Friday, November 20, marked the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most comprehensive treaty on children’s rights. The convention has been ratified by nearly every country in the world, except for the United States. The convention would fill current gaps in U.S. laws,...

Today, the ACLU's Human Rights Program and Alkarama for Human Rights sent a request to two U.N. Special Rapporteurs (human rights experts) asking them to investigate the "extraordinary rendition", detention and torture of Italian citizen Abou Elkassim Britel.

The ACLU represents Britel and four other...