November 2, 2010, Washington, D.C. — For the 1.5 million people still living in displacement camps, forced evictions pose an immediate threat of grave and irreparable harm, according to a...
October 9, 2013, New York – Prisoners on California and Louisiana’s death row are being held in conditions that amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or torture under...
October 28, 2010, New York – Today, the National Day Laborer Organization Network (NDLON), the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic of...
May 27, 2009, New York – In response to both the California Supreme Court ruling supporting Proposition 8, the anti-gay marriage ballot initiative, and the United States Supreme Court ruling...
New Yorkers have expressed their displeasure with the excessive use of stop-and-frisk by the Bloomberg administration. Voters were moved by this issue in the recent citywide election, a federal court...
On May 21, 2007, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the City of New York, charging it with discriminatory hiring practices against black and Latino potential firefighters. The lawsuit...
July 13, 2012, New York – Today, in an important victory for open government, Judge Shira A. Scheindlin, of the Southern District of New York, ruled that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (...
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY’S COLLEGE OF LAW AND MAXWELL SCHOOL PRESENT IMPUNITY WATCH ’S 3RD ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM SEXUAL VIOLENCE AS A WEAPON OF WAR AND CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY This event is...
Court rejects claim that support for BDS and other free speech activity amounts to support for terrorism May 3, 2023, Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the...
