Three lawsuits filed on behalf of relatives of murdered activists who were fighting for human rights and environmental justice in Nigeria. The lawsuits are brought against the Royal Dutch Petroleum...
Updated: January 4, 2022
November 17, 2016..."Until the rise of Trumpism, it had been universally recognized that Japanese internment was one of the most shameful episodes in our country's history, yet in this new era it is becoming an...
August 6, 2015Every four years, the U.N. Human Rights Committee evaluates whether a government is in compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and is following previous...
Click here for a printable version of the factsheet . The release of the photographs and video documenting horrific torture of Iraqi prisoners detained by the U.S. at Abu Ghraib drew demands for...
Updated: September 8, 2021
June 17, 2015The climate of "hysteria" following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks may have led Attorney General John Ashcroft to treat undocumented Muslims and Arabs as potential terrorists based on the thinnest of...
New Memorandum from Leading Civil Rights Advocates Documents the Most Egregious Federal Programs that Surveil, Profile, and Criminalize Black, African, Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian...
Crafting Laws in Secret With Corporations and Conservative Activists Violates Open Meetings Law, Lawsuit Says September 1, 2020, Phoenix, AZ – Today, attorneys representing leaders from Arizona’s...
October 28, 2016... Discussing the ruling in an interview, J. Wells Dixon with the Center for Constitutional Rights said he found this interesting. "The District Court acknowledges that with the passage of time...
November 1, 2018A Louisiana court of appeals will decide whether pipeline companies seizing land under eminent domain are subject to state open record laws. The Advocate reports the 1st Circuit Court of Appeal heard...
May 21, 2024A gathering with Black and Indigenous organizers fighting petrochemical companies in Louisiana
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