December 2014"Eric Garner's widow shouted two fiery words of rebuke when asked if she accepted words of condolence from the cop who killed her husband with a chokehold: “Hell no!” Hours after the...
Context This is a resource page to help people support the call by the Women of Cancer Alley for a moratorium on new petrochemical industry facilities and closure of existing facilities that refuse...
Updated: May 9, 2019
On March 2, 2017, CCR, Palestine Legal, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the Arab American Institute, the Bill of Rights Defense Committee/Defending Dissent Foundation, the Carolina...
Updated: October 16, 2017
Optimistic that future for justice lies with growing Palestinian solidarity movement April 25, 2016, Ramallah, Gaza City, New York – Two of Palestine’s most prominent human rights defenders – Raji...
United States v. Ahmed Abdel Sattar, et al. is a case in which Lynne Stewart, a criminal defense attorney who represented Sheikh Abdel Rahman, was indicted on April 9, 2002, for providing "material...
Updated: October 22, 2007
August 17, 2011, New York – The Center for Constitutional Rights, the law firm of Broach & Stulberg and the Syracuse Law School Disabilities Rights Clinic, successfully preserved a federal...
February 16, 2021, New York– Today, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals denied the New York City police unions’ (along with corrections and fire unions’) attempt to stop the City of New York from...
Part III – ACCOUNTABILITY What We Can Do When Our Government Violates International Laws Ann Wright : Retired Colonel and former US State Dept official - In 1987, Col.Wright joined the Foreign...
Updated: November 9, 2010
Request Preliminary Injunction for Duration of Lawsuit September 10, 2019, New York, NY – Community organizations suing the Trump administration over its proposed “public charge” rule today filed a...
January 7, 2022...President Biden’s judicial appointments are setting records for diversity, a report showed Wednesday — three-fourths are women, and nearly three-fourths are racial minorities. The judges he has...
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