Nadia Ben-Youssef is the Advocacy Director at the Center for Constitutional Rights. She directs all advocacy around issues related to the promotion of civil and human rights. Together with the legal...
An examination of the radical overreach of proposed religious exemptions permitting discrimination on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexuality, and reproductive choices, as well as race,...
Updated: February 16, 2017
Organizations that successfully challenged stop and frisk request reforms based on three years of community input June 8, 2018 , New York — Today, the attorneys behind three landmark class actions...
April 2010When Syed Hashmi, a former Brooklyn College student charged with providing material support to Al Qaeda, goes on trial this week in Manhattan, the jury will be anonymous, a judge ruled on Monday.
November 2013Commentary: Iraqis and former US soldiers join forces in fight for justice In early October, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the principal human rights body of the Organization of...
On January 27, 2021, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and over 60 member organizations (including the Center for Constitutional Rights) released a coalition letter calling on the...
Updated: February 1, 2021
November 21, 2019... Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch, investigates human rights abuses in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. Prior to his current role, he was a Bertha Fellow at the...
August 22, 2016The D.C. Circuit revived two convicted terrorism supporters' claims that their placement in isolation units that allow limited visits and phone calls violates their due process rights. The Center for...
May 12, 2023…“This lawsuit was about punishing the US Campaign - and Palestinians - for daring to advocate for Palestinian rights and for supporting the Palestinian call to boycott Israel,” Diala Shamas, a...
On December 8, 2005, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) brought a class action lawsuit against Avi Dichter, the former Director of Israel’s...
Pages
