April 1, 2016In recent days we’ve seen horrendous attacks in Belgium, Turkey and Pakistan targeting innocent people simply going about their daily lives. As we mourn the victims, these attacks are another tragic...
April 16, 2016Saudi Arabia has accepted the transfer of nine Yemenis from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including a onetime associate of al Qaeda and the Taliban who personally knew Osama bin...
April 20, 2016Civil rights attorneys knew that Public Act 436, Michigan’s current emergency manager law , was likely illegal and unconstitutional way back when it was first enacted, in December 2012. This was well...
May 8, 2016Karim Bostan was forced to flee his village in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion and spent his formative years as a refugee in Pakistan. In the early 1990s, Bostan made his way back to his home...
November 15, 2016...“The Supreme Court unequivocally declared this kind of “sodomy” statute unconstitutional thirteen years ago…[when it ruled that the] mere existence of sodomy statutes is an invitation to subject...
April 26, 2017...The Center for Constitutional Rights slammed the university’s action as a threat to free speech on campus. “If Fordham’s guarantee of freedom of inquiry means anything, it’s that students who want...
The Thomas Merton Center (TMC) will be honoring CCR's work at its annual awards dinner. Executive director Vince Warren will speak at the event. Tickets are $75 and can be purchased here . TMC works...
Updated: October 13, 2017
November 28, 2017The idea of incinerating artwork made by wartime captives at Guantánamo Bay has stirred such alarm that the U.S. military is now discussing keeping and cataloging detainee art rather than burning it...
December 7, 2017Members of several environmental and health groups gathered in the lobby of Gov. John Bel Edwards’ office on Wednesday, protesting the Bayou Bridge Pipeline project and asking him to at least do an...
March 19, 2018Two civil rights groups, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Color of Change (COR), have filed a motion asking a judge to force the Department of Homeland Security to un-redact a...
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