Ziad Alwan Ziad Alwan is a United States citizen and a Palestinian with West Bank residency. He was born in Ein Yabrud, Palestine, and currently lives in Chicago. Ziad’s family’s land, for which he...
High Commissioner for Human Rights Palais Wilson – United Nations Geneva, Switzerland March 18, 2019 Re: Release of the UN database on business activities in Israeli settlements in the occupied...
For the First Time Palestinians Are Challenging Settlers Living on Their Land in a U.S. Court Silber v. Airbnb The Center for Constitutional Rights is representing two Palestinian individuals, a...
Three Iraqi torture survivors will finally have their day in court. After over 11 years of litigation, our clients go to trial against CACI Premier Technology, a private U.S. military contractor that...
"We will have our day in court and the story of Abu Ghraib will be told by me and other men who lived – and – survived it." —Plaintiff Salah Al-Ejaili Update: On April 3, Judge Brinkema issued an...
"The memories of the Abu Ghraib detention center are imprinted in my imagination as a movie, playing every time I see images of a prison, or torture, or if I hear of violations of human rights...
Context This is a resource page to help people support the call by the Women of Cancer Alley for a moratorium on new petrochemical industry facilities and closure of existing facilities that refuse...
Families in New York with a loved one in prison won a long-awaited victory on January 8, 2007 when Governor Spitzer committed to end the burdensome, back door tax on collect calls to inmates'...
The Center for Constitutional Rights welcomes the news that its motion for leave to appeal to the highest court of the state, the Court of Appeals, was granted in Walton v. NYSDOCS. The lawsuit seeks...
