January 25, 2017On January 18, CCR Senior Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in CCR’s case, Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft ) . Filed against Bush administration...
August 17, 2015An Afghan man described as “one of the most compliant detainees at Guantánamo” goes before a national security parole board Tuesday seeking repatriation. Mohammed Kamin, about 37, got to the U.S...
September 10, 2015George Ruiz, a seventy-two-year-old inmate in California, has spent the last thirty-one years in solitary confinement, most of it in Pelican Bay State Prison. He has been held in a windowless cell,...
April 27, 2017Four Fordham undergraduates filed a lawsuit accusing the university of viewpoint discrimination over its decision to reject their application to form a local chapter of Students for Justice in...
June 9, 2023...Sexual Minorities Uganda partnered with the Center for Constitutional Rights to sue Lively in federal court in 2012 in his home state of Massachusetts. The lawsuit accused the evangelist of...
PATOIS: The Sixth Annual New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival March 26 - April 5, 2009 patoisfilmfest.org This year, PATOIS will be better than ever. More than 50 films, 8 world...
Updated: March 26, 2009
Watch CCR Executive Director Vince Warren on MSNBC's " UP with Chris Hayes " speaking on Obama's human rights record in the context of his national security policies aired on January 27,...
Updated: February 5, 2013
Monday, October 24, Washington, D.C. – This Wednesday, rights groups will meet with the government of Haiti before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in Washington, D.C. to...
The National Lawyers Guild 's Annual Law for the People Convention (#Law4ThePeople ) brings together hundreds of legal professionals, scholars, and activists for five days of interactive CLEs,...
Updated: July 29, 2016
April 2009Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Europe’s biggest oil company, must face a lawsuit seeking to hold it responsible for violations of international law by Nigeria’s military government, a judge ruled. U.S...
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