June 27, 2017- Ken Saro Wiwa was a Niger delta activist but fought actively for the emancipation of his Ogoni people in Rivers state - His campaign for the liberation of his people was unbearable to the then...
CCR senior staff attorney Omar Farah will join a panel at the 2017 National Lawyers’ Guild #Law4thePeopleConvention that will explore recent ways in which Muslims have struggled to safeguard their...
Updated: July 28, 2017
Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney Katherine Gallagher will join a panel discussion organized by Members of the European Parliament. The discussion will take place at the European...
Updated: April 1, 2025
August 4, 2010 NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union and Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) today received a license from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign...
November 15, 2016...When Ben and I returned to New York, we worked with Pardiss Kebriaei and Maria LaHood at the Center for Constitutional Rights to develop a challenge to the lawfulness of the government’s kill...
Agents of the United States are openly trying to assassinate Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen, while he is in hiding in Yemen. Despite what the apologists for assassination argue this is...
Updated: June 23, 2010
June 14, 2015The American Association of University Professors voted overwhelmingly at its annual conference here on Saturday to censure the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for withdrawing a tenured-...
June 17, 2016In May, the nation’s two largest private prison contractors announced dramatic increases in their first-quarter earnings for the year. The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) reported a 17 percent increase over...
June 27, 2016Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is striking deals with private prison companies to lock up a “guaranteed minimum” of mothers with their children in euphemistically-termed family detention...
Join Center for Constitutional Rights Staff Attorney, Diala Shamas , as she discusses the state of free speech on college campuses, and explores the Goldwater Institute’s Campus Free Speech Act,...
Updated: February 11, 2019
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