December 20, 2016As I sat at my desk here in New York and learned that the original sacred fire had been extinguished at Oceti Sakowin, and a new one built , I thought about the time I spent there, at Standing Rock...
Ashley Diamond is a Black trans woman and prisoners’ rights activist from Rome, Georgia, whose landmark lawsuit challenging the cruel and unusual treatment of incarcerated trans people by the Georgia...
Updated: March 7, 2023
A federal lawsuit that challenges the FBI’s abuse of the No-Fly List to coerce law-abiding American Muslims into spying on their religious communities.
Updated: October 29, 2024
April 17, 2016“Nothing is impossible in life, as long as you live and breathe,” Mohammed Al-Hamiri once said, as he sat across the table from me and his CCR lawyer Omar Farah, in Guantanamo’s Camp Echo. I wanted...
This confidential position will provide administrative support and partnership to the Deputy Director - Human Resources to articulate the vision of the Human Resources functions including benefits...
Updated: April 6, 2023
April 22, 2017Just days after civil rights attorneys and community groups held a news conference announcing they were asking a judge to delay the start of the NYPD's body camera program, a judge dismissed the...
February 20, 2020... The New York Civil Liberties Union has shown that the city’s police have stopped and questioned people more than 5 million times since 2002: at the height of stop-and-frisk in 2011, about 685,000...
October 19, 2010, New York – Today, Federal District Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis issued a scathing ruling in the ongoing case against the City of New York and the Fire Department for its...
Bills are part of a broader trend to silence U.S. supporters of Palestinian rights April 28, 2016 – Today, Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) sent copies of their report...
February 21, 2018In early 2016, Indigenous activists on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in so-called North Dakota began protesting construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), a 1,172-mile-long oil...
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