August 7, 2020...In 1976, Negro History Week expanded into Black History Month. Black August, which also came about in the 1970's, specifically honors "political prisoners, freedom fighters, and martyrs of the...
August 7, 2020...The judge's decisions were applauded by immigrants' rights advocates. In a press release, Brittany Thomas of the Center for Constitutional Rights called the decisions "great victories for the...
April 9, 2021...The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center in November filed the federal lawsuit for Diamond, who is imprisoned at Coastal State Prison in Chatham County. Diamond...
December 2007The Supreme Court last week took another shot at resolving some ofthe questions surrounding the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, which for many critics has become an international symbol of unchecked...
April 2010Hashmi, an American citizen, had become a symbol of what they view as the unfair – and unconstitutional - treatment of Muslims in the post-9/11 world. His case prompted regular vigils outside...
July 2012Detainees in custody of the US military were interrogated while drugged with powerful antipsychotic and other medications that "could impair an individual's ability to provide accurate...
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June 2009Royal Dutch Shell, the big oil company, agreed to pay $15.5 million to settle a case accusing it of taking part in human rights abuses in the Niger Delta in the early 1990s, a striking sum given the...
September 2009A federal judge orders Pittsburgh to allow a group's tent city protest during the G20 summit. CCR represented the groups that filed the the complaint.
December 2011Roman Catholic bishops in the Netherlands offered “sincere apologies” to victims of sexual mistreatment, hours after a report by an official commission said church officials had “...
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