“The U.S. government’s estimate of civilian casualties is misleading at best and, at worst, a distortion of the reality on the ground,” said Omar Shakir, a legal expert who has extensively studied...
Colonialism is generally not a topic of discussion or analysis in constitutional law studies in the United States. Yet U.S. constitutional law has both shaped and been shaped by projects of colonial...
February 23, 2024, Washington, D.C. – This morning, Van Der Hout LLP, National Immigration Project , Center for Constitutional Rights , American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) and Muslim...
Civil and Human Rights groups join with Indigenous, Racial, Palestinian, and Environmental Justice activists to condemn ALEC for attacking people of color and the climate August 15, 2019 Today, as...
Paris, New York, December 7, 2007 – Human rights groups issued an open letter [attached below] yesterday to French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner detailing dangerous repercussions of a decision to...
On September 15, 2004 California Superior Court Judge Victoria Chaney rejected an attempt by Unocal Corp. to dismiss a lawsuit charging it is responsible for human rights abuses committed by the...
October 31, 2014, New York – Today, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals granted the City of New York’s request to withdraw its appeal of Floyd v. City of New York , the landmark stop-and-...
Please join CCR, Maysles Cinema and others for an important and timely discussion titled "Fists and Guns: Harlem Then & Now." The panel will feature CCR Education and Outreach Director...
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...
Court requests additional information before final ruling on preliminary injunction May 28, 2025, New York – A federal court in New Jersey issued an opinion ruling that the foreign policy grounds on...
