December 1, 2017, New York – In response to the White House’s plans to name Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) Director of the CIA and Mike Pompeo Secretary of State, the Center for Constitutional Rights issued...
Jordahl v. Brnovich is a case that challenges Arizona’s 2016 anti-BDS law that forbids the state from contracting with companies that boycott Israel. The Center for Constitutional Rights and...
Updated: September 17, 2020
February 2006Maher Arar is seeking acknowledgement from the U.S. government that his torture was wrong.
November 23, 2015 – On the anniversary of 12-year-old Tamir Rice’s killing by police in Cleveland, a coalition of law students, legal workers and attorneys known as Law for Black Lives issued the...
CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s Department of Communication and Theater Arts presents In Our Name: A Play on the Torture Years. Following the opening performance on Wednesday, May...
Updated: May 3, 2012
Updated: February 23, 2010
July 30, 2018... In recent months, however, Israel has used the anti-BDS legislation to target human rights defenders and activists including Omar Shakir , the director of Human Rights Watch’s Jerusalem office;...
It’s Pride Month, a month that centers the radical legacy of Black and Brown queer and trans people who rose up against police brutality and state violence. This month and every month we honor and...
Updated: June 21, 2021
September 2012An argument before the Supreme Court on October 1 in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum will have enormous significance. The case concerns the torture of Ogoni leaders in Nigeria, but at stake is the...
September 2012An argument before the Supreme Court on October 1 in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum will have enormous significance. The case concerns the torture of Ogoni leaders in Nigeria, but at stake is the...
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