February 2012Peter Weiss, Vice President of the Center for Constitutional Rights discusses Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum, in which a group of Nigerians claim that they or their relatives have been the victims of...
May 14, 2021...Prison officials violate the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment if they are deliberately indifferent to conditions of confinement that pose a substantial risk of...
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Updated: November 15, 2007
Conditions at immigration detention centers are often atrocious, but Black immigrants face unique abuse solely because of their race. Reports from several detention centers in the South have...
Updated: November 15, 2021
Returnees Abused in Both Countries; U.S. Breached Asylum Confidentiality July 18, 2024, Washington, D.C. – The United States government has, since May 2024, approved the return of 27 Cameroonian...
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Updated: April 10, 2013
March 21, 2024A few months ago, I gathered with colleagues and allies to mark the 10th anniversary of the landmark stop-and-frisk ruling , which held New York City liable for a pattern of unconstitutional stops...
After many years of quietly providing background support to the EU and other northern states that have actively worked to prevent other United Nations member states from developing an international...
Updated: October 22, 2021
June 2, 2014, Oakland – Today, a federal judge allowed hundreds of California prisoners to join a lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement in California prisons when she granted the...
June 23, 2025, New York/Geneva - Today, a group of 15 leading human rights and legal organizations released an open letter urging an end to the current privatized, militarized aid delivery model...
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