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Law4BlackLives Statement in Support of #JusticeforTamir

November 23, 2015

November 23, 2015 – On the anniversary of 12-year-old Tamir Rice’s killing by police in Cleveland, a coalition of law students, legal workers and attorneys known as Law for Black Lives issued the...

Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, BishopAccountability.org, and the Center for Constitutional Rights Address the United Nations Press Corps in Advance of the Arrival of Pope Francis

September 21, 2015

New York, 21 September, 2015 – Today, representatives from three organizations held a press conference at the United Nations in advance of the Pope’s visit to urge the Vatican to take concrete steps...

UN Committee Addresses Clergy Rape and Sexual Violence as Torture

May 23, 2014

May 23, 2014, New York, Geneva – Today, the United Nations Committee Against Torture found that the widespread sexual violence within the Catholic church amounted to torture and cruel, inhuman...

Vatican Officials Questioned by Second UN Committee About Sexual Violence

May 5, 2014

May 5, 2014, Geneva – Today, the Vatican was summoned to appear before the United Nations Committee Against Torture to report on its record in preventing, punishing and redressing torture,...

Vatican Summoned to Report to UN Committee on Torture

April 14, 2014

April 14, 2014, New York – Late on Friday, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), representing the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), filed a report with the United...

Pope Asks Forgiveness for “Evil” of Church Sex Abuse Epidemic. Survivors Highlight Concrete Actions He Must Take If Serious

April 11, 2014

April 11, 2014 – In response to Pope Francis’s statement today asking for “forgiveness for the damage [some priests] have done for having sexually abused children" and...

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Press Releases

Law4BlackLives Statement in Support of #JusticeforTamir

Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, BishopAccountability.org, and the Center for Constitutional Rights Address the United Nations Press Corps in Advance of the Arrival of Pope Francis

UN Committee Addresses Clergy Rape and Sexual Violence as Torture

Vatican Officials Questioned by Second UN Committee About Sexual Violence

Vatican Summoned to Report to UN Committee on Torture

Pope Asks Forgiveness for “Evil” of Church Sex Abuse Epidemic. Survivors Highlight Concrete Actions He Must Take If Serious

U.N. Expresses “Deepest Concern” over Widespread Sexual Abuse by Clergy, Finding Vatican Failed to Protect Children

U.N. Asks Vatican Hard Questions on Widespread Sexual Violence Against Children

Survivors Challenge Vatican at UN on Clergy Sex Cases

Vatican Responds to UN Questions on Sexual Violence Against Children

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