February 2012On Tuesday, February 28, the Supreme Court will hear a challenge brought by 12 Nigerian plaintiffs who say a Shell oil subsidiary aided and abetted acts of murder, rape and systematic torture by the...
December 2007Majid Khan, the first of the so-clled high-value Guantanamo detainees to have seen a lawyer claims he was subjected to "state-sanctioned torture" while in secret C.I.A. prisons, and he has...
December 2014" President Obama was surely right when he said the CIA torture program was a betrayal of our values. But it is far more. The widespread, brutal acts performed in CIA "black sites" were actual crimes...
September 28, 2021 – Yesterday, the ICC Prosecutor announced that he had requested to resume the investigation into international crimes in the Afghanistan situation and that he would be focusing on...
January 11, 2017Today marks the 15th anniversary of the arrival of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. This morning, CCR’s Aliya Hussain delivered the below remarks at a rally in Washington, D.C.
June 26, 2019...Now Mr. Khan and his legal team are pursuing a strategy in an effort to force the United States government to acknowledge what was done to him in a way it never has for any of the detainees who...
Part III – ACCOUNTABILITY What We Can Do When Our Government Violates International Laws Ann Wright : Retired Colonel and former US State Dept official - In 1987, Col.Wright joined the Foreign...
Updated: November 9, 2010
5pm Join CCR Staff Attorney and Managing Attorney of the Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative, Shane Kadidal for a discussion of Guantanamo litigation and the path forward to restoration of the...
Updated: March 6, 2009
August 2008The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to investigate the torture that Djamel Ameziane experianced while in US custody. You can...
CCR Legal Worker Abigail Downs will moderate a panel discussion between CCR partners and friends at the Left Forum on June 1st. Join us! No Separate Justice (NSJ) is a new post-9/11 domestic human...
Updated: May 23, 2014
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