By Paul Koring Published Monday, Mar. 07, 2011 3:17PM EST Last updated Monday, Mar. 07, 2011 11:09PM EST President Barack Obama has abandoned the last vestige of his vow to shut the U.S. prison at...
Stop-and-Frisk Class Action Update
Updated: December 19, 2012
March 5, 2015, Paris/Berlin/New York – Today, at an appeals hearing at the Chambre de l’instruction de la Cour d’appel de Paris, the attorney for former Guantánamo detainees...
June 10, 2015Earlier this month, the Center for Constitutional Rights, along with other nationally prominent human rights groups, including the ACLU, Human Rights First, and Human Rights Watch, filed an amicus...
Medical Experts: Ba Odah “On the Precipice of Death” October 15, 2015, Washington, D.C. – Today, attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a court to release a 74-pound...
February 29, 2016At the end of Spotlight , a list of hundreds of cities in the U.S. and around the world in which major cases of clergy sexual violence have been uncovered fills up the screen. You can literally hear...
March 21, 2016Photo credit: US Human Rights Network
The Operations Associate will work with the AED (Associate Executive Director) and Office Manager (OM) to provide day-to-day operations and facility assistance. The Operations Associate will also...
Updated: September 19, 2016
October 21, 2016 Richmond, VA – Today, a panel of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a lawsuit against private military contractor CACI Premier Technology, Inc. (CACI) for the corporation...
October 31, 2016This post originally appeared on the Open Society Foundations website . “It is beyond the power of even the president to declare [torture] lawful,” wrote Judge Henry Floyd on October 21. These words...
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