A challenge to corporate impunity of private military contractors under the Alien Tort Statute for war crimes and torture at Abu Ghraib prison.
Updated: May 5, 2026
July 2014By Alexis Agathocleous and Rachel Meeropol, senior attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights When Todd Ashker was transferred to the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at California's Pelican Bay...
October 9, 2013, New York – Prisoners on California and Louisiana’s death row are being held in conditions that amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or torture under...
Inspiration from Isolation Please join us Sunday, March 15th at 12:30 pm in Inglewood for Inspiration from Isolation , a presentation featuring CCR President Jules Lobel discussing new expert...
Updated: March 10, 2015
New York, NY – On May 6, 2010, Rhonda Copelon, a CUNY School of Law professor and human rights attorney with and Vice-President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) who broke new...
New York, December 16, 2011— The Center for Constitutional Rights, representing Julian Assange, publisher of the WikiLeaks media organization, filed a petition this morning seeking guaranteed...
“This victory isn’t only for the three plaintiffs in this case against a corporation. This victory is a shining light for everyone who has been oppressed and a strong warning to any company or...
Updated: September 3, 2025
November 20, 2023President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Austin are failing in their legal duty to prevent, and not further, this most serious of crimes
May 5, 2014, Geneva – Today, the Vatican was summoned to appear before the United Nations Committee Against Torture to report on its record in preventing, punishing and redressing torture,...
March 21, 2016Photo credit: US Human Rights Network
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