On January 2, 2015, the State of Palestine acceded to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and, on April 1, 2015, Palestine became the 123rd Member State of the ICC . Palestine...
Updated: January 13, 2025
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the National Lawyers Guild-New York City Chapter (NLG-NYC) sent New York Assembly Members a letter urging them to oppose pending legislation that would...
Updated: January 31, 2014
Ashley Diamond is a Black trans woman and prisoners’ rights activist from Rome, Georgia, whose landmark lawsuit challenging the cruel and unusual treatment of incarcerated trans people by the Georgia...
Updated: March 7, 2023
October 29, 2021, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba ‒ The military commission sentencing hearing of a man tortured and imprisoned by the U.S. for eighteen years concluded today, paving the way for his transfer...
October 2, 2017This is CCR's weekly "Frontlines of Justice" news round-up, keeping you in the loop about what we've been up to and what's coming soon. Check it out every Monday, your one-stop-shop for CCR opinions...
Jane Doe v. Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) and Anwar Haddam is a lawsuit brought in December 1996 by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the International Women’s Human Rights Law Clinic (...
Updated: October 22, 2007
On November 22, 2004, a group of protesters and bystanders wrongfully arrested during the Republican National Convention last August filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of the almost 2,000 who...
April 7, 2017Trump signed yet another executive order last week, this one undermining the rights of workers. The March 27, 2017, order revoked three previous orders issued by President Obama related to federal...
December 24, 2018Trump's asylum ban blocked again by federal court and Supreme Court [caption align="right"] [/caption] Last week, a federal court again blocked the Trump administration's new asylum ban. Together...
Verdict ordering CACI to pay three Iraqis $42 million is casualty of Supreme Court’s June ruling gutting Alien Tort Statute August 28, 2026, Richmond, VA – Having previously upheld a historic $42...
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