August 7, 2020... Queer organizer Dorothee Benz has worked at some of the nation’s largest LGBT legal rights groups, including the Center for Constitutional Rights (one of the groups that filed the legal case...
CCR is a proud co-sponsor of this keynote and panel discussion to commemorate Torture Awareness Month. Juan Mendez, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture in Washington, D.C. will speak alongside human...
Updated: June 20, 2013
February 17, 2021...Pardiss Kebriaei, is a senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights . The group, along with the Abolitionist Law Center , represents six plaintiffs with felony murder convictions...
May 1, 2019...As Detention Watch Network and the Center for Constitutional Rights explain in a recent report, the detention bed quota generates a perverse incentive for ICE to organize enforcement activities in...
March, 27, 2015 - Today, CCR and other human rights organizations submitted an amicus brief to the Fourth Circuit U.S. Appeals Court in a case concerning the government’s international law...
Updated: March 30, 2015
STRANDED AT GUANTÁNAMO: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS REGARDING INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION FOR GUANTÁNAMO PRISONERS WHO CANNOT BE SAFELY REPATRIATED NEED FOR HUMANITARIAN PROTECTION 1. How...
Updated: January 11, 2010
January 23, 2007, New York - Authorities in San Francisco announced the arrests and indictments of former Black Panthers in the 1971 killing of police officer Sgt. John V. Young despite the use of...
Download this Executive Summary as a PDF . Learn more about the case, SMUG v. Lively. In March 2012, Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) filed a lawsuit against Scott Lively, a U.S.-based anti-gay...
Updated: May 23, 2016
June 13, 2015A leading academic group voted Saturday to censure the University of Illinois’ flagship campus over its decision not to hire a professor following his anti-Israel Twitter messages, a vote the...
Please join CCR's senior staff attorney, Katherine Gallagher and Jamil Dakwar of the ACLU at NYU's Global Justice Clinic as they discuss past efforts to hold U.S. government actors and private...
Updated: April 3, 2018
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