CCR uses alien tort claims act to fight human rights abuses.
CCR will be in the Bay Area for TWO events! Please join us and other CCR Supporters! Berkeley: 100 Days to Constitutional Restoration: What the Next President Must Do Join the...
Updated: November 12, 2008
Representing an Algerian citizen held at Guantánamo since 2002
Updated: April 4, 2022
March 17, 2016I've now spent more than twenty-seven years in solitary confinement, aka Security Housing Units (SHU). My original six-year term started in 1984 and was eventually increased to twenty-one years to...
March 5, 2021... “I don't see what there is to review. This executive order needs to be rescinded now. It needed to be rescinded a month ago,” said Katherine Gallagher , a lawyer with the Center for...
Dr. Badar Khan Suri is a visiting scholar and postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University, and an Indian national. He is married to a United States citizen of Palestinian origin whose family is from...
Updated: September 27, 2025
January 13, 2020Federal judge stops Trump's new public charge rule in its tracks [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Wednesday, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Trump administration’s request for a...
June 2, 2011, New York, Miami and New Orleans – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued a strongly-worded order yesterday directing the United States to refrain from...
January 2014Officials representing the Holy See will for the first time face questioning by a U.N. committee on the Vatican's child-sex-abuse record. Pope Francis has won over many critics in his brief time as...
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