January 11th marks the anniversary of when the U.S. opened its torture camp at Guantanamo. Bush claims “ the U.S. does not torture” as he orders the destruction of videotapes that document the C.I.A...
Updated: February 11, 2008
Shayana Kadidal, Senior Managing Attorney for Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative , will be honored for his work at the Center for Constitutional Rights by the South Asian Bar...
Updated: November 13, 2008
January 2, 2009, New York, NY - On December 17, 2008, the government attempted to halt the cases of approximately 20 detainees the Defense Department had cleared for transfer out of Guantanamo. This...
A Superior Court Judge ruled against oil giant Unocal’s motion to apply Burmese and Bermuda law in the CCR case Doe v. Unocal. Unocal is accused of being complicit in human rights violations...
December 3, 2021...The “ Black and Missing ” docuseries ― in addition to revisiting the disappearances of Pamela Butler, Tameka Huston and Keeshae Jacobs, among other scarcely covered cases ― examines just why that...
August 17, 2023...Weeks after a federal judge rejected their concerns over Jackson water, several community groups are now seeking an audience with the EPA. On August 9, the Mississippi Poor People’s Campaign and...
June 22, 2016Jonathan Hafetz , Associate Professor at Seton Hall Law School, Wells Dixon , Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and Martha Rayner , Clinical Associate Professor of Law at...
September 4, 2020... Katherine Gallagher is a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She represents victims of both U.S. and Israeli war crimes. Katherine Gallagher: “The sanctions announced by Secretary of...
January 21, 2021... “Anyone familiar with the scope of surveillance and targeting of Black political dissent, or Muslim communities, knows that law enforcement has all the tools it needs to aggressively disrupt and...
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