Until We Are Free coalition calls on Biden administration to commit to racial equity via adopting human rights frame for immigration policy August 3, 2021 — The Until We Are Free table, led by the...
January 15, 2020... Organizers of the " Justice Now: Close Guantánamo and End Torture " rally included Amnesty International USA, Witness Against Torture, Defending Rights & Dissent, Center for Constitutional...
On January 2, 2015, the State of Palestine acceded to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and, on April 1, 2015, Palestine became the 123rd Member State of the ICC . Palestine...
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Pam Spees is a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She has a background in international criminal law and human rights. Her work has focused on strengthening accountability...
October 29, 2010, Washington D.C – A heated discussion on Guantanamo took place this morning at the headquarters of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington D.C. At the...
October 22, 2014, New York – In response to today’s guilty verdicts against all four former Blackwater security guards charged in the 2007 killings of more than 30 Iraqis in Baghdad,...
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, CCR’s client, is a survivor-led support group for clergy sex abuse victims that joined with CCR to urge the International Criminal Court (ICC)...
November 18, 2010, Washington, D.C . – This week, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) directed the Haitian State to stop evicting earthquake survivors from displacement camps...
A lesser-known weapon in the “War on Terror” inflicts suffering on people in prison and denies them due process October 18, 2021, New York ‒ Today, a man who spent nearly five years in a so-called...
November 11, 2019Earlier this year in June, Dr. Scott Warren walked away from the Tucson federal courthouse a free man. The DOJ had charged him with harboring, arguing that he deserved up to twenty years in prison...
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