April 15, 2013, New York – After a two-month investigation, the City University of New York (CUNY) General Counsel’s office issued a report late Friday vindicating student organizers of a...
Center for Constitutional Rights ● Columbia Law School Human Rights Institute With the CO-SPONSORSHIP OF the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE IN PRACTICE:...
Updated: September 21, 2011
October 23, 2017To mark the 23rd of the month, invoking the 23 hours per day that prisoners spend isolated in special housing units, activists throughout California are taking action to bring attention to prison...
June 30, 2008, New York – Today, the majority in a federal Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 against Center for Constitutional Rights client Maher Arar’s case against U.S. officials for their role in...
August 24, 2009, New York and Washington – Baach Robinson & Lewis PLLC and the Center for Constitutional Rights today filed a petition to the Supreme Court on behalf of four British...
October 3, 2017Donald Trump has rightly drawn condemnation for his repeated threats to reinstate waterboarding and other forms of torture. But under a little-reported program, “ Special Administrative Measures ” (...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a landmark human rights case with significant implications for the separation of powers, the Supreme Court today heard a challenge brought by the Center for Constitutional...
On September 13, 2011, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), on behalf of the Survivor’s Network for those Abused by Priests (SNAP) and five individual complainants, submitted a detailed...
Updated: October 18, 2018
On the twelfth episode of The Activist Files, Senior Legal Worker Leah Todd talks with educator, organizer, and director of Project NIA Mariame Kaba and journalist, author, and organizer Victoria Law...
Updated: May 9, 2019
March 19, 2013, Washington, D.C. – Today, on the 10-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, a group of U.S. veterans of the Iraq war and two Iraqi organizations launched the “Right to...
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