Ghita Schwarz is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She works on racial justice, immigrants' rights, and government misconduct and transparency. Her current cases...
Join CCR Executive Director Vince Warren for a thought-provoking discussion on U.S. torture policies, CCR's lawsuits for accountability, and what you can do. CCR was the first organization to file a...
Updated: February 7, 2013
December 15, 2018... The SoHo store windows, however, were dominated by one particular charm — the one that looked like a red-mouthed monkey. That image has a particular, painful resonance in this country. And it...
On the 17th anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Amnesty International USA, Justice for Muslims Collective, the National Religious...
Updated: January 4, 2019
Guled Hassan Duran Is First So-Called “High Value” Detainee to Be Approved January 10, 2022 – In response to news that our client Guled Hassan Duran was approved for transfer by a periodic review...
December 1, 2021...In recent months, the same site has been targeted by Greenfield Louisiana LLC for a grain terminal along the Mississippi River. The Banners, who live and work in the neighborhood, also lead a...
April 21, 2017One day in February 2007, Rachel Meeropol stumbled upon a news story about a “secretive” and perhaps illegal prison unit “isolating Muslim, Middle Eastern prisoners,” which had sprung up like newly...
The symposium—taking place on Saturday, March 4, at UCLA Law—will explore the intersection of the international human rights framework with the domestic legal, political, and social...
Updated: February 27, 2023
This year's Bertha Justice Conference will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer by profiling global and domestic models of "movement lawyering"--lawyers and organizers working...
Updated: August 13, 2014
Court Rejects Requested Injunction May 3, 2019, New York – Today, in response to a Superior Court ruling in New Jersey that categorically rejected an injunction requested by the Ramapo Hunt and Polo...
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