September 28, 2017, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Allard K. Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School released a report documenting the U.S. government’...
September 25, 2017, New York – In response to the passing of Cherif Bassiouni, Emeritus Professor of Law at DePaul University, former United Nations official, and international law expert, the Center...
September 25, 2017, New York – In response to news that Barbara Blaine, founder and former president of SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests),died yesterday, the Center for...
September 22, 2017, Alexandria, VA – Today, a Virginia federal court ruled that three Iraqi individuals formerly detained at the infamous “hard site” at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were subjected...
Vatican fails to submit its report; survivors and human rights group apprise committee of its lack of progress September 5, 2017, New York – Today, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (...
12 de julio, 2017, Los Ángeles – Hoy, un grupo de derechos de inmigrantes y varios solicitantes de asilo presentaron una demanda en contra de oficiales en el Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS,...
July 12, 2017, Los Angeles – Today an immigrant rights group and several asylum seekers filed a class action lawsuit against officials at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and...
The Center for Constitutional Rights and the International Federation for Human Rights submitted an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court in Jesner v. Arab Bank in defense of the Alien Tort...
June 26, 2017, New York – In response to the Supreme Court’s decision to review Trump’s Muslim ban, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement: While we are gratified that...
But Possibility to Prove Liability of Prison Administrators Remains June 19, 2017, Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed a federal appeals court ruling that former high-level Bush...