September 1, 2015California will release hundreds of inmates confined for years in solitary confinement into units where they will live with others, in a sweeping settlement announced Tuesday to reform the practice...
September 11, 2015The government is skirting the Geneva Conventions and other international human rights standards by refusing to immediately release Tariq Ba Odah, a Yemeni Guantánamo detainee suffering from severe...
Please save the date and pack the court for oral argument on motions for summary judgment in SMUG v. Lively , a federal lawsuit in which CCR represents Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG). SMUG is a non-...
Updated: September 13, 2016
CCR Bertha Justice Fellow Stephanie Llane s will speak at the closing panel about government power and its ramifications at the Institute for Signifying Scriptures (ISS) Annual Meeting in Charlotte,...
Updated: December 19, 2017
CCR Bertha Justice Institute Fellow Noor Zafar will join a panel to discuss the travel ban executive order and its impact on the Iranian community and other affected communities, and pending...
Updated: February 28, 2017
June 30, 2017For Abdul Latif Nasser, a Moroccan national held in the US military-run detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the difference between freedom and continued incarceration was just eight days...
December 22, 2017The Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office in Northern Virginia is holding people in jail past their release date at the request of Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE] using a technique that raises...
On Wednesday, February 6th, join Center for constiutional Rights executive director, Vincent Warren , and the Jewish Association Serving the Aging for a viewing of this inspirational portrait of...
Updated: February 5, 2019
March 5, 2021...Pam Spees, the Center for Constitutional Rights attorney who represented the survivors, told me that the work Bishop Accountability does is the “most important and well-respected, credible...
July 23, 2021...Palestinians say that over the past century, Israelis have violently displaced their people from their rightful land, which violates article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention , and leaves...
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