Royal Dutch Shell, the big oil company, agreed to pay $15.5 million to settle a case accusing it of taking part in human rights abuses in the Niger Delta in the early 1990s, a striking sum given the...
... Angelo Guisado is a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights: “The statute governing who can apply for asylum and where, 8 U.S. Code § 1158 , is very clear that an individual who...
...Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, says whatever the strategy, the NYPD should also focus on retraining its supervisors — and not just their cadets. "The...
... “Our hope is that the democratic process will proceed to move these bills towards passage, just like any other legislation with such significant support,” said Nahal Zamani, Advocacy Program...
President Barack Obama's last-ditch effort to follow through on a pledge he first made as a presidential candidate and memorialized in an executive order he signed days after he was sworn into office...
“Israel is occupation-addicted,” said renowned Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, a columnist for the leading Israeli newspaper Haaretz. “The drug addict who is your friend, if you give him money, he...
Mustafa al Shamiri spent most of his years at Guantánamo wrongly described as an al-Qaida trainer and facilitator, a captive of consequence, until his first parole-style hearing revealed an...
Democrats taking part in the House sit-in are pushing for votes to expand background checks for gun purchases and to curb the sale of weapons to people on government watchlists—a proposal strongly...
