October 29, 2021, Washington, D.C. ‒ A broad coalition of more than 288 U.S.-based social justice, civil rights, and human rights organizations is calling on the Biden administration to condemn the...
Louisiana Sheriff Must Release Documents About Employees' Travel and Activities at Standing Rock We have exciting news in our ongoing efforts to provide legal support to activists and communities...
Last week, the New York Times published a remarkable piece by Bari Weiss, newly hired by the Times from the Wall Street Journal , titled “ When Progressives Embrace Hate .” The piece, which self-...
The Peace and Justice Task Force is pleased to host the Metro NY Religious Campaign Against Torture's Annual Interfaith Gathering with the focus on Torturing the Mind: U.S. Involvement in...
Students Argue for Urgent Relief to Be Able to Advocate for Palestinian Rights on Campus January 3, 2018, New York, NY – Today, Fordham students denied permission by their university to start a...
Join Center for Constitutional Rights Staff Attorney Chinyere Ezie as she leads a congressional briefing on the criminalization of queer and trans communities in collaboration...
Herman Bell, a 70-year-old former Black Panther and political prisoner, was recently granted parole after being behind bars for 45 years and denied parole seven previous times. In response, interest...
Fordham Censorship Motivated by Anti-Palestinian Bias, Advocates Say January 21, 2020, New York – Today, civil rights groups asked the New York Court of Appeals, the highest court in New York State,...
September 29, 2010 Washington and New York – Today, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia affirmed its decision to dismiss Al-Zahrani v. Rumsfeld , a civil lawsuit...
February 12, 2025, Washington, D.C. — Immigrants’ rights advocates sued the Trump administration today for access to immigrants transferred from the United States to detention at Guantánamo Bay in...
