July 24, 2019...A group of 13 human rights groups (including Jewish Voice for Peace, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations) have sent a letter to the New Jersey...
January 1, 2020NEW YORK, United States (CMC) – Immigrant rights advocates in New York have filed the first United States federal lawsuit seeking to jointly block three interrelated “ Public Charge” rules...
June 2008Mohammed Sulaymon Barre, a client of the Center for Constitutional Rights and detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, filed a habeas corpus petition in US federal court in Washington to challenge his...
July 2008The judge handling the habeas appeals for more than 200 detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, ordered government lawyers to prioritize these cases after urging from the detainees' lawyers, including...
July 2009The settlement last week of claims that Shell was complicit in the executions of Ken Saro-Wiwa and the other "Ogoni 9" in November 1995, as well as numerous other human rights violations,...
Qu é: El expresidente de Bolivia y su ministro de defensa estarán en juicio en los Estados Unidos en un caso civil alegando que el ejército boliviano mató a más de 50 de sus propios ciudadanos...
Updated: February 3, 2014
April 2009WASHINGTON -- Legal barriers to prosecuting Bush-era officials over alleged torture would be substantial, legal experts said Wednesday. But Democrats were seizing on the issue to score political...
March 2009Washington, DC - The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing Wednesday to explore setting up a commission to investigate and report on potentially criminal policies of the Bush administration...
To the Editor: "Discord Grows on the Politics of Intervention" (front page, March 8) describes the tactical and political risks of American intervention in Libya, but nowhere does it state...
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