January 29, 2016The movement to put private prison contractors out of business won some amazing victories in 2015. In the last two months, responding to organized action by California’s Afrikan Black Coalition and...
May 2009The 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...
May 2012Judge Shira Scheindlin of Federal District Court spoke up for the constitutional rights of blacks and Hispanics on Wednesday by granting class-action status to a lawsuit that accuses the New York...
January 16, 2018Environmental groups attempting to block the construction of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline across the environmentally sensitive Atchafalaya Basin asked a state court to force the company to turn over...
March 8, 2018...The Center for Constitutional Rights has submitted a Freedom of Information Act request, seeking information on the process for adjudicating waivers. Future discovery in ongoing legal challenges...
February 19, 2020... “CBP’s own statistics show that the Government has far more capacity to process asylum seekers than it is currently using,” attorneys for the Southern Poverty Law Center, Center for...
In light of recent reports that the Obama Administration is considering easing restrictions on travel to Cuba, CCR Executive Director Vincent Warren issued an Open Letter today to President Obama ,...
Updated: September 13, 2010
June 2, 2011, New York, Miami and New Orleans – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued a strongly-worded order yesterday directing the United States to refrain from...
July 2, 2024The ruling will inflict disproportionate harm on LGBTQIA+ people, because they are unhoused at extremely high rates
On September 11-12, 2008, Evangelicals for Human Rights, with the National Religious Campaign Against Torture and Mercer University, will host a national summit on torture in Atlanta, GA, on the...
Updated: May 21, 2008
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