Following Iraq's August 2, 1990 invasion of Kuwait, then-President George H. W. Bush began deploying U.S. military forces to the Persian Gulf. On November 8, 1990, while significantly increasing...
Tawfic Abdel Jabbar was a 17-year-old American citizen born and raised in Gretna, Louisiana. His family moved to the United States nearly 30 years ago, where his father and uncle opened a Louisiana...
Background The East Baton Rouge Parish Prison in Louisiana is designed to hold approximately 1,600 individuals. There are more than 1,200 people currently imprisoned there—even after community...
Law Firms Abused Legal Process by Trying to Sue an Entire Social Movement January 10, 2018, New York – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Earth First! Journal served a motion for...
Rosemary R. Corbett, New York, is a Faculty Fellow with the Bard Prison Initiative and has a PhD in Religion from Columbia University with a focus on Islam in the United States. She has previously...
Set to take place on the anniversary of the 1971 uprising at the Attica Correctional Facility in New York, the call for a national prison strike today, Friday, September 9, by those inside prison...
January 16, 2014, Geneva – Today, the Vatican was summoned before the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child to report on its record in addressing widespread sexual violence within...
Nermeen Arastu is an Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Immigrant & Non-Citizen Rights Clinic at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law. In this role, she guides her...
Join the Center for Constitutonal Rights at an event honoring Rhonda Copelon's decades-long commitment to human rights work and the establishment of the Copelon Fund for Gender Justice. Rhonda...
...The complaint was filed in a federal court on Monday by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a New York-based civil liberties group, on behalf of the Palestinian human rights groups Defense for...
