February 2012On Tuesday, February 28, the Supreme Court will hear a challenge brought by 12 Nigerian plaintiffs who say a Shell oil subsidiary aided and abetted acts of murder, rape and systematic torture by the...
August 28, 2017So Sheriff Joe got a pardon . Frankly, that shouldn’t shock anyone. Trump kicked off his campaign by tagging Mexicans as murderers and rapists and drove it home with a barrage of attacks against the...
Center for Constitutional Rights Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain will join a webinar hosted by Massachusetts Peace Action. Thirty Muslim men remain detained as the Guantánamo Bay prison...
Updated: December 29, 2023
February 5, 2015 – In advance of today’s Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Senator Kelly Ayotte's bill to stop transfers from Guantanamo, the Center for Constitutional Rights...
Maria Lahood is a visiting assistant clinical professor at Northwestern law school's McArthur Justice Center and senior attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Maria specializes in...
Updated: November 16, 2007
On December 4-6, 2019, the Center for Constitutional Rights presented argument before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on behalf of two men detained at Guantánamo, urging the...
Updated: March 2, 2020
February 2012Peter Weiss, Vice President of the Center for Constitutional Rights discusses Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum, in which a group of Nigerians claim that they or their relatives have been the victims of...
Palestinian human rights organizations, together with Palestinians in Gaza and the U.S., filed a lawsuit in U.S. federal court against President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, and Secretary of...
Updated: April 16, 2025
May 14, 2021...Prison officials violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment if they are deliberately indifferent to conditions of confinement that pose a substantial risk of...
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