Join the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and other human rights advocates next Wednesday January 14 th at The First 100 Days: Bringing Human Rights Home. This critical human rights summit will...
...Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria refused to dismiss the torture suit against CACI Premier Technology , a military-industrial...
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release: January 22, 2009 EXECUTIVE ORDER - - - - - - - REVIEW OF DETENTION POLICY OPTIONS By the authority vested in me as President by...
Los Angeles, California, May 5, 2008 – New torture claims have been leveled at two U.S. military contractors by a former Abu Ghraib “ghost” detainee who was wrongly imprisoned and later released...
Groups fighting Death By Incarceration traveled to Geneva to brief committee for its review of U.S. compliance with human rights treaty November 3, 2023, New York – Today, the United Nations Human...
...Two other organizations are supporting the ACLU’s suit—among them, the Center for Constitutional Rights, which says Washington is being intentionally cruel. “This is the latest—and deeply...
On March 16, 2018, CCR and 28 organizations signed a joint letter to express concerns regarding the nomination of Gina Haspel for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and to ask the...
September 25, 2012, New York, Berlin and Madrid— A group of international human rights organizations and experts filed a brief today before the Spanish Supreme Court, arguing that the continued...
April 17, 2013, Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court today issued a disappointing decision in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (Shell) , holding that the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) does not...
