By Peter Finn Sunday, February 06, 2011 A planned trip to Switzerland this week by George W. Bush was canceled after human rights activists called for demonstrations and threatened legal action over...
November 20, 2023...On Nov. 13, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit against President Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III for complicity with...
Lumumba Akinwole-Bandele is an organizer and educator based in central Brooklyn. He is the former National Strategies and Partnerships Director at The Movement for Black Lives. From 2011 to 2020, he...
In December 2020, Joyce McMillan was a part-time employee of Singeria, a contractor with New York City's Administration for Children's Services (ACS). After a Facebook post where Ms. McMillan stated...
Updated: October 28, 2024
The Center for Constitutional Rights is excited to support the #FreeAshleyNow team and partners for a letter writing event for our client, Ashley Diamond, a Black trans woman and social justice...
Updated: May 19, 2021
Bandele v. City of New York was a federal civil rights lawsuit brought against the City of New York and three NYPD officers in 2007. It charges that the defendants falsely arrested and imprisoned the...
Updated: January 20, 2010
Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center for a preliminary injunction motion hearing in our case, Diamond v. Ward, et al. , before the U.S. District Court for the...
Updated: May 10, 2021
July 19, 2017The criminalization of political speech and activism against Israel has become one of the gravest threats to free speech in the west. In France, activists have been arrested and prosecuted for...
Federal lawsuit challenging government-ordered extrajudicial killings in Bolivia
Updated: September 28, 2023
FOIA lawsuit seeks records improperly withheld by U.S. government after it mistreated Black immigrants October 13, 2021, New York ‒ Civil rights organizations today filed a Freedom of Information Act...
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