“You could also ask what is art’s take on the destruction that is happening? What is its perspective? What does art say about what Iraq is going through? What will it look like? What will be its form...
Updated: September 19, 2016
June 7, 2024...As a treaty ratified by the Senate, under the US Constitution the Genocide Convention is binding law. This means the United States is obligated to follow the ICJ’s decision. Independent of the ICJ...
September 14, 2017, New York – In response to reports that a United States citizen fighting for the Islamic State in Syria has been taken into U.S. custody, the Center for Constitutional Rights...
October 22, 2023...Goni and Sánchez Berzain will pay an unspecified amount to the victims’ families who were killed during country-wide protests in 2003, known as the Gas War. After failing to reach a solution to...
September 2014" I served as a Hospital Corpsman with 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines in Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah, Iraq. The fighting was heavy, and it was the bloodiest Marine battle since Iwo Jima.
January 12, 2024...A separate case has also been opened in the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is reviewing actions taken by Israeli officials since the war and “conduct that may amount to Rome Statute...
January 11 marks the 14th anniversary of the opening of the Guantánamo Bay prison , an offshore facility created to isolate, dehumanize, and indefinitely detain Muslim men and boys swept up in post-9...
Updated: January 19, 2016
Please join us for an evening honoring the remarkable life and legacy of CCR President Emeritus Michael Ratner (1943–2016). Doors open at 6:30 PM. Please register : the event is free, but space may...
Updated: June 8, 2016
On the occasion of the first session of the newly established UN Permanent Forum on the People of African Descent (UNPFPAD), the Center for Constitutional Rights traveled to Geneva to build...
Updated: February 28, 2023
February 26, 2024On January 26th, the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, ordered Israel to take immediate measures to reduce the number of civilian casualties in Gaza, to insure the provision of basic...
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