October 2007The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a lawsuit on behalf of Iraqi shooting victims' families charging U.S. private military contractor Blackwater with war crimes.
July 2008Congress moving to pay stop-loss soldiers extra, but the Center for Constitutional Rights asserts that regardless of the money, the policy goes against the basic theory of contracts. You can access...
August 2013"Evidence of chemical weapons attacks on civilian populations in Syria last week added a barbarous dimension to an already heart-wrenching humanitarian disaster that has been unfolding in Syria...
The second edition of International Human Rights Litigation, published in January 2008, reflects court decisions released as of January 2007. The following lists key developments as of February 1,...
Updated: February 25, 2008
Introduction | About the Authors | Table of Contents | How to Order the Book | Find Documents | Updates TO ORDER THE BOOK: For more information on International Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts...
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April 2009Center for Constitutional Rights cooperating attorney Judith Chompsky appeared on WBAI on April 28, 2009 to talk about Wiwa v. Shell. Listen here .
December 2014"The CIA is engaged in a campaign of deception aimed at preventing the nation from knowing the whole truth about detainee abuses, charged Democratic Senator Mark Udall of Colorado in a blistering...
February 2015" A defense contractor that supplied interrogators to the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has again asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit seeking to hold the company responsible for abuses that...
April 2015Arar's U.S. lawyer, CCR's Maria LaHood, told the Canadian Press that she hoped Kiriakou's revelations would bring about long-overdue atonement. "He's never received an apology from the United States...
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