September 15, 2009, New York – In response to today’s release of a report by an independent Fact Finding Mission established by the United Nations Human Rights Council on the December...
November 3, 2015, New York – Today, in response to the court-appointed monitor in the landmark stop-and-frisk case Floyd v. City of New York launching a website on the Joint Remedial Process that...
August 14, 2019...Five Fordham University students have won a landmark legal victory against Fordham University, which sought to prohibit them from forming a Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) club at their...
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Updated: January 4, 2011
June 2012One of the greatest injustices at Guantanamo is that, of the 169 prisoners still held, over half -87 in total- were cleared for release by President Obama's interagency Guantanamo Review Task Force...
Join Pardiss Kebriaei, staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, for a discussion of how in the First 100 Days of his administration, the next president can close Guantánamo, end...
Updated: October 10, 2008
October 14, 2015Pope Francis had to backtrack after he outraged the victims of pedophile clerics by speaking sympathetically, during his trip to the United States, about how the scandal had affected bishops and...
August 9, 2016...As many readers will know, the Daily News Editorial Board supported the NYPD’s strategy as essential to public safety. We also expressed fear that forcing the department to pull back could...
August 14, 2019... After months of enormous public pressure failed to change the school’s decision, we were left with no choice but to file a lawsuit with the invaluable help of Palestine Legal and the Center for...
January 21, 2021...Diala Shamas, a staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, echoed that point, telling The Intercept Sunday that "anyone familiar with the scope of surveillance and targeting of...
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