Bio
Jennifer Turner () is the principal human rights researcher in the ACLU’s Human Rights Program. She conducts documentation research and advocacy on human rights violations in the United States, with a focus on criminal justice, policing, national security, racial justice, women’s rights, children’s rights, and immigrants’ rights. She is the author of numerous ACLU reports, including , on life without parole sentences for nonviolent offenses; Island of Impunity, which documents police brutality and failure to police domestic and sexual violence in Puerto Rico; and Blocking Faith, Freezing Charity, on how terrorism financing policies undermine Muslims’ religious freedom and chill charitable giving. She also carries out advocacy before the U.N. Human Rights Council, human rights treaty monitoring bodies and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and monitors military commission hearings at Guantánamo Bay.
Prior to joining the ACLU, Jennifer was a fellow in the Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, where she researched and reported on abuses against Asian migrant domestic workers in the Middle East. She has also worked in the asylum program of Human Rights First assisting refugees seeking asylum in the U.S. to obtain pro bono legal representation. Jennifer is a graduate of Yale University and New York University Law School.
Featured work
Jul 27, 2012
A Decade in Detention for Former Child Soldier
Mar 21, 2011
While Manning Languishes in Military Custody, U.N. Calls for Accountability for Torture
Dec 17, 2010
A Step Forward for Promoting Indigenous Rights
Dec 10, 2010
On Human Rights Day, Demanding Justice for All
Oct 29, 2010
The Victims
Oct 28, 2010
Government Witness Claims Gitmo Radicalized Child Soldier
Oct 26, 2010
Escape from Guantánamo by Plea Deal
Oct 25, 2010
Khadr Accepts Plea Deal, Trial Averted
Aug 20, 2010
The Gitmo Sentence Guessing Game
Aug 17, 2010
Gitmo Justice