Survivors and human rights advocates are in Geneva for the January 16th Committee on the Rights of the Child review of the Holy See’s treaty compliance. Please join the Survivors Network of...
Updated: January 14, 2014
September 29, 2017The detention of an unnamed U.S. citizen held by the military as an enemy combatant is increasingly a legal and human-rights emergency, national security lawyers and civil libertarian activists say—...
The case against the LA 8 began in January 1987, when the government arrested two immigrants and six others who became known as the LA 8. The government placed them in a maximum security prison, and...
Updated: November 28, 2007
January 14, 2021...Below are some actionable steps we can take to advance immigrant rights and push back against unjust policies: 1. In order to save ourselves from repeating past mistakes or accepting the current...
Case emerges from broader struggle of Gullah Geechee community to protect land and heritage
Emily C. R. Early serves as the Associate Director of the Southern Regional Office of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Her primary responsibilities include leading the expansion of the Southern...
April 16, 2018CCR and Muslim Advocates have entered into a settlement agreement with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) , ending litigation over the NYPD’s suspicionless surveillance of Muslim Americans in...
This report, released by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Palestine Legal in September 2015, documents for the first time the widespread and growing suppression of Palestinian human rights...
Updated: February 29, 2016
One hot August night in 2006, in New York’s Greenwich Village, a group of young African-American lesbian friends are violently and sexually threatened by an older man. They defend themselves...
Updated: May 30, 2014
November 2014A decision is expected any day in the grand jury investigation of Darren Wilson, whose August 9 killing of Michael Brown uncorked an endless wave of grief and anger among Ferguson's black population...
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