January 7, 2026The invasion, illegal under international law and waged in the name of so-called security, was a turning point in our lives.
July 12, 2017Border agents are systematically intimidating and turning away asylum seekers at the US–Mexico border, a lawsuit filed on Wednesday alleges. The federal class-action lawsuit filed in US District...
January 20, 2023...Diala Shamas, a lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights representing the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, describes the legal action as part of a broader Israeli-led strategy to...
May 23, 2016The Obama administration is defending former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and his FBI director Robert Mueller III in the U.S. Supreme Court over claims they are liable for their roles in the...
April 6, 2022... Critics of Biden’s plan point out that Haitians who endured the assassination of their president in July of 2021 and a deadly earthquake one month later have been the victim of racist U.S...
Join the Connections podcast on Wednesday, January 31, from 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. , for a live streamed conversation with Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney Diala Shamas ...
Updated: January 31, 2024
The Center for Constitutional Rights is honored to be awarded the Frederick Douglass Human Rights Award, given annually by the Southern Center for Human Rights to those who have made outstanding...
December 1, 2010, New York - Today, CCR sent an urgent appeal to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders to ask her to investigate the case of the shack...
Join the Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy (LCNP) for a free educational forum from 4-5:30 pm, featuring UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Angela Kane, former UN Legal Counsel Hans...
Updated: March 7, 2014
November 18, 2017On November 3, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) informed the court’s Pre-Trial Chamber, ”[T]here is a reasonable basis to believe that war crimes and crimes against...
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