November 23, 2020TOMORROW: #IStandWithSJP - Support Fordham SJP in court [caption align="right"] [/caption] Fordham’s legal battle to ban Students for Justice in Palestine continues tomorrow November 24 at 2 p.m. ET...
January 30, 2014, New York – After 14 years of litigation and decades of community action, plaintiffs’ counsel and Mayor Bill de Blasio reached an agreement which will result in the...
The Holy See claims that it is a sovereign state. It is governed as a monarchy with the Pope having "supreme, immediate and universal ordinary power." Given its tiny territorial state, its global...
Updated: September 22, 2015
Actions on U.S. torture brought in Spain under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Updated: November 13, 2019
In episode 56 of The Activist Files, we’ll hear a discussion sparked by the 10th anniversary of the historic ruling in our stop-and-frisk case, Floyd, et. al v. City of New York . The Center for...
Updated: February 22, 2024
A citizens' hearing to confront repression of human rights and civil liberties by the criminal justice system Saturday, July 16, 2011 3-6 PM Reception: 2:30 PM Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural...
Updated: July 15, 2011
Join us on the 11th anniversary of Guantánamo prison to call on President Obama to fullfill his broken promise to shut it down, and for all branches of the U.S. government to uphold human...
Updated: January 7, 2013
Supreme Court to Consider Whether U.S. Corporations May Be Held Liable for International Violations October 22, 2020, Washington, D.C. – Fifteen international human rights organizations submitted a...
On February 27, 2006, The first violation of the McCain torture amendment was alleged in federal court in an emergency injunction to end further torture of Guantánamo detainees. The court made public...
July 12, 2012, Olympia, WA and New York, NY – Today, in a lawsuit brought against current and former members of the Olympia Food Co-op board of directors for their decision to boycott Israeli...
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