January 4, 2012, New York – In response to President Obama’s New Year’s Eve signing of the controversial National Defense Authorization Act, the Center for Constitutional Rights (...
November 5, 2021...On this week’s episode of “Scheer Intelligence,” Khan’s lawyer J. Wells Dixon, a senior attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, joins Robert Scheer to discuss the implications of Khan’s...
May 2013Fahd Ghazy is known at Guantánamo Bay as 026, his Internment Serial Number. These numbers were assigned to Guantánamo prisoners in chronological order according to their arrival. Fahd...
On April 16, 2026, the New Orleans City Council voted to approve a controversial law enforcement program known as the “Drone as First Responder” program. The program would launch drones equipped with...
Updated: June 22, 2026
THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS TURNS 60. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights demands respect for the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of...
Updated: December 2, 2008
A group of predominantly U.S. Black and Brown social justice leaders - dubbed the #JusticeDelegation - recently returned from Israel/Palestine where they experienced Israel's occupation of Palestine...
Updated: June 1, 2018
May 19, 2023...Pro-Palestinian Democratic socialist lawmakers Zohran Mamdani of Queens and Jabari Brisport of Brooklyn have introduced the “Not on Our Dime!: Ending New York Funding of Israeli Settler Violence...
March 6, 2020...Although the United States is not a state party to Rome Statute, the treaty that created the court, American citizens can be subject to its jurisdiction if the court is investigating crimes in...
June 3, 2015The CIA used a wider array of sexual abuse and other forms of torture than was disclosed in a Senate report last year, according to a Guantanamo Bay detainee turned government cooperating witness...
Updated: September 16, 2009
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