The Holy See claims that it is a sovereign state. It is governed as a monarchy with the Pope having "supreme, immediate and universal ordinary power." Given its tiny territorial state, its global...
Updated: September 22, 2015
Save the Date: September 30, 2009 Lunch discussion with Katherine Gallagher, CCR Staff Attorney and Laura Raymond, CCR International Human Rights Associate. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR...
Updated: September 23, 2009
On June 16, 2017, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and its 23 member organizations in the Americas collaborated on an open letter to the Organization of American States requesting...
Updated: June 21, 2017
Join us for a critical discussion on solitary confinement at Pelican Bay . Presented by the CCR, our panel will examine the use of solitary confinement in the U.S. criminal justice system, looking...
Updated: June 13, 2012
Biden administration conceals role at “lily pad” sites, where Afghans face months in limbo, inhumane conditions January 14, 2025, New York – The U.S. government has enlisted at least 36 countries to...
June 13, 2023NYPD’s street crime units are frequently making illegal stops and nearly exclusively stopping Blacks and Latinos, according to the Court-appointed Monitor.
June 2, 2014, Oakland – Today, a federal judge allowed hundreds of California prisoners to join a lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement in California prisons when she granted the...
September 19, 2022Anne White Hat detailed widespread collusion that has led to industry-authored laws and violent arrests of protesters
Action brought in Canada under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Updated: November 12, 2019
Abu Zubaydah is a victim of some of the most egregious torture perpetrated against detainees in the post-9/11 era. Held in CIA prisons located in various third countries from 2002 to 2006, he was the...
Updated: August 23, 2021
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