In September 2002, as he was on his way home to Canada, CCR client Maher Arar was sent by U.S. officials to be detained and interrogated under torture in Syria under a program known as "...
Updated: January 11, 2010
December 19, 2018, San Francisco — A federal court has again blocked the Trump administration’s new asylum ban. The American Civil Liberties Union, Southern Poverty Law Center, and Center for...
Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH) director Brian Concannon will speak at the 10th annual Global Health and Innovation Conference at Yale University on Sunday, April 14th. The...
Updated: April 8, 2013
July 2014"Though it received scant attention at the time, with a grand total of one Congressperson opposing and one witness testifying against it, condemnation of the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism...
Updated: September 9, 2013
CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Stephanie Llanes will join this panel during the Latino Leadership Institute's Women, Millennials, and LGBTQIA+ Politic Summit. The summit will touch on equity and advocacy...
Updated: June 20, 2017
Updated: June 16, 2008
You can walk down many of the streets of Port au Prince and see absolutely no evidence that the world community has helped Haiti. Twenty three days after the earthquake jolted Haiti and killed over...
Updated: February 5, 2010
September 22, 2014 – Today, the United Nations Human Rights Council—a 47-member body tasked with monitoring, promoting and protecting human rights around the world—convened an...
Updated: September 22, 2014
THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS TURNS 60. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights demands respect for the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of...
Updated: December 2, 2008
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