September 13, 2012, New York - Since the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) filed a formal request for an investigation one year ago to the...
"It has become our destiny now to die without being guilty of any wrongdoing, knowing that even death, which could relieve us from this injustice and this suffering, is unreachable to us. Here we are...
Updated: October 26, 2023
The below-signed organizations are deeply disturbed by and stand opposed to the indictment yesterday of Rasmea Yousef Odeh, a Palestinian-American community activist who has dedicated 10 years to the...
Updated: October 28, 2013
November 18, 2021, Washington D.C. ‒ Family members of people disappeared and executed by police and paramilitary units in Kenya say the U.S. government is funding and fueling these abuses, and are...
New York, June 8, 2009 — Today, the parties in Wiwa v. Shell agreed to settle human rights claims charging the Royal Dutch/Shell company, its Nigerian subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Company...
"This report reminds us once again that the character of our country has to be measured in part not by what we do when things are easy, but what we do when things are hard. And when we engaged in...
Updated: November 11, 2019
June 1, 2010 - We, the undersigned organisations gathered in Kampala at the International Criminal Court (ICC) Review Conference, are shocked by Israel’s killing and injury of civilians...
Casas-Castrillon v. Lockyer is one of several cases in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has signed on as amicus curiae to support non-citizens seeking relief from immigration...
Updated: August 5, 2008
A case brought by four former Guantanamo prisoners against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld seeking damages for their arbitrary detention and torture.
Updated: July 11, 2011
ICE, like any other law enforcement agency, must have a judicial warrant in order to enter a home without consent. But they rarely do. In the absence of a judicial warrant authorizing entry, ICE agents have taken to gaining access to residences through deception, or a "ruse," a tactic that many courts have found to violate the Fourth Amendment. Yet ICE’s memoranda instructing agents about the use of ruses, issued in 2005 and 2006, do not acknowledge any constitutional limitations on the use of ruses, by implication permitting and encouraging agents to misrepresent themselves and their purpose.
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