The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), in conjunction with the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, responded this week to a request for comments from Immigration and...
Artist and printmaker Daniel Heyman has sketched many Iraqi torture victims. Daniels artistry makes its return to New York City in this thought provoking exibition: Close Encounters: Acts of A Social...
The Supreme Court has made it harder to prove discrimination on the basis of age, ruling against an employee in his mid-50s who says he was demoted because of his age.
In 2008, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), along with partners from the US Human Rights Network, the Justice Committee and Peoples' Justice coalition presented testimony to the United...
June 1, 2009, New York, NY – In response to the murder of respected and celebrated OB-GYN physician and abortion provider Dr. George Tiller in Wichita, Kansas this week, the Center for...
This is a repost of a press release by the US Human Rights Network of which the Center for Constitutional Rights is a member. Atlanta, May 29, 2009 - In response to the Federal Emergency Management...
May 18, 2009, New York – Today the United States Supreme Court issued a decision against a post-9/11 detainee’s challenge to former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert...
Twice the immigration judge asked the woman’s name. Twice she gave it: Xiu Ping Jiang. But he chided her, a Chinese New Yorker, for answering his question before the court interpreter had translated...
The Police Department says its practice of stopping, and sometimes frisking, thousands of people a year in high-crime neighborhoods has helped keep those areas safe. But the growing use of so-called...
