A film about CCR's client at Guantánamo is screening on Saturday, November 23 at 7:30 pm as part of Impugning Impunity: A Human Rights Documentary Film Series presented by the Abraham Lincoln...
Updated: October 25, 2013
August 18, 2016...Time is running out, but even if Obama does close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, lawyers like Pardiss Kebriaei of the Center for Constitutional Rights says it doesn't address a fundamental problem...
Please join the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) and the Center for Constitutional Rights on Thursday, January 12, at the D.C. Court of Appeals in support of Palestine solidarity...
Updated: January 11, 2023
Justin Hansford, District of Columbia, is a professor of Law and executive director of the new Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center. Professor Hansford was previously a Democracy Project Fellow at...
August 21, 2019... The AFPM lobbyist also boasted that the template legislation has enjoyed bipartisan support. In Louisiana, Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards signed the version of the bill there, which is being...
March 31, 2021A series of attacks on cis/trans women and non-binary people, during this year’s Women’s History Month, have laid bare how prevalent and deadly misogyny and cisheteropatriarchy remain, particularly...
January 2015The United States has acknowledged that the conviction of an Australian man held for nearly six years in Guantanamo Bay was not legally valid. The Australian, David Hicks, was one of the first people...
Join us for an engaging conversation between CCR Senior Staff Attorney Pam Spees, Kiobel lead counsel Paul Hoffman, and others on the intersection of human rights and LGBTIQ rights, moderated by...
Updated: March 9, 2016
Katherine Franke, New York, is the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University, where she also directs the Center for Gender and Sexuality Law and is the faculty director of the Public...
October 23, 2017Should the U.S. Supreme Court be the court of the world? In the 18th century, two feuding Frenchmen inspired a one-sentence law that helped launch American human rights litigation into the 20th...
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