September 2, 2021,San Diego, CA – A federal judge declared unlawful the U.S. government’s turnbacks of asylum seekers arriving at ports of entry along the U.S southern border. The court ruled that...
6:30 PM The Peace and Justice Task Force Invites you to a Panel Discussion: U.S.-sponsored Torture, Prisoners’ Rights, and Survivor Care Four distinguished panelists across professions will address...
Updated: October 6, 2008
January 11, 2010, Washington, D.C. – To mark the beginning of the ninth year of detention without charge or trial at Guantánamo today, activists and lawyers of detained men held a rally...
December 22, 2011, New York, NY—Yesterday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), acting on behalf of leading human rights organizations and experts, submitted an amicus brief to the...
This article appears on The Huffington Post and Common Dreams. It is time for a revolution. Government does not work for regular people. It appears to work quite well for big corporations, banks,...
Updated: March 8, 2010
September 2014Activists Press Challenge Over 'Animal Enterprise Terrorism' Law Jamie Schuman , Supreme Court Brief September 3, 2014 A First Amendment challenge to the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act is now before...
"This report reminds us once again that the character of our country has to be measured in part not by what we do when things are easy, but what we do when things are hard. And when we engaged in...
Updated: November 11, 2019
U.S. Weapons Used to Fire on Palestinian Protesters May 15, 2018, Gaza, Washington, D.C. and New York – Today, a coalition of Palestinian and U.S.-based human rights groups submitted a letter to U.S...
October 14, 2019Victory! Judge blocks "public charge" immigration rule [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Friday, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s new “public charge” rule, which was scheduled...
Attorneys for Abu Ghraib Torture Survivors Say Case Petitioned to SCOTUS Survives June 17, 2021, Washington, D.C. –Today, the United States Supreme Court limited – but did not foreclose – the ability...
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