Today's Schedule of Panels Surviving and Thriving in a Social Justice-Centered Private Practice - Friday, April 5, 9:30 - 11:00 am Hear from local attorneys who are building and sustaining their own...
Updated: April 5, 2013
June 2, 2015A U.S.-educated captive at Guantánamo who has pleaded guilty to being an al-Qaida money courier has told his attorneys he was twice waterboarded by CIA agents, something not previously disclosed,...
When: Thursday, September 8 at 5pm What: The Guantanamo Lawyers Panel, co-sponsored by CCR. Lawyers who represent men detained at Guantánamo and other facilities discuss the significance of...
Updated: August 30, 2011
February 2014A lawsuit filed today seeks to strike down the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. Politicians, industry and law enforcement too long employed the rhetoric and apparatus of national security to...
November 2, 2010, Washington, D.C. — For the 1.5 million people still living in displacement camps, forced evictions pose an immediate threat of grave and irreparable harm, according to a...
Updated: April 3, 2008
The Center for Constitutional Rights, a non-profit legal advocacy organization born out of the Civil Rights movement in 1966, has provided legal assistance to the people imprisoned in the Guantanamo...
Updated: March 5, 2009
Updated: March 7, 2008
Four months after 9/11, on January 11, 2002, the U.S. military flew 20 prisoners from Afghanistan to the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. More would soon follow, as would allegations...
Updated: January 11, 2010
May 1, 2019...Omar Shakir is the Israel and Palestine Director at the Human Rights Watch. He investigates human rights abuses in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza. He has been responsible for many of the...
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