In the depths of the Sonora Desert an unidentified body is found decomposing under the hot sun. The only marker is an exposed tattoo that reads “Dayani Cristal”. Join the Bertha Justice...
Updated: September 8, 2014
November 27, 2018A group of landowners has filed a lawsuit alleging Bayou Bridge Pipeline has trespassed on their properties and the land has been damaged without their consent; the group also claims that...
December 2, 2018...Through eminent domain, the government would be allowed to use private property for public use, a process the landowners question as being constitutionally permissible given the fact that the...
CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy will give the keynote address at Movements and Exchanges in an Unequal World, a conference put on by the Comparative Studies Program at Duke University. Please register...
Updated: October 3, 2013
April 16, 2016The U.S. has released nine more prisoners from its base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and sent them to Saudi Arabia for resettlement, officials said Saturday. The move announced in a Pentagon statement is...
CCR executive director Vincent Warren will be the keynote speaker at the ADC Gala Dinner and Jack Shaheen Memorial, taking place during the ADC Annual Convention . Admission to the gala is included...
Updated: September 21, 2017
Bertha Social Justice Institute Director Purvi Shah will moderate a panel at the Queer Dreams national conference on Saturday, October 5th. What: Restructuring Leadership Beyond Diversity &...
Updated: October 4, 2013
January 11, 2018Today, the Guantanamo prison enters its 17 th year. 41 Muslim men still languish there, trapped in an ever-present reminder of their captors’ official experiment with torture. Five of them have long...
Join the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP) for a free educational forum from 4-5:30 pm, featuring UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Angela Kane, former UN Legal Counsel Hans...
Updated: March 7, 2014
November 9, 2015, New York – In reaction to the Egyptian military’s arrest and incommunicado detention of renowned human rights defender, Hossam Bahgat, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued...
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