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CORE FREEDOMS ISSUES: BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS
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Promoting U.S. policies that reflect a core commitment to individual rights,
preserve these rights at home, and expand them internationally.
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• Torture, rendition, and arbitrary detention
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PEN works to reestablish clear prohibitions on torture and restore basic due-process protections for all detainees in U.S. custody. The organization participates in the Military Commissions Act Strategy and Stop Torture Now working groups, develops policy proposals, strategizes actions, and mobilizes campaign supporters to press their representatives to ban torture, restore habeas corpus, and end the arbitrary detentions without trial of the approximately 270 detainees currently in Guantanamo.
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• Writers and free expression in Iraq and Afghanistan
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As the situation in Iraq deteriorated in 2005 and 2006, PEN became involved in efforts to extricate individual writers, journalists, and translators targeted for death in Iraq for their work, and has since been conducting a substantial rescue effort. In response to articles published by PEN staff and Members, Congress took up the issue in a series of hearings in early 2007. Following these hearings, PEN worked closely with Senator Kennedy’s office to develop legislation that was enacted into law early in 2008. Approximately 20 Iraqi writers, journalists, and translators have now been resettled with their families.
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