Judge To Make Final Decision to Grant Preliminary Injunction This Week (October 7, 2019, New York) – Immigrant rights groups appeared today in the United States District Court for the Southern...
February 8, 2012, New York and Madrid – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) submitted a declaration to a Spanish court detailing the torture of Mohammed al Qahtani, who has been...
One hot August night in 2006, in New York’s Greenwich Village, a group of young African-American lesbian friends are violently and sexually threatened by an older man. They defend themselves...
Now fellow SHU inmates and I have joined together with the Center for Constitutional Rights in a federal lawsuit that challenges this treatment as unconstitutional. I understand I broke the law, and...
...But survivors of clergy sexual abuse have criticized what they regard as foot-dragging at the Vatican, and the UN has been open to their petitions. “Rape and torture are crimes around the entire...
April 8, 2013, New York – Today, attorneys for activist Daniel McGowan at the Center for Constitutional Rights released the following update on his situation: Daniel McGowan is back at the...
Unhoused at high rates, LGBTQIA+ people face dire threat from such laws, which are cruel and unusual punishment, amicus brief says April 3, 2024, Washington, D.C. – The Supreme Court should rule that...
On Thursday, March 12, 2015, CCR, along with Palestine Solidarity Legal Support, the ACLU of Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild sent a letter to the...
By Dima Khalidi, director of Palestine Legal and cooperating counsel with CCR For us Palestinian-Americans, the height of election year means it is cringe season. The American Israel Public Affairs...
Organizations Demand Accountable Aid and Historical Justice August 19, 2021, (Port-au-Prince, Boston, New York)– In the aftermath of this weekend’s deadly 7.2-magitude earthquake, and in the context...
