Top 10 Civil Liberties News Stories of the Week - August 4, 2006 Edition

U.N. Human Rights Committee Responds to Shadow Report, Issues Observations

The entrance to U.N. Headquarters in New York City.

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• The U.S. government should end its practice of sentencing children to life without parole.
• The U.S. government should acknowledge and end racial disparities in law enforcement, prosecution, and sentencing.
• Given these racial disparities, the U.S. government should not deny voting rights to the 5 million ex-convicts currently living lawfully within the United States.
• In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. government should make a more serious effort to provide equal access to housing, health care, and education.
• The U.S. government should take more seriously the grave privacy and due process concerns raised by the "war on terror."

Index: Top 10 Civil Liberties News Stories of the Week - August 4, 2006 Edition

1. U.N. Human Rights Committee Responds to Shadow Report, Issues Observations
2. Emergency Contraception May Soon Be Available Without Prescription
3. Good Samaritans Indicted for Taking Dying Immigrants to Doctor
4. Victory Over Government-Mandated Public School Segregation
5. New Statistics on Sexual Violence in U.S. Prisons
6. U.S. Government Interrogates Visiting Foreign Scholars Regarding Political Views
7. ACLU: Government Overcensored Documents in PATRIOT Act Case
8. FDA Decided to Delay Emergency Contraception in 2004 Before Reviewing Data
9. Louisiana Sheriff Threatens to Arrest Citizens with Ethnic Hairstyles
10. "In God We Trust" Turns 50