February 21, 2018...The Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit against CACI in 2008 on behalf of four Iraqis, who say they were tortured: Suhail Najim Abdullah al-Shimari, Salah Hasan Nusaif al-Ejaili, and...
On September 17, 2007, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of CCR's case charging Caterpillar, Inc. with aiding and abetting war crimes and other serious human rights violations...
October 5, 2012, New York – Amid increasing threats against Mario Joseph, a prominent human rights lawyer in Haiti, a recent article in the Miami Herald reported that a Port-au-Prince Chief...
November 2009Judges of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 7-4 to uphold a decision by a lower court judge dismissing a lawsuit brought by Maher Arar, a Syrian-born man who was detained in 2002 and sent...
November 2012CCR Senior Staff Attourney Katherine Gallagher writes about the need to hold former President Bush accountable for acts of torture. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/17/george-bush-...
Watch the full day of panels on YouTube , or as a free download from iTunes U . The day-long event looked at how Copelon's work helped to define and shape the field of international women's human...
Updated: September 28, 2017
Please join NYU Law School for a special evening with leading Palestinian human rights defenders Raji Sourani and Shawan Jabarin. In this rare visit to the United States, Raji and Shawan will provide...
Updated: April 6, 2016
March 2015"On March 5, the New York–based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) urged a French Appeals Court to fully investigate claims by...
August 2008A federal appeals court in New York will take the unusual step of rehearing Maher Arar's case which it decided in June. Mr. Arar is a CCR client who was detained at Kennedy Airport in 2002, flown to...
November 2008The U.N.'s torture investigator said Thursday that European countries should take in those Guantanamo inmates who cannot be sent home when the U.S.-run prison closes...
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