”Challenging U.S. Human Rights Violations Since 9/11”
A. Basic Rights Of All Peoples Under U.S. Jurisdiction
- Right Not To Be Killed Or Disappeared
- Right Not To Be Tortured
- Right Peaceably To Assemble And Petition The Government
- Right To Equal Protection Regardless Of Race Or National Origin
- Right To Equal Protection For Women
- Right To Free Exercise Of Religion
- Right Of The Media To Report Facts, And Not Be Killed
- Right To Privacy From Surveillance
- Right Of Libraries Not To Report On Readers
- Right Of Universities To Accept Foreign Scholars And Students
- Right To Travel
11. Right To Travel
More than 25,000 non-citizen airport personnel have been laid off under post 9/11 rulings of Department of Homeland Security and Transportation Security Administration. There are no statistics indicating that this has heightened airport security.
The right of people with passports to travel to and from the U.S. was reaffirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in the late Cold War period. The right to travel within the U.S. and to the U.S. without unreasonable search and seizure is part of the Fourth Amendment protections. The ICCPR articles repeatedly spell out this right.
Activists Kept Off Airplanes: Nancy Oden, et al.
("Caught in the Backlash," American Civil Liberties Union, November 2002, http://www.aclunc.org/911/backlash/adams.html accessed August 5, 2004; "Protesters Detained in Milwaukee," The Progressive, April 27, 2002, http://www.progressive.org/webex/wxmc042702.html accessed August 5, 2004.)
Congress Rejects Pre-Screening Airline Passengers
(Randall Edwards, "CAPPS II Faces Scrutiny Before Funding," Federal Computer Week, June 19, 2003, http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0616/web-capps-06-19-03.asp accessed July 30, 2004; Roy Mark, "Senate Cans CAPPS II Funding," July 14, 2003, Internetnews, http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/2234511 accessed July 30, 2004; Roy Mark, "TSA Says CAPPS II Will Fly On," Internetnews, August 27, 2003, http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/print.php/3069271 accessed July 30, 2004; Congress Gives CAPPS II a Failing Grade," Electronic Frontier Foundation, February 2004, http://www.eff.org/Privacy/cappsii/concern.php accessed August 8, 2004; Ryan Singel, "Life After Death for CAPPS II?," Wired News, July 16, 2004, http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,64240,00.html?tw=wn_story_top5 accessed August 8, 2004.)
INS Stopped, Deported Syrian-Canadian Man to Syrian Jail: Maher Arar
("The Plight of Maher Arar," 911 Review, March 14, 2003, http://www.911review.org/Wget/freemaherarar.com/ accessed July 30, 2004; Jeff Sallot, "PM Trying to Repatriate Alleged Al-Qaeda Terrorist," Globe and Mail, June 26, 2003, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/ RTGAM.20030626.ualqaeda0626/BNPrint/National/ accessed July 30, 2004; Maher Arar, "Now Let Me Tell You Who I Am: Statement Of Maher Arar," Portland Indymedia, November 6, 2003, http://portland.indymedia.org/es/2003/11/274764.shtml accessed July 30, 2004; "Canadian Freed From Syrian Jail Happy To Be Home," CBC News, October 7, 2003, http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/10/06/arar_back03 accessed July 30, 2004; Arar to Sue Ashcroft," CBC News, January 22, 2004, http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/11/24/arar_lawsuit031124 accessed July 30, 2004; Jen Nessel, Communications Dept., Center for Constitutional Rights, email message to MCLI, August 11, 2004.)
U.S. Denied Entry to Ex-UK Official, Spanish Lawyer, British Journalist: Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, et al.
(Lara Flanders, "Security threat? Bernadette Devlin McAliskey Barred Entry to the United States," CounterPunch, Feb. 22, 2003, http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2003w07/msg00286.htm accessed July 23, 2004; Nora Dwyer, "Report from Delegations to the Basque Territory and Spain," National Lawyers Guild Notes, Winter 2002; National Lawyers Guild, "Basque Lawyer Refused Entry for Minneapolis Convention," Twin Cities Independent Media Center, http://twincities.indymedia.org/newswire/display/14659 accessed August 8, 2004; Elena Lappin, "A Foreign Reporter gets a Story of U.S. Paranoia," Los Angeles Times, May 11, 2004, http://reclaimdemocracy.org/articles_2004/us_paranoia.html accessed July 23, 2004.)
Bush Preventing U.S. Citizens from Traveling to Cuba
(Cindy Domingo, "Peace & Freedom," WILPF, Winter 2004, p. 22; "Resist Erosion to out Limited Right to Travel to Cuba," Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, http://www.wilpf.org/section/campaign/CUBA_actions.htm accessed June 8, 2004.)
U.S. Veteran Protests When Pakistani-German Fiancée Denied Entry: Trevor Hughes, et al.
(Pam Zubeck, "Love Can't Get Past the Border," The Colorado Springs Gazette, Oct. 12, 2003, http://www.unknownnews.net/031013tina.html accessed June 21, 2004; Trevor Hughes, "An 'Answer' From DHS," Land of the Free?, December 16, 2003, http://landofthefree.blogspot.com/archives/2003_12_14_landofthefree_archive.html accessed August 14, 2004; Pam Zubeck, "Wedding bells or deportation cells," Philly.com, January 14, 2004, http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/nation/7692658.htm?1c accessed August 14, 2004.)
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