Darius Charney is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Consitutional Rights, where he works on government misconduct and racial justice cases. He is lead counsel on Floyd v. City of New York ,...
CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s Department of Communication and Theater Arts presents In Our Name: A Play on the Torture Years. Following the opening performance on Wednesday, May...
Updated: May 3, 2012
Pack the Court for United States of America and Vulcan Society, Inc., v. City of New York , starting Monday, Oct. 1st For more than a decade, CCR has been challenging the fundamental inequality of...
Updated: September 25, 2012
The Bertha Justice Institute at the Center for Constitutional Rights is pleased to announce the launch of a monthly film series that harnesses the power of film to educate, inspire, and tell the...
Updated: July 7, 2014
November 2013Commentary: Iraqis and former US soldiers join forces in fight for justice In early October, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the principal human rights body of the Organization of...
Tucked amid jagged mountain ranges resides the sleepy town of Bayt Ghazy. This idyllic agrarian community serves as the backdrop of the original documentary “Waiting for Fahd”, which...
Updated: December 23, 2014
Abu Ghraib’s Legacy of Torture In April 2004, shocking photographs depicting the humiliation and torture of prisoners in the early days of the Iraq war were made public. Images of men in hoods,...
Updated: June 1, 2015
Stop-and-frisk abuses and other abusive NYPD practices over the past few decades resulted in a federal court ordering that changes be developed with community input, as the result of several class...
Updated: November 18, 2016
June 27, 2017President Trump is never more excited by policy than when it gives him license to bully someone. His travel ban , an executive order prohibiting travel from seven (then, after a March revision, six)...
September 13, 2017Last week, in Mexico City, a symbolically powerful blow was dealt to the United States’ notion of itself as a nation founded on the rule of law, which respects the rule of law and also respects human...
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