Please join the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 at 11:00a.m. , for oral argument in Blum v. Holder , our case challenging the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (...
Updated: August 27, 2012
October 11, 2017After sidestepping the issue four years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared ready to reckon with a question that global businesses and human rights groups want answered: whether...
November 8, 2016My abuela, a woman born in Old San Juan, taught me how to make café con leche. She taught me how to wake up my mind and my memory. So every morning, I wake up a few minutes early to make coffee. It’s...
January 11, 2024...DOZENS OF LEGAL and civil society organizations from around the world have thrown their weight behind a U.S. lawsuit accusing President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Secretary...
I. Reporting Organizations The below submission is presented by five organizations across the United States (“U.S.”): Asian Americans Advancing Justice- Asian Law Caucus, [i] Center for...
Updated: January 15, 2019
Since 9/11, the United States has not only detained thousands of people without charge in the name of a global “war” against Al Qaeda, the Taliban and “associated forces,” but...
Updated: September 25, 2014
August 14, 2018... Ponsor dismissed the lawsuit against Lively, filed in 2012, by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of the Ugandan group "Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG). The suit charged Lively with...
We’re finally over the mid-term hump, so The Activist Files checked in with organizers on the east and west coasts to find out how the results of the mid-terms will impact their organizing strategies...
Updated: February 26, 2019
CCR uses alien tort claims act to fight human rights abuses.
As part of a two-day symposium on the legacies of the Vietnam War hosted by the University of Dayton's Human Rights Center, this panel focuses on legal accountability as a key mechanism for post-...
Updated: October 8, 2020
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