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Court Issues Order Temporarily Enjoining Business Transaction and Contract Provisions of HB 56FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASECONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.orgATLANTA – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit today blocked two key sections of Alabama’s anti-immigrant law pending a final ruling on the appeal.Parts of the Alabama law…

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), an Atlantic grantee, is dedicated to ensuring human rights protections and access to justice for all immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers.This article was originally posted on NIJC's website by Jane Zurnamer on 05 July 2011.  Defending the rights of sexual…

With President Obama’s signature on 21 July 2010, consumer protections were established and strengthened regulations were put in place that will provide increased oversight and transparency of the financial sector as a whole. Throughout the campaign for financial reform, progressive advocates made sure that the…

International Human Rights Day on 10 December marks the 63rd year of global recognition of our basic human equality and the continuous struggle to gain basic human rights for all individuals. Reconciliation & Human Rights made up the largest portion of Atlantic's 2010 grantmaking programmes — funding…

When Isaac Lugo was 15, his father was deported. The two had spent nearly Isaac's whole life in the United States. Isaac tells his story with Mike McAuliffe, the boxing trainer who became his foster father. Learn More > At This Boxing Gym, Former Undocumented…

“I just kept fighting to be free. I knew I couldn’t give up because if I returned to Sierra Leone my life would be in danger.” That is how 25-year-old Badiatu Tunis, a Sierra Leone native residing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, describes being detained by the…

For refugees like George, access to an immigration attorney can be the difference between life and death. After escaping persecution in Uganda, George started a new life in Chicago with help from the National Immigrant Justice Center. Our Work in the United States: A Film Series…

Watch this quick video to learn about the Just and Fair School Fund’s grant awards, and the youth, parents, congregations, and teachers they support around the country.FeatureThe Just and Fair Schools Fund is pleased to announce $3.8 million in grants over two years to 35…

Paradigm-shifting elections don't shift paradigms if there aren't corresponding social movements for change.By VIVIEN LABATON AND GARA LAMARCHE  One thing we now know with certainty, more than two years into Barack Obama's presidency, is that change is an uphill battle. We're already defending hard-won gains on health care…

Chicago –  An immigrants' rights organization has filed a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for issuing detaining orders against individuals in custody while their immigration status is being investigated.The Heartland Alliance's National Immigrant Justice Center used the examples of two Latinos - one…