December 11, 2020...“Being a woman in a men’s prison is a nightmare,” Diamond said in a statement. “I’ve been stripped of my identity. I never feel safe. Never. I experience sexual harassment on a daily basis, and...
April 2, 2021... The Crimes Against Nature by Solicitation (CANS) law is indeed a 19th-century law, still on the books in Louisiana, that criminalizes non-procreative sex. People convicted of exchanging oral or...
The University of Virginia School of Law will host its 9th annual Shaping Justice Conference, Public Interest Lawyering in the Age of the Roberts Court, on Friday, February 7, 2025, from 11:30...
Updated: January 22, 2025
Please join CCR Senior Staff Attorney Katie Gallagher for a panel discussion at The 39th Annual Wolfgang Friedmann Conference honoring the 2003 Nobel Prize Laureate Dr. Shirin Ebadi. Katie will speak...
Updated: March 26, 2013
Please join CCR Legal Director Baher Azmy in Washington D.C. for a Civil Rights panel addressing the shared realities Arab Americans face with African Americans and about how shared experiences...
Updated: June 12, 2013
This 90-minute panel discussion will feature voices from the academic, media, and policy worlds expressing views on the international dimensions of human rights issues currently playing out in the...
Updated: October 17, 2014
On September 14, 2012, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) submitted a statement before the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Democratic Policy Committee on the Effects of Solitary...
Updated: September 20, 2012
November 12, 2015The University of Illinois ' decision last year to revoke a job offer to controversial professor Steven Salaita will cost more than $2 million, including an $875,000 settlement that trustees approved...
What is the greatest threat to free speech at U.S. universities today? Who is trying to block students from organizing around Palestine on American campuses? How are they doing this? Can professors...
Updated: February 10, 2016
February 25, 2016These are unsettling times for the 91 men clad in orange jumpsuits who whittle away the hours behind Guantanamo Bay’s razor wire fences in southeast Cuba. US President Barack Obama, a Democrat,...
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