Attorneys Say Case Is Part of Broader Assault on Human Rights Defenders March 6, 2020, Washington, D.C. – Last night, the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) moved to dismiss a meritless...
On October 31, 2009, after nearly eight years of unlawful imprisonment at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Ahmad Abdulahad, Abdulghappar Abdulrahman and Zafar Arslan, ethnic Uighurs from far western...
Updated: February 16, 2010
August 5, 2014, New York – Today, rights groups filed a lawsuit seeking to compel the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to comply...
August 12, 2019Fordham University Students Win Landmark Fight to Establish Palestine Club Five Fordham University students, represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights, have won a landmark legal victory...
Federal lawsuit against a U.S.-based anti-gay extremist for his active role in the conspiracy to strip away fundamental rights from LGBTI people in Uganda, which constitutes persecution.
Updated: October 11, 2019
April 5, 2024Now, as the Supreme Court considers Grants Pass v. Johnson, a landmark case poised to determine the rights of people who have no choice but to sleep outside during a housing crisis unprecedented in...
Michael Ratner’s activism and human rights work dated back to the 1960s. He was a student at Columbia Law School during the 1968...
Updated: May 12, 2016
On the thirteenth episode of The Activist Files, Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain speaks with Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director Baher Azmy and Senior Staff Attorney Katherine...
Updated: September 8, 2021
October 7, 2021...The prosecutors had hoped to find a receptive partner in the administration of President Barack Obama, particularly as the American public had widely condemned the war on terror tactics of his...
August 18, 2022, New York – In response to Israel’s overnight military raids of the offices of several prominent Palestinian human rights organizations in Ramallah in the occupied Palestinian...
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