In September 2002, as he was on his way home to Canada, CCR client Maher Arar was sent by U.S. officials to be detained and interrogated under torture in Syria under a program known as "...
Updated: January 11, 2010
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...
On September 11-12, 2008, Evangelicals for Human Rights, with the National Religious Campaign Against Torture and Mercer University, will host a national summit on torture in Atlanta, GA, on the...
Updated: May 21, 2008
New Asylum Ban Should Not Apply to Those Turned Back at Ports of Entry September 26, 2019, San Diego – Today, immigrant rights attorneys moved to block the Trump administration’s Asylum Ban from...
December 4, 2009, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) argued a case challenging Congress’ unconstitutional de-funding of the Association of Community...
This briefing paper is submitted to the Advisory Group on Forced Evictions for the mission its experts are conducting to provide an overview of the international human rights principles’...
Updated: April 29, 2011
April 4, 2024...“Residents have been left in the dark when it comes to public health,” said Jessica Vosburgh, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. Intervenor status might change that...
June 17, 2011, Washington, D.C. – The Center for Constitutional Rights, Detention Watch Network (DWN), Rights Working Group (RWG), National Day Laborer Organizing Network and the National...
October 16, 2012, New York and Crescent City, CA– On the one year anniversary of the end of their hunger strikes and the agreements struck with the California Department of Corrections and...
February 26, 201815 years after torture at Abu Ghraib, a historic ruling in the fight for accountability Nearly 15 years after the horrific abuses at the Abu Ghraib "hard site" prison in Iraq came to light, a...
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