April 2, 2014, Chicago – Yesterday afternoon, the Senate Judiciary Committee of the Illinois Senate rejected Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 59, proposed by Senator Ira Silverstein (D-Chicago),...
To honor Black history is to celebrate Black futures and the radical imaginings of our ancestors. Generations of Black freedom fighters have put forward liberatory political, social, and economic...
January 20, 2011, New York – Just before the first anniversary of President Obama’s failed deadline to close Guantanamo, the New York Times yesterday reported that the administration will...
September 30, 2009, New York, NY – Today, the Supreme Court announced that it will hear an appeal from lower court rulings stating that key provisions of the federal “material support...
...“By supporting redistricting, ALEC is engaging in another direct attack on the right to vote for people of color, and it comes after years of ALEC promoting restrictive and unconstitutional voter...
... There is strong support for BDS by myriad civil and human rights organizations. Forty-two of them — including the Center for Constitutional Rights, New York Civil Liberties Union, United...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a landmark human rights case with significant implications for the separation of powers, the Supreme Court today heard a challenge brought by the Center for Constitutional...
On International Workers’ Day, suit challenges constitutionality of government actions to punish resistance to forced labor among majority-Black prison population May 1, 2024, Montgomery, AL – On...
... The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) takes note of a number of recent articles based on a political report attempting to discredit its work and mandate, and that of its member...
