(Kabul, New York, The Hague) Ten years after the opening of a preliminary examination on Afghanistan by the International Criminal Court (ICC) Office of the Prosecutor into the international crimes...
April 13, New York – In response to the Trump administration dropping the 21,600-pound GBU-43/B bomb in Afghanistan, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: Not even 100...
Afghan human rights groups urged the International Criminal Court on Wednesday to speed up a war crimes probe in their country, as they prepared to meet the tribunal's chief prosecutor. ... ... The...
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” Those are the words of Martin Luther King, Jr.,...
The day I learned of Michael Ratner’s passing, one year ago today, I had to travel to Richmond, Virginia to argue an appeal related to one of the Abu Ghraib torture suits CCR brought against an...
...In 2002 the Vulcan Society, a fraternal organization of black firefighters, initiated a bias complaint challenging the fairness of the 1999 and 2002 Firefighter exams. This prompted the U.S...
On May 8, 2017, CCR joined a coalition of human rights advocates calling on the U.S. Government to demosntrate leadership on human rights in the Americans, focusing on constructive engagement with...
CCR is pleased to cosponsor the next No Separate Justice vigil, which will focus on the U.S. government’s use of Special Administrative Measures (SAMs) and highlight the case of Ahmed Abu Ali who has...
15,000 Pages of Documents Previously Obtained by CCR Show U.S. Blocking Efforts at Accountability May 30, 2017, San Francisco – the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice and the Center for...
June 2, 2017, New York – In response to reports that the Trump administration has begun returning copies of the Senate Torture Report to the Senate in an effort to keep them from being made public,...
