This week marks five years since the Israeli military raided a flotilla of civilian ships on international waters en route to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza and challenge the Israeli blockade. Ten...
When Laverne I. and her husband were stopped by the NYPD while simply walking down the street, she asked one of the officers for his badge number as they began to search her husband’s pockets. The...
The Trials of Patricia Isasa is a new opera by Kristin Norderval based on the true story of Patricia Isasa, who was kidnapped, imprisoned, and tortured at the age of 16 by the military junta that...
September 6, 2017, New York and Washington, D.C. – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights and Defending Rights & Dissent released a comprehensive report on state ag-gag laws, which prohibit...
Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel asked a federal judge to order the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to comply with
Activism Needed to Remedy Solitary Conditions in Prisons, Civil Rights Attorneys Say March 28, 2018, Oakland, CA – Today, a federal judge declined to order the California Department of Corrections...
August 15, 2018, New York – In the wake of the Pennsylvania grand jury report detailing widespread sexual violence across the state and cover-up by senior leaders of the Catholic Church in...
We continue our fight to protect asylum rights In a decision late Monday , a federal district court rejected the Trump administration's second attempt to dismiss our lawsuit, Al Otro Lado v. Nielsen...
We're suing to keep immigrant families together [caption align="right"] [/caption] On Tuesday, community organizations filed a lawsuit to block the Trump administration’s cruel, racist, and patently...
Rule Change Remains Blocked, Protecting Millions of Low-Income Immigrant Families January 8, 2020, New York, NY – Today, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order denying the government’s...
