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,...
Trump’s Policing Executive Order – What Does It Really Mean? On April 28, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order titled “Strengthening and Unleashing American Law Enforcement to Pursue...
Updated: May 22, 2025
Al Quraishi v. Nakhla and L-3 Services challenged corporate impunity for torture and other war crimes at Abu Ghraib and other prisons in Iraq.
Updated: September 8, 2021
August 6, 2009, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), one of seven signatories to a letter sent yesterday to Janet Napolitano, Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security...
January 8, 2013, New York – In response to today’s decision by Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York finding that NYPD trespass stops...
The Vera Institute of Justice and New York Law School present a panel discussion: “Keeping Communities Safe? The Case For and Against Secure Communities as Immigration Enforcement Policy...
Updated: October 24, 2011
In July and August 2013, tens of thousands of Egyptians participated in large demonstrations to denounce the military's July 3 ouster of Mohamed Morsy, the country's first elected civilian president...
Updated: October 17, 2014
From the leader of the “free world” to the leader of a worldwide faith, each person must be subject to the rule of law. Where national legal systems are unable or unwilling to hold...
Updated: November 23, 2011
MAKE A GIFT TO THE CAMPAIGN " In order to see where we are going, we not only must remember where we have been, but we must understand where we have been." - Ella Baker As we often discussed with...
Updated: December 17, 2018
Candidate Trump’s May 2016 statements urging the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank did not come out of nowhere: less than a month earlier, Trump had appointed his bankruptcy...
Updated: March 7, 2017
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