August 3, 2018, North Dakota – Today, a federal judge blocked Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), the corporation behind the Dakota Access Pipeline, from continuing a lawsuit against Earth First!. ETP...
March 20, 2024...The UK is facing legal pressure to reverse its position on weapons exports to Israel while in the US, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) NGO is appealing its case against the president,...
June 23, 2017On Nov. 25, 2001, two CIA officers discovered a bearded 19-year-old English speaker among a group of captured Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. The bedraggled teen stood out. “Irish? Ireland?” a CIA...
January 27, 2016On Tuesday, federal Judge Claudia Wilken approved the final agreement to end indefinite solitary confinement in California, calling it humane, innovative and fair. Prisoners celebrated the settlement...
Fatima Mohammed Being Defamed for Criticism of Israeli Government June 1, 2023 – In response to the CUNY Chancellor’s and Board of Trustees’ criticism of a speech by student Fatima Mohammed at CUNY...
Join Palestinian human rights defenders Raji Sourani and Shawan Jabarin and moderator Zaha Hassan for a conversation at New America about what possibilities exist and what challenges Palestinians may...
Updated: April 11, 2016
March 13, 2018A Washington state court on Friday moved to end a lengthy legal campaign against former board members of the Olympia Food Co-op over their decision to support a boycott of Israeli goods. “It’s a huge...
Join Center for Constitutional Rights Senior Staff Attorney, Katherine Gallagher , at Panel V of the Nuremberg Forum 2019 as she chairs the discussion on Combating Impunity through Universal...
Updated: September 6, 2019
March 2012Four years ago Frank Mugisha begged his colleagues to join him for his first demonstration in support of gay rights in Uganda. Only four came along. This week, during a march against gender-based...
July 23, 2008, New York – Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Senior Attorney Maria LaHood, who represents Maher Arar in the U.S., issued the following statement in response to Attorney...
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