by Vincent Warren, Executive Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights Two big things happened in the last week, and they're both going to require our attention for the next four years and...
Updated: November 6, 2014
August 2008A federal appeals court in New York will take the unusual step of rehearing Maher Arar's case which it decided in June. Mr. Arar is a CCR client who was detained at Kennedy Airport in 2002, flown to...
Amicus brief in case of Guatemalans subjected to non-consensual medical experiments between 1945 and 1956.
Updated: November 7, 2022
On September 17, 2007, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of CCR's case charging Caterpillar, Inc. with aiding and abetting war crimes and other serious human rights violations...
November 2008The U.N.'s torture investigator said Thursday that European countries should take in those Guantanamo inmates who cannot be sent home when the U.S.-run prison closes...
March 13, 2020... This is part of what has been called the “CIA torture programme” – a significant element of the US’ fight against terrorism. This is so big, that we cannot get into details here. But FIDH, the...
Supreme Court to Consider Whether U.S. Corporations May Be Held Liable for International Violations October 22, 2020, Washington, D.C. – Fifteen international human rights organizations submitted a...
January 2015Djamel Ameziane was imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay from 2002 to 2013. Like the rest of the detainees there, he was never charged with a crime or given a trial, and according to the Center for...
December 2011Roman Catholic bishops in the Netherlands offered “sincere apologies” to victims of sexual mistreatment, hours after a report by an official commission said church officials had “...
Watch the full day of panels on YouTube , or as a free download from iTunes U . The day-long event looked at how Copelon's work helped to define and shape the field of international women's human...
Updated: September 28, 2017
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