January 4, 2011, New York, NY — Issuing unprecedented recommendations to the Haitian government, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has granted a legal request submitted in...
April 17, 2016“Nothing is impossible in life, as long as you live and breathe,” Mohammed Al-Hamiri once said, as he sat across the table from me and his CCR lawyer Omar Farah, in Guantanamo’s Camp Echo. I wanted...
November 22, 2016, New York – Today, in response to a submission by four Palestinian human rights groups to the International Criminal Court (ICC) urging the ICC prosecutor to open a formal...
Join Center For Constitutional Rights Digital Engagement Manager, Alex Perotti , at Netroots Nation 2019 Conference, for a fun, interactive session that will provide ideas for how your...
Updated: June 11, 2019
The Center for Constitutional Rights and Southern Poverty Law Center lawsuit, Diamond v. Ward , filed on behalf of Ashley Diamond, proceeds to trial on January 19, 2023 before Chief Judge Marc T...
Updated: January 18, 2023
This short briefing paper is presented to the UN International Independent Expert Mechanism to Advance Racial Justice and Equality in the context of Law Enforcement (UN EMLER), to assist in the...
Updated: March 16, 2023
January 21, 2024... “Stops are increasing, the number of police killings are increasing, the racial disparity in who is being stopped is increasing,” said Samah Sisay, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional...
January 14, 2019Wonderful news for our clients and their families from Yemen [caption align="right"] [/caption] Yemeni-Americans who for more than a year had been prevented from joining their families in the United...
27 Civil Rights Organizations and Leaders File Amicus Brief in Maryland Supreme Court Defending Parents’ Right to Access the Safe Haven Law Without Liability January 14, 2026, Anne Arundel County, MD...
CCR and the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) will appear before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) during its 164th session for a merits hearing in our case,...
Updated: August 31, 2017
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