National Student Association, et al. v. Hershey is a government misconduct case which challenged the Selective Service Director’s orders to draft all men who took part in anti-war campaigns. By 1969...
Updated: October 9, 2007
November 15, 2012, New York, Paris and The Hague – Today, two leading human rights organizations submitted evidence to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, including expert...
An oversight hearing about solitary confinement in California is scheduled for Monday, February 25, 2013. The hearing will be chaired by Tom Ammiano, chair of the Public Safety Committee. In May 2012...
Updated: February 21, 2013
January 6, 2011, Miami, FL and Washington, D.C. – Today six civil and human rights groups filed an emergency petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), to halt the...
CCR and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) will appear before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) during its 164th session for a merits hearing in our case,...
Updated: August 31, 2017
May 2012The prolonged use of solitary confinement at a high-security prison in California "strips prisoners of their basic humanity" and amounts to illegal torture, a human rights group charged in a federal...
September 2, 2015Thousands of prisoners will be moved out of solitary confinement in California, thanks to a landmark legal settlement announced this week. Grass-roots organizing can be tough, but when done by...
September 2, 2015Thousands of prisoners will be moved out of solitary confinement in California, thanks to a landmark legal settlement announced this week. Grass-roots organizing can be tough, but when done by...
Madrid/ Berlin/ New York, July 23, 2015 – The Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York, together with their...
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