Civil Liberties

Now is the time to be vigilant for attempts to leverage the crisis to obtain or retain powers that unnecessarily infringe on rights and liberties.

Human rights groups have sued to shut it down. A study of its hearings shows its anti-rights leanings are even worse than feared.

Some governments use a crisis as a pretext to infringe rights. Others retain over-broad emergency powers after the crisis subsides.

Democratic norms may erode further in 2020, says Freedom House. The fundamental rights of West Africa’s nearly 400 million people are in jeopardy.

How might we move toward accountability in the face of irreconcilable clashes between Rights-era and Public Health-era values, particularly given the serious practical and civil…

Some of the sharpest critics of the Trump administration’s immigration policies are the former immigration judges who were once charged with enforcing them. But there’s a reason…

A series of recommendations could position amici to make forceful civil liberties and privacy arguments, effecting change from within the FISA court system.

It is critical that a broad and diverse group of powerful actors in the United States not ignore the Indian government’s turn toward authoritarianism.

In the next 24 hours, the House Judiciary Committee has a unique opportunity to seriously reform FISA surveillance powers.

The US should allow American companies to provide technology services and platforms to the Iranian people without fear of violating sanctions.

Watching the Guantanamo proceedings from behind the courtroom's safety glass brings to mind a different prison, halfway around the world, in Egypt.

Facebook’s recent release of the bylaws for its new Oversight Board, which will be charged with reviewing takedown decisions by Facebook and Instagram, came on the heels of reports…