April 2011A treasure trove of newly discovered documents about detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has revived familiar questions: Were too many innocent men incarcerated there ove...
November 5, 2021... A Guantanamo Bay prisoner held in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack gave a first hand account of the US government ’s brutal interrogation programme, which included sexual assault and forced...
January 7, 2021, New York – In response to yesterday’s events, the Center for Constitutional Rights put out the following statement: The violent right-wing insurrection in Washington yesterday and...
May 3, 2018Israel detained two prominent U.S. human rights lawyers for 14 hours at Ben-Gurion Airport on Sunday, accusing them of being involved in the BDS movement, before deporting them back to the United...
The Business and Human Rights Documentation Project Join Us for the Launch! June 28, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. in Lipton Hall at NYU School of Law 108 West 3rd Street, New York, New York (Valid ID required...
Updated: June 24, 2011
On Friday, February 21st, The Play Company will facilitate a discussion between Vincent Warren, Executive Director of Center for Constitutional Rights, and Hina Shamsi, the Director of the ACLU...
Updated: February 21, 2014
April 2014...Bihani has never been charged with a crime and is the youngest of seven sons to join the jihad in Afghanistan. Now, as the U.S. is extricating itself from Afghanistan, Bihani wants out of...
October 23, 2017Should the U.S. Supreme Court be the court of the world? In the 18th century, two feuding Frenchmen inspired a one-sentence law that helped launch American human rights litigation into the 20th...
December 2006A complaint filed against Rumsfeld asking a German federal prosecutor to begin an investigation and eventually a criminal prosecution will inevitably tie him to allegations of U.S. warranted torture...
With mounting claims of abuse and misconduct, what are some of the proposed policies for fixing Rikers Island and other prisons throughout the U.S.? Ari Melber talks to Paul Prestia, Vince Warren,...
Updated: June 16, 2015
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