July 3, 2017SCOTUS on CCR CASE Just a few weeks ago the Supreme Court reversed a federal appeals court ruling that former high-level Bush administration officials may be sued for their roles in the post-9/11...
On the thirteenth episode of The Activist Files, Advocacy Program Manager Aliya Hussain speaks with Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director Baher Azmy and Senior Staff Attorney Katherine...
Updated: September 8, 2021
April 2015"Lawyers for a professor who contends he was wrongly denied a position at the University of Illinois argue that the school had a binding contract with him when it told him he wouldn't get the job,...
August 10, 2017Two weeks ago, on the 102nd anniversary of the Haitian Revolution, I attended the Black Alliance for Just Immigration’s (BAJI) Black-centered delegation to the U.S. Southern border in San Diego,...
Groups tell Expert Mechanism on Racial Justice and Equality in Law Enforcement: Life imprisonment violates human rights, including bans on torture and racial discrimination April 28, 2023 – Amid the...
January 12, 2009, New York, NY – Today, attorneys for Guantánamo detainees held a conference call to discuss their report on closing Guantánamo , including the newest and most comprehensive numbers...
The Center for Constitutional Rights invites you to join us in a fireside chat with renowned human rights activist and general secretary for the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (...
Updated: January 24, 2019
June 12, 2019... The appeal (pdf), filed by Reprieve and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), said the decision by the "court of last resort" was "devastating" for the six victims, as it left them unable "...
CCR Bertha Fellow Omar Shakir will moderate a panel at a day-long conference about Palestine that aims to address the substance of the right to return, its grounding in international law, and its...
Updated: March 30, 2016
Following in the footsteps of his grandfather and father, Ahmed Mohammed came to the United States from Yemen when he was just 19 years old. He graduated from Vaughn College with an Associate’s...
Updated: April 10, 2019
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