November 25, 2019Victory! Federal court blocks Trump's asylum ban [caption align="right"] [/caption] A federal judge Wednesday blocked the Trump administration’s asylum ban from being applied to thousands of asylum...
Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, in WHO WE ARE , criminal defense/civil rights lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in...
Updated: January 11, 2022
On Monday and Tuesday, May 5-6th, the Vatican will be questioned by the United Nations Committee Against Torture about its record on child sexual violence. This is the second time this year the...
Updated: May 5, 2014
Despite the health professions’ universally recognized duty to do no harm, doctors and psychologists have played a key role in the U.S. government’s policy of torture in its overseas prisons. They...
Updated: August 13, 2015
April 28, 2020Please note that some of the links below lead to photographs and other content that contain images and descriptions of torture and other abuse. Sixteen years ago today , CBS 60 Minutes II broke the...
First of its kind to make it to trial, lawsuit delivers rare accountability for U.S post-9/11 torture November 12, 2024, Alexandria, VA – Today, in a landmark verdict, a jury in a federal court found...
June 17, 2024This continues the 16-year legal struggle by three Iraqis against a multi-billion dollar U.S. government contractor
New York, NY – On May 6, 2010, Rhonda Copelon, a CUNY School of Law professor and human rights attorney with and Vice-President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) who broke new...
In the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which the United States ratified in 1994, torture is defined as "any act by which...
Updated: January 11, 2010
Download CCR's report on current Guantanamo conditions . After over seven years of unlawful executive detention, the approximately 240 men who remain imprisoned at the U.S. Naval Base at Guant...
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