Immigration detention centers are ticking time bombs in the COVID-19 pandemic. The Center for Constitutional Rights and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild (NIP-NLG)...
Updated: April 14, 2020
December 14, 2010, Madrid, Spain – Today, two leading human rights groups filed papers urging a Spanish judge to open a criminal investigation into the role of former Bush administration...
February 26, 2016“Why not shoot them?” asks prominent right-wing magazine National Review, in an article proposing that the U.S. government execute Guantánamo detainees instead of transferring them. President Obama...
This article originally appeared in The Huffington Post on May 12, 2010. May has seen an upsurge in local organizations exercising their human rights to housing. Most people recognize that...
Updated: June 23, 2010
U.S. responsible for thousands of Afghans who face arbitrary detention, brutal treatment, legal limbo August 30, 2023, New York – Today, two years after the U.S. government ended its 20-year war in...
Click here to go back to the Conference Schedule Program Descriptions Jump to Speaker Bios 21st Century McCarthyism, COINTELPRO, and Dissent: Defending Movements and Communities from Profiling,...
Updated: March 18, 2012
Lawsuit “Not Persuasive,” Judge Rules March 30, 2021, Washington, D.C. – A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and others against a U.S.-based Palestinian rights...
Saeed Bakhouch, the last Algerian prisoner at Guantánamo, was repatriated to Algeria on April 20, 2023. Mr. Bakhouch spent more than 21 years detained without charge in Guantánamo only to be...
Updated: July 26, 2023
Action brought in Germany under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Updated: November 12, 2019
April 10, 2013, Oakland – Last night, a federal judge rejected the State of California’s attempt to dismiss a class action lawsuit challenging prolonged solitary confinement in California...
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