October 28, 2013, Washington – The Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) appeared in a hearing convened by the Inter-American...
Makes Strong Recommendations to U.S., Including Reparations Washington, D.C. & New York City, May 28, 2020 — Almost two decades after Algerian citizen Djamel Ameziane was detained and sent to...
A year after the Senate Select Committee released its declassified executive summary of the torture program, the grim political reality in the United States is undeniable. Through its inaction, the U...
November 6, 2007, New York, NY – In a key victory in the war against torture, today a federal court ruled that the lawsuit against a private military contractor in Iraq should be heard by a jury of...
October 31, 2007, New York, NY – The Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel issued a statement today in response to the news that the State Department had promised the employees of...
August 6, 2009, Ottawa and New York – Human rights organizations are calling on the Canadian government to investigate retired U.S. Army colonel and psychologist Dr. Larry C. James, a former...
May 6, 2008, Washington, D.C. — In a first-of-its-kind hearing, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) attorney Emi MacLean and other Guantánamo attorneys today told Representatives on the House...
... Support for this exhibition and its related programming is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and from Illinois Humanities through its Envisioning Justice initiative. The...
Abu Zubaydah is a victim of some of the most egregious torture perpetrated against detainees in the post-9/11 era. Held in CIA prisons located in various third countries from 2002 to 2006, he was the...
Cruel, racist, and patently unlawful: Trumps new Public Charge Rule [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security announced its long-awaited Public Charge Rule,...
