July 18, 2013, New York – Following news reports that the ex-CIA chief in Milan who was convicted in absentia in Italy for his role in the 2003 rendition-to-torture of “Abu Omar”...
Astha Sharma Pokharel is a Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she specializes in international human rights and in challenging racial and environmental injustice, abusive...
Georgetown University in Qatar will host the Reimagining Palestine conference, September 20 - 22, 2024 . Some of the world’s leading academics and practitioners will gather for a thought-...
Updated: September 12, 2024
March 17, 2016Pointing to government-friendly rulings on police illegal searches and seizures and Guantánamo detainee rights, some criminal justice reform advocates are greeting President Obama’s nomination of...
CCR Bertha Justice Institute Fellow Noor Zafar will join a panel to discuss the travel ban executive order and its impact on the Iranian community and other affected communities, and pending...
Updated: February 28, 2017
June 5, 2017All Americans cherish free speech in principle — not so much in practice, and perhaps particularly not when the subject is Palestine. The controversy at Fordham University over its refusal to allow...
On April 25th, the Supreme Court will hear Trump v. Hawaii, one of the legal challenges to the Trump administration's Muslim Ban, which has been blocked by the courts time and time again. The night...
Updated: April 24, 2018
Natasha Lycia Ora Bannan, New York, is an senior counsel at LatinoJustice PRLDEF, where she focuses on low-wage Latina immigrant workers as part of the organization’s economic justice platform, legal...
If you know CCR, you’re probably familiar with some of our groundbreaking cases. But who are the people working at the Center for Constitutional Rights? In the third episode of The Activist Files, we...
Updated: February 26, 2019
Join Fordham students in court as they continue to fight for their right to have a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) club on campus. The last of the four students who brought the case against...
Updated: May 7, 2019
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