July 13, 2015[caption align="right"] Delivering statement before UN working group on transnational corporations with respect to human rights.[/caption] I’ve just returned from the inaugural session of a United...
October 4, 2010, New York and Washington – The U.S. Supreme Court today announced it is asking the Solicitor General for the government’s views on claims brought by hundreds of detainees...
We honor Juneteenth—the celebration of the end of chattel slavery in the United States—by envisioning a world freer than the one in which we currently live. Each year since the June 19, 1865 reading...
Updated: June 17, 2020
Mohammed Al-Hamiri is a Yemeni citizen who was detained at Guantánamo for over 14 years, despite being cleared for release in 2009. He was released to the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia on April 16, 2016...
Updated: April 16, 2016
President-Elect Donald Trump’s blatantly Islamophobic campaign has stoked fears of an era of a particularly egregious of religious discrimination and abuse of civil and human rights, but the...
Updated: January 17, 2017
“Supreme Court Not a Reliable Source of Justice” September 23, 2020, New York – In advance of Donald Trump’s nomination to fill the seat of late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,...
Join advocates, organizers, artists, and Guantánamo survivors on January 11, 2023, for a virtual rally to mark 21 years since the Guantánamo Bay prison was opened as part of the so-called...
Updated: January 6, 2023
The Center for Constitutional Rights’ longstanding case, Al Shimari v. CACI , brought on behalf of three Iraqi torture victims against U.S.-based government contractor CACI Premier Technology,...
Updated: April 26, 2024
You must be register for the Left Forum to attend this panel. For more information about the Left Forum see http://www.leftforum.org Moderator: Sara Kershnar is a co-founder of the International...
Updated: June 3, 2013
Judge Rejects Latest Efforts by Private Contractor to Have Case Dismissed February 27, 2019, Alexandria, VA – Today, a federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by survivors of torture at the...
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