June 26, Alexandria, VA – Today, on the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, a United States district court dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Center for...
April 6, 2010, Washington, D.C. — Over three years after opening secretive “Communications Management Units,” or “CMUs,” the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) took one...
May 23, 2017To mark the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend isolated in special housing units, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison...
December 5, 2023Board member and Jackson resident Makani Themba spoke at a convening for the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism
Paris, New York, December 7, 2007 – Human rights groups issued an open letter [attached below] yesterday to French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner detailing dangerous repercussions of a decision to...
October 1, 2018Ramapough Lenape Nation Sues NJ Town, Polo Club for Racial and Religious Discrimination [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Friday, September 21, the Ramapough Lenape Nation Tribe, represented by...
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and its partners on Monday, May 23, 2022 , for a special event of " Palestine and the ICC Paralysis: Is Justice still Possible for Palestinians?...
Updated: May 23, 2022
Attorneys ask investigating judge to subpoena William Haynes as part of criminal case October 12, 2016, New York, Paris, Berlin – Today, supported by the New York-based Center for Constitutional...
The Case Against Shell Royal Dutch Shell, plc (Shell) began oil production in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria in 1958 and has a long history of working closely with the Nigerian government to quell...
Updated: July 22, 2010
Al Quraishi v. Nakhla and L-3 Services challenged corporate impunity for torture and other war crimes at Abu Ghraib and other prisons in Iraq.
Updated: September 8, 2021
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