March 6, 2018...Tuesday’s testimony marked the first time that a former head of state of a foreign country faced trial in a U.S. civil court for human rights abuses, according to the Center for Constitutional...
Palestine Legal Responded to Nearly 300 Incidents in 2014-2015; 85 Percent Targeted Students and Scholars on More Than 65 College Campuses September 30, 2015 - A new report, “ The Palestine Exception...
September 1, 2015Spurred by hunger strikes and protests over inmates being kept in solitary confinement for a decade or longer, California on Tuesday agreed to soften its approach to keeping inmates isolated in state...
On November 14 th , 2013, the CCR and Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute hosted an important CLE program on Alien Tort Statute (ATS). The program focused on the use of the ATS as a tool for...
Updated: March 20, 2014
Guests: Paul Washington , past president of the fraternal order of black firefighters, the Vulcan Society. Shayana Kadidal , managing attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. AMY GOODMAN:...
Updated: March 18, 2010
A challenge to corporate impunity for torture at Abu Ghraib prison.
Updated: September 8, 2021
The Justice Department has reportedly concluded it will not bring civil rights charges against police officer Darren Wilson for shooting unarmed African-American teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson,...
Updated: June 1, 2015
The Justice Department has reportedly concluded it will not bring civil rights charges against police officer Darren Wilson for shooting unarmed African-American teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson,...
Updated: June 1, 2015
December 10, 2008, New York – Today the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments in a post-9/11 detainee’s challenge to former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director...
July 19, 2021Victory! All charges dropped against pipeline protesters Sixteen pipeline protesters and a journalist who had been arrested and charged with felonies in 2018 celebrated a major victory for the First...
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