"On Monday and Tuesday, a United Nations committee in Geneva asked the Vatican very tough questions about its track record on preventing and punishing acts of torture and cruel, inhuman and...
"Ten years ago, the world got its first glimpse of images that would forever tarnish the United States' reputation for how it conducts its wars. On April 28, 2004, a "60 Minutes"...
The FBI has used the No Fly List to coerce American Muslims into spying on their community. In mid-April, after an eight-year, "Kafkaesque" ordeal implicating its vast architecture of official...
" On March 16, 2003, 23-year old human rights defender Rachel Corrie was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer while protecting Palestinian homes in Gaza from demolition.
Idaho became the latest state to pass an "ag-gag" law, punishing whistleblowing in animal agriculture, just this past February. In March, it became the latest state to get sued for doing so...
State violates free speech rights by selectively banning documentation of animal cruelty at factory farms May 30, 2014 by Lauren Carasik Last week the New York–based Center for Constitutional...
One hundred and eight members of Congress submitted a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry last Wednesday urging the administration to take action on the ongoing human rights crisis in Honduras...
By ERICA GOODE More than 200 inmates at Pelican Bay, California’s toughest prison, have spent over a decade locked in windowless 8-foot-by-12-foot cells for 22 hours or more a day. Dozens more have...
'I have no faith left in a judiciary that refuses even to hear whether Abdulrahman, an American child, was wrongfully killed by his own government.' - Sarah Lazare, staff writer This mural is part of...
By Laura Raymond, Advocacy Program Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights "I would like to recall the first US war in Iraq, in '91 at 2:30 a.m. when those bombs went down and they devastated...
