November 26, 2015Hours after President Barack Obama signed into law a defense bill that continues to thwart closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, a group of human rights activists is staging a vigil and...
On February 15, 2007, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Center for Justice and International Law, and the International Human Rights Clinic at American University’s law school filed a...
Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan, New York, is an senior counsel at LatinoJustice PRLDEF, where she focuses on low-wage Latina immigrant workers as part of the organization’s economic justice platform, legal...
Please join the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), First Peoples Disability Network (Australia), Disability Rights Fund, and Human Rights Watch for an interactive...
Updated: June 13, 2018
A PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE PRIVATE MILITARY INDUSTRY IN IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN AND AFRICA OCTOBER 27, 2009 6 PM True Reformer Building : 1200 U Street, NW, Washington, DC • 6pm: The Detainee Project photo...
Updated: October 12, 2009
As a mass movement works tirelessly to end the genocide in Gaza, the Center for Political Education, Arab Resource & Organizing Center, Bay Resistance, and the Anti-Police Terror Project are...
Updated: June 6, 2024
Long before Israel's genocidal campaign on Gaza, there was voluminous evidence of grave human rights crimes
March 2009Passions surrounding various proposals that would investigate Bush administration wrongdoings are extremely high with interested parties not shying away from using harsh rhetoric towards fellow...
Join Arab Center Washington DC on Thursday, January 18, from 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. ET , for a virtual panel discussion. Allegations of genocide by Israel against the Palestinian people in Gaza took a...
Updated: January 16, 2024
Legal Glossary Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) , also known as Alien Tort Statute (ATS) – The Alien Tort Claims Act is a federal statute from 1789 that allows foreign victims of international...
Updated: February 19, 2010
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