Human Rights

An attorney who represented prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay was found dead last week in what sources said was a suicide.

Stephen F. Rodhe: Today is Law Day, and Obama has issued a lofty Proclamation, full of sound and formality, signifying nothing.

Here's a look back at the work of this remarkable activist who is still engaged in the struggle for human emancipation.

Tlazocamati huel miac – thank you to members of the Ella Baker/Septima Clark Human Rights Award Committee, American Educational Research Association, Division B, for 2013. I first want to …

If witnesses to the 1980s massacres are forced to re-testify, they'll face risk and strain beyond what they've already overcome in order to speak out.

The Senate's Immigration proposal is titled: Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernity Act. While being touted by the “gang of 8” senators and the media as a compromise, …

Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), Yemeni human rights organization HOOD and the Swiss-based Alkarama submitted new testimony to a Senate Judiciary Sub-Committee that is holding a hearing …

Privacy, not surveillance, is what must be justified now. We must make sure not to draw the wrong lessons from Boston.

As Ben Franklin so famously asserted, if we're going to go down the road of compromising our rights for security, we'll deserve - and almost certainly end up - …

Zeese and Flowers examine the US drone program, its security effectiveness, legality under US and international law, state of development, and position in US opinion.