Fainess’ employer brought her to the US promising a better life and opportunities, but that didn’t happen.
She wound up residing in her employer’s home, living on leftover food scraps, sleeping on the floor, and was forced to work 16 hours per day — earning less than 40 cents an hour.
Her experience is not totally unique. Domestic workers around the country often suffer unchecked horrific abuses like these.
We and the Global Human Rights Clinic joined a coalition of workers’ rights organizations calling on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to acknowledge and address the US government’s failure to protect the rights of domestic workers.
BREAKING: We're suing on behalf of Ahmad Chebli, a Michigan father of two, because the government violated his constitutional rights when it placed him on the No Fly List after he refused to become an FBI informant.
For two years, Ahmad has been banned from flying to see family and friends, do his job, or fulfill his religious obligations as a Muslim.
The government has refused to give Ahmad the reason it put him on the No Fly LIst, or a fair process to get off it — and he's not alone.
Ahmad's ordeal is emblematic of the government's abusive use of the No Fly List, especially against Muslims, and the multiple constitutional violations that result.
As vaccination efforts ramp up in the states, so have the idea of so-called "vaccine passports," or credentials to prove vaccination status.
But little is known about how these systems would be implemented.
Rushing to develop a vaccine passport system could be bad for transparency, privacy, and user control.
This is precisely what we need to prevent.
We don't oppose the principle of requiring proof of vaccination in certain contexts. After all, vaccination is often required for school enrollment and some medical or other jobs.
There's no reason to believe that the existing system of proof is deeply broken.
Recent headlines have suggested that there’s a “crisis” at the border. They’re wrong.
What we’re currently seeing is the predictable response to the right to seek asylum being systematically denied for years.
The Trump administration tried to all-out end asylum through multiple cruel and illegal policies.
These policies deliberately endangered lives and violated people’s right to seek safety in the US.
Because of these policies, tens of thousands of asylum seekers were denied entry and instead forced to pursue claims from Mexico — or were returned to the country from which they fled.
Many asylum-seekers have reported harsh, dangerous conditions.