October 11, 2017After sidestepping the issue four years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to reckon with a question that global businesses and human rights groups want answered: whether...
Astha Sharma Pokharel is a Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she specializes in international human rights and in challenging racial and environmental injustice, abusive...
On the 16th episode of “The Activist Files,” Advocacy Director Nadia Ben-Youssef speaks to Staff Attorney Diala Shamas and client Ziad Alwan about our intervention into a case filed by Israeli...
Updated: July 11, 2019
The Center for Constitutional Rights is proud to present a screening of Sundance award-winning ALWAYS IN SEASON , followed by discussion and Q&A with Director Jacqueline Olive and...
Updated: September 12, 2019
On episode 39 of the Activist Files , Center for Constitutional Rights Bertha Justice Fellow Rafaela Uribe talks with Heena Sharma and Katrina Hamann-Azanov , two members of the Free Ashley Campaign...
Updated: March 7, 2023
October 22, 2023...Goni and Sánchez Berzain will pay an unspecified amount to the victims’ families who were killed during country-wide protests in 2003, known as the Gas War. After failing to reach a solution to...
November 21, 2023 – The Center for Constitutional Rights mourns the passing of Holly Maguigan, a pathbreaking criminal defense lawyer, teacher, and scholar who changed public understanding of how the...
In April 2004, news outlets broke the story of torture and abuse at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The stories were accompanied by gruesome photos from a whistleblower – images so...
Updated: February 29, 2024
The Center for Constitutional Rights’ longstanding case, Al Shimari v. CACI , brought on behalf of three Iraqi torture victims against U.S.-based government contractor CACI Premier Technology,...
Updated: April 26, 2024
June 30, 2008, New York – Today, the majority in a federal Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 against Center for Constitutional Rights client Maher Arar’s case against U.S. officials for their role in...
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