October 11, 2017After sidestepping the issue four years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to reckon with a question that global businesses and human rights groups want answered: whether...
June 2007Human rights groups plan to file lawsuit against government agencies in an effort to obtain information about people in secret CIA custody.
Join SAALT and local partner organizations for a statewide conference open to all New Jersey South Asians to learn about the issues affecting the community, to develop leadership skills, and to...
Updated: January 21, 2010
Billionaire Investor Chris James, hailed as a green hero, is behind project seeking to make use of an old zoning ordinance shrouded in corruption that threatens the health, culture, and very...
The third Thursday in November is a National Day of Mourning , where we mourn the genocide of millions of Native people and the theft of Native land, and where we honor the ongoing struggle for...
Updated: March 7, 2023
Download the full Right to Heal Factsheet, updated March 2014. On March 19, 2013 - the tenth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq - t he Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), Iraq...
Updated: March 17, 2014
As part of a two-day symposium on the legacies of the Vietnam War hosted by the University of Dayton's Human Rights Center, this panel focuses on legal accountability as a key mechanism for post-...
Updated: October 8, 2020
June 2, 2011, New York, Miami and New Orleans – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued a strongly-worded order yesterday directing the United States to refrain from...
November 2, 2016The Center for Constitutional Rights stands in solidarity with the indigenous water protectors of the Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation) and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe as they and their allies...
August 14, 2018... Ponsor dismissed the lawsuit against Lively, filed in 2012, by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of the Ugandan group "Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG). The suit charged Lively with...
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