March 8, 2021COVID filing! East Baton Rouge prison still failing medically vulnerable people On Friday, individuals incarcerated at East Baton Rouge Parish Prison urged a federal judge to reinstate a lawsuit...
September 10, 2021...Baher, what about you? Have you experienced those same kinds of things you heard Farhana talking about? Baher Azmy, Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights: "I was in New York that day...
November 1, 2023...Israel has turned its incremental genocide of the Palestinian people into full-fledged genocide — with the unconditional support of the U.S. government. “There is a plausible and credible case...
Diala Shamas is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where she works on challenging government and law enforcement abuses perpetrated under the guise of national security...
Source: United Nations Department of Public Information Preamble Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the...
Updated: December 8, 2008
Xuncax v. Gramajo and Ortiz v. Gramajo are two civil damages suits filed on behalf of Guatemalans, all Kanjobal Indians who were brutalized themselves, lost loved ones, and lived in highland villages...
Updated: October 9, 2007
October 31, 2009, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and co-counsel Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP issued the statement below in response to the release of...
March 2009Ken Saro-Wiwa swore that one day Shell, the oil giant, would answer for his death in a court of law. Next month, 14 years after his execution, the Nigerian environmental activist's dying wish is to...
March 26, 2008, Boston, MA – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and other Guantánamo attorneys testified during a Congressional field briefing on Guantánamo’s refugees for the House...
In the summer of 2012, the Buffalo Police Department created a "Strike Force" Unit to aggressively patrol and conduct vehicle checkpoints in "high crime" areas of the city. While purportedly set up...
Updated: June 3, 2026
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