The Alien Tort Statute (ATS), also known as the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA), is a powerful legal tool that allows foreign victims of human rights abuse to seek civil remedies in U.S. courts. It has...
Updated: September 24, 2012
March 8, 2018A group of nongovernmental organisations called on the Trump administration to clarify its policy on drone use, saying they are concerned about reported changes to US rules and a lack of transparency...
January 11, 2018President Donald Trump’s declaration that he intends to keep all current prisoners at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo indefinitely is being used as justification by legal advocates that the courts...
CCR Executive Director Vince Warren to speak about "The Case Against Shell" Come hear Vince Warren speak about our case against Shell for serious human rights violations in Nigeria. Learn...
Updated: April 6, 2009
January 27, 2011 - In recent remarks on U.S.-Latin American relations made at the Brookings Institute, Arturo Valenzuela, a State Department official with responsibility for the region, commented...
Updated: January 28, 2011
As part of the Bertha Foundation program, fellows attend a number of conference each year, giving them an opportunity to interact with and learn from attorneys all over the world.
Updated: July 22, 2021
Smoke and flames rose from the sidewalk. A white man took pictures. Slowing down, my breath left me. The fire was a corpse. Leg bones sticking out of the flames. Port Au Prince police headquarters is...
Updated: January 29, 2010
December 9, 2014, New York – Based on early reports on the release of the executive summary and the conclusions and findings of the Senate inquiry into the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program, Center for...
CCR Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani will present at the 19th Annual NACOLE conference in Salt Lake City, Utah on September 24th. Since 1995, NACOLE has been bringing together individuals and...
Updated: September 18, 2013
November 20, 2018, Guantánamo – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights urged a Periodic Review Board (PRB) to recommend that Guled Hassan Duran be cleared for release from...
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