November 3, 2017, Kabul, New York, The Hague – After a decade-long preliminary examination, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor today gave formal notice she will submit a request to...
April 6, 2011, New York and Miami – Yesterday, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security announced its intent to continue...
In the wake of the 2020 uprisings following the murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and countless other Black and brown people whose lives have been cut short by police violence, conversations...
A USA Today/Gallup poll in February found that 62 percent of Americans favor a criminal investigation or an independent panel to look into the use of torture, illegal wiretapping, and other alleged...
The multinational corporation Shell financed, armed, and otherwise colluded with the Nigerian military forces that used deadly force and conducted massive, brutal raids against the Ogoni people of...
Part-way through my Skype interview with Adrian Jjuuko, executive director of the Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF) , in Kampala, Uganda, a dog’s loud, insistent barking began...
..."If suspected ISIS fighters are transferred to Guantánamo I would expect that a legal challenge to their detention would be filed within days if not hours of their arrival," said Wells Dixon of...
Join Senior Staff Attorney Ghita Schwarz for a live briefing with the Practising Law Institute (PLI) on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Since 1966, the Freedom of Information Act has given the...
...During the last two years of Bloomberg's mayoralty, Bloomberg continued to be a staunch public defender of stop and frisk even as its actual use plunged. Rather than implement the reforms...
...In an emergency motion filed on Tuesday, attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Legal Aid Society argued the police department was not complying with a set of reforms ordered...
