On Nov. 23 Ashley Diamond, a Black transgender woman represented by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), sued the Georgia Department of Corrections (...
...International Human Rights Clinic co-director Susan H. Farbstein said much of the case was “driven and led by the plaintiffs.” “Their tireless commitment and their optimism are sort of what have...
... This was deliberate; governments that torture deny in public what they did in secret. To make the denial credible, victims must not speak. But isolation serves another purpose, equally pernicious...
...In the months since that release, there have been few signs of progress in closing the notorious offshore prison on the U.S. base in Cuba. That has led to increased skepticism about Biden’s...
...“The fact that we don’t have evidence is a result of the system of slavery, where burial grounds were unmarked,” said Pam Spees, an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is...
... He’s not only a phenomenal healing — in terms of healing modality, in terms of treating addiction with acupuncture. He’s also, like I said, a human rights activist. There are organizations such...
...The UK is facing legal pressure to reverse its position on weapons exports to Israel while in the US, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) NGO is appealing its case against the president,...
"Six incarcerated people in the state of Alabama have filed a lawsuit against their governor and the Commissioner of Corrections. Alabama’s prison system is the most overcrowded in the country, where...
...In a lawsuit against the City of Buffalo challenging unconstitutional and racially discriminatory traffic enforcement practices by the Buffalo Police Department (BPD), legal and civil rights...
Ian Head is the Open Records Project Manager at the Center for Constitutional Rights, where he works on policing, racial justice, immigrants' rights, and prisoners’ rights issues. Ian has significant...
