave after wave of extreme measures to criminalize and strip trans people of rights and safety continue, tell Congress to act.

Mar 13, 2025 - Data by V-Dem. Expert estimates of the extent to which social groups — defined by language, ethnicity, religion, race, region, and/or caste — are free from...

The Supreme Court has consolidated six cases from four states on the issue of marriage equality. The ACLU represents clients in Kentucky and Ohio.

In May 2025, two transgender adolescents and their parents filed a challenge in Kansas state court against SB 63, a state law prohibiting access to...

Oct 30, 2025 - Invading privacy as well as "barking up the wrong tree"

Sergio de la Pava is a critically acclaimed novelist (A Naked Singularity, Personae, Lost Empress) and a full-time public defender who has represented...

In 2019, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Kentucky filed a lawsuit to challenge two new Kentucky laws. One law is a ban on abortion at...

The American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa filed a complaint with the Iowa Civil Rights Commission against The Iowa Department of Corrections for denying a...

Nov 14, 2024 - The court will soon hear a landmark legal challenge brought by the ACLU against a ban on hormone therapies for transgender youth.

Jan 8, 2025 - People fleeing persecution and violence have the legal and human right to seek asylum in the United States. Our nation is made stronger when we welcome people...

The latest book by Dr Chris Moores has been published this month.

This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Bulgaria on 6 November 2025. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation...

This case is about whether states can hold people criminally liable for obstructing a passageway based solely on their participation in a peaceful march on...

Nov 18, 2025 - Former U.S. Army Captain and ACLU Senior Project Manager Jessica Apgar praises the more than 40 veterans demanding Congress take action against the Trump...

Sep 4, 2025 - From Arkansas to Oklahoma, politicians are pushing religion into public schools. The ACLU is fighting back to defend church-state separation and students’...

Jan 12, 2026 - This year, SCOTUS will determine whether states can ban transgender students from youth sports — but the ACLU and women’s sports stars are teaming up in...

First Year Saw Civil Rights Advances And End Of Torture But Continuation Of Overbroad Domestic Surveillance Practices

Apr 24, 2023 - Suspicionless monitoring of social media accounts chills speech and threatens our right to live without fear of constant government scrutiny.

Jan 14, 2026 - People power is the ACLU’s grassroots network of activists, volunteers, and supporters organizing in their communities to protect our rights and demand...

We’re living through a moment where late night jokes are next-day news, and each opening monologue feels like a litmus test for our freedom of expression...

Apr 24, 2020 - There are much bigger worries than temporary stay-at-home orders.

The 'Civil Liberties Quiz Rippee 2nd' assesses knowledge on the incorporation of the Bill of Rights into state law via the Fourteenth Amendment, key S...

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Sep 28, 2021 - The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the Canadian Federation of Students-Ontario have joined with striking workers at York University to voice their...

A letter to principals and educators explaining GLSEN's annual Day of Silence, ways to support students who are participating and obligations schools have to...

May 29, 2025 - ICCL welcomes the repeal of the Offences Against the State Acts, but is deeply concerned by the plans to retain a permanent non-jury court.

Oct 22, 2025 - The First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest. However, police and other government officials are allowed to place...

A special commission created by the U.S. Congress says America -- and its interests in other countries -- face a new threat from international terrorist...

Jan 10, 2022 - A civil liberties groups is expressing constitutional concerns about proposals for mandatory COVID-19 vaccines for all eligible Canadians.