October 2014"A ruling by a federal appeals court panel Friday has ended the lawsuit challenging the New York City Police Department's stop-and-frisk policy. The panel granted the city's request to withdraw...
August 25, 2015Next month, NYPD officers doing stop-and-frisks will start handing out forms that include an explanation for the encounters and contact information to register complaints, a department spokesman said...
International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda filed a request with the Pre-Trial Chamber on November 20, 2017 seeking judicial authorization to open a formal investigation into crimes...
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August 4, 2023...Understanding this history is critical to understanding the region today, Pamela Spees, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, told Insider. In the aftermath of the Civil...
December 1, 2016“Federal, state, and local officials’ lack of response to the AIDS epidemic, as well as calls for routine mandatory testing of various segments of the population and quarantining people with AIDS,...
December 6, 2012, New York – In a long-standing civil rights lawsuit brought by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the firm of DLA Piper against the New York City Board of Education, a...
April 11, 2013, New York and Washington, D.C. – As the hunger strike of men detained at the U.S. prison at Guantánamo began its third month, activists organized emergency rallies in over...
October 4, 2019... a group of New York organizations represented by the Legal Aid Society, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the law firm Paul Weiss, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern...
Facing Increasing Danger, Ashley Diamond Demands Transfer Out of Male Prison November 23, 2021, Macon, GA – Today, Ashley Diamond, a Black transgender woman, submitted new evidence to the court...
February 2011A planned trip to Switzerland this week by George W. Bush was canceled after human rights activists called for demonstrations and threatened legal action over allegations that the former president...
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