After many years of quietly providing background support to the EU and other northern states that have actively worked to prevent other United Nations member states from developing an international...
Updated: October 22, 2021
On July 25, 2011, The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed on Honduras. CCR staff member Laura Raymond responded with the letter below, which was not published. The Truth and Reconciliation...
Updated: August 23, 2011
Solitary Confinement and Isolation in Federal Prisons: Cruel and Inhuman or Necessary? Albany Law School 80 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY 12208 Rochester Moot Court Room Room 209 in the Main...
Updated: March 10, 2011
June 2, 2014, Oakland – Today, a federal judge allowed hundreds of California prisoners to join a lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement in California prisons when she granted the...
February 16, 2018... Writing at the Guardian on Friday, Katherine Gallagher, a senior staff attorney with the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights , argues that a "criminal investigation of U.S. torture—...
Join us for this discussion where we will hear the reactions of peace and justice activists and lawyers to the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber’s decision refusing to open an investigation...
Updated: May 21, 2019
Jennifer Hobbs is a lawyer and activist. Jen has been a social justice advocate and activist for over twenty years and, particularly, she is a long-term Palestinian solidarity activist having been...
November 4, 2011, New York, NY – Today, amidst reports that the Israeli navy has intercepted the Freedom Waves Flotilla in international waters and boarded two boats attempting to deliver...
December 17, 2018Federal Court Blocks Trump Asylum Ban [caption align="right"] [/caption] A federal court temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s new asylum ban last week while we work to get a preliminary...
December 8, 2015It would be difficult to overstate Peter Weiss’s contributions to international human rights law. He became active in CCR early in its history and served on the board for nearly five decades,...
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