Defense for Children International - Palestine v. Biden was filed in November by the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel Van Der Hout LLP against the President, Secretary of State, and...
Updated: January 26, 2024
March 12, 2026Counterterrorism has been routinely exploited to perpetrate murder, extrajudicial killing, forcible transfer, and genocide.
On January 11, 2023, the 21st anniversary of the prison's opening, 159 organizations sent a letter to President Biden urging him to prioritize closing Guantánamo and ending indefinited detention...
Updated: January 11, 2023
But Possibility to Prove Liability of Prison Administrators Remains June 19, 2017, Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a federal appeals court ruling that former high-level Bush...
Action brought in Canada under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Updated: November 12, 2019
September 1, 2015California agreed to a "landmark" settlement of a federal class action filed on behalf of hundreds of prisoners held in solitary confinement for more than a decade at the state's prison in Pelican...
September 1, 2015The way thousands of California inmates tell it, there's prison, and then there's prison. Locked in windowless cells for as much as 23 hours each day, inmates held in solitary confinement have little...
“First Wednesday” 2/4 – Join us to talk about Policing in NYC and Beyond There is an intense national debate on police violence, brutality and racial justice. The nascent Black...
Updated: January 30, 2015
May 12, 2010, Baton Rouge and New York – Today, Toledo-based psychologist Dr. Trudy Bond challenged the Louisiana State Board of Examiners of Psychologists’ failure to investigate alleged...
May 16, 2011, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Brennan Center for Justice and 24 other groups and individuals urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) to
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