June 13, 2012, Washington D.C. – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), filed an amicus brief on behalf of human rights organizations in the United States Supreme Court in the case...
WASHINGTON, June 27 /PRNewswire/ - The U.S. Supreme Court sent a terrible message with its refusal today to hear the case of 250 civilians allegedly tortured and seriously harmed by corporate...
January 11th, 2010 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. in Wallace Hall at St. Ignatius Loyola Church (Park Avenue and 84th Street in Manhattan) Gathering as a People of Light and Hope: Casting Out The Darkness of...
Updated: January 8, 2010
January 20, 2011, New York – Just before the first anniversary of President Obama’s failed deadline to close Guantanamo, the New York Times yesterday reported that the administration will...
Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights and co-counsel Davis Wright Tremaine on Friday, March 9, 2018, to hear oral arguments on defendants’ and plaintiffs’ motions for summary judgment in...
Updated: March 8, 2018
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights, The Dream Unfinished and the Immigrant Defense Project on May 5, 2022 at 5 pm ET for an evening of music, film and discussion centering resistance to the U...
Updated: May 3, 2022
Human Rights Groups Call Decision Unacceptable and Shameful April 12, 2019, Paris, The Hague, New York – In what human rights groups call an appalling decision, the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber II decided...
February 22, 2021WIN! Federal court again blocks Trump-era asylum transit ban A federal court has again blocked a Trump administration ban that categorically denied asylum to anyone at the southern border who had...
Action brought in Switzerland under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Updated: November 12, 2019
October 29, 2008, New York – Yesterday, Judge Abraham Gerges handed down a stiff sentence for Haitian former death squad leader Emanuel “Toto” Constant who was found guilty on all...
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