Roman Catholic bishops in the Netherlands offered “sincere apologies” to victims of sexual mistreatment, hours after a report by an official commission said church officials had “...
Actors Gabriel Byrne and Liam Neeson team up with Dublin City Councilor and writer/artist Gerard Mannix Flynn, and with Culture Project, to present “James X,” a play exploring what years...
CCR attorney Katherine Gallagher and plaintiff Murat Kurnaz speak with Democracy Now! about lawsuit seeking George W. Bush's arrest in Canada for torture. http://www.democracynow.org/2011/10/20/...
The international tribunals at The Hague is being asked to investigate top Vatican officials over the global clerical sex abuse scandal, and victims say these offenses meet the legal definition of...
Human rights lawyers and victims of clergy sexual abuse filed a complaint urging the International Criminal Court in The Hague to investigate and prosecute Pope Benedict XVI and top Vatican officials...
Several years ago, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) obtained emails from the FBI in connection with the organization's Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the government related to...
A treasure trove of newly discovered documents about detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has revived familiar questions: Were too many innocent men incarcerated there ove...
Nicholas K. Peart, a witness in a lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights against racial profiling, has been stopped and frisked by New York City police officers at least five times...
By Al Baker Thursday, May 13, 2010 Blacks and Latinos were nine times as likely as whites to be stopped by the police in New York City in 2009, but, once stopped, were no more likely to be arrested...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Secure Communities, an immigration enforcement program created under President George W. Bush and now being greatly expanded by President Obama, is billed as an effort to...
