August 1, 2013, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) released the following statement in anticipation of President Obama’s meeting with President Hadi of Yemen at...
“We have lost so many people, but there are still many more who are living, and we owe it to them to do everything possible to stop this genocide. I have done everything in my power: I have...
Can corporations be held accountable for human rights abuses? That is the question the U.S. Supreme Court will take up on its first day back in session on Oct. 1, and our reputation as a nation that...
Formal inquiry to U.S. Government follows public effort by Biden administration to block arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Gallant July 16, 2024, New York – Today, the Center...
February 16, 2021, San Francisco – A federal court has again blocked a Trump administration ban that categorically denied asylum to anyone at the southern border who had transited through a third...
Arkansas’ horror show continued last night with the first double execution carried out in the state since September 1999, of Jack Harold Jones and Marcel Williams. [1] No state had performed a double...
CCR and Color of Change to DHS: Release the #RacePaper [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last week, CCR, Color of Change, and the Kramer Law Clinic sued the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to...
August 1, 2025, Atlanta – Today, Alma Bella Bowman, a longtime Georgia resident and immigrants’ rights activist unjustly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since March, filed a...
Human rights groups are praising provisions in the Senate version of an annual defense policy bill that would allow detainees at Guantanamo Bay to plead guilty in civilian courts and get emergency...
One year ago Thursday, in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Inc., the U.S. Supreme Court interjected uncertainty into otherwise well-settled law relating to the reach of the U.S. Alien Tort Statute...
