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LatinoJustice PRLDEF brings international charges against U.S. for violating human rights of Latinos
 LatinoJustice PRLDEF has filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, accusing the the United States of violating the human rights of Latinos living within the country's borders. The rarely-used international procedure charges that the U.S. Government is failing to protect its Latino residents.
To read more about our petition, or if you have been a victim of a bias attack and would like to fill out a complaint form, click here.
Anti-Latino hate crimes are growing in frequency & severity
LatinoJustice PRLDEF asks D.O.J. to investigate Suffolk County
 This week, LatinoJustice PRLDEF filed a Title VI complaint against Suffolk County, Long Island through the Department of Justice's Office of Civil Rights. The complaint details how Suffolk County has discriminated against Latinos by failing to fairly and fully investigate crimes against the community.
Marcelo Lucero was killed on
November 8 in Patchogue, Long Island after being
attacked by seven men, who attacked him simply because he was Latino. After Lucero's tragic death in early November, LatinoJustice PRLDEF launched an investigation into the matter. Our outreach to members of the community found that Latinos in Suffolk County have continuously suffered civil rights violations and have a lack of protection from local officials.
A young resident of Patchogue places flowers at Lucero's memorial
Read the complaint letter
The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund is now LatinoJustice PRLDEF
 The Board of Directors of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense
and Education Fund announced that after 37 years
it will change its name to LatinoJustice PRLDEF.
The new brand reflects the evolving nature of the Latino
community in the United States, the makeup of the
organization’s clients, and the cases it undertakes.
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LatinoJustice PRLDEF protected your vote in the 2008 elections
 LatinoJustice PRLDEF protected the rights of Latino voters everywhere on Election Day, through an unprecedented voter assistance and protection project. For over a year, LatinoJustice PRLDEF attorneys have been working on a number of different efforts to assist Latino voters and protect their right to participate in the 2008 elections.
Latino voters played a crucial role in this year’s election. According to the Pew Hispanic Center, Latinos voter participation grew in several states, including several battleground states in this year’s election.
LatinoJustice PRLDEF worked to ensure that the important role Latino voters played in this historic election was in no way diminished. Our quick action ensured that 120 newly-naturalized citizens in Suffolk County, NY were not denied their right to vote. And our Spanish-language voter assistance hotline helped over 50,000 voters from across the Northeast get the information they needed.
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LatinoJustice PRLDEF is now accepting applications for 2009 summer internships. For more information, click here |
