October 5, 2023...So far, the only lawsuits able to advance have targeted military contractors. Those cases, too, face considerable obstacles. One such case, Al Shimari et al. v. CACI , has been slowly making its...
October 19, 2011, Surrey, BC —Tomorrow, four individuals who allege they were tortured during George W. Bush’s tenure as president of the United States will lodge a private prosecution in...
February 14, 2017 The Center for Constitutional Rights (“CCR”) urges New York state legislators to support proposed legislation ( A.5617 ). This bill is an important step to codify and strengthen the...
Updated: February 16, 2017
NYU Law Students for Economic Justice and co-sponsors present... How to sue a Corporation: Corporate Law 101 for Human Rights, Environmental and Labor Activists WORKSHOP Wednesday March 23rd from 5-...
Updated: March 21, 2011
Judge Rejects Latest Efforts by Private Contractor to Have Case Dismissed February 27, 2019, Alexandria, VA – Today, a federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by survivors of torture at the...
September 11, 2020The post-9/11 era has defined nearly every aspect of the 21st century. Its most striking ideologies, laws, and policies -- boundless executive powers, a secret and global torture program, indefinite...
May 14, 2018, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement: Israel’s state violence against Palestinians must end. Today Israel continued its campaign of...
January 12, 2024...Today marks 22 years since the first set of detainees arrived at Guantanamo Bay, a U.S. military base in Cuba. The camp, in the George W. Bush administration’s telling, fell outside of the normal...
September 4, 2009 – Today, Judge Trendafilova of the International Criminal Court (ICC) denied a petition filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the International Women's Human...
Michael Ratner’s activism and human rights work dated back to the 1960s. He was a student at Columbia Law School during the 1968...
Updated: May 12, 2016
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