Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co . is a lawsuit brought against Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., Shell Transport & Trading Co., Plc, and its wholly owned subsidiary Shell Petroleum Development...
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February 18, 2022We are hopeful that Mohammed’s torment will be lessened when he is in the care of trusted psychiatrists and has support from his family.
THE 2013 REPORT In May 2013, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) undertook a fact-finding mission in California and Louisiana to evaluate the...
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New York, April 23, 2009— This afternoon, Judge Kimba Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York rejected Royal Dutch Shell’s motion to dismiss a human rights case charging...
May 2014"On Monday and Tuesday, a United Nations committee in Geneva asked the Vatican very tough questions about its track record on preventing and punishing acts of torture and cruel, inhuman and...
In April 2004, news outlets broke the story of torture and abuse at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The stories were accompanied by gruesome photos from a whistleblower – images so...
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Brooklyn, NY, May 6, 2008 - Today, The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the International Support Haiti Network (ISHN) joined members of the New York City Council and representatives of...
October 2013David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center . When Herman Wallace died Oct. 4 at age 71, he had been a free man for about 2½ days. Before that, he spent 41 years in solitary...
Join us for a discussion panel as part of the launch of a joint report by Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) examining the United States’...
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