July 14, 2011, Washington, D.C.– A group of international human rights organizations filed an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court in the case of Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum in...
July 6, 2011, New York and Washington – Documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation by the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), the Center for...
WASHINGTON, June 27 /PRNewswire/ - The U.S. Supreme Court sent a terrible message with its refusal today to hear the case of 250 civilians allegedly tortured and seriously harmed by corporate...
June 15, 2011, New York – Today, as Congressman Peter King leads the House Committee on Homeland Security through the second in a series of hearings examining so-called homegrown Islamic...
May 31, 2011, WASHINGTON -- The Obama Administration struck a blow to the protection of fundamental human rights by recommending that the U.S. Supreme Court not hear the case of 250 civilians...
May 6, 2011, New York – Today, Center for Constitutional Rights Executive Director Vince Warren issued the following statement: In the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden, it is a time to be...
March 30, 2011, New York – Today, prisoners in two experimental federal prison units called “Communications Management Units” (CMUs) won the right to have their day in court and...
March 18, 2011, New York and Geneva – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued a report on the formal adoption of the United States’ Report at the United Nations Human...
Brooklyn, March 11, 2011 – Today the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) urged a federal court judge to reject the government’s efforts to halt a class action civil rights lawsuit on...
March 8, 2011, New York – In response to the impending hearings being held by United States Representative Peter King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, on “The Extent of...