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
CCR, Palestine Legal, and 20 other rights organizations put out a call on December 9, 2016, International Human Rights Defenders Day, to demand protection for and an end to threats against,...
Updated: March 15, 2017
23 January 2018 Hon. James Mattis Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense c/o U.S. Department of Justice Civil Division 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001 Rear Admiral Edward B...
Updated: January 25, 2018
The Abolitionist Law Center (ALC), Amistad Law Project (ALP), and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit on behalf of individuals serving mandatory sentences of Death By Incarceration (...
Updated: October 25, 2021
Artwork by Shereen Masoud-Jointe "Solitary confinement has destroyed me...It was like a huge mountain that was on top of me. And the pressure on me was so high it squeezed tears out of my eyes...I...
Updated: April 4, 2022
Artwork by Micah Bazant "This fight is not just my fight, it's our fight. My hope is that the future is brighter for people like me. I hope this lawsuit forever changes the way transgender people in...
Updated: January 19, 2023
“We have lost so many people, but there are still many more who are living, and we owe it to them to do everything possible to stop this genocide. I have done everything in my power: I have...
Updated: April 16, 2025
On May 18, 2018, CCR joined Palestine Legal, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, and the National Lawyers Guild in sending a letter to members of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor...
Updated: June 14, 2018
CCR and Palestine Legal wrote a letter to the City University of New York (CUNY) on April 25, 2018, informing the college that the City College of New York’s (CCNY) cancellation of a May 3 event...
Updated: April 30, 2018
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