April 11, 2012, New York – Today, a survivor-led support group for sex abuse victims, which is under attack by U.S. Catholic officials, submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) new...
June 25, 2024The plaintiffs have all been punished or threatened with punishment for resisting slave labor
CCR and Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute invite you to join us for this important discussion. The program will focus on the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) as a tool for seeking accountability for...
Updated: April 17, 2014
In the pre-dawn hours of May 31, 2010, a six-boat flotilla carrying more than 700 civilians from almost 40 countries was overtaken by Israeli commandos in international waters. Israeli commandos...
Updated: August 15, 2014
January 21, 2021...Diala Shamas, a human rights attorney at the at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), stressed that the Muslim Ban was far from the only discriminatory immigration policy that needed to be...
May 1, 2023Groups urge U.N. to call for abolition of Death by Incarceration during historic U.S. visit Amid the historic visit of the U.N. Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in Law...
Twenty years later, men who were religiously and racially profiled seek damages from warden who allowed abuse February 16, New York – A group of Muslim, Arab, and South Asian men rounded up after 9/...
April 23, 2019Originally published by TomDispatch. I never intended to run a marathon, but when I realized that I would be on hand for the 2019 Palestine Marathon, I registered. I did so in solidarity with the...
Since taking office, the Trump administration has been committed in its attack against low-income immigrants of color. One of its priorities has been to transform the system of family-based...
Updated: January 21, 2025
February 18, 2021...Despite bipartisan criticism of the agency’s conduct, Congress has done little to impose new rules limiting the FBI’s power or its use of informants. “Once they’ve recruited somebody, they can,...
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