A USA Today/Gallup poll in February found that 62 percent of Americans favor a criminal investigation or an independent panel to look into the use of torture, illegal wiretapping, and other alleged...
The multinational corporation Shell financed, armed, and otherwise colluded with the Nigerian military forces that used deadly force and conducted massive, brutal raids against the Ogoni people of...
Part-way through my Skype interview with Adrian Jjuuko, executive director of the Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF) , in Kampala, Uganda, a dog’s loud, insistent barking began...
..."If suspected ISIS fighters are transferred to Guantánamo I would expect that a legal challenge to their detention would be filed within days if not hours of their arrival," said Wells Dixon of...
Join Senior Staff Attorney Ghita Schwarz for a live briefing with the Practising Law Institute (PLI) on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Since 1966, the Freedom of Information Act has given the...
...During the last two years of Bloomberg's mayoralty, Bloomberg continued to be a staunch public defender of stop and frisk even as its actual use plunged. Rather than implement the reforms...
...In an emergency motion filed on Tuesday, attorneys with the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Legal Aid Society argued the police department was not complying with a set of reforms ordered...
...“It seems that the United States in some circumstances understands the importance of the First Amendment,” says Angelo Guisado, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights. “But whenever...
... Imprisoned in Georgia, Ashley Diamond was raped 14 times by both sexually violent inmates and prison staff. This was after a guard talked about her gender identity using slurs like “freak” and “...
Breaking the Lock: Accessing Public Records to Map Systems, Algorithms and Data is a new open records resource from the Center for Constitutional Rights, AI Now, and Northeastern School of Law CLIC...
