Royal Dutch Shell, plc (Shell) began oil production in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria in 1958 and has a long history of working closely with the Nigerian government to quell popular opposition to...
Updated: March 24, 2009
December 28, 2015Gay rights activists in the East African nation of Uganda say they’ve been persecuted for years, subject to arrest simply for meeting, to physical violence for being gay. In an unlikely twist, their...
February 6, 2017...Vince Warren: “What we’re really talking about is structural racism. So, if you’re thinking about structures that you are dismantling, rather than thinking about policies that you’re passing, you’...
September 18, 2019... As of September 11, 2019, the asylum ban is in full effect after the U.S. Supreme Court stayed a ruling by a federal district court in northern California that had preliminarily enjoined the...
July 2, 2015The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a legal organization based in New York which represents WikiLeaks and its editor-in chief Julian Assange, has submitted a report to help United Nations...
CCR Bertha Fellow Omar Shakir will moderate a panel at a day-long conference about Palestine that aims to address the substance of the right to return, its grounding in international law, and its...
Updated: March 30, 2016
Guled Hassan Duran Is First So-Called “High Value” Detainee to Be Approved January 10, 2022 – In response to news that our client Guled Hassan Duran was approved for transfer by a periodic review...
The Nation, The Center for Constitutional Rights and Akashic Books present a dialogue between best-selling author Walter Mosley and television star Mike Farrell ("M*A*S*H...
Updated: May 21, 2008
Join NewsOne and Until Freedom for a virtual conversation on coronavirus, incarceration, and safety with a panel of experts. This discussion will focus on the conditions of prisoners, what legal...
Updated: April 8, 2020
Law4BlackLives was a national gathering, initiated by CCR, of over 1,000 lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers committed to building a world where #BlackLivesMatter. More than a...
Updated: September 14, 2016
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