The UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination will be convening a series of panels to...
Updated: July 6, 2016
July 15, 2016I d ealt with David Margolis at the Department of Justice, and generally share the positive feelings about his character and integrity expressed by many following his recent death [July 13, courant...
July 16, 2016As his 10th anniversary at Guantanamo Bay draws near, an al-Qaida plotter from Baltimore is at the center of a new plan that could help resolve the cases of the dozens of men still held at the...
July 19, 2016... Efforts to prosecute within federal law mini-American Nurembergs have likewise been stymied. For years, attorneys from the ACLU, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and other legal...
August 25, 2016... It was only a matter of time before the United States itself became the target of foreign legal proceedings. In 2005, Swiss prosecutors opened a criminal investigation into the United States’ use...
September 6, 2016Ten years. It’s been exactly a decade since President George W. Bush announced on September 6, 2006 that 14 former CIA prisoners had been brought to Guantanamo. That was when we learned about the...
Through photographs, a multimedia display, and a virtual reality film, the stories of victims of private military and security companies will be the focal point of an exhibit organized by the UN...
Updated: September 8, 2016
CCR is proud to partner with the International Commission of Jurists and the International Federation for Human Rights to present a panel discussion featuring two Iraqi torture survivors, Salah...
Updated: September 14, 2016
September 9, 2016As New Yorkers, we at CCR all have our personal stories of that terrible day. As an organization, our 9/11 story is about how we sprang into action and how we have continued to respond to the...
“You could also ask what is art’s take on the destruction that is happening? What is its perspective? What does art say about what Iraq is going through? What will it look like? What will be its form...
Updated: September 19, 2016
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