November 2, 2010, Washington, D.C. — For the 1.5 million people still living in displacement camps, forced evictions pose an immediate threat of grave and irreparable harm, according to a...
June 8, 2009 - Today, plaintiffs and defendants reached a settlement in the human rights cases brought against Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and Shell Transport and Trading, p.l.c., Shell’s...
March 8, 2010, New York – Friday, six (6) amicus curiae briefs were filed with the Supreme Court in support of the petition for certiorari filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on...
District court judge found “plausible” case of genocide but dismissed lawsuit on jurisdiction grounds September 10, 2024, San Francisco – An array of authorities from government to academia to the...
WASHINGTON, March 27 /PRNewswire/ -- A group of injured civilians and families of Iraqis killed in two unprovoked shootings in Baghdad by Blackwater “shooters” sued the company and founder Erik...
March 30, 2011, New York – Today, prisoners in two experimental federal prison units called “Communications Management Units” (CMUs) won the right to have their day in court and...
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...
Justice sought by five U.S. citizens who collectively lost hundreds of family members during Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza February 4, 2025, New York – Today, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
Last week’s terrorist attacks in Beirut and Paris left 172 people dead, hundreds more injured, and the world reeling in grief and recoiling in horror. The carnage in Beirut drew little Western media...
Oct 14, 2017 marks the 2 year anniversary of the approval of the Ashker settlement. We celebrate our victory in the Ashker case, in which virtually all of the over 1600 prisoners then languishing in...
