January 19, 2024, New York – In response to Mayor Adams’ veto of the police transparency legislation the How Many Stops Act (HMSA), the Center for Constitutional Rights issued the following statement...
December 2013Center For Constitutional Reform and attorney Pam Spees – For winning every single court motion against Scott Lively, enabling the SMUG case for crimes against humanity against him to proceed. Read...
The Center for Constitutional Rights Board is made up of some of the country’s leading progressives, from lawyers and longtime activists, to human rights pioneers and academics. Many began their...
Updated: February 6, 2024
Leila Hessini, North Carolina, serves as the Vice President of Programs at Global Fund for Women and oversees its strategic grantmaking, movement-strengthening, voice, and advocacy efforts. She is a...
On Episode 54 of the Activist Files, Bertha Justice Fellow Zee Scout speaks with Ashley Diamond , a civil rights activist, who made a pivotal choice on the eve of her trial in January against the...
Updated: April 27, 2023
March 31, 2016Retired senior military officers and human rights advocates are reacting with disgust at Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s description of the Geneva Conventions as a “problem” for...
We are overjoyed to share with you that CCR’s client Fahd Ghazy has been transferred out of Guantánamo to Oman. Fahd had been imprisoned at Guantánamo without charge since he was just 17 years old...
Updated: January 27, 2016
July 19, 2017The criminalization of political speech and activism against Israel has become one of the gravest threats to free speech in the west. In France, activists have been arrested and prosecuted for...
July 21, 2017As reported Wednesday in numerous outlets , a group of 43 Democratic and Republican U.S. senators have teamed up to introduce a bill, drafted with the help of the American Israel Public Affairs...
Anser Mehmood is a plaintiff in Ziglar v. Abbasi (formerly Turkmen v. Ashcroft), a lawsuit filed in 2002 on behalf of a class of Muslim, South Asian, and Arab non-citizens swept up in connection with...
Updated: September 8, 2021
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