September 11, 2015The government is skirting the Geneva Conventions and other international human rights standards by refusing to immediately release Tariq Ba Odah, a Yemeni Guantánamo detainee suffering from severe...
April 2015" Lines began forming around 6 a.m. on Friday for general spectator seats at today's oral argument in Obergefell v. Hodges , the case in which the Supreme Court is widely expected to uphold a...
December 11, 2020...This week, New York appellate judges heard a case against Fordham University. Students filed a suit against the school in 2016 after it refused to recognize the Students for Justice in Palestine (...
November 9, 2016In a precent-setting case, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) has accused Massachusetts pastor Scott Lively of crimes against humanity, claiming he convinced lawmakers in Uganda to pass draconian anti-...
Join UC Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine for South Africa v. Israel: A Discussion of the ICJ Ruling and Its Legal and Political Implications on Friday, March 8, from 11:00 a.m. - 12:30p...
Updated: March 7, 2024
On the Black History Month episode of the Activist Files, Center for Constitutional Rights board member Meena Jagannath speaks with Rob Robinson , a formerly homeless community organizer and housing...
Updated: February 24, 2022
August 18, 2016After years of documented human rights abuses by the private prison industry, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is finally ending its use of privately-run, for-profit prisons, the Washington Post...
In Alabama’s complex history, the remnants of slavery in the state’s prison system cast a long shadow. Following the legal abolition of slavery in Alabama, through the ratification of the Thirteenth...
Updated: February 26, 2025
It’s no secret that institutional policies and practices historically created and currently maintain racial discrimination. The movements for Black Lives, against Apartheid, and for Roma rights...
Updated: September 28, 2020
November 6, 2020...The plaintiffs in the lawsuit drew a high-powered legal team, with help from the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the National Center for Law and...
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