During the upcoming term, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964 guarantees protections against workplace discrimination for the 1.4 million transgender people living...
Updated: September 6, 2019
Kifah Jayyousi is a United States citizen who is married with five children and currently lives and works in Michigan. Kifah is a plaintiff in Aref v. Garland , a federal lawsuit filed in 2010...
Updated: October 14, 2021
On January 11, 2023, the 21st anniversary of the prison's opening, 159 organizations sent a letter to President Biden urging him to prioritize closing Guantánamo and ending indefinited detention...
Updated: January 11, 2023
Ashley Diamond is a Black, transgender woman and social justice and prisoners' rights activist whose landmark victory against the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) in 2016 made national...
Updated: January 19, 2023
As we marked the 22nd anniversary of the prison's opening in January 2024, the Center for Constitutional Rights joined nearly 100 other U.S.-based and international NGOs in a letter to President...
Updated: January 11, 2024
Background The East Baton Rouge Parish Prison in Louisiana is designed to hold approximately 1,600 individuals. There are more than 1,200 people currently imprisoned there—even after community...
Updated: August 7, 2020
On December 5, 2016, CCR, Palestine Legal, the National Lawyers Guild, the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Jewish Voice for Peace, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the Bill of...
Updated: August 10, 2018
CCR, working with our international partners, has filed several cases against former U.S. officials, including George W. Bush and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, for their role in the...
Updated: September 8, 2021
The Holy See claims that it is a sovereign state. It is governed as a monarchy with the Pope having "supreme, immediate and universal ordinary power." Given its tiny territorial state, its global...
Updated: September 22, 2015
Bottom Line President Obama’s proposed plan is too little, too late. First, the president’s plan cannot achieve the fundamental goal of ending indefinite detention without trial because central to...
Updated: February 23, 2016
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