Court Monitor Cannot Accurately Assess NYPD Policy Changes Without Hearing from Impacted People July 29, 2021, New York – Today, community organizations, attorneys behind the class-action lawsuits...
Legal Glossary Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) , also known as Alien Tort Statute (ATS) – The Alien Tort Claims Act is a federal statute from 1789 that allows foreign victims of international...
Updated: February 19, 2010
June 16, 2020This is the last in a four-part series of blogs about the movement response to COVID-19. It also appears as the latest episode of the Center for Constitutional Rights podcast, The Activist Files...
Overview: In August 2013, a federal judge found that the New York Police Department (NYPD) had engaged in a widespread practice of unconstitutional and racially discriminatory stops and frisks and...
Updated: June 11, 2019
22 October 2008, Montreal – Human rights groups today urged Canada to offer refugee resettlement without delay to Djamel Ameziane, an Algerian who has been unlawfully detained for more than six years...
- Turkmen v. Ashcroft was first filed on April 17, 2002, on behalf of three non-citizens and a putative class of Arab, South Asian and Muslim men arrested on immigration charges and detained in...
Updated: November 22, 2016
February 11, 2021In the six years since Ferguson, calls for accountability for the state-sanctioned murder of Black people have evolved to encompass demands to defund and abolish the prison-industrial complex (PIC)...
July 27, 2023, San Diego, CA – Today two immigrant rights groups and a group of asylum seekers filed a class action lawsuit in federal court challenging the Biden administration’s unlawful policy of...
June 1, 2011, New York – A wide coalition of immigrant advocacy groups applauded Governor Cuomo decision today to suspend the mass deportation program known as “Secure Communities...
February 4, 2011, Miami, FL and Washington, D.C. – Today, in response to an emergency petition filed on January 6, 2011 by six rights groups, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (...
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