July 11, 2011, New York – In a victory today for plaintiffs the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Cardozo Law School Immigration Justice...
March 19, 2013, Washington, D.C. – Today, on the 10-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, a group of U.S. veterans of the Iraq war and two Iraqi organizations launched the “Right to...
In the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which the United States ratified in 1994, torture is defined as "any act by which...
Updated: January 11, 2010
This article was originally published on Huffington Post on December 28, 2010 Eight young people, who the Fire Department said were "trying to stay warm," perished in a raging fire during...
Updated: December 29, 2010
By Jocelyn Brooks and Greger Calhan, Center for Constitutional Rights Ella Baker legal interns in Port-au-Prince July 14, 2011 — Standing out amidst the wreckage of a destroyed tent were a...
Updated: July 14, 2011
By Sunita Patel, Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and Bill Quigley, Associate Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights Nations and organizations around the globe...
Updated: December 19, 2011
August 2010By Glenn Greenwald A major legal challenge to one of the Obama administration's most radical assertions of executive power began this morning in a federal courthouse in Washington, DC. Early last...
December 2013Ten Steps Bill de Blasio and Bill Bratton Should Take to Fix Stop-and-Frisk The road to police reform begins with community participation and a court-appointed monitor. David A. Harris December 20,...
December 2, 2016On September 13, I traveled to the front-line border with ISIS, at the outskirts of Himreen mountain which is next to Hawija. I met tens of women who had just crossed the separating mountain on foot...
February 7, 2017“Five soldiers were taking turns to rape a 25 year old woman after they butchered her husband with a knife, when her eight month old son started crying because he was hungry and wanted to be breast...
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