CCR Takes Case Of U.S. Torture And Detention To O.A.S. Inter-American Commission for Human Rights

Center for Constitutional Rights Takes Case Of U.S. Torture And Detention Before O.A.S. Inter-American Commission for Human Rights
Center For Constitutional Rights

In Washington, D.C on March 3, 2005, The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and other Petitioners today went before the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights to argue that the U.S. continues to violate its own treaties as well as international and domestic law in its treatment of detainees at Guantánamo Bay and elsewhere. The United States is a member of the Organization of American States and signed the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man in 1948.