August 12, 2022...The Highlander Center has filed a petition opposing the National Register of Historic Places nomination on the grounds that "approval would undermine federal and state efforts to promote diversity...
September 16, 2022... “The idea of redemption should be something that the state facilitates as opposed to hindering. They hinder the idea of atonement by imprisoning people but also confining people in the worst...
January 20, 2023... Wells Dixon of the Center for Constitutional Rights, for example, spoke of an incident in September when one of his clients was hospitalized, telling the IACHR that the authorities “have no long-...
March 6, 2023...“This ruling should send a clear message to those trying to silence advocates speaking out against Israel’s human rights abuses: boycotts are legally protected, and attempts to stifle such...
March 1, 2023...Wells Dixon, an attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights who has represented Khan since his arrival at Guantanamo in 2006, said he hoped Belize’s agreement and preparations for providing a...
June 8, 2023..."One of the pillars of democracy is to hold elected leaders accountable. Usually we think of that politically, but it also applies legally when crimes have been committed," said Vince Warren, the...
July 26, 2023"A coalition of more than 60 major Christian, Jewish, Muslim and secular organizations in the United Stated have sent a letter to members of Congress urging them to support the Justice for Shireen...
August 3, 2023...The organizations draw attention to the dozens of environmental protesters arrested and charged with domestic terrorism in a letter to the department director, Alejandro Mayorkas. The charges have...
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September 29, 2023...Former Bolivian president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada and his defense minister, Jose Carlos Sánchez Berzain, on Thursday agreed to drop their appeals in a civil case where a jury found them...
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