This is a public statement by the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation...
June 9, 2010— A broad coalition of human rights, health, and religious groups filed a formal complaint today with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Human Research...
June 14, 2010, New York, Jerusalem, Geneva – Today, parties defending a 12th Century Muslim cemetery and holy site in Jerusalem from desecration by Israeli authorities and a U.S. financier...
May 16, 2008, MIAMI and MONTPELIER, Vt. - The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), along with American Civil Liberties Union affiliates in Florida, Vermont and Massachusetts, today filed a joint...
August 4, 2010, New York – Today, a federal court judge found that the City of New York’s 2007 FDNY entrance exam (Exam 6019) unfairly discriminated against Black and Latino test-takers...
August 11, 2010 , New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR ) issued the statement below in response to a summary of stop-and-frisk statistics for April, May, and June...
October 6, 2010, New York, NY – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) joined Detention Watch Network (DWN) and other rights groups in a National Day of Action marking the one-year...
October 26, 2010, New York, NY – The New York City Police Department (NYPD) has engaged in a pattern of unconstitutional stops that disproportionately affects Black and Latino New Yorkers,...
December 14, 2010, Madrid, Spain – Today, two leading human rights groups filed papers urging a Spanish judge to open a criminal investigation into the role of former Bush administration...
January 7, 2011, Madrid, Spain – Today, the U.S.-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) asked a Spanish Judge to...