A challenge to corporate impunity of private military contractors under the Alien Tort Statute for war crimes and torture at Abu Ghraib prison.
Updated: May 5, 2026
Updated: January 11, 2010
February 17, 2010, New York – Yesterday evening, the district court in Washington, D.C. ruled against two men who died in Guantanamo in June 2006 and their families in a case seeking to hold...
The second landmark Supreme Court case establishing the rights of the men detained at Guantanamo.
Updated: January 20, 2010
September 23, 2009, New York and Washington DC —In response to the CIA’s refusal to either ‘confirm or deny’ the existence of key torture documents, three human rights groups...
December 11, 2015In an effort to quell public uproar after the release of a video showing the murder of Laquan McDonald, a Black teenager who was shot 16 times by a police officer in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel...
November 16, 2020Mass deportations are reckless, inhumane--and unlawful [caption align="right"] [/caption] For the second time in under a month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of...
May 3, 2017As analyses of the first months of the Trump administration continue, let’s reflect on how much control the corporate sector now has within major areas of the U.S. Government. Let’s survey the scene...
Civil rights groups mark 50th Anniversary of Freedom of Information Act by filing requests to expose government surveillance of activists of color July 5, 2016, New York – Color Of Change (COC) and...
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