October 1, 2012, Washington D.C. – Today, as the Supreme Court opened its term with oral argument in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum , Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director...
November 23, 2015 – On the anniversary of 12-year-old Tamir Rice’s killing by police in Cleveland, a coalition of law students, legal workers and attorneys known as Law for Black Lives issued the...
CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s Department of Communication and Theater Arts presents In Our Name: A Play on the Torture Years. Following the opening performance on Wednesday, May...
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January 6, 2011, Miami, FL and Washington, D.C. – Today six civil and human rights groups filed an emergency petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), to halt the...
August 10, 2020Victory! U.S. appeals court rules against former Bolivian president and defense minister over 2003 massacre [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh...
May 7, 2018No reward for torture: #BlockHaspel as CIA Director Wednesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee will hold a public confirmation hearing for Gina Haspel, Trump's pick for CIA director. No one, not...
Advocates Challenge the Application of ‘Unsafe’ Third Country Rule to Asylum Seekers Turned Back at Ports of Entry December 6, 2019, San Diego – Immigrant rights attorneys filed an emergency motion...
Jewish National Fund lawsuit tried to allege support for terrorism by US Campaign for Palestinian Rights; SCOTUS ended their baseless case January 22, 2024, Washington, D.C. – Today, a U.S.-based...
February 2011The United Israel Appeal scrapped a plan to showcase former President George W. Bush at a Feb. 12 gala in Geneva amid reports that human rights groups were poised to protest and file a torture...
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