January 9, 2012, Washington, D.C. – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking public disclosure of video tapes of Mohammed al...
November 20, 2017On Nov. 3, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) informed the court’s Pre-Trial Chamber, “[T]here is a reasonable basis to believe that war crimes and crimes against humanity...
July 2013"On Monday, 30,000 prisoners in the Security Housing Unit at Pelican Bay State Prison in California went on hunger strike to protest solitary confinement and security unit conditions -- risking...
Tribunal on Social Exclusion Celebrating World Dignity Day (Dec 3 rd ) & 10 Days of Action on Social Exclusion (Dec 1 st - 10 th ) Thursday, December 9 th – 3:30-6p.m. Church Center for the...
Updated: November 30, 2010
Arar v Ashcroft Argument and Rally - New York, NY In 2002, Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen, was detained at JFK airport while on a stopover. He was interrogated, detained for two weeks, denied his...
Updated: December 8, 2008
The Center for Constitutional rights is proud to Co-Sponsor Día de los muertos Call to Community on November 1st, 2018 in Washington Square Park. Joins us as we unite during a day of remembrance...
Updated: October 31, 2018
What: The former president of Bolivia and his minister of defense will face trial in the U.S. in a civil case alleging that the Bolivian military killed more than 50 of its own citizens during a...
Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Office of Global Learning will present a conference on "The War on Terror and the Fate of Human Rights in the U.S." at the Metropolitan Campus, Teaneck, NJ...
Updated: April 21, 2008
Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain is a lawsuit against Francisco Sosa for wrongly detaining Dr. Humberto Alvarez-Machain. Mr. Alvarez-Machain charged Sosa and his other captors with violating international...
Updated: October 9, 2007
April 4, 2011, New York – Today, in response to news that the Obama administration will try the 9/11 defendants in the military commissions system rather than Article III civilian courts, the...
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