The lawyer representing Tariq Ba Odah, a detainee at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who began a hunger strike in 2007, said Friday that his client had lost more than half of his...
Retired senior military officers and human rights advocates are reacting with disgust at Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s description of the Geneva Conventions as a “problem” for...
...The two women are members of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a local environmentalist group. An attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights representing the two women dismissed the charges as...
...The Center for Constitutional Rights, in a statement Monday, said that "throughout its 20 years in Afghanistan, the U.S. never prioritized the safety and dignity of Afghan civilians—it must do so...
Exploiting tragedies has always been smart politics for demagogues seeking to promote their political agenda. From Pearl Harbor to 9/11, cynical politicians have fanned the flames of racism, fear,...
Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in the provision of public services, including transportation. Discrimination occurs...
...“ It is extremely disturbing that people who want to walk across a bridge in one of the most fundamental forms of peaceful protest are facing up to 15 years in prison,” said Pam Spees of the...
...Now tens of thousands of migrants who have been waiting for months in Mexican border cities are struggling to understand what the policy means for them even though they’ve followed the rules and...
... Queer organizer Dorothee Benz has worked at some of the nation’s largest LGBT legal rights groups, including the Center for Constitutional Rights (one of the groups that filed the legal case...
