June 2, 2014, Oakland – Today, a federal judge allowed hundreds of California prisoners to join a lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement in California prisons when she granted the...
The Seattle National Lawyers Guild and the American Constitution Society are pleased to present a CLE program in Constitutional Law: Whose Right? Corporations, People and the 1st Amendment October 29...
Updated: October 21, 2010
Uganda’s Anti Homosexuality Act, which was signed into law by President Museveni on February 24, 2014, is a draconian law that has sparked global protest and outrage, including sanctions by...
Updated: April 9, 2014
Leili Kashani [Education and Outreach Associate, Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative, Center for Constitutional Rights]: "On April 14, 2010, Attorney General Eric Holder appeared at a...
Updated: June 23, 2010
By Katherine Gallagher, Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights One thing brings these four men together. Hassan bin Attash, Sami el-Hajj, Muhammed Khan Tumani and Murat Kurnaz...
Updated: February 22, 2013
"...This annual ritual [International Human Rights Day] poses an interesting set of questions as to how the U.S. and other Western powers are able to get away with wrapping themselves in the...
Updated: January 2, 2014
January 2014Since 1988, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) has been working to help survivors of clergy sex abuse heal one another and to protect children and vulnerable adults from...
April 2014As the Obama administration continues rallying its allies to hold Russia to its international law obligations in Ukraine, the international community had an opportunity this week to turn the...
June 2014By Laura Raymond, Advocacy Program Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights "I would like to recall the first US war in Iraq, in '91 at 2:30 a.m. when those bombs went down and they devastated...
This briefing paper is submitted to the Advisory Group on Forced Evictions for the mission its experts are conducting to provide an overview of the international human rights principles’...
Updated: April 29, 2011
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