The principle of universal jurisdiction allows the national authorities of any state to investigate and prosecute people for serious international crimes even if they were committed in another...
Updated: September 8, 2021
June 8, 2024...As the humanitarian situation deteriorates inside Gaza , a non-profit in the US is facing a legal battle that could see it lose the ability to be a major source of donations to the UN agency for...
January 11, 2014, Washington, D.C. – Today marks the 12th anniversary of the arrival of the first men to be detained without charge at Guantánamo. Human rights and civil liberties groups...
August 15, 2019... A group of students represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights subsequently brought a case against the university. The group’s Deputy Legal Director Maria LaHood said the center is “...
December 4, 2016Palestinian activists have slammed New York Governor Andrew Cuomo over releasing a blacklist of organizations and groups who support and work with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign...
April 16, 2019 – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Palestine Legal, and the Law Office of Matthew Strugar filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in...
The Center for Constitutional Rights, The Supreme Court Institute & The Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law Invite You to Attend a Panel Discussion of Professor David Cole...
Updated: February 16, 2010
Emanuel “Toto” Constant, the former leader of the Haitian paramilitary death squad known as FRAPH (the Revolutionary Front for Haitian Advancement and Progress), pled guilty on February 8, 2007 to...
THE 2013 REPORT In May 2013, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) undertook a fact-finding mission in California and Louisiana to evaluate the...
Updated: October 25, 2013
After learning of the apparent suicides of three men who were detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), condemned the Bush Administration's policy of...
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