On November 10, 1995, nine Ogoni leaders (the “Ogoni 9”) were executed by the Nigerian government after being falsely accused of murder and tried by a specially created military tribunal. Those...
Updated: January 22, 2008
The UN Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the right of peoples to self-determination will be convening a series of panels to...
Updated: July 6, 2016
June 11, 2015A system of local quotas for privately run immigration detention facilities across the United States has created a strong incentive for federal immigration authorities to detain more immigrants than...
January 7, 2016..."This settlement is important in light of escalating anti-Muslim rhetoric and hate crimes in the U.S., but at the same time we hope Mayor de Blasio will be more vocal about why the department was...
St. James Parish Council broke own rules to okay expansion into protected wetlands, court finds in Louisiana environmental justice case May 15, 2025, Gretna, LA – Yesterday, a five-judge panel of the...
Oral argument will be heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals in the case of Al-Zahrani v. Rumsfeld tomorrow, October 6. Al-Zahrani is a civil action filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) on...
15,000 Pages of Documents Previously Obtained by CCR Show U.S. Blocking Efforts at Accountability May 30, 2017, San Francisco – the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice and the Center for...
November 4, 2025The Center for Constitutional Rights mourns the passing of Peter Weiss, the visionary human rights lawyer, our beloved mentor and friend, and our long-time vice president, who served on our board for...
Decision disproportionately harms LGBTQIA+ people, who are unhoused at extremely high rates
Lawsuit challenges constitutionality of punishing people who resist forced labor in Alabama’s majority-Black prisons November 20, 2024, Montgomery, AL – Yesterday, five incarcerated workers brought...
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